10.12.09

Stultum est timere quod vitare non potes


Em menos de um mês morreram o Jorge Ferreira e a Elisabete Dias. O Jorge tinha 48 anos, e a Elise, 32.


Li ambos com deleite, troquei palavras e sons mais com um do que com outro, qualquer deles deu justíssimo sentido às definições de Humanidade pelas quais alinho.


Não compreendo, e talvez aqui jaza a semente da compreensão, porque é que devemos nascer sabendo sempre que um dia a conta será saldada. Mais valeria que ainda habitássemos as árvores, os planaltos.

De resto, quando isto me bater a sério, não auguro nada de bom para o ar em meu redor.

9.12.09

Citação do dia

“…Listen, what’s the most horrible experience you can imagine? To me-it’s being left, unarmed, in a sealed cell with a drooling beast of prey or a maniac who’s had some disease that’s eaten his brain out. You’d have nothing then but your voice-your voice and your thought. You’d scream to that creature why it should not touch you, you’d have the most eloquent words, the unanswearable words, you’d become the vessel of the absolute truth. And you’d see living eyes watching you and you’d know that the thing can’t hear you, that it can’t be reached, not reached, not in any way, yet it’s breathing and moving there before you with a purpose of it’s own. That’s horror. Well, that’s what’s hanging over the world, prowling somewhere through mankind, that same thing, something closed, mindless, utterly wanton, but something with an aim and a cunning of it’s own. I don’t think I’m a coward, but I’m afraid of it. And that’s all I know-only that it exists. I don’t know its purpose, I don’t know its nature.”

Steven Mallory em Atlas Shrugged de Ayn Rand

3.12.09

Go, sit upon the lofty hill,
And turn your eyes around,
Where waving woods and waters wild
Do hymn an autumn sound.
The summer sun is faint on them --
The summer flowers depart --
Sit still -- as all transform'd to stone,
Except your musing heart.

How there you sat in summer-time,
May yet be in your mind;
And how you heard the green woods sing
Beneath the freshening wind.
Though the same wind now blows around,
You would its blast recall;
For every breath that stirs the trees,
Doth cause a leaf to fall.

Oh! like that wind, is all the mirth
That flesh and dust impart:
We cannot bear its visitings,
When change is on the heart.
Gay words and jests may make us smile,
When Sorrow is asleep;
But other things must make us smile,
When Sorrow bids us weep!

The dearest hands that clasp our hands, --
Their presence may be o'er;
The dearest voice that meets our ear,
That tone may come no more!
Youth fades; and then, the joys of youth,
Which once refresh'd our mind,
Shall come -- as, on those sighing woods,
The chilling autumn wind.

Hear not the wind -- view not the woods;
Look out o'er vale and hill-
In spring, the sky encircled them --
The sky is round them still.
Come autumn's scathe -- come winter's cold --
Come change -- and human fate!
Whatever prospect Heaven doth bound,
Can ne'er be desolate.

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

O triunfo da multiculturalidade

2.12.09

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

- Gertrude Stein