sábado, março 31, 2007
O mundo
La famille s'installe dans le canapé.
'Les uns et les autres ne passent pas leur temps à se regarder mais à regarder dans la même direction'.
Le Monde, 27 Mars
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'Les uns et les autres ne passent pas leur temps à se regarder mais à regarder dans la même direction'.
Le Monde, 27 Mars
quinta-feira, março 29, 2007
Riddles
1)
All is in these very beginnings:
Look to the predominant male,
Pick a poem's sacred river or just
Halt at the old funny sitcom.
2)
In foreign languages, it is true,
LOVE will give the right head way;
even if it may also hide the wanderers,
it will make route choice child's play.
3)
No man that but man is
will ever be pleased
till he be eased with being…
the word to be seized.
4)
Film of screen and real tragedy,
crossing so often our plains, oh no,
quite dove-like in number count,
otherwise contrasting the virgin snow.
5)
The golden creature from a movie below
celebrates that which should never be;
hints the way to a once man here resting
from home, far away, so close, you see.
6)
In Luxembourg lies not since long
a speared Argo, dry and pale;
and on its lap, top middle, deep,
is the name of ancient and novel tale.
7)
The art of losing isn't hard to master
(it can be a quick affair, no point to mow),
but as the movie goes to prove, really,
you are definitely not what you own.
Now, if the vain poet would marry the director, what would be the daughter's name?
8)
A wondrous liquid awed the pyramid builders
- for squeezed out of the wickedness of men -
and made famous a closer, clearer running,
that you will name for me - and now is when.
9)
Though in love play age counts not much,
at times the Writer sets the set so live
that one wishes only to dive deep, fast,
to that special lovers' game won at 25…
10)
Look for a second-born Homer
- with little sight lost, long battled -
where his memory is now to rest,
in good view, by his own settled.
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All is in these very beginnings:
Look to the predominant male,
Pick a poem's sacred river or just
Halt at the old funny sitcom.
2)
In foreign languages, it is true,
LOVE will give the right head way;
even if it may also hide the wanderers,
it will make route choice child's play.
3)
No man that but man is
will ever be pleased
till he be eased with being…
the word to be seized.
4)
Film of screen and real tragedy,
crossing so often our plains, oh no,
quite dove-like in number count,
otherwise contrasting the virgin snow.
5)
The golden creature from a movie below
celebrates that which should never be;
hints the way to a once man here resting
from home, far away, so close, you see.
6)
In Luxembourg lies not since long
a speared Argo, dry and pale;
and on its lap, top middle, deep,
is the name of ancient and novel tale.
7)
The art of losing isn't hard to master
(it can be a quick affair, no point to mow),
but as the movie goes to prove, really,
you are definitely not what you own.
Now, if the vain poet would marry the director, what would be the daughter's name?
8)
A wondrous liquid awed the pyramid builders
- for squeezed out of the wickedness of men -
and made famous a closer, clearer running,
that you will name for me - and now is when.
9)
Though in love play age counts not much,
at times the Writer sets the set so live
that one wishes only to dive deep, fast,
to that special lovers' game won at 25…
10)
Look for a second-born Homer
- with little sight lost, long battled -
where his memory is now to rest,
in good view, by his own settled.
segunda-feira, março 26, 2007
Zé
0 commentssábado, março 24, 2007
Nélida 2
[Sherezade]
"Ela tem o medo prévio de não ser capaz de preencher o tempo que lhe é dado até à vinda do sol para seduzir o Califa.
Penso que todos temos um tempo determinado para seduzir a vida, para que a vida não nos arranque antes do tempo."
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"Ela tem o medo prévio de não ser capaz de preencher o tempo que lhe é dado até à vinda do sol para seduzir o Califa.
Penso que todos temos um tempo determinado para seduzir a vida, para que a vida não nos arranque antes do tempo."
Não vai conseguir quase nada
"Olho muito as pessoas. Comove-me o grau de frustração do outro. Olho uma pessoa e vejo as suas pequenas utopiazinhas e percebo que não vai conseguir quase nada.
Mas está pensando que vai.
Só que o peso social é tão dramático que desejo: 'Tomara que me equivoque'.
Tenho a grande malícia da realidade, mas uma ternura imensa. Sou um ser cheio de compaixão. O outro é um lado muito forte em mim; comover-me com o outro, surpreender as fragilidades humanas, o nosso destino mortal, a nossa finitude.
Somos seres radicais e a morte é um facto radical."
Nélida Pinon
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Mas está pensando que vai.
Só que o peso social é tão dramático que desejo: 'Tomara que me equivoque'.
Tenho a grande malícia da realidade, mas uma ternura imensa. Sou um ser cheio de compaixão. O outro é um lado muito forte em mim; comover-me com o outro, surpreender as fragilidades humanas, o nosso destino mortal, a nossa finitude.
Somos seres radicais e a morte é um facto radical."
Nélida Pinon
Civilisation, 1968
"Looking at these great works of Western man and remembering all that he has achieved in philosophy, poetry, science, law making... it does seem hard to believe that European Civilisation can ever vanish. And yet, you know, it has happened once. All the life-giving human activities that we lump together under the word Civilisation have been obliterated once in Western Europe. For two centuries the heart of European Civilisation stopped beating.
We got through it by the skin of our teeth. In the last few years we have developed an uneasy feeling that this could happen again. And advanced thinkers, who, even in Roman times, thought it fine to gang up with the Barbarians, have begun to question if civilisation is worth preserving.
[...]
I don't think civilisation will disappear as long as we believe in it. But it will if we don't."
Lord Kenneth Clark
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We got through it by the skin of our teeth. In the last few years we have developed an uneasy feeling that this could happen again. And advanced thinkers, who, even in Roman times, thought it fine to gang up with the Barbarians, have begun to question if civilisation is worth preserving.
[...]
I don't think civilisation will disappear as long as we believe in it. But it will if we don't."
Lord Kenneth Clark
sexta-feira, março 23, 2007
The fountain
An interesting, potentially wondrous concept but one can not help but feel that the director lost it somewhat in the process.
I would have spent less time dwelling with the Inquisitor, it was vulgar gore and added little, if anything, to the story. And would have kept the flying bubble as a metaphor for time, isolation and also the protection dome of love - rather than a trip to a dying star.
But the close-ups and the plays with the dark/light contrast are at times truly (Rembrandt) wonderful and so is most of the acting of Hugh Jackman - showing us the tender side of Wolverine - conveying the unbearable sadness of loss.
At one point, Tom/Hugh is back at the office of his laboratory and sweeps clean the desk, once, twice, throwing every item on the floor, in anger and desperation. By the third time, there is nothing left on top, his hand just dusts the surface, as if pointlessly trying to straighten the covers or smoothen his life.
The next shot shows only a greyish pattern, a woven metallic fabric with two crossing flat pieces of metal on top. As the camera backs up, we see it is the wall of the elevator at the hospital. Tom is looking at it as perplexed as we are; his life is changing uncontrollably, the world feels different and strange.
At the end, Tom (Tom Creo - believe) accepts that he has to write and close the chapter, as his loving wife had been warning and begging him to, and come to terms with the fact that he has lost her. He dies, in a way, so that he can go on living.
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I would have spent less time dwelling with the Inquisitor, it was vulgar gore and added little, if anything, to the story. And would have kept the flying bubble as a metaphor for time, isolation and also the protection dome of love - rather than a trip to a dying star.
But the close-ups and the plays with the dark/light contrast are at times truly (Rembrandt) wonderful and so is most of the acting of Hugh Jackman - showing us the tender side of Wolverine - conveying the unbearable sadness of loss.
At one point, Tom/Hugh is back at the office of his laboratory and sweeps clean the desk, once, twice, throwing every item on the floor, in anger and desperation. By the third time, there is nothing left on top, his hand just dusts the surface, as if pointlessly trying to straighten the covers or smoothen his life.
The next shot shows only a greyish pattern, a woven metallic fabric with two crossing flat pieces of metal on top. As the camera backs up, we see it is the wall of the elevator at the hospital. Tom is looking at it as perplexed as we are; his life is changing uncontrollably, the world feels different and strange.
At the end, Tom (Tom Creo - believe) accepts that he has to write and close the chapter, as his loving wife had been warning and begging him to, and come to terms with the fact that he has lost her. He dies, in a way, so that he can go on living.
quinta-feira, março 22, 2007
Little dance
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My body is a cage
My body is a cage that keeps me
From dancing with the one I love
But my mind holds the key
I'm standing on a stage
Of fear and self-doubt
It's a hollow play
But they'll clap anyway
My body is a cage that keeps me
From dancing with the one I love
But my mind holds the key
Arcade fire
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From dancing with the one I love
But my mind holds the key
I'm standing on a stage
Of fear and self-doubt
It's a hollow play
But they'll clap anyway
My body is a cage that keeps me
From dancing with the one I love
But my mind holds the key
Arcade fire
The cock-up club (thank you)
"Celebrating curiosity, passion and cock-up.
Through cock-up comes wisdom.
How can you through life without occasionally thinking 'how on earth have I got myself into this fine mess?'
He who has never cocked-up, has never lived".
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Through cock-up comes wisdom.
How can you through life without occasionally thinking 'how on earth have I got myself into this fine mess?'
He who has never cocked-up, has never lived".
I wish I could just say
This is just to say
I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox
and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast
Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold
William Carlos Williams
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I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox
and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast
Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold
William Carlos Williams
Les voyages
Ah ! Les voyages
Aux rivages lointains,
Aux rêves incertains,
Que c'est beau, les voyages
Qui effacent au loin
Nos larmes et nos chagrins,
Mon dieu !
Ah ! Les voyages.
Comme vous fûtes sages
De nous donner ces images
Car les voyages,
C'est la vie que l'on fait,
Le destin qu'on refait.
Que c'est beau, les voyages
Et le monde nouveau
Qui s'ouvre à nos cerveaux,
Nous fait voir autrement
Et nous chante comment
La vie vaut bien le coup
Malgré tout !
Ah ! Jeunes gens,
Sachez profiter de vos vingt ans.
Le monde est là.
Ne craignez rien.
Il n'est pas méchant.
Il vous guidera.
Ah ! Les voyages
Qui murissent nos cœurs,
Qui nous ouvrent au bonheur,
Mais que c'est beau, les voyages !
Et lorsque l'on retourne chez soi,
Rien n'est comme autrefois
Car nos yeux ont changé
Et nous sommes étonnés
De voir comme nos soucis
Etaient simples et petits,
Car les voyages
Tournent une page.
Ah ! Les voyages...
Barbara
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Aux rivages lointains,
Aux rêves incertains,
Que c'est beau, les voyages
Qui effacent au loin
Nos larmes et nos chagrins,
Mon dieu !
Ah ! Les voyages.
Comme vous fûtes sages
De nous donner ces images
Car les voyages,
C'est la vie que l'on fait,
Le destin qu'on refait.
Que c'est beau, les voyages
Et le monde nouveau
Qui s'ouvre à nos cerveaux,
Nous fait voir autrement
Et nous chante comment
La vie vaut bien le coup
Malgré tout !
Ah ! Jeunes gens,
Sachez profiter de vos vingt ans.
Le monde est là.
Ne craignez rien.
Il n'est pas méchant.
Il vous guidera.
Ah ! Les voyages
Qui murissent nos cœurs,
Qui nous ouvrent au bonheur,
Mais que c'est beau, les voyages !
Et lorsque l'on retourne chez soi,
Rien n'est comme autrefois
Car nos yeux ont changé
Et nous sommes étonnés
De voir comme nos soucis
Etaient simples et petits,
Car les voyages
Tournent une page.
Ah ! Les voyages...
Barbara
terça-feira, março 20, 2007
Ainda
"I'm guided by the beauty of our weapons."
LC, First we take Manhattan
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LC, First we take Manhattan
segunda-feira, março 19, 2007
Pois
Everybody wants a box of chocolates
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Everybody knows
"And everybody knows that it's now or never
Everybody knows that it's me or you".
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Everybody knows that it's me or you".
That's how it goes
"Everybody knows that the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
[...]
Everybody wants a box of chocolates
And a long stem rose
Everybody knows
[...]
Everybody knows that you love me baby
Everybody knows that you really do
Everybody knows that you've been faithful
Ah give or take a night or two"
LC, Everybody knows
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Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
[...]
Everybody wants a box of chocolates
And a long stem rose
Everybody knows
[...]
Everybody knows that you love me baby
Everybody knows that you really do
Everybody knows that you've been faithful
Ah give or take a night or two"
LC, Everybody knows
Knowing his business
"There's a bar where the boys have stopped talking
They've been sentenced to death by the blues."
LC, Take this waltz
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They've been sentenced to death by the blues."
LC, Take this waltz
Coincidence
"Well it's Father's Day and everybody's wounded".
Leonard Cohen
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Leonard Cohen
First we take Manhattan
"I'm guided by a signal in the heavens".
Batman, by Leonard Cohen
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Batman, by Leonard Cohen
Cão que fuma
'Le chien que fume'.
Um café ficcionado num poema ('Girassol', parece).
Que bela ideia, que belo nome.
E eu até já jantei lá, noutra vida.
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Um café ficcionado num poema ('Girassol', parece).
Que bela ideia, que belo nome.
E eu até já jantei lá, noutra vida.
Na estrada
'A poesia como o amor faz-se na cama'.
André Breton
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André Breton
domingo, março 18, 2007
Thumbsucker
"The trick is living without an answer.
I think."
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I think."
sexta-feira, março 16, 2007
Ghost rider
Even here, some pearls.
Mephistopheles' son kneeling at the church and blowing out a candle prior to reverently returning it to the altar.
Very much in contrast with the rest of the movie, somewhat less… subtle.
And, though lame, still... "a man who sells his soul for love has the power to change the world".
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Mephistopheles' son kneeling at the church and blowing out a candle prior to reverently returning it to the altar.
Very much in contrast with the rest of the movie, somewhat less… subtle.
And, though lame, still... "a man who sells his soul for love has the power to change the world".
quinta-feira, março 15, 2007
Need I say more?
'L'Europe n'est pas ce que vous croyez'.
Jacques Barrot, Commission en direct
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Jacques Barrot, Commission en direct
Frase dura, tema mole
"J'ai découvert mes capacités psychiques comme certains découvrent leur laideur, c'est-à-dire, dans le regard des autres".
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quarta-feira, março 14, 2007
Estado civil
'Queres acabar comigo?'
É preciso (basta?) ler duas vezes para perceber o que significa.
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É preciso (basta?) ler duas vezes para perceber o que significa.
AKA 'Olhos azuis'
Jeune homme, L'étudiant
Modigliani, 1919
terça-feira, março 13, 2007
Failure to launch
(Quase?) tudo tem uma pérola.
Neste filme, é a Sarah Jessica Parker a dizer algo como: "Tomorrow, I think I will let him teach me something".
Pois, é tão simples.
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Neste filme, é a Sarah Jessica Parker a dizer algo como: "Tomorrow, I think I will let him teach me something".
Pois, é tão simples.
segunda-feira, março 12, 2007
Will into it
Given enough time, you will forget anything.
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domingo, março 11, 2007
Arcade fire
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My heart failure
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sábado, março 10, 2007
Olá
Havia um reclame da Olá que mostrava um grupo de jovens a correr na praia, a saltar por uma duna sob o sol, em direcção ao mar.
Sorrisos, risos, gargalhadas, juventude, amizade, felicidade. E mais ainda.
Todo o resumo do que pagaríamos alegremente para ter na vida, quanto mais num gelado.
Lembro-me de comentar como tudo isso era falso, um momento fabricado, uma emoção artificial, no sentido em que não poderia existir no mundo real, válida apenas como metáfora.
Como o momento do Rocky em que o homem acaba de subir as escadas do museu em Philadelphia e a câmara o olha, de plano baixo, ele de braços erguidos, num círculo completo.
A alegria de ter chegado ao fim do esforço, da escalada, existe.
Mas a emoção como descrita no filme, não. É o produto do que só a câmara pode fazer, do círculo que ela fecha e que onde encerra também esse sentimento, prendendo-o ao écran, fora da vida.
Até que me disseram que não.
Que aquele momento Olá existe. Que a emoção de correr livre pela praia, apenas entre amigos e gargalhadas, existe. Esteve lá para ser vivida; houve quem a vivesse.
Simplesmente, houve quem ficasse de fora. Por mau actor.
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Sorrisos, risos, gargalhadas, juventude, amizade, felicidade. E mais ainda.
Todo o resumo do que pagaríamos alegremente para ter na vida, quanto mais num gelado.
Lembro-me de comentar como tudo isso era falso, um momento fabricado, uma emoção artificial, no sentido em que não poderia existir no mundo real, válida apenas como metáfora.
Como o momento do Rocky em que o homem acaba de subir as escadas do museu em Philadelphia e a câmara o olha, de plano baixo, ele de braços erguidos, num círculo completo.
A alegria de ter chegado ao fim do esforço, da escalada, existe.
Mas a emoção como descrita no filme, não. É o produto do que só a câmara pode fazer, do círculo que ela fecha e que onde encerra também esse sentimento, prendendo-o ao écran, fora da vida.
Até que me disseram que não.
Que aquele momento Olá existe. Que a emoção de correr livre pela praia, apenas entre amigos e gargalhadas, existe. Esteve lá para ser vivida; houve quem a vivesse.
Simplesmente, houve quem ficasse de fora. Por mau actor.
Zero
On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone will drop to zero.
Fight Club
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Fight Club
Real time video blog 2
The girl's boyfriend arrives.
Curiously, he had also been here earlier this afternoon, in between her stops.
He had sat at the very same table where they both are now.
At the very same chair, facing her as if she was already meant to be there; as if he was to return to that warmed-up seat of his.
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Curiously, he had also been here earlier this afternoon, in between her stops.
He had sat at the very same table where they both are now.
At the very same chair, facing her as if she was already meant to be there; as if he was to return to that warmed-up seat of his.
What the hammer?
"Don't just stand there, do something! The American way. Get into action. Fix things".
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Real time video blog
The girl walks into the café for the second time.
She sits at the same table, close to the window, and opens the book again.
The sun makes the cover shine but I can just read the title, 'Fried eggs with chopsticks'.
It's by Polly Evans, a travel book for China.
She's china too. And I am as removed as the Middle Kingdom.
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She sits at the same table, close to the window, and opens the book again.
The sun makes the cover shine but I can just read the title, 'Fried eggs with chopsticks'.
It's by Polly Evans, a travel book for China.
She's china too. And I am as removed as the Middle Kingdom.
Beats on
Dream of America
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Pois
Não saberás exactamente o que fazer, mas fá-lo-ás
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X C
- Thou shalt fight conformism
- Thou shalt be the messenger of freedoms
- Thou shalt make use of sex
- Thou shalt reinvent life
- Thou shalt grab the soul
- Thou shalt give thy love
- Thou shalt create artificial art
- Thou shalt have a sense of purpose
- Thou shalt not know exactly what thou dost, but thou shalt do it
- Thou shalt give something back
Gilbert and George
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- Thou shalt be the messenger of freedoms
- Thou shalt make use of sex
- Thou shalt reinvent life
- Thou shalt grab the soul
- Thou shalt give thy love
- Thou shalt create artificial art
- Thou shalt have a sense of purpose
- Thou shalt not know exactly what thou dost, but thou shalt do it
- Thou shalt give something back
Gilbert and George
sexta-feira, março 09, 2007
Street spirit (fade out)
Rows of houses, all bearing down on me
I can feel their blue hands touching me
All these things into position
All these things we'll one day swallow whole
And fade out again and fade out
This machine will, will not communicate
These thoughts and the strain I am under
Be a world child, form a circle
Before we all go under
And fade out again and fade out again
Cracked eggs, dead birds
Scream as they fight for life
I can feel death, can see its beady eyes
All these things into position
All these things we'll one day swallow whole
And fade out again and fade out again
Immerse your soul in love
IMMERSE YOUR SOUL IN LOVE
Radiohead
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I can feel their blue hands touching me
All these things into position
All these things we'll one day swallow whole
And fade out again and fade out
This machine will, will not communicate
These thoughts and the strain I am under
Be a world child, form a circle
Before we all go under
And fade out again and fade out again
Cracked eggs, dead birds
Scream as they fight for life
I can feel death, can see its beady eyes
All these things into position
All these things we'll one day swallow whole
And fade out again and fade out again
Immerse your soul in love
IMMERSE YOUR SOUL IN LOVE
Radiohead
terça-feira, março 06, 2007
I trusted you
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M is just Love spelled backwards.
Strike backwards.
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Strike backwards.
segunda-feira, março 05, 2007
Ahhh
Moi, je veux tout, tout de suite, - et que ce soit entier - ou alors je refuse!
Je ne veux pas être modeste, moi, et me contenter d'un petit morceau si j'ai été bien sage.
Je veux être sûre de tout aujourd'hui et que cela soit aussi beau que quand j'étais petite - ou mourir.
Antigone
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Je ne veux pas être modeste, moi, et me contenter d'un petit morceau si j'ai été bien sage.
Je veux être sûre de tout aujourd'hui et que cela soit aussi beau que quand j'étais petite - ou mourir.
Antigone
Uhm
C'est parce qu'on pense, qu'il y a des problèmes.
Un jour, à force de penser, tu te trouveras devant un problème, ta grosse tête te présentera une solution et tu te flanqueras dans une histoire impossible - qu'il aurait été beaucoup plus simple d'ignorer, comme le font la plupart des imbéciles qui, eux, vivent vieux.
Beckett
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Un jour, à force de penser, tu te trouveras devant un problème, ta grosse tête te présentera une solution et tu te flanqueras dans une histoire impossible - qu'il aurait été beaucoup plus simple d'ignorer, comme le font la plupart des imbéciles qui, eux, vivent vieux.
Beckett
sexta-feira, março 02, 2007
Social functioning
Como o tolo no meio da ponte, com a agravante de ter uma picareta com a qual vai fazendo ceder o chão à volta.
Não tarda, consegue o que parece querer, que é ninguém o querer (para não falar em crer...), seguramente já nem ele próprio.
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Não tarda, consegue o que parece querer, que é ninguém o querer (para não falar em crer...), seguramente já nem ele próprio.
