The short life, whose full title is Calendar and Lunar. La vida brevis, was published in the magazine Blanco y Negro between January 11, 1925 –Incipit vita brevis.– and March 15, 1931. It was a weekly collaboration that regularly appeared in the “Gran Mundo” section. Chronicle of the week Varied echoes of society”, signed with the pseudonym “Un Ingenio de esta Corte”. The content of these "card sheets", as D'Ors liked to call them, revolves around the social life of the moment: cultural activities -gatherings, theater, conferences, music festivals-, purely recreational activities -parties and meetings–, description of relevant characters of the time –painters, writers, philosophers–. And all of this told in the first person, since D'Ors was part of that world that he describes and whose activities he tells us about. "No; decidedly, for us, no gossip. The brief life, although written in a pocket notebook and stenographically, is still history”, says the author in the chronicle of June 17, 1928; and six months later, on January 27, 1929, he added: «Here things point to each other, and one passes over them, as life passes, instead of remaining, as the spirit remains. That is why we call it spirit, because it remains, immortal, when life passes».