Sunday, October 31

The Edukators

"Niccolò Machiavelli é. sobretudo, mais diverso do que aqueles que, com estupidez militante, o reduzem ao homem unidimensional."

José António Barreiros, introdução d'O Príncipe, de Maquiavel

Monday, October 25

O livro-cobra

"O livro-cobra vai largando a pele pelos lugares e mãos de passagem, enrosca-se nos braços do leitor que o lê por comunicação táctil. O livro - cobra muda de pele e o leitor é renovado. Pele contra pela. Por osmose um mesmo tecido nasce da morte do anterior. Mas o livro - cobra hiberna e, enquanto hiberna enrosca-se nos buracos da memória, nos interstícios da matéria negra, até novo solstício – só então renasce.. O leitor eterno vive no plano infinito que este livro desenrola. Ou o livro nos infinitos planos da temporalidade do leitor?"

Manuel Silva-Terra, Lira, p. 12

Sunday, October 24

It's never too late

Zu mein Freund

a, ante, após, até, com, contra, de, desde, em, entre, para, perante, por, sem, sob, sobre, trás.

Uf.

"There are at least eight ways to break out of this dump.
I'm taking the front door."

Sunday, October 17

David Fonseca from Ricardo Barros Espírito Santo on Vimeo.

Revelação


Meu o ofício incerto das palavras
a evocação do tempo
o recurso ao fogo

Meu o provisório olhar
sobre este rio
o fascínio consentido das margens
sitiando a distância

Meus são os dedos que em tumulto
modelam capitéis
de sombra e arestas

Mas oculto na brisa
és Tu quem percorre o poema
despertando as aves
e dando nome aos peixes

José Tolentino Mendonça

Thursday, October 14

To His Coy Mistress

Had we but world enough, and time,
This coyness, Lady, were no crime
We would sit down and think which way
To walk and pass our long love's day.
Thou by the Indian Ganges' side
Shouldst rubies find: I by the tide
Of Humber would complain. I would
Love you ten years before the Flood,
And you should, if you please, refuse
Till the conversion of the Jews.
My vegetable love should grow
Vaster than empires, and more slow;
An hundred years should go to praise
Thine eyes and on thy forehead gaze;
Two hundred to adore each breast,
But thirty thousand to the rest;
An age at least to every part,
And the last age should show your heart.
For, Lady, you deserve this state,
Nor would I love at lower rate.

But at my back I always hear
Time's wingèd chariot hurrying near;
And yonder all before us lie
Deserts of vast eternity.
Thy beauty shall no more be found,
Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound
My echoing song: then worms shall try
That long preserved virginity,
And your quaint honour turn to dust,
And into ashes all my lust:
The grave's a fine and private place,
But none, I think, do there embrace.

Now therefore, while the youthful hue
Sits on thy skin like morning dew,
And while thy willing soul transpires
At every pore with instant fires,
Now let us sport us while we may,
And now, like amorous birds of prey,
Rather at once our time devour
Than languish in his slow-chapt power.
Let us roll all our strength and all
Our sweetness up into one ball,
And tear our pleasures with rough strife
Through the iron gates of life:
Thus, though we cannot make our sun
Stand still, yet we will make him run.

Andrew Marvell

Sunday, October 10

Guten Abend

As aulas de alemão começaram. É tempo de retomar velhos amigos televisivos.

Thursday, October 7


Não era the King? Ai era, era.

Monday, October 4

Totoro

viii

somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
any experience,your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near

your slightest look easily will unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skilfully,mysteriously)her first rose

or if your wish be to close me, i and
my life will shut very beautifully ,suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending;

nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility:whose texture
compels me with the color of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens;only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody,not even the rain,has such small hands

e. e. cummings

Portrait ou o martírio da leitura

Felizmente os direitos do leitor incluem não ler, passar páginas, deixar livros a meio. Nada disso aconteceu (pelo menos em grande escala — mas quem consegue ler mais de trinta páginas seguidas de pensamentos auto-destrutivos face a supostos pecados?! Um prémio de paciência sacerdotal para o corajoso) na leitura deste livro, mas podia muito bem ter acontecido.

O pioneiro do stream of consciousness, grande utilizador de técnicas narrativas modernas, o que quiserem. Mas se a biblioteca de babel só contivesse exemplares de Joyce, estávamos bem tramados.