acho que Michael Bartlett tentou mostrar a cumplicidade com Concert for Anarchy After Rebecca Horn
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acho que Michael Bartlett tentou mostrar a cumplicidade com Concert for Anarchy After Rebecca Horn
at the intersection, I say - stillness, please
Fervor (Couple at Intersection), Shirin Neshat
acordei a cantarolar isto. com afinco! [ coreografia incluída ]
I was just in the middle of a dream
(...) [ lalalalalala ]
But I can't be late
'Cause then I guess I just won't get paid
These are the days
When you wish your bed was already made
It's just another manic Monday
I wish it was Sunday
'Cause that's my funday
My I don't have to runday
It's just another manic Monday
Have to catch an early train
Got to be to work by nine
And if I had an air-o-plane
I still couldn't make it on time
'Cause it takes me so long
Just to figure out what I'm gonna wear
Blame it on the train
But the boss is already there
(...) [ lalalalalala ]
Time it goes so fast
When you're having fun
post gabarolas
eyes wide shut
pode ser uma coisa simbólica, tipo freudiana... all the stars e tal... ou, então, é peneira mesmo!
atenuar, dissimulando
subscrevo o ' Manifesto Walkabout ' do António
[ together ] [ movements ] [ apart ]
And the Bridegroom, Lucien Freud
Soneto de separação
De repente do riso fez-se o pranto
Silencioso e branco como a bruma
E das bocas unidas fez-se a espuma
E das mãos espalmadas fez-se o espanto
De repente da calma fez-se o vento
Que dos olhos desfez a última chama
E da paixão fez-se o pressentimento
E do momento imóvel fez-se o drama
De repente não mais que de repente
Fez-se de triste o que se fez amante
E de sozinho o que se fez contente
Fez-se do amigo próximo, distante
Fez-se da vida uma aventura errante
De repente, não mais que de repente
Vinicius de Moraes
solução: c a r r a p i t o
hilarious keyword: p r e v e n t i o n
A respeitosa repetição
Desenhas pedras sobrepostas.
quartos duns filhos. fundo de gaveta. secreto segredo. confronto. distância. asfixia. existência dentro de rede. partida. partir. de partida. ficar. andar. arquivos sem opção delete. um penso rápido num qualquer lugar. específico. fora mais rápido. pois claro. (ainda não consegui ditar se a tradução de "broken flowers" é, de facto, "flores partidas".) castigo. matéria. sonhos. copos vazios. adentro. portas vazias. recolher. proteger. lugares seguros que a memória constrói na sua vontade.
frases que nos fazem falta
the final countdown
[ Let tears, and burning blushes speak the rest. ] [ I ought to grieve, but cannot what I ought ]
In these deep solitudes and awful cells,
Where heav'nly-pensive contemplation dwells,
And ever-musing melancholy reigns;
What means this tumult in a vestal's veins?
Why rove my thoughts beyond this last retreat?
Why feels my heart its long-forgotten heat?
Yet, yet I love! — From Abelard it came,
And Eloisa yet must kiss the name.
Dear fatal name! rest ever unreveal'd,
Nor pass these lips in holy silence seal'd.
Hide it, my heart, within that close disguise,
Where mix'd with God's, his lov'd idea lies:
O write it not, my hand — the name appears
Already written — wash it out, my tears!
In vain lost Eloisa weeps and prays,
Her heart still dictates, and her hand obeys.
Relentless walls! whose darksome round contains
Repentant sighs, and voluntary pains:
Ye rugged rocks! which holy knees have worn;
Ye grots and caverns shagg'd with horrid thorn!
Shrines! where their vigils pale-ey'd virgins keep,
And pitying saints, whose statues learn to weep!
Though cold like you, unmov'd, and silent grown,
I have not yet forgot myself to stone.
All is not Heav'n's while Abelard has part,
Still rebel nature holds out half my heart;
Nor pray'rs nor fasts its stubborn pulse restrain,
Nor tears, for ages, taught to flow in vain.
Soon as thy letters trembling I unclose,
That well-known name awakens all my woes.
Oh name for ever sad! for ever dear!
Still breath'd in sighs, still usher'd with a tear.
I tremble too, where'er my own I find,
Some dire misfortune follows close behind.
Line after line my gushing eyes o'erflow,
Led through a sad variety of woe:
Now warm in love, now with'ring in thy bloom,
Lost in a convent's solitary gloom!
There stern religion quench'd th' unwilling flame,
There died the best of passions, love and fame.
Yet write, oh write me all, that I may join
Griefs to thy griefs, and echo sighs to thine.
Nor foes nor fortune take this pow'r away;
And is my Abelard less kind than they?
Tears still are mine, and those I need not spare,
Love but demands what else were shed in pray'r;
No happier task these faded eyes pursue;
To read and weep is all they now can do.
Then share thy pain, allow that sad relief;
Ah, more than share it! give me all thy grief.
Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid,
Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid;
They live, they speak, they breathe what love inspires,
Warm from the soul, and faithful to its fires,
The virgin's wish without her fears impart,
Excuse the blush, and pour out all the heart,
Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul,
And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole.
Thou know'st how guiltless first I met thy flame,
When Love approach'd me under Friendship's name;
My fancy form'd thee of angelic kind,
Some emanation of th' all-beauteous Mind.
Those smiling eyes, attemp'ring ev'ry day,
Shone sweetly lambent with celestial day.
Guiltless I gaz'd; heav'n listen'd while you sung;
And truths divine came mended from that tongue.
From lips like those what precept fail'd to move?
Too soon they taught me 'twas no sin to love.
Back through the paths of pleasing sense I ran,
Nor wish'd an Angel whom I lov'd a Man.
Dim and remote the joys of saints I see;
Nor envy them, that heav'n I lose for thee.
How oft, when press'd to marriage, have I said,
Curse on all laws but those which love has made!
Love, free as air, at sight of human ties,
Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies,
Let wealth, let honour, wait the wedded dame,
August her deed, and sacred be her fame;
Before true passion all those views remove,
Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you to Love?
The jealous God, when we profane his fires,
Those restless passions in revenge inspires;
And bids them make mistaken mortals groan,
Who seek in love for aught but love alone.
Should at my feet the world's great master fall,
Himself, his throne, his world, I'd scorn 'em all:
Not Caesar's empress would I deign to prove;
No, make me mistress to the man I love;
If there be yet another name more free,
More fond than mistress, make me that to thee!
Oh happy state! when souls each other draw,
When love is liberty, and nature, law:
All then is full, possessing, and possess'd,
No craving void left aching in the breast:
Ev'n thought meets thought, ere from the lips it part,
And each warm wish springs mutual from the heart.
This sure is bliss (if bliss on earth there be)
And once the lot of Abelard and me.
Alas, how chang'd! what sudden horrors rise!
A naked lover bound and bleeding lies!
Where, where was Eloise? her voice, her hand,
Her poniard, had oppos'd the dire command.
Barbarian, stay! that bloody stroke restrain;
The crime was common, common be the pain.
I can no more; by shame, by rage suppress'd,
Let tears, and burning blushes speak the rest.
Canst thou forget that sad, that solemn day,
When victims at yon altar's foot we lay?
Canst thou forget what tears that moment fell,
When, warm in youth, I bade the world farewell?
As with cold lips I kiss'd the sacred veil,
The shrines all trembl'd, and the lamps grew pale:
Heav'n scarce believ'd the conquest it survey'd,
And saints with wonder heard the vows I made.
Yet then, to those dread altars as I drew,
Not on the Cross my eyes were fix'd, but you:
Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call,
And if I lose thy love, I lose my all.
Come! with thy looks, thy words, relieve my woe;
Those still at least are left thee to bestow.
Still on that breast enamour'd let me lie,
Still drink delicious poison from thy eye,
Pant on thy lip, and to thy heart be press'd;
Give all thou canst — and let me dream the rest.
Ah no! instruct me other joys to prize,
With other beauties charm my partial eyes,
Full in my view set all the bright abode,
And make my soul quit Abelard for God.
Ah, think at least thy flock deserves thy care,
Plants of thy hand, and children of thy pray'r.
From the false world in early youth they fled,
By thee to mountains, wilds, and deserts led.
You rais'd these hallow'd walls; the desert smil'd,
And Paradise was open'd in the wild.
No weeping orphan saw his father's stores
Our shrines irradiate, or emblaze the floors;
No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n,
Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n:
But such plain roofs as piety could raise,
And only vocal with the Maker's praise.
In these lone walls (their days eternal bound)
These moss-grown domes with spiry turrets crown'd,
Where awful arches make a noonday night,
And the dim windows shed a solemn light;
Thy eyes diffus'd a reconciling ray,
And gleams of glory brighten'd all the day.
But now no face divine contentment wears,
'Tis all blank sadness, or continual tears.
See how the force of others' pray'rs I try,
(O pious fraud of am'rous charity!)
But why should I on others' pray'rs depend?
Come thou, my father, brother, husband, friend!
Ah let thy handmaid, sister, daughter move,
And all those tender names in one, thy love!
The darksome pines that o'er yon rocks reclin'd
Wave high, and murmur to the hollow wind,
The wand'ring streams that shine between the hills,
The grots that echo to the tinkling rills,
The dying gales that pant upon the trees,
The lakes that quiver to the curling breeze;
No more these scenes my meditation aid,
Or lull to rest the visionary maid.
But o'er the twilight groves and dusky caves,
Long-sounding aisles, and intermingled graves,
Black Melancholy sits, and round her throws
A death-like silence, and a dread repose:
Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene,
Shades ev'ry flow'r, and darkens ev'ry green,
Deepens the murmur of the falling floods,
And breathes a browner horror on the woods.
Yet here for ever, ever must I stay;
Sad proof how well a lover can obey!
Death, only death, can break the lasting chain;
And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain,
Here all its frailties, all its flames resign,
And wait till 'tis no sin to mix with thine.
Ah wretch! believ'd the spouse of God in vain,
Confess'd within the slave of love and man.
Assist me, Heav'n! but whence arose that pray'r?
Sprung it from piety, or from despair?
Ev'n here, where frozen chastity retires,
Love finds an altar for forbidden fires.
I ought to grieve, but cannot what I ought;
I mourn the lover, not lament the fault;
I view my crime, but kindle at the view,
Repent old pleasures, and solicit new;
Now turn'd to Heav'n, I weep my past offence,
Now think of thee, and curse my innocence.
Of all affliction taught a lover yet,
'Tis sure the hardest science to forget!
How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense,
And love th' offender, yet detest th' offence?
How the dear object from the crime remove,
Or how distinguish penitence from love?
Unequal task! a passion to resign,
For hearts so touch'd, so pierc'd, so lost as mine.
Ere such a soul regains its peaceful state,
How often must it love, how often hate!
How often hope, despair, resent, regret,
Conceal, disdain — do all things but forget.
But let Heav'n seize it, all at once 'tis fir'd;
Not touch'd, but rapt; not waken'd, but inspir'd!
Oh come! oh teach me nature to subdue,
Renounce my love, my life, myself — and you.
Fill my fond heart with God alone, for he
Alone can rival, can succeed to thee.
How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd;
Labour and rest, that equal periods keep;
"Obedient slumbers that can wake and weep;"
Desires compos'd, affections ever ev'n,
Tears that delight, and sighs that waft to Heav'n.
Grace shines around her with serenest beams,
And whisp'ring angels prompt her golden dreams.
For her th' unfading rose of Eden blooms,
And wings of seraphs shed divine perfumes,
For her the Spouse prepares the bridal ring,
For her white virgins hymeneals sing,
To sounds of heav'nly harps she dies away,
And melts in visions of eternal day.
Far other dreams my erring soul employ,
Far other raptures, of unholy joy:
When at the close of each sad, sorrowing day,
Fancy restores what vengeance snatch'd away,
Then conscience sleeps, and leaving nature free,
All my loose soul unbounded springs to thee.
Oh curs'd, dear horrors of all-conscious night!
How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!
Provoking Daemons all restraint remove,
And stir within me every source of love.
I hear thee, view thee, gaze o'er all thy charms,
And round thy phantom glue my clasping arms.
I wake — no more I hear, no more I view,
The phantom flies me, as unkind as you.
I call aloud; it hears not what I say;
I stretch my empty arms; it glides away.
To dream once more I close my willing eyes;
Ye soft illusions, dear deceits, arise!
Alas, no more — methinks we wand'ring go
Through dreary wastes, and weep each other's woe,
Where round some mould'ring tower pale ivy creeps,
And low-brow'd rocks hang nodding o'er the deeps.
Sudden you mount, you beckon from the skies;
Clouds interpose, waves roar, and winds arise.
I shriek, start up, the same sad prospect find,
And wake to all the griefs I left behind.
For thee the fates, severely kind, ordain
A cool suspense from pleasure and from pain;
Thy life a long, dead calm of fix'd repose;
No pulse that riots, and no blood that glows.
Still as the sea, ere winds were taught to blow,
Or moving spirit bade the waters flow;
Soft as the slumbers of a saint forgiv'n,
And mild as opening gleams of promis'd heav'n.
Come, Abelard! for what hast thou to dread?
The torch of Venus burns not for the dead.
Nature stands check'd; Religion disapproves;
Ev'n thou art cold — yet Eloisa loves.
Ah hopeless, lasting flames! like those that burn
To light the dead, and warm th' unfruitful urn.
What scenes appear where'er I turn my view?
The dear ideas, where I fly, pursue,
Rise in the grove, before the altar rise,
Stain all my soul, and wanton in my eyes.
I waste the matin lamp in sighs for thee,
Thy image steals between my God and me,
Thy voice I seem in ev'ry hymn to hear,
With ev'ry bead I drop too soft a tear.
When from the censer clouds of fragrance roll,
And swelling organs lift the rising soul,
One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight,
Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight:
In seas of flame my plunging soul is drown'd,
While altars blaze, and angels tremble round.
While prostrate here in humble grief I lie,
Kind, virtuous drops just gath'ring in my eye,
While praying, trembling, in the dust I roll,
And dawning grace is op'ning on my soul:
Come, if thou dar'st, all charming as thou art!
Oppose thyself to Heav'n; dispute my heart;
Come, with one glance of those deluding eyes
Blot out each bright idea of the skies;
Take back that grace, those sorrows, and those tears;
Take back my fruitless penitence and pray'rs;
Snatch me, just mounting, from the blest abode;
Assist the fiends, and tear me from my God!
No, fly me, fly me, far as pole from pole;
Rise Alps between us! and whole oceans roll!
Ah, come not, write not, think not once of me,
Nor share one pang of all I felt for thee.
Thy oaths I quit, thy memory resign;
Forget, renounce me, hate whate'er was mine.
Fair eyes, and tempting looks (which yet I view!)
Long lov'd, ador'd ideas, all adieu!
Oh Grace serene! oh virtue heav'nly fair!
Divine oblivion of low-thoughted care!
Fresh blooming hope, gay daughter of the sky!
And faith, our early immortality!
Enter, each mild, each amicable guest;
Receive, and wrap me in eternal rest!
See in her cell sad Eloisa spread,
Propp'd on some tomb, a neighbour of the dead.
In each low wind methinks a spirit calls,
And more than echoes talk along the walls.
Here, as I watch'd the dying lamps around,
From yonder shrine I heard a hollow sound.
"Come, sister, come!" (it said, or seem'd to say)
"Thy place is here, sad sister, come away!
Once like thyself, I trembled, wept, and pray'd,
Love's victim then, though now a sainted maid:
But all is calm in this eternal sleep;
Here grief forgets to groan, and love to weep,
Ev'n superstition loses ev'ry fear:
For God, not man, absolves our frailties here."
I come, I come! prepare your roseate bow'rs,
Celestial palms, and ever-blooming flow'rs.
Thither, where sinners may have rest, I go,
Where flames refin'd in breasts seraphic glow:
Thou, Abelard! the last sad office pay,
And smooth my passage to the realms of day;
See my lips tremble, and my eye-balls roll,
Suck my last breath, and catch my flying soul!
Ah no — in sacred vestments may'st thou stand,
The hallow'd taper trembling in thy hand,
Present the cross before my lifted eye,
Teach me at once, and learn of me to die.
Ah then, thy once-lov'd Eloisa see!
It will be then no crime to gaze on me.
See from my cheek the transient roses fly!
See the last sparkle languish in my eye!
Till ev'ry motion, pulse, and breath be o'er;
And ev'n my Abelard be lov'd no more.
O Death all-eloquent! you only prove
What dust we dote on, when 'tis man we love.
Then too, when fate shall thy fair frame destroy,
(That cause of all my guilt, and all my joy)
In trance ecstatic may thy pangs be drown'd,
Bright clouds descend, and angels watch thee round,
From op'ning skies may streaming glories shine,
And saints embrace thee with a love like mine.
May one kind grave unite each hapless name,
And graft my love immortal on thy fame!
Then, ages hence, when all my woes are o'er,
When this rebellious heart shall beat no more;
If ever chance two wand'ring lovers brings
To Paraclete's white walls and silver springs,
O'er the pale marble shall they join their heads,
And drink the falling tears each other sheds;
Then sadly say, with mutual pity mov'd,
"Oh may we never love as these have lov'd!"
From the full choir when loud Hosannas rise,
And swell the pomp of dreadful sacrifice,
Amid that scene if some relenting eye
Glance on the stone where our cold relics lie,
Devotion's self shall steal a thought from Heav'n,
One human tear shall drop and be forgiv'n.
And sure, if fate some future bard shall join
In sad similitude of griefs to mine,
Condemn'd whole years in absence to deplore,
And image charms he must behold no more;
Such if there be, who loves so long, so well;
Let him our sad, our tender story tell;
The well-sung woes will soothe my pensive ghost;
He best can paint 'em, who shall feel 'em most.
Alexander Pope
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complicadíssima teia
a 19 de Janeiro de 1923, nascia o poeta cuja mão se fez marinheiro
Húmido de beijos e de lágrimas,
ardor da terra com sabor a mar,
o teu corpo perdia-se no meu.
(vontade de ser barco ou de cantar.)
Eugénio de Andrade
bitch!
| post mode telegráfico | ] porque ideias soltas | voluntariosas* [ | sem partículas ligação lhes valham
c² = a² + b²
túmulo de Pitágoras
edit (13h18m): nas suas aulas. falava-se das coisas do tempo antes do 25 de Abril. quando o Sporting perdia um jogo, arranjávamos maneira da contínua nos abrir a porta da sala de aula para escrever o resultado do jogo no quadro, ele entrava e fazia ar de que aquele seria o dia em que lhe conheceríamos o mau humor. o professor Sarmento não era um professor palhaço, nunca precisou de o ser para ser amado por todos (ok, há-de haver por aí algum idiota com razões de queixa). o professor Sarmento não gostava mais das meninas que dos rapazes. o professor Sarmento era uma pessoa muito sisuda e sorria. o professor Sarmento contava a história do aluno morto em Coimbra, no tempo da PIDE. o professor Sarmento contava muitas histórias. explicava a Matemática. conseguia notas positivas em alunos repetentes. nunca tinha horas para mais um aluno em explicações - mas arranjava-se sempre um buraquinho no horário. o professor Sarmento virava-se para nós, após a explicação de uma nova matéria e perguntava "isto é bonito, ou não?", nós sabíamos que sim, que "é bonito", mas aproveitávamos para o contrariar. era assim. e, nem assim, seria possível dizer como era, quem foi o professor, quanto mais o homem.
ATENÇÃO: este foi um assalto ao Pedro.
estado do tempo em Coimbra
há pistas estreitas de animal ferido pelas paredes
onde terá começado a metalização da fala?
uma porta de alvenaria dá acesso
à eira de misteriosos e profundos limos
onde terei esquecido a cicatriz azul da escrita
uma flor invade os veios secos da pedra
incendeia-se antes de se diluir na poeira
onde terei dado de beber à melancolia da memória?
o sangue transmutado em raríssimo metal
faz do coração e das veias a possível mina
onde vibrará a selvagem luminosidade dos pulsos?
há pistas estreitas de animal ferido pelas paredes
dentro do sonho segui-la-emos ao amanhecer
onde se esconderá o diminuto rosto ainda vivo
insondáveis são as catástrofes da alma
e da loucura que já não nos prende um ao outro
que destino nos revela a mão sem linha da vida?
escuro o bater do tempo sob as pálpebras
e o terrível som da máquina de escrever
Al Berto
de «Uma Existência de Papel»: Os Dias Sem Ninguém (5), in O Medo
I'm sure my cat loves me more on Saturdays *
It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
Shadows even the silver spoon
The handmade blade, the child's balloon
Eclipses both the sun and moon
To understand you know too soon
There is no sense in trying.
Pointed threats, they bluff with scorn
Suicide remarks are torn
From the fool's gold mouthpiece
The hollow horn plays wasted words
Proves to warn
That he not busy being born
Is busy dying.
Temptation's page flies out the door
You follow, find yourself at war
Watch waterfalls of pity roar
You feel to moan but unlike before
You discover
That you'd just be
One more person crying.
So don't fear if you hear
A foreign sound to your ear
It's alright, Ma, I'm only sighing.
As some warn victory, some downfall
Private reasons great or small
Can be seen in the eyes of those that call
To make all that should be killed to crawl
While others say don't hate nothing at all
Except hatred.
Disillusioned words like bullets bark
As human gods aim for their mark
Made everything from toy guns that spark
To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark
It's easy to see without looking too far
That not much
Is really sacred.
While preachers preach of evil fates
Teachers teach that knowledge waits
Can lead to hundred-dollar plates
Goodness hides behind its gates
But even the president of the United States
Sometimes must have
To stand naked.
An' though the rules of the road have been lodged
It's only people's games that you got to dodge
And it's alright, Ma, I can make it.
Advertising signs that con you
Into thinking you're the one
That can do what's never been done
That can win what's never been won
Meantime life outside goes on
All around you.
You lose yourself, you reappear
You suddenly find you got nothing to fear
Alone you stand with nobody near
When a trembling distant voice, unclear
Startles your sleeping ears to hear
That somebody thinks
They really found you.
A question in your nerves is lit
Yet you know there is no answer fit to satisfy
Insure you not to quit
To keep it in your mind and not fergit
That it is not he or she or them or it
That you belong to.
Although the masters make the rules
For the wise men and the fools
I got nothing, Ma, to live up to.
For them that must obey authority
That they do not respect in any degree
Who despise their jobs, their destinies
Speak jealously of them that are free
Cultivate their flowers to be
Nothing more than something
They invest in.
While some on principles baptized
To strict party platform ties
Social clubs in drag disguise
Outsiders they can freely criticize
Tell nothing except who to idolize
And then say God bless him.
While one who sings with his tongue on fire
Gargles in the rat race choir
Bent out of shape from society's pliers
Cares not to come up any higher
But rather get you down in the hole
That he's in.
But I mean no harm nor put fault
On anyone that lives in a vault
But it's alright, Ma, if I can't please him.
Old lady judges watch people in pairs
Limited in sex, they dare
To push fake morals, insult and stare
While money doesn't talk, it swears
Obscenity, who really cares
Propaganda, all is phony.
While them that defend what they cannot see
With a killer's pride, security
It blows the minds most bitterly
For them that think death's honesty
Won't fall upon them naturally
Life sometimes
Must get lonely.
My eyes collide head-on with stuffed graveyards
False gods, I scuff
At pettiness which plays so rough
Walk upside-down inside handcuffs
Kick my legs to crash it off
Say okay, I have had enough
What else can you show me?
And if my thought-dreams could be seen
They'd probably put my head in a guillotine
But it's alright, Ma, it's life, and life only.
Bob Dylan
I want this dream to become true
acordar tarde
quando o rio parou de correr e a noite
foi tão luminosa quanto a mota que falhou
a curva - e o serviço postal não funcionou
no dia seguinte
procuras ávido aquilo que o mar não devorou
e passas a língua na cola dos selos lambidos
por assassinos - e a tua mão segurando a faca
cujo gume possui a fatalidade do sangue contaminado
dos amantes ocasionais - nada a fazer
irás sozinho vida dentro
os braços estendidos como se entrasses na água
o corpo num arco de pedra tenso simulando
a casa
onde me abrigo do mortal brilho do meio-dia
Al Berto, in Horto de Incêndio
Tanta doçura perdida pela terra toda. [...] Tinha renunciado havia muito a este género de remorso.
- Vou buscar outra garrafa ao camarim do Pierre.
Saiu do gabinete. O que sentia não era tanto a vontade de whisky como a atracção que se desprendia dos corredores às escuras. Quando ela ali não estava, este cheiro a pó, esta penumbra, esta solidão desolada - nada daquilo existia, simplesmente não existia. E agora ela estava ali; o vermelho do tapete rompia do escuro como uma tímida luz de presença. Ela possuía este poder: a sua presença arrancava coisas à sua inconsciência, dava-lhes a cor que tinham, o cheiro que era o delas. Desceu um andar e empurrou diante de si a porta da sala; era como uma missão que lhe tivesse sido confiada, era preciso fazê-Ia existir, a esta sala deserta e cheia de noite. O pano de ferro estava descido, as paredes cheiravam a tinta fresca; as poltronas forradas de pelúcia vermelha dispunham-se, inertes, na expectativa. Há pouco, nada esperavam. E agora ela estava ali e as cadeiras estendiam os braços. Olhavam para o palco mascarado pelo pano, chamavam Pierre, as luzes da ribalta e uma multidão recolhida. Seria necessário ficar sempre ali, perpetuar aquela solidão e aquela expectativa; mas seria necessário estar sempre também noutro lado, no armazém de acessórios, nos camarins, no átrio: seria necessário estar em toda a parte. Atravessou um proscénio e subiu ao palco; abriu a porta e desceu à arrumação onde peças de cenários velhos iam ganhando mofo. Era ela a única pessoa a captar o sentido daqueles locais abandonados, daqueles objectos afundados no sono; estava ali e eles pertenciam-lhe. O mundo pertencia-lhe.
Passou a portazinha de ferro que fechava a entrada dos artistas, e avançou até meio do terrapleno. A toda a volta da praça, as casas dormiam, o teatro dormia; só a uma das janelas do teatro surgia uma luz cor-de-rosa. Sentou-se num banco, o céu brilhava, negro, por cima dos castanheiros. Parecia estar-se no centro de uma sub-prefeitura tranquila. Nesse instante, não lamentava que Pierre não estivesse junto dela, havia alegrias que não podia conhecer na presença dele: todas as alegrias da solidão; perdera-as havia oito anos e, por vezes, sentia como que um remorso. Encostou-se à madeira dura do banco; um passo rápido soava no asfalto do passeio; na avenida, um camião passou. Havia este ruído em movimento, o céu, a folhagem hesitante das árvores, uma vidraça cor de rosa numa fachada negra; já não havia Françoise; já ninguém existia em parte alguma.
Françoise pôs-se de pé de um salto; era estranho voltar a ser alguém, precisamente apenas uma mulher, uma mulher que se apressa porque há um trabalho urgente à espera dela, e este momento não passava de um momento da sua vida, como todos os outros. Pôs a mão no fecho da porta e virou-se com o coração apertado. Era um abandono, uma traição. A noite ia tragar de novo a praçazinha de província; o quadrado cor-de-rosa brilharia em vão, já não brilharia para ninguém. A doçura daquela hora ia perder-se para sempre. Tanta doçura perdida pela terra toda. Atravessou o pátio e subiu a escada verde de madeira. Tinha renunciado havia muito a este género de remorso. Nada era real a não ser a sua própria vida. Entrou no camarim de Pierre e tirou uma garrafa de whisky do armário; depois voltou a correr para o seu gabinete.
in "A Convidada", Simone de Beauvoir
Ébrio de erros, perco-me por momentos de sentir-me viver.
E assim escondo-me atrás da porta, para que a Realidade, quando entra, não me veja. Escondo-me debaixo da mesa, donde subitamente prego sustos à Possibilidade. De modo que desligo de mim, como aos dois braços de um amplexo, os dois grandes tédios que me cingem – o tédio de poder viver só o Real, e o tédio de poder conceber só o Possível.
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Triunfo assim de toda a realidade. Castelos de areia, os meus triunfos?... De que cousa essencialmente divina são os castelos que não são de areia?
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Como sabeis que, viajando assim não me segui [?] obscuramente? Infantil de absurdo, revivo a minha meninice, e / brinco com as ideias das cousas como com soldados de chumbo com os quais eu, quando menino, fazia cousas que embirravam com a ideia de soldado. /
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Ébrio de erros, perco-me por momentos de sentir-me viver.
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Sei que despertei e que ainda durmo. O meu corpo antigo, moído de eu viver, diz-me que é muito cedo ainda… sinto-me muito febril de longe. Peso-me, não sei porquê…
Num torpor lúcido, pesadamente incorpóreo. Estagno, entre o sono e a vigília, num sonho que é uma sombra de sonhar. Minha atenção bóia entre dois mundos e vê cegamente a profundeza de um mar e a profundeza de um céu; e estas profundezas interpenetram-se, misturam-se, e eu não sei onde estou nem o que sonho.
Bernardo Soares
Viagem nunca feita (II), Livro do Desassossego (2ª parte)
para um aniversário cuja letra me faz sempre lembrar esta puta de vida
I want a ticket to anywhere
Maybe we make a deal
Maybe together we can get somewhere
Anyplace is better
Starting from zero got nothing to lose
Maybe we’ll make something
But me myself I got nothing to prove
You got a fast car
And I got a plan to get us out of here
I been working at the convenience store
Managed to save just a little bit of money
We won’t have to drive too far
Just ’cross the border and into the city
You and I can both get jobs
And finally see what it means to be living
You see my old man’s got a problem
He live with the bottle that’s the way it is
He says his body’s too old for working
I say his body’s too young to look like his
My mama went off and left him
She wanted more from life than he could give
I said somebody’s got to take care of him
So I quit school and that’s what I did
You got a fast car
But is it fast enough so we can fly away
We gotta make a decision
We leave tonight or live and die this way
I remember we were driving driving in your car
The speed so fast I felt like I was drunk
City lights lay out before us
And your arm felt nice wrapped ’round my shoulder
And I had a feeling that I belonged
And I had a feeling I could be someone, be someone, be someone
You got a fast car
And we go cruising to entertain ourselves
You still ain’t got a job
And I work in a market as a checkout girl
I know things will get better
You’ll find work and I’ll get promoted
We’ll move out of the shelter
Buy a big house and live in the suburbs
You got a fast car
And I got a job that pays all our bills
You stay out drinking late at the bar
See more of your friends than you do of your kids
I’d always hoped for better
Thought maybe together you and me would find it
I got no plans I ain’t going nowhere
So take your fast car and keep on driving
You got a fast car
But is it fast enough so you can fly away
You gotta make a decision
You leave tonight or live and die this way
Comfortably numb
Is there anybody in there?
Just nod if you can hear me.
Is there anyone at home?
Come on, now,
I hear you're feeling down.
Well I can ease your pain
Get you on your feet again.
Relax.
I need some information first.
Just the basic facts.
Can you show me where it hurts?
There is no pain you are receding
A distant ship smokes on the horizon.
You are only coming through in waves.
Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying.
When I was a child I had a fever
My hands felt just like two balloons.
Now I've got that feeling once again
I can't explain it you would not understand
This is not how I am.
I have become comfortably numb.
I have become comfortably numb.
O.K.
Just a little pinprick.
There'll be no more aaaaaaaaah!
But you may feel a little sick.
Can you stand up?
I do believe it's working, good.
That'll keep you going through the show
Come on it's time to go.
There is no pain you are receding
A distant ship smokes on the horizon.
You are only coming through in waves.
Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying.
When I was a child
I caught a fleeting glimpse
Out of the corner of my eye.
I turned to look but it was gone
I cannot put my finger on it now
The child is grown,
The dream is gone.
but I have become comfortably numb.