Writing anew

More than ten years ago, when I was just a teenager, I wrote a blog. It was pretty much a mixed bag, a disordered collection of things I thought about and was interested in. I really like the literary genre, miscellanea.

My head at sixteen and seventeen was messed up. Approaching thirty, I find myself in quite a similar psychological state, and probably that influences my renewed desire to write something, and perhaps to be read by someone.

Two things to begin with:

Firstly, I want to write about many different things. Philosophy, Classics, ancient Christianity; subjects I have formally studied and read somewhat about, and that I sincerely love. But I am not an academic, and my daily engagement with this highly specialized academic subjects is not as big as it was some years ago. So I will write from the point of a view of an enthusiast amateur, and nothing more. Other things I want to write about: books, languages, films, music, videogames, places, people... probably anything I think about can show up here.

Secondly, the language used to write this blog will be English, which needs explaining since I am not a native English speaker. I love my mother tongue, Spanish, and most of my previous writing has been in that language. But I read a whole lot since years ago in English, every day. It is the only tongue I feel really confident communicating with, other than Spanish. So I would like this blog to be kind of an exercise in English writing for me, adding with that the possibility of reaching a global readership. English is today's κοινέ, and I love κοινέ. (This is one of the messed up things I will constantly do in this blog, throwing out Greek words anytime I can.) My English prose will be idiosyncratic, but I like it that way. I am a guy from Andalucía, Spain, trying to write quite extensively in English. Just like a first century Palestinian Jew trying to write Greek, or something like that...