After nearly 30 years as a teacher at Queen’s, first in the Department of Spanish and Italian and later in LLCU, Max Lizano is retiring this summer. His warm and enthusiastic presence has been a valuable part of the Department for both colleagues and students. We all wish him the very best in his next adventures.
Una Palabra
Si un dia te preguntan, -¿quién es Max?
diles:
Una palabra que habla con palabras,
escribe palabras con palabras
que están llenas de más palabras,
y éstas de más palabras y asà surge un mundo de palabras
para palabras felices o tristes que se alimentan de palabras,
que no pueden vivir sin palabras
porque la palabra Amor sin palabras es La Muerte
y La Muerte sin palabras es la Nada.
-¿Quién es Max?
-- Una palabra que habla con palabras...
M.A.L.
Translation:
One Word
If one day they ask you, "Who is Max?"
tell them:
A word that speaks with words,
writes words with words
that are filled with more words,
and those with even more words, and thus a world of words arises
for happy or sad words that feed on words,
that cannot live without words,
because the word Love without words is Death,
and Death without words is Nothing.
"Who is Max?"
"One word that speaks with words ... "
M.A.L.