Monday, January 09, 2012

2012 ou bónus ontológico.




«

Tendo ontem começado o novo ano e considerando que estamos todos um ano mais velhos, recomendo que, em vez da esperança, que notoriamente desilude e não é de fiar, se adopte a atitude do "esta já ninguém me tira". Falo daqueles prazeres já realizados que já não nos apetecem - mas que já ninguém nos tira. É um consolo simbiótico: é porque já ninguém os tira que deixam de apetecer.

(...)

Por cada bola de Berlim, por cada vez que se desobedece ao dever e se cede ao coração; por cada indevida fatia de pão alentejano com innapropriate queijo cheddar devidamente envelhecido, numa hora do dia (como o chá da tarde) em que não deveria, dieteticamente, ter ocorrido, há um bónus ontológico, que rende na nossa alma até ao momento de morrermos, que é a verificação irrefutável que aquela alegria, por muito imerecida ou imoral, já ninguém nos pode tirar.

»

Miguel Esteves Cardoso, Público, 2 Janeiro 2012


Sunday, July 24, 2011

tenho um jardim pequenino.




We have a little garden,
A garden of our own,
And every day we water there
The seeds that we have sown.

We love our little garden,
And tend it with such care,
You will not find a faced leaf
Or blighted blossom there.


Beatrix Potter




«And having grown tired of his empire, along with its sun that never set, Charles V installed his brother Ferdinand as ruler of Austria and emperor of Germany, and gave Spain and the Netherlands to his son Philip. He then withdrew, in 1556, an old and broken man, to the Spanish monastery of San Geronimo de Yuste. It is said that he spent his time there repairing and regulating all the clocks. He wanted them to chime at the same time. When he didn't succeed, he is reported to have said:

'How did I ever presume to try to unite all the peoples of my empire when I cannot, even once, persuade a few clocks to chime together.'


»


in A Little History of the World
E. H. Gombrich


Sunday, April 17, 2011

how did you get to save me from this desolate wastland.




(Birthe Piontek)




Woodkid
Wasteland



Friday, April 01, 2011









Sunday, March 20, 2011

amo-te.




goddamn' Europeans
take me back to beautiful England
and the grey damp filthiness
of ages and battered books






Sunday, January 30, 2011










now when my baby kisses me
upon my rosy cheeks
I just let those kisses be
don't wash my face for weeks



Thursday, January 13, 2011

and i pray for rest.








Tuesday, January 11, 2011

anyone can find places, but the finding of people is a gift from God (reprise)





«It was pleasant, too, to fling

wide the windows, pinching

the fingers in unfamiliar

fastenings, to lean out into

sunshine»



E. M. Forster
A Room with a View




Friday, January 07, 2011

1 de janeiro 2011