<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618973231083522412</id><updated>2012-02-16T15:38:30.725-08:00</updated><category term='TUDO'/><category term='notícias'/><category term='in English'/><category term='literatura'/><title type='text'>BANCA DE TEXTO</title><subtitle type='html'>UMA BIBLIOTECA PESSOAL</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>STARK!</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nYG86XB013I/TnZCEdj4lBI/AAAAAAAAGQo/AkfC5-uNvJE/s220/papilon%2B%25285%252928.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>405</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618973231083522412.post-9159361878951064195</id><published>2011-12-23T21:18:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-23T21:18:18.480-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Garamond&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="DISPLAY: inline! important; FLOAT: none; WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 13px/16px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-ALIGN: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"&gt;In  the middle of this century we turned to each other&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;BR  style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 13px/16px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-ALIGN: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="DISPLAY: inline! important; FLOAT: none; WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 13px/16px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-ALIGN: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"&gt;with  half faces and full eyes&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;BR  style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 13px/16px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-ALIGN: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="DISPLAY: inline! important; FLOAT: none; WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 13px/16px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-ALIGN: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"&gt;like  an ancient Egyptian picture&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;BR  style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 13px/16px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-ALIGN: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="DISPLAY: inline! important; FLOAT: none; WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 13px/16px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-ALIGN: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"&gt;and  for a short while.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;BR  style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 13px/16px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-ALIGN: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"&gt;&lt;BR  style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 13px/16px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-ALIGN: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="DISPLAY: inline! important; FLOAT: none; WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 13px/16px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-ALIGN: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"&gt;I  stroked your hair&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;BR  style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 13px/16px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-ALIGN: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="DISPLAY: inline! important; FLOAT: none; WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 13px/16px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-ALIGN: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"&gt;in  the opposite direction to your journey.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;BR  style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 13px/16px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-ALIGN: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="DISPLAY: inline! important; FLOAT: none; WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 13px/16px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-ALIGN: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"&gt;We  called to each other,&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;BR  style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 13px/16px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-ALIGN: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="DISPLAY: inline! important; FLOAT: none; WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 13px/16px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-ALIGN: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"&gt;likes  calling out the names of towns&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;BR  style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 13px/16px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-ALIGN: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="DISPLAY: inline! important; FLOAT: none; WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 13px/16px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-ALIGN: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"&gt;where  nobody stops&lt;SPAN class=Apple-converted-space&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;BR  style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 13px/16px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-ALIGN: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="DISPLAY: inline! important; FLOAT: none; WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 13px/16px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-ALIGN: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"&gt;along  the route.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;BR  style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 13px/16px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-ALIGN: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"&gt;&lt;BR  style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 13px/16px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-ALIGN: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="DISPLAY: inline! important; FLOAT: none; WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 13px/16px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-ALIGN: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"&gt;Lovely  is the world rising early to evil,&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;BR  style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 13px/16px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-ALIGN: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="DISPLAY: inline! important; FLOAT: none; WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 13px/16px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-ALIGN: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"&gt;lovely  is the world falling asleep to sin and pity,&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;BR  style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 13px/16px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-ALIGN: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="DISPLAY: inline! important; FLOAT: none; WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 13px/16px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-ALIGN: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"&gt;in  the mingling of ourselves, you and I,&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;BR  style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 13px/16px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-ALIGN: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="DISPLAY: inline! important; FLOAT: none; WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 13px/16px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-ALIGN: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"&gt;lovely  is the world.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;BR  style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 13px/16px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-ALIGN: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"&gt;&lt;BR  style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 13px/16px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-ALIGN: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="DISPLAY: inline! important; FLOAT: none; WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 13px/16px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-ALIGN: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"&gt;The  earth drinks men and their loves&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;BR  style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 13px/16px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-ALIGN: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="DISPLAY: inline! important; FLOAT: none; WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 13px/16px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-ALIGN: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"&gt;like  wine,&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;BR  style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 13px/16px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-ALIGN: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="DISPLAY: inline! important; FLOAT: none; WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 13px/16px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-ALIGN: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"&gt;to  forget.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;BR  style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 13px/16px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-ALIGN: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="DISPLAY: inline! important; FLOAT: none; WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 13px/16px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-ALIGN: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"&gt;It  can't.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;BR  style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 13px/16px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-ALIGN: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="DISPLAY: inline! important; FLOAT: none; WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 13px/16px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-ALIGN: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"&gt;And  like the contours of the Judean Hills,&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;BR  style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 13px/16px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-ALIGN: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="DISPLAY: inline! important; FLOAT: none; WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 13px/16px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-ALIGN: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"&gt;we  should never find peace.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;BR  style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 13px/16px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-ALIGN: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"&gt;&lt;BR  style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 13px/16px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-ALIGN: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="DISPLAY: inline! important; FLOAT: none; WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 13px/16px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-ALIGN: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"&gt;In  the middle of this century we turned to each other,&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;BR  style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 13px/16px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-ALIGN: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="DISPLAY: inline! important; FLOAT: none; WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 13px/16px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-ALIGN: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"&gt;I  saw your body, throwing shade, waiting for me,&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;BR  style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 13px/16px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-ALIGN: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="DISPLAY: inline! important; FLOAT: none; WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 13px/16px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-ALIGN: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"&gt;the  leather straps for a long journey&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;BR  style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 13px/16px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-ALIGN: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="DISPLAY: inline! important; FLOAT: none; WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 13px/16px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-ALIGN: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"&gt;already  tightening across my chest.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;BR  style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 13px/16px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-ALIGN: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="DISPLAY: inline! important; FLOAT: none; WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 13px/16px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-ALIGN: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"&gt;I  spoke in praise of your mortal hips,&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;BR  style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 13px/16px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-ALIGN: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="DISPLAY: inline! important; FLOAT: none; WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 13px/16px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-ALIGN: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"&gt;you  spoke in praise of my passing face.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;BR  style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 13px/16px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-ALIGN: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"&gt;&lt;BR  style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 13px/16px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-ALIGN: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="DISPLAY: inline! important; FLOAT: none; WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 13px/16px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-ALIGN: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"&gt;I  stroked your hair in the direction of your journey,&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;BR  style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 13px/16px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-ALIGN: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="DISPLAY: inline! important; FLOAT: none; WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 13px/16px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-ALIGN: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"&gt;I  touched your flesh, prophet of your end,&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;BR  style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 13px/16px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-ALIGN: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="DISPLAY: inline! important; FLOAT: none; WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 13px/16px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-ALIGN: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"&gt;I  touched your hand, which has never slept,&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;BR  style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 13px/16px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-ALIGN: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="DISPLAY: inline! important; FLOAT: none; WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 13px/16px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-ALIGN: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"&gt;I  touched your mouth, which may yet sing.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;BR  style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 13px/16px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-ALIGN: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"&gt;&lt;BR  style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 13px/16px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-ALIGN: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="DISPLAY: inline! important; FLOAT: none; WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 13px/16px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-ALIGN: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"&gt;Dust  from the desert covered the table&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;BR  style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 13px/16px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-ALIGN: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="DISPLAY: inline! important; FLOAT: none; WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 13px/16px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-ALIGN: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"&gt;at  which we did not eat.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;BR  style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 13px/16px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-ALIGN: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="DISPLAY: inline! important; FLOAT: none; WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 13px/16px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-ALIGN: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"&gt;But  with my finger I wrote on it&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;BR  style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 13px/16px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-ALIGN: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="DISPLAY: inline! important; FLOAT: none; WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 13px/16px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-ALIGN: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"&gt;the  letters of your name.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;BR  style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 13px/16px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-ALIGN: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="DISPLAY: inline! important; FLOAT: none; WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 13px/16px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-ALIGN: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"&gt;Yehuda  Amichai (Israeli)&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1618973231083522412-9159361878951064195?l=bancadetexto.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/feeds/9159361878951064195/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1618973231083522412&amp;postID=9159361878951064195' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/9159361878951064195'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/9159361878951064195'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/2011/12/in-middle-of-this-century-we-turned-to.html' title=''/><author><name>STARK!</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nYG86XB013I/TnZCEdj4lBI/AAAAAAAAGQo/AkfC5-uNvJE/s220/papilon%2B%25285%252928.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618973231083522412.post-6995545000335828607</id><published>2011-11-01T11:11:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-11-01T11:11:09.083-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Ausencia</title><content type='html'>&lt;FONT face=Garamond&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial&gt;&lt;FONT  face=Arial&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial&gt; &lt;DIV&gt; &lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Habré de levantar la vasta vida&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;que aún ahora es tu espejo:&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;cada mañana habré de reconstruirla.&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Desde que te alejaste,&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;cuántos lugares se han tornado vanos&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;y sin sentido, iguales&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;a luces en el día. &lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Tardes que fueron nicho de tu imagen,&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;músicas en que siempre me aguardabas,&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;palabras de aquel tiempo,&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;yo tendré que quebrarlas con mis manos.&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;¿En qué hondonada esconderé mi alma&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;para que no vea tu ausencia &lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;que como un sol terrible, sin ocaso,&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;brilla definitiva y despiadada?&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Tu ausencia me rodea&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;como la cuerda a la garganta,&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;el mar al que se hunde.&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;JORGE LUIS  BORGES&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1618973231083522412-6995545000335828607?l=bancadetexto.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/feeds/6995545000335828607/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1618973231083522412&amp;postID=6995545000335828607' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/6995545000335828607'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/6995545000335828607'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/2011/11/ausencia.html' title='Ausencia'/><author><name>STARK!</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nYG86XB013I/TnZCEdj4lBI/AAAAAAAAGQo/AkfC5-uNvJE/s220/papilon%2B%25285%252928.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618973231083522412.post-1294628026693970470</id><published>2011-10-29T17:03:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-29T17:03:26.334-07:00</updated><title type='text'>barthes</title><content type='html'>&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Garamond&gt;&lt;SPAN class=Apple-style-span  style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 11px/14px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(237,239,244); TEXT-ALIGN: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"&gt;&lt;SPAN  class=commentBody data-jsid="text"&gt;‎"Como termina um amor? - O quê? Termina? Em  suma ninguém - exceto os outros - nunca sabe disso; uma espécie de inocência  mascara o fim dessa coisa concebida, afirmada, vivida como se fosse eterna. O  que quer que se torne objeto amado, quer ele desapareça ou passe à região da  Amizade, de qualquer maneira, eu não o vejo nem mesmo se dissipar: o amor que  termina se afasta para um outro mundo como uma nave espacial que deixa de  piscar: o ser amado ressoava como um clamor, de repente ei-lo sem brilho (o  outro nunca desaparece quando e como se esperava). Esse fenômeno resulta de uma  imposição do discurso amoroso: eu mesmo (sujeito enamorado) não posso construir  até o fim de minha história de amor: sou o poeta (o recitante apenas do começo);  o final dessa história, assim como a minha própria morte, pertence aos outros;  eles que escrevam romance, narrativa exterior, mítica." ROLAND BARTHES,  Fragmentos de um discurso amoroso&lt;/SPAN&gt; &lt;DIV class="commentActions fsm fwn fcg"  style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 11px; COLOR: rgb(128,128,128); PADDING-TOP: 2px"&gt;&lt;ABBR  class="timestamp livetimestamp" title="Saturday, October 29, 2011 at 3:40pm"  style="BORDER-BOTTOM-STYLE: none"  data-date="Sat, 29 Oct 2011 10:40:12 -0700"&gt;&lt;/ABBR&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1618973231083522412-1294628026693970470?l=bancadetexto.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/feeds/1294628026693970470/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1618973231083522412&amp;postID=1294628026693970470' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/1294628026693970470'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/1294628026693970470'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/2011/10/barthes.html' title='barthes'/><author><name>STARK!</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nYG86XB013I/TnZCEdj4lBI/AAAAAAAAGQo/AkfC5-uNvJE/s220/papilon%2B%25285%252928.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618973231083522412.post-8525306816878586250</id><published>2011-10-25T15:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-25T15:09:44.128-07:00</updated><title type='text'>L´ínfinito</title><content type='html'>&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Garamond&gt;&lt;SPAN class=Apple-style-span  style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: bold 11px Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, Swiss, SunSans-Regular; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,230,204); orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"&gt; &lt;H5  style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, Swiss, SunSans-Regular"&gt;&lt;I&gt;Sempre  caro mi fu quest'ermo colle,&lt;BR&gt;e questa siepe, che da tanta  parte&lt;BR&gt;dell'ultimo orizzonte il guardo esclude.&lt;BR&gt;Ma sedendo e mirando,  interminati&lt;BR&gt;spazi di là da quella, e sovrumani&lt;BR&gt;silenzi, e profondissima  quïete&lt;BR&gt;io nel pensier mi fingo, ove per poco&lt;BR&gt;il cor non si spaura. E come  il vento&lt;BR&gt;odo stormir tra queste piante, io quello&lt;BR&gt;infinito silenzio a  questa voce&lt;BR&gt;vo comparando: e mi sovvien l'eterno,&lt;BR&gt;e le morte stagioni, e  la presente&lt;BR&gt;e viva, e il suon di lei. Così tra questa&lt;BR&gt;immensità s'annega  il pensier mio:&lt;BR&gt;e il naufragar m'è dolce in questo mare»&lt;/I&gt;&lt;/H5&gt; &lt;UL  style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Georgia, Times, Georgia, Times"&gt;   &lt;UL    style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Georgia, Times, Georgia, Times"&gt;     &lt;H5      style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, Swiss, SunSans-Regular"&gt;(Giacomo      Leopardi)&lt;/H5&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1618973231083522412-8525306816878586250?l=bancadetexto.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/feeds/8525306816878586250/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1618973231083522412&amp;postID=8525306816878586250' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/8525306816878586250'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/8525306816878586250'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/2011/10/linfinito.html' title='L´ínfinito'/><author><name>STARK!</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nYG86XB013I/TnZCEdj4lBI/AAAAAAAAGQo/AkfC5-uNvJE/s220/papilon%2B%25285%252928.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618973231083522412.post-4048835593588859175</id><published>2011-09-11T08:19:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-11T08:19:28.969-07:00</updated><title type='text'>ANAIS NINN</title><content type='html'>&amp;quot;Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one&amp;#39;s courage.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don&amp;#39;t know how to &lt;br&gt;replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies &lt;br&gt;of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;We don&amp;#39;t see things as they are, we see them as we are.&amp;quot;&lt;br&gt;&amp;quot;If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I &lt;br&gt;will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, &lt;br&gt;experience, and creation.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;For me, the adventures of the mind, each inflection of thought, each &lt;br&gt;movement, nuance, growth, discovery, is a source of exhilaration.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been &lt;br&gt;before, to test your limits, to break through barriers. And the day came &lt;br&gt;when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than &lt;br&gt;the risk it took to blossom.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;How wrong is it for a woman to expect man to build the world she wants, &lt;br&gt;rather than set out to create it herself.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Creation which cannot express itself becomes madness.&amp;quot;&lt;br&gt;&amp;quot;Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Eroticism is one of the basic means of self-knowledge, as indispensable as &lt;br&gt;poetry.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go &lt;br&gt;through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in &lt;br&gt;it. This is a kind of death.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, &lt;br&gt;by losing.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Each friend represents a world in us, a world not possibly born until they &lt;br&gt;arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in &lt;br&gt;whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous &lt;br&gt;that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I cannot transform into &lt;br&gt;something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn&amp;#39;t impress me. I only believe in &lt;br&gt;intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one &lt;br&gt;way or another. No more walls.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;We don&amp;#39;t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations &lt;br&gt;are like musical sounds.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a &lt;br&gt;body. Always an orchestra, and just as music traverses walls, so sensuality &lt;br&gt;traverses the body and reaches up to ecstasy.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, &lt;br&gt;great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances &lt;br&gt;them.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Dreams are necessary to life.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should &lt;br&gt;preserve it.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment &lt;br&gt;with it, that was the miracle.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Love is the axis and breath of my life.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are &lt;br&gt;unable to say.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. &lt;br&gt;There is always more mystery&amp;quot;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1618973231083522412-4048835593588859175?l=bancadetexto.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/feeds/4048835593588859175/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1618973231083522412&amp;postID=4048835593588859175' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/4048835593588859175'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/4048835593588859175'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/2011/09/anais-ninn.html' title='ANAIS NINN'/><author><name>STARK!</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nYG86XB013I/TnZCEdj4lBI/AAAAAAAAGQo/AkfC5-uNvJE/s220/papilon%2B%25285%252928.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618973231083522412.post-4533171217514993524</id><published>2011-08-28T15:52:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-08-28T15:52:30.178-07:00</updated><title type='text'>JAMES JOYCE - ULISSES</title><content type='html'>&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Garamond&gt;FELIZ BLOOMSDAY PRA VOCÊS!&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; "If he had  smiled why would he have smiled?&lt;BR&gt;To reflect that each one who enters imagines  himself to be the first to&lt;BR&gt;enter whereas he is always the last term of a  preceding series even if&lt;BR&gt;the first term of a succeeding one, each imagining  himself to be first,&lt;BR&gt;last, only and alone whereas he is neither first nor  last nor only nor&lt;BR&gt;alone in a series originating in and repeated to  infinity."&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1618973231083522412-4533171217514993524?l=bancadetexto.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/feeds/4533171217514993524/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1618973231083522412&amp;postID=4533171217514993524' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/4533171217514993524'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/4533171217514993524'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/2011/08/james-joyce-ulisses.html' title='JAMES JOYCE - ULISSES'/><author><name>STARK!</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nYG86XB013I/TnZCEdj4lBI/AAAAAAAAGQo/AkfC5-uNvJE/s220/papilon%2B%25285%252928.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618973231083522412.post-5182775301542691589</id><published>2011-08-23T16:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-30T10:57:47.172-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='literatura'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='TUDO'/><title type='text'>saudade</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Garamond;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;Emoções indefiníveis me agitam — inquietação  terrível, desejo de tagarelar novamente com Madalena, como  fazíamos todos os dias, a esta hora. Saudade? Não, não é isto: é antes  desespero, raiva, um peso enorme no coração.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Garamond;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;GRACILIANO RAMOS, SÃO  BERNARDO&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1618973231083522412-5182775301542691589?l=bancadetexto.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/feeds/5182775301542691589/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1618973231083522412&amp;postID=5182775301542691589' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/5182775301542691589'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/5182775301542691589'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/2011/08/saudade.html' title='saudade'/><author><name>STARK!</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nYG86XB013I/TnZCEdj4lBI/AAAAAAAAGQo/AkfC5-uNvJE/s220/papilon%2B%25285%252928.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618973231083522412.post-5724886473625813325</id><published>2011-06-30T17:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-30T17:37:16.353-07:00</updated><title type='text'>AMAR SE APRENDE AMANDO</title><content type='html'>CARLOS DRUMMOND DE ANDRADE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CRÔNICAS  &lt;br /&gt;   &lt;br /&gt;Índice de crônicas&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;5 - Conselhos de um velho apaixonado&lt;br /&gt;4 - Como comecei a escrever&lt;br /&gt;3 - Viúva loura&lt;br /&gt;2 - Margarida&lt;br /&gt;1 - Viagem a Paris&lt;br /&gt;      &lt;br /&gt;FONTE  Amar se Aprende Amando&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; CONSELHOS DE UM VELHO APAIXONADO&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Quando encontrar alguém e esse alguém fizer seu  coração parar de funcionar por alguns segundos, preste atenção: pode ser a pessoa mais importante da sua vida.&lt;br /&gt; Se os olhares se cruzarem e, neste momento, houver o mesmo brilho intenso entre eles, fique alerta: pode ser a pessoa que você está esperando desde o dia em que nasceu.&lt;br /&gt; Se o toque dos lábios for intenso, se o beijo for apaixonante, e os olhos se encherem d'água neste  momento, perceba: existe algo mágico entre vocês.&lt;br /&gt; Se o 1º e o último pensamento do seu dia for essa pessoa, se a vontade de ficar  juntos chegar a apertar o coração, agradeça: Algo do céu te mandou um presente divino : O AMOR.&lt;br /&gt; Se um  dia tiverem que pedir perdão um ao outro por algum motivo e, em troca,  receber um abraço, um sorriso, um afago nos cabelos e os gestos valerem  mais que mil palavras, entregue-se: vocês foram feitos um pro outro.&lt;br /&gt; Se por algum motivo você estiver triste, se a vida te deu uma rasteira e a outra pessoa sofrer o seu sofrimento,  chorar as suas lágrimas e enxugá-las com ternura, que coisa maravilhosa: você poderá contar com ela em qualquer momento de sua vida.&lt;br /&gt; Se você conseguir, em pensamento, sentir o cheiro da pessoa como se ela estivesse ali do seu lado...&lt;br /&gt; Se você achar a pessoa maravilhosamente linda, mesmo ela estando de pijamas velhos, chinelos de dedo e cabelos emaranhados...&lt;br /&gt; Se  você não consegue trabalhar direito o dia todo, ansioso pelo encontro que está marcado para a noite...&lt;br /&gt; Se você não consegue imaginar, de maneira nenhuma, um futuro sem a pessoa ao seu lado... Se você tiver a certeza que vai ver a outra envelhecendo e, mesmo  assim, tiver a convicção que vai continuar sendo louco por ela...&lt;br /&gt; Se você preferir fechar os olhos, antes de ver a outra partindo: é o amor que chegou na sua  ida.&lt;br /&gt; Muitas pessoas apaixonam-se muitas vezes na vida, mas poucas amam ou encontram um amor verdadeiro.&lt;br /&gt; Às vezes encontram e, por não prestarem atenção nesses sinais, deixam o amor passar, sem  deixá-lo acontecer verdadeiramente. É o livre-arbítrio.&lt;br /&gt; Por isso, preste atenção nos sinais.&lt;br /&gt; Não deixe que as loucuras do dia-a-dia o deixem cego para a melhor coisa da vida: o AMOR !!!&lt;br /&gt; Ame muito.....muitíssimo...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;COMO COMECEI A ESCREVER&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aí por volta de 1910 não havia rádio nem televisão, e o cinema chegava ao interior do Brasil uma vez por semana aos domingos. As notícias do mundo vinham pelo jornal, três dias depois de publicadas no Rio de Janeiro. Se chovia a potes, a mala do correio aparecia ensopada, uns sete dias mais tarde. Não dava para ler o papel transformado em mingau. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Papai era assinante da Gazeta de Notícias, e antes de aprender a ler eu me sentia fascinado pelas gravuras coloridas do suplemento de Domingo. Tentava decifrar o mistério das letras em redor das figuras, e mamãe me ajudava nisso. Quando fui para a escola pública, já tinha a noção vaga de um universo de palavras que era preciso conquistar. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Durante o curso, minhas professoras costumavam passar exercícios de redação. Cada um de nós tinha de escrever uma carta, narrar um passeio, coisas assim. Criei gosto por esse dever, que me permitia aplicar para determinado fim o conhecimento que ia adquirindo do poder de expressão contido nos sinais reunidos em palavras. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Daí por diante as experiências foram se acumulando, sem que eu percebesse que estava descobrindo a leitura. Alguns elogios da professora me animavam a continuar. Ninguém falava em conto ou poesia, mas a semente dessas coisas estavam germinando. Meu irmão, estudante na Capital, mandava-me revistas e livros, e me habituei a viver entre eles. Depois, já rapaz, tive sorte de conhecer outros rapazes que também gostavam de ler e escrever. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Então começou uma fase muito boa de troca de experiências e impressões. Na mesa do café-sentado ( pois tomava-se café sentado nos bares, e podia-se conversar horas e horas sem incomodar nem ser incomodado ) eu tirava do bolso o que escrevera durante o dia, e meus colegas criticavam. Eles também sacavam seus escritos, e eu tomava parte nos comentários. Tudo com naturalidade e franqueza. Aprendi muito com os amigos, e tenho pena dos jovens de hoje que não desfrutam desse tipo de amizade crítica.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;VIÚVA LOURA&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- "Viúva, 21 anos..."&lt;br /&gt; - Tadinha. A vida é isso.&lt;br /&gt; - "Loura..."&lt;br /&gt; - Melhorou.&lt;br /&gt; - "Fazendeira, rica..."&lt;br /&gt; - Epa, muda completamente de figura.&lt;br /&gt; - "Pertencente a tradicional família mineira..."&lt;br /&gt; - Corta essa!&lt;br /&gt; - "Recém-chegada do interior..."&lt;br /&gt; - Então, não custa sondar a barra.&lt;br /&gt; - "Procura companhia masculina..."&lt;br /&gt; - Ainda bem que é masculina. Tou às ordens.&lt;br /&gt; - "Que seja jovem..."&lt;br /&gt; - Você acha que 38 anos está na pauta?&lt;br /&gt; - "Bem intencionado..."&lt;br /&gt; - Nunca fui outra coisa na vida.&lt;br /&gt; - "De fino trato..."&lt;br /&gt; - Não é por me gabar, mas...&lt;br /&gt; - "Conhecedor dos pontos pitorescos do Rio..."&lt;br /&gt; - Que é que ela entende por pontos pitorescos? Eu prefiro pontos estratégicos.&lt;br /&gt; - "Para passeios e ..."&lt;br /&gt; - Etc., lógico.&lt;br /&gt; - "Futuro compromisso matrimonial..."&lt;br /&gt; - Corta! Corta!&lt;br /&gt; - É mesmo.&lt;br /&gt; - Aliás, eu não tenho mais de 38. Tinha, semana passada.&lt;br /&gt; - E rica... Rica de que? Talvez de predicados apenas.&lt;br /&gt; - Poxa, até parece que você está querendo a viúva pro seu bico. Pera aí, mau- caráter.&lt;br /&gt; - Eu? Vê lá se eu vou nessa onda de anúncio. Tou prevenindo pra você não se grilar. Viúva, mineira, loura... Se é mineira, não deve ser loura. Se é loura. É artificial. Se é artificial...&lt;br /&gt; - Deixa a viuvinha ser loura e mineira, deixa.&lt;br /&gt; - Olha, eu conheci uma loura que, além de outros negativos, era careca.&lt;br /&gt; - Ora, peruca resolve.&lt;br /&gt; - Sei não, mas tudo isso junto- mineira, viúva, loura, 21 anos, rica...&lt;br /&gt; - Que é que tem?&lt;br /&gt; - É exagero. Não precisava ter tantas qualidades.&lt;br /&gt; - Foi uma graça de Deus.&lt;br /&gt; - Você não merece tanto.&lt;br /&gt; - Será outra graça de Deus.&lt;br /&gt; - Deus não deve ser assim tão desperdiçado com suas graças.&lt;br /&gt; - Lá vem você querendo dar instruções ao Altíssimo. Perde essa mania.&lt;br /&gt; - Bom, mas você não sabe que mineiro esconde milho até de monjolo?&lt;br /&gt; - Continua.&lt;br /&gt; - "Cartas com sigilo absoluto..."&lt;br /&gt; - Evidente.&lt;br /&gt; - "Indicações pessoais..."&lt;br /&gt; - Minha ficha é mais limpa do que caixa d'água de edifício quanto o síndico vai ao terraço.&lt;br /&gt; - "E fotos..."&lt;br /&gt; - Arrgh! Só tenho 3x4, muito fajuta. Mas tiro de calção, frente, perfil e fundos.&lt;br /&gt; - "Para a portaria desse jornal, sob n° 019 834."&lt;br /&gt; - Pera aí. Tou anotando. 019?&lt;br /&gt; - 834.&lt;br /&gt; - Legal. 834 é o número de meu edifício, 19 é pavão, que tem a perna dourada. Lê mais.&lt;br /&gt; - Já li tudo, ué.&lt;br /&gt; - Lê outra vez. Repete.&lt;br /&gt; - Vai decorar?&lt;br /&gt; - Vou gravar melhor na nuca, vou raciocinar em bloco, vou...&lt;br /&gt; - Se habilitar, né?&lt;br /&gt; - Correto.&lt;br /&gt; - Calma, rapaz. Sabe lá que espécie de viúva é essa?&lt;br /&gt; - Vou ver pra conferir.&lt;br /&gt; - Pode nem ser viúva.&lt;br /&gt; - E daí?&lt;br /&gt; - Diz que tem 21 anos, mas quem garante que não é modéstia? Às vezes tem três vezes 21.&lt;br /&gt; - Então você admite que ela é mineira.&lt;br /&gt; - E que cria galinha sem ração, na base da parapsicologia?&lt;br /&gt; - Também sou mineiro, uai.&lt;br /&gt; - E nunca me confessou. Eu jurava que você fosse capixaba.&lt;br /&gt; - Fui. Questão de limites, minha terra passou pra banda de cá. Não espalha, sim?&lt;br /&gt; - Me tapeou esse tempo todo.&lt;br /&gt; - Esquece.&lt;br /&gt; - Vai ser dura a parada: mineira loura versus mineiro mascarado.&lt;br /&gt; - Fica em família, né?&lt;br /&gt; - A tradicional?&lt;br /&gt; - As duas. Eu na minha, ela na dela.&lt;br /&gt; - Agora sou eu que digo: tadinha.&lt;br /&gt; - Por quê? Se ela botou anúncio, quer transar. Eu transo. No figurino.&lt;br /&gt; - É verdade que tem muito carioca por aí, muito paulista, muito nortista, espiando maré. Talvez você chegue tarde.&lt;br /&gt; - Duvido. Você sabe que nessas coisas sou meio Fittipaldi. Comigo é Fórmula-1.&lt;br /&gt; - Mineiro contando prosa? Nunca vi isso.&lt;br /&gt; - Bem, mineiro é capaz de contar prosa só pra esconder que é mineiro...&lt;br /&gt; - Chega, amizade, você já ganhou a viuvinha com fazenda e tudo, podes crer!&lt;br /&gt;------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MARGARIDA&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A garota em êxtase brandiu o postal que recebera do namorado em excursão na Grécia :&lt;br /&gt; - Coisa mais linda! Olha só o que ele escreveu: "Eu queria desfolhar teu coração como se ele fosse a mais margarida de todas as margaridas. "Marquinhos é genial, o senhor não acha?&lt;br /&gt; - Pode ser que seja, não conheço Marquinhos. Se bem que antes da era Pierre Cardin, genial era Dante, Da Vinci, Einstein, outros assim. Mas essa frase não é de Marquinhos.&lt;br /&gt; - Não é de Marquinhos?! Tá com a letra dele, assinada por ele.&lt;br /&gt; - Estou vendo que assinou, mas é de Darío.&lt;br /&gt; - Quem? O Darío, do Atlético Mineiro? Sem essa.&lt;br /&gt; - Não minha florzinha, Darío, Rubén Darío, o poeta da Nicarágua.&lt;br /&gt; - Não conheço. Então Rubén Darío falou para Marquinhos e Marquinhos&lt;br /&gt; - Achou bacana e pediu emprestado a ele?&lt;br /&gt; - Tenho a impressão que o Marquinhos não pediu nada emprestado a Rubén Darío. Tomou sem consultar.&lt;br /&gt; - Como é que o senhor sabe?&lt;br /&gt; - É muito difícil consultar o Darío.&lt;br /&gt; - Por quê? Ele não dá bola para gente? Não gosta da mocidade? É careta?&lt;br /&gt; - Não é nada disso. O Darío não é encontrado em parte alguma.&lt;br /&gt; - Ah, ele gosta de bancar o invisível, né?&lt;br /&gt; - Não creio que goste, mas é exatamente o caso dele: invisível.&lt;br /&gt; - Não dá para entender.&lt;br /&gt; - Vai entender logo. Ele morreu em 1916.&lt;br /&gt; - Ah! E como é que o Marquinhos descobriu essa margarida, me conte!&lt;br /&gt; - Simples. Leu num livro de poemas de Rubén Darío.&lt;br /&gt; - Marquinhos não é ligado a leitura. Duvido.&lt;br /&gt; - Se não leu no livro, leu em alguma revista, em alguma parte.&lt;br /&gt; - Hã...&lt;br /&gt; Ficou tão triste- os olhos, a boca, a testa franzida- que achei de meu dever confortá-la:&lt;br /&gt; - Que importância tem isso? A frase é de Darío, é de Marquinhos, é de toda pessoa sensível, capaz de assimilar o coração à margarida... Desculpe: à margarida.&lt;br /&gt; Muxoxo:&lt;br /&gt; - Se é de todos, não é de ninguém, não vale nada.&lt;br /&gt; - Pelo contrário. Fica valendo mais, torna-se sentimento universal.&lt;br /&gt; - Ah, o senhor está por fora. Eu queria a margarida só para mim. Copiada não tem graça. A graça era imaginar Marquinhos, muito sério, desfolhando meu coração transformado em margarida, para saber se eu gosto dele, um pouquinho, bastante, muito loucamente, nada. E a margarida sempre com uma pétala escondida por baixo da outra, entende? Para ele não ter certeza, porque essa certeza eu não dava... Era gozado.&lt;br /&gt; - Continue imaginando.&lt;br /&gt; - Agora não dá pé. Marquinhos roubou a margarida, quis dar uma de poeta. Não colou.&lt;br /&gt; - Espere um pouco. Eu disse que a margarida era de Rubén Darío? Esta cabeça! Esquece, minha filha. Agora me lembro que Rubén Darío nem podia ouvir falar em margarita, começava a espirrar, a tossir, ficava sufocado, uma coisa horrível. Alergia- que no tempo dele ainda não estava batizada. Pois é. Garanto a você, posso jurar que a margarida não é de Darío.&lt;br /&gt; - De quem é então?&lt;br /&gt; - De Marquinhos, ué.&lt;br /&gt; - Tem certeza que nunca ninguém antes de Marquinhos escreveu ä mais margarida de todas as margaridas"? o senhor lê milhões, pode me responder. Tem certeza?&lt;br /&gt; - Absoluta. Marquinhos é genial, reconheço. Mas, por via das dúvidas, continue escondendo uma pétala de reserva, sim?&lt;br /&gt; - Pode deixar por minha conta. Puxa, quase que eu parava de transar com o Marquinhos por causa do senhor. Agora tá legal, tchau, vovô!&lt;br /&gt; Vovô: foi assim que ela me agradeceu a mentira generosa, a bandida.&lt;br /&gt;------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;VIAGEM A PARIS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Ouvi dizer que vai a Paris.&lt;br /&gt; - Exato.&lt;br /&gt; - A negócio?&lt;br /&gt; - Não.&lt;br /&gt; - Turista?&lt;br /&gt; - Não.&lt;br /&gt; - Missão política reservada?&lt;br /&gt; - Não.&lt;br /&gt; - Tão secreta assim?&lt;br /&gt; - Não.&lt;br /&gt; - Se não sou indiscreto...transa de amor?&lt;br /&gt; - Não.&lt;br /&gt; - Está muito misterioso.&lt;br /&gt; - Não.&lt;br /&gt; - Como não? Saúde, talvez.&lt;br /&gt; - Não.&lt;br /&gt; - Compreendo que não queira alarmar...&lt;br /&gt; - Não.&lt;br /&gt; - Busca apenas repouso.&lt;br /&gt; - Não&lt;br /&gt; - Fugir do trabalho, então.&lt;br /&gt; - Não.&lt;br /&gt; - Capricho do momento.&lt;br /&gt; - Não.&lt;br /&gt; - Tantos não devem significar um sim.&lt;br /&gt; - Não.&lt;br /&gt; - Significam sim. Vou repetir as hipóteses.&lt;br /&gt; - Não.&lt;br /&gt; - Temos pela frente uma indústria nova, de vulto.&lt;br /&gt; - Não.&lt;br /&gt; - De qualquer maneira, é financiamento internacional.&lt;br /&gt; - Não.&lt;br /&gt; - Então a coisa está ficando preta.&lt;br /&gt; - Não.&lt;br /&gt; - Está preta, e há jogadas que só em Paris.&lt;br /&gt; - Não.&lt;br /&gt; - Percebe-se alguma coisa no ar.&lt;br /&gt; - Não.&lt;br /&gt; - Não dá para perceber, mas há.&lt;br /&gt; - Não.&lt;br /&gt; - Mas pode haver a qualquer momento.&lt;br /&gt; - Não.&lt;br /&gt; - Nem hipótese?&lt;br /&gt; - Não.&lt;br /&gt; - Nenhuma nuvem distante, muito distante mesmo?&lt;br /&gt; - Não.&lt;br /&gt; - No ano que vem?&lt;br /&gt; - Não.&lt;br /&gt; - Ouvi mal?&lt;br /&gt; - Não.&lt;br /&gt; - Sendo assim, é segredo pessoal?&lt;br /&gt; - Não.&lt;br /&gt; - O coração é quem dita a viagem... eu sei.&lt;br /&gt; - Não.&lt;br /&gt; - Sim, sim. Pode confessar.&lt;br /&gt; - Não.&lt;br /&gt; - Hoje em dia essas coisas são públicas. Dão até cartaz.&lt;br /&gt; - Não.&lt;br /&gt; - Sei que não precisa disso, mas...&lt;br /&gt; - Não.&lt;br /&gt; - Por que não? Está com medo da imprensa?&lt;br /&gt; - Não.&lt;br /&gt; - Receia perder a situação social?&lt;br /&gt; - Não.&lt;br /&gt; - A situação financeira?&lt;br /&gt; - Não.&lt;br /&gt; - Política?&lt;br /&gt; - Não&lt;br /&gt; - Pois olhe, melhor é preparar o ambiente.&lt;br /&gt; - Não.&lt;br /&gt; - Claro que sim. Insinuar mudança em sua vida.&lt;br /&gt; - Não.&lt;br /&gt; - Discretamente.&lt;br /&gt; - Não.&lt;br /&gt; - De leve, só uma pincelada. Deixe comigo.&lt;br /&gt; - Não.&lt;br /&gt; - Não abro manchete nem boto aquela foto em duas colunas,    aquela bacana, lembra?&lt;br /&gt; - Não.&lt;br /&gt; - Só cinco linhas.&lt;br /&gt; - Não.&lt;br /&gt; - Duas.&lt;br /&gt; - Não.&lt;br /&gt; - Mas tenho de dizer alguma coisa.&lt;br /&gt; - Não.&lt;br /&gt; - O senhor é notícia.&lt;br /&gt; - Não.&lt;br /&gt; - Pode dizer que não, mas é sim.&lt;br /&gt; - Não.&lt;br /&gt; - Puxa vida, o senhor hoje está medonho. Resolveu responder não a tudo que é pergunta minha?&lt;br /&gt; - Não.&lt;br /&gt; - Ah, é? Então vamos recomeçar: o senhor vai a Paris?&lt;br /&gt; - Vou.&lt;br /&gt; - E que é que vai fazer em Paris?&lt;br /&gt; - Ver.&lt;br /&gt; - Ver o quê?&lt;br /&gt; - O Último Tango em Paris.&lt;br /&gt; - E por que é que não me disse isso logo, homem de Deus?&lt;br /&gt; - Você não me perguntou, por que eu havia de responder?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1618973231083522412-5724886473625813325?l=bancadetexto.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/feeds/5724886473625813325/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1618973231083522412&amp;postID=5724886473625813325' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/5724886473625813325'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/5724886473625813325'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/2011/06/amar-se-aprende-amando.html' title='AMAR SE APRENDE AMANDO'/><author><name>STARK!</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nYG86XB013I/TnZCEdj4lBI/AAAAAAAAGQo/AkfC5-uNvJE/s220/papilon%2B%25285%252928.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618973231083522412.post-2753994296169231572</id><published>2011-03-02T09:15:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-03-02T09:15:51.273-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Difícil ser funcionário - JOÃO CABRAL DE MELLO NETO</title><content type='html'>Dif&amp;#237;cil ser funcion&amp;#225;rio&lt;br&gt;Nesta segunda-feira.&lt;br&gt;Eu te telefono, Carlos&lt;br&gt;Pedindo conselho.&lt;p&gt;N&amp;#227;o &amp;#233; l&amp;#225; fora o dia&lt;br&gt;Que me deixa assim,&lt;br&gt;Cinemas, avenidas,&lt;br&gt;E outros n&amp;#227;o-fazeres.&lt;p&gt;&amp;#201; a dor das coisas,&lt;br&gt;O luto desta mesa;&lt;br&gt;&amp;#201; o regimento proibindo&lt;br&gt;Assovios, versos, flores.&lt;p&gt;Eu nunca suspeitara&lt;br&gt;Tanta roupa preta;&lt;br&gt;T&amp;#227;o pouco essas palavras -&lt;br&gt;Funcion&amp;#225;rias, sem amor.&lt;p&gt;Carlos, h&amp;#225; uma m&amp;#225;quina&lt;br&gt;Que nunca escreve cartas;&lt;br&gt;H&amp;#225; uma garrafa de tinta&lt;br&gt;Que nunca bebeu &amp;#225;lcool.&lt;p&gt;E os arquivos, Carlos,&lt;br&gt;As caixas de pap&amp;#233;is:&lt;br&gt;T&amp;#250;mulos para todos&lt;br&gt;Os tamanhos de meu corpo.&lt;p&gt;N&amp;#227;o me sinto correto&lt;br&gt;De gravata de cor,&lt;br&gt;E na cabe&amp;#231;a uma mo&amp;#231;a&lt;br&gt;Em forma de lembran&amp;#231;a&lt;p&gt;N&amp;#227;o encontro a palavra&lt;br&gt;Que diga a esses m&amp;#243;veis.&lt;br&gt;Se os pudesse encarar...&lt;br&gt;Fazer seu nojo meu...&lt;p&gt;Carlos, dessa n&amp;#225;usea&lt;br&gt;Como colher a flor?&lt;br&gt;Eu te telefono, Carlos,&lt;br&gt;Pedindo conselho.&lt;p&gt; em 29-09-1943&lt;p&gt;POEMA IN&amp;#201;DITO extra&amp;#237;do dos &amp;quot;Cadernos de Literatura Brasileira&amp;quot;, n&amp;#186;. 01, &lt;br&gt;publicado pelo Instituto Moreira Salles em Mar&amp;#231;o de 1996, p&amp;#225;g.60.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1618973231083522412-2753994296169231572?l=bancadetexto.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/feeds/2753994296169231572/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1618973231083522412&amp;postID=2753994296169231572' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/2753994296169231572'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/2753994296169231572'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/2011/03/dificil-ser-funcionario-joao-cabral-de.html' title='Difícil ser funcionário - JOÃO CABRAL DE MELLO NETO'/><author><name>STARK!</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nYG86XB013I/TnZCEdj4lBI/AAAAAAAAGQo/AkfC5-uNvJE/s220/papilon%2B%25285%252928.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618973231083522412.post-1343215211383913596</id><published>2011-02-27T16:06:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-27T16:06:11.912-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Atraente - Composição: Chiquinha Gonzaga</title><content type='html'>&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial&gt; &lt;DIV class=cor_2 id=cabecalho&gt; &lt;DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 127.7%"&gt;&lt;FONT size=4&gt;Atraente&lt;BR&gt;Chiguinha  Gonzaga&lt;BR&gt;Rebola bola e atraente vai&lt;BR&gt;Esmigalhando os corações com o pé&lt;BR&gt;E  no seu passo apressadinho, tão miúdo, atrevidinho&lt;BR&gt;Vai sujando o meu caminho,  desfolhando o mau me quer&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV id=main_cnt&gt; &lt;DIV id=div_letra tabIndex=-1 jQuery1298651114125="55"&gt; &lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT size=4&gt;Se bem que quer, seja se quer ou não&lt;BR&gt;Bem reticente, ela só  faz calar&lt;BR&gt;Ela é tão falsa e renitente, que até,&lt;BR&gt;Atrai só o seu  pensar&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT size=4&gt;Como é  danada&lt;BR&gt;perigosa&lt;BR&gt;vaidosa&lt;BR&gt;desastrosa&lt;BR&gt;escandalosa&lt;BR&gt;rancorosa&lt;BR&gt;e  rancorosa&lt;BR&gt;incestuosa&lt;BR&gt;e tão nervosa&lt;BR&gt;e bota tudo em polvorosa, quando  chega belicosa&lt;BR&gt;bota tudo pra perder&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT size=4&gt;Amour, amour&lt;BR&gt;Tu jure amour, trè bien&lt;BR&gt;Mas joga fora esta  conversa vã&lt;BR&gt;Não vem jogar fa-flu no meu maracanã&lt;BR&gt;não sou Juju  balangandã&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT size=4&gt;Meu coração, porém, diz que não vai&lt;BR&gt;Suportar esta maldita,  inenarrável solidão&lt;BR&gt;Se assim for, ele vai se esbudegar&lt;BR&gt;E te ver se  despinguelar numa desilusão&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1618973231083522412-1343215211383913596?l=bancadetexto.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/feeds/1343215211383913596/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1618973231083522412&amp;postID=1343215211383913596' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/1343215211383913596'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/1343215211383913596'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/2011/02/atraente-composicao-chiquinha-gonzaga.html' title='Atraente - Composição: Chiquinha Gonzaga'/><author><name>STARK!</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nYG86XB013I/TnZCEdj4lBI/AAAAAAAAGQo/AkfC5-uNvJE/s220/papilon%2B%25285%252928.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618973231083522412.post-5770537422735901266</id><published>2011-02-27T16:05:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-27T16:05:31.042-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Florbela Espanca, Carta no. 147</title><content type='html'>?&amp;quot;O meu mundo n&amp;#227;o &amp;#233; como o dos outros, quero demais, exijo demais, h&amp;#225; em mim &lt;br&gt;uma sede de infinito, uma ang&amp;#250;stia constante que eu nem mesmo compreendo, &lt;br&gt;pois estou longe de ser uma pessimista; sou antes uma exaltada, com uma alma &lt;br&gt;intensa, violenta, atormentada, uma alma que n&amp;#227;o se sente bem onde est&amp;#225;, que &lt;br&gt;tem saudades...sei l&amp;#225; de qu&amp;#234;!&amp;quot;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1618973231083522412-5770537422735901266?l=bancadetexto.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/feeds/5770537422735901266/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1618973231083522412&amp;postID=5770537422735901266' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/5770537422735901266'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/5770537422735901266'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/2011/02/florbela-espanca-carta-no-147.html' title='Florbela Espanca, Carta no. 147'/><author><name>STARK!</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nYG86XB013I/TnZCEdj4lBI/AAAAAAAAGQo/AkfC5-uNvJE/s220/papilon%2B%25285%252928.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618973231083522412.post-5083004139794435001</id><published>2011-02-24T10:20:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-24T10:20:29.082-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Tudo certo como Dois e dois são cinco...</title><content type='html'>&lt;iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/5VkcRR9eiOw?fs=1" allowfullscreen="" width="425" frameborder="0" height="344"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;COMO DOIS E DOIS&lt;br /&gt;(Caetano Veloso)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quando você&lt;br /&gt;Me ouvir cantar&lt;br /&gt;Venha não creia&lt;br /&gt;Eu não corro perigo&lt;br /&gt;Digo, não digo, não ligo&lt;br /&gt;Deixo no ar&lt;br /&gt;Eu sigo apenas&lt;br /&gt;Porque eu gosto de cantar...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tudo vai mal, tudo&lt;br /&gt;Tudo é igual&lt;br /&gt;Quando eu canto&lt;br /&gt;E sou mudo&lt;br /&gt;Mas eu não minto&lt;br /&gt;Não minto&lt;br /&gt;Estou longe e perto&lt;br /&gt;Sinto alegrias&lt;br /&gt;Tristezas e brinco...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Meu amor!&lt;br /&gt;Tudo em volta está deserto&lt;br /&gt;Tudo certo&lt;br /&gt;Tudo certo como&lt;br /&gt;Dois e dois são cinco...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quando você&lt;br /&gt;Me ouvir chorar&lt;br /&gt;Tente não cante&lt;br /&gt;Não conte comigo&lt;br /&gt;Falo, não calo, não falo&lt;br /&gt;Deixo sangrar&lt;br /&gt;Algumas lágrimas bastam&lt;br /&gt;Prá consolar...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tudo vai mal&lt;br /&gt;Tudo, tudo, tudo, tudo&lt;br /&gt;Tudo mudou&lt;br /&gt;Não me iludo e contudo&lt;br /&gt;A mesma porta sem trinco&lt;br /&gt;Mesmo teto, mesmo teto&lt;br /&gt;E a mesma lua a furar&lt;br /&gt;Nosso zinco...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Meu amor!&lt;br /&gt;Tudo em volta está deserto&lt;br /&gt;Tudo certo&lt;br /&gt;Tudo certo como&lt;br /&gt;Dois e dois são cinco&lt;br /&gt;Meu amor! Meu amor! Meu amor!&lt;br /&gt;Tudo em volta está deserto&lt;br /&gt;Tudo certo&lt;br /&gt;Tudo certo como&lt;br /&gt;Dois e dois são cinco...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1618973231083522412-5083004139794435001?l=bancadetexto.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/feeds/5083004139794435001/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1618973231083522412&amp;postID=5083004139794435001' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/5083004139794435001'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/5083004139794435001'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/2011/02/tudo-certo-como-dois-e-dois-sao-cinco.html' title='Tudo certo como Dois e dois são cinco...'/><author><name>STARK!</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nYG86XB013I/TnZCEdj4lBI/AAAAAAAAGQo/AkfC5-uNvJE/s220/papilon%2B%25285%252928.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/5VkcRR9eiOw/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618973231083522412.post-1852872351830904259</id><published>2011-02-24T09:56:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-24T09:58:49.002-08:00</updated><title type='text'>"Bem-aventurados os que possuem, porque eles serão consolados."</title><content type='html'>&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Garamond&gt;&lt;SPAN lang=PT-BR&gt; &lt;P&gt;O ENFERMEIRO&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;Machado de Assis&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;PARECE-LHE ENTÃO que o que se deu comigo em 1860, pode entrar numa página de  livro? Vá que seja, com a condição única de que não há de divulgar nada antes da  minha morte. Não esperará muito, pode ser que oito dias, se não for menos; estou  desenganado.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;Olhe, eu podia mesmo contar-lhe a minha vida inteira, em que há outras cousas  interessantes, mas para isso era preciso tempo, ânimo e papel, e eu só tenho  papel; o ânimo é frouxo, e o tempo assemelha-se à lamparina de madrugada. Não  tarda o sol do outro dia, um sol dos diabos, impenetrável como a vida. Adeus,  meu caro senhor, leia isto e queira-me bem; perdoe-me o que lhe parecer mau, e  não maltrate muito a arruda, se lhe não cheira a rosas. Pediu-me um documento  humano, ei-lo aqui. Não me peça também o império do Grão-Mogol, nem a fotografia  dos Macabeus; peça, porém, os meus sapatos de defunto e não os dou a ninguém  mais.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;Já sabe que foi em 1860. No ano anterior, ali pelo mês de agosto, tendo eu  quarenta e dois anos, fiz-me teólogo,  quero dizer, copiava os estudos de  teologia de um padre de Niterói, antigo companheiro de colégio, que assim me  dava, delicadamente, casa, cama e mesa. Naquele mês de agosto de 1859, recebeu  ele uma carta de um vigário de certa vila do interior, perguntando se conhecia  pessoa entendida, discreta e paciente, que quisesse ir servir de enfermeiro ao  coronel&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;Felisberto, mediante um bom ordenado. O padre falou-me, aceitei com ambas as  mãos, estava já enfarado de copiar citações latinas e fórmulas eclesiásticas.  Vim à Corte despedir-me de um irmão, e segui para a vila.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;Chegando à vila, tive más notícias do coronel. Era homem insuportável,  estúrdio, exigente, ninguém o aturava, nem os próprios amigos. Gastava mais  enfermeiros que remédios. A dous deles quebrou a cara. Respondi que não tinha  medo de gente sã, menos ainda de doentes; e depois de entender-me com o vigário,  que me confirmou as notícias recebidas, e me recomendou mansidão e caridade,  segui para a residência do coronel.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;Achei-o na varanda da casa estirado numa cadeira, bufando muito. Não me  recebeu mal. Começou por não dizer nada; pôs em mim dous olhos de gato que  observa; depois, uma espécie de riso maligno alumiou-lhe as feições, que eram  duras. Afinal, disse-me que nenhum dos enfermeiros que tivera, prestava para  nada, dormiam muito, eram respondões e andavam ao faro das escravas; dous eram  até gatunos!&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt; Você é gatuno?&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt; Não, senhor.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;Em seguida, perguntou-me pelo nome: disse-lho e ele fez um gesto de espanto.  Colombo? Não, senhor: Procópio José Gomes Valongo. Valongo? achou que não era  nome de gente, e propôs chamar-me tão-somente Procópio, ao que respondi que  estaria pelo que fosse de seu agrado. Conto-lhe esta particularidade, não só  porque me parece pintá-lo bem, como porque a minha resposta deu de mim a melhor  idéia ao coronel. Ele mesmo o declarou ao vigário, acrescentando que eu era o  mais simpático dos enfermeiros que tivera. A verdade é que vivemos uma  lua-de-mel de sete dias.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;No oitavo dia, entrei na vida dos meus predecessores, uma vida de cão, não  dormir, não pensar em mais nada, recolher injúrias, e, às vezes, rir delas, com  um ar de resignação e conformidade; reparei que era um modo de lhe fazer corte.  Tudo impertinências de moléstia e do temperamento. A moléstia era um rosário  delas, padecia de aneurisma, de reumatismo e de três ou quatro afecções menores.  Tinha perto de sessenta anos, e desde os cinco toda a gente lhe fazia a vontade.  Se fosse só&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;rabugento, vá; mas ele era também mau, deleitava-se com a dor e a humilhação  dos outros. No fim de três meses estava farto de o aturar; determinei vir  embora; só esperei ocasião.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;Não tardou a ocasião. Um dia, como lhe não desse a tempo uma fomentação,  pegou da bengala e atirou-me dous ou três golpes. Não era preciso mais;  despedi-me imediatamente, e fui aprontar a mala. Ele foi ter comigo, ao quarto,  pediu-me que ficasse, que não valia a pena zangar por uma rabugice de velho.  Instou tanto que fiquei.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt; Estou na dependura, Procópio, dizia-me ele à noite; não posso viver muito  tempo. Estou aqui, estou na cova. Você há de ir ao meu enterro, Procópio; não o  dispenso por nada. Há de ir, há de rezar ao pé da minha sepultura. Se não for,  acrescentou rindo, eu voltarei de noite para lhe puxar as pernas. Você crê em  almas de outro mundo, Procópio?&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt; Qual o quê!&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt; E por que é que não há de crer, seu burro? redargüiu vivamente, arregalando  os olhos.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;Eram assim as pazes; imagine a guerra. Coibiu-se das bengaladas; mas as  injúrias ficaram as mesmas, se não piores. Eu, com o tempo, fui calejando, e não  dava mais por nada; era burro, camelo, pedaço d'asno, idiota, moleirão, era  tudo. Nem, ao menos, havia mais gente que recolhesse uma parte desses nomes. Não  tinha parentes; tinha um sobrinho que morreu tísico, em fins de maio ou  princípios de julho, em Minas. Os amigos iam por lá às vezes aprová-lo,  aplaudi-lo, e nada mais; cinco, dez&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;minutos de visita. Restava eu; era eu sozinho para um dicionário inteiro.  Mais de uma vez resolvi sair; mas, instado pelo vigário, ia ficando.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;Não só as relações foram-se tornando melindrosas, mas eu estava ansioso por  tornar à Corte. Aos quarenta e dois anos não é que havia de acostumar-me à  reclusão constante, ao pé de um doente bravio, no interior. Para avaliar o meu  isolamento, basta saber que eu nem lia os jornais; salvo alguma notícia mais  importante que levavam ao coronel, eu nada sabia do resto do mundo. Entendi,  portanto, voltar para a Corte, na primeira ocasião, ainda que tivesse de brigar  com o vigário. Bom é dizer&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;(visto que faço uma confissão geral) que, nada gastando e tendo guardado  integralmente os ordenados, estava ansioso por vir dissipá-los aqui.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;Era provável que a ocasião aparecesse. O coronel estava pior, fez testamento,  descompondo o tabelião, quase tanto como a mim. O trato era mais duro, os breves  lapsos de sossego e brandura faziam-se raros. Já por esse tempo tinha eu perdido  a escassa dose de piedade que me fazia esquecer os excessos do doente; trazia  dentro de mim um fermento de ódio e aversão. No princípio de agosto resolvi  definitivamente sair; o vigário e o médico, aceitando as razões, pediram-me que  ficasse algum tempo mais. Concedi-lhes um mês; no fim de um mês viria embora,  qualquer que fosse o estado do doente. O vigário tratou de procurar-me  substituto.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;Vai ver o que aconteceu. Na noite de vinte e quatro de agosto, o coronel teve  um acesso de raiva, atropelou-me, disse-me muito nome cru, ameaçou-me de um  tiro, e acabou atirando-me um prato de mingau, que achou frio, o prato foi cair  na parede onde se fez em pedaços.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt; Hás de pagá-lo, ladrão! bradou ele.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;Resmungou ainda muito tempo. Às onze horas passou pelo sono. Enquanto ele  dormia, saquei um livro do bolso, um velho romance de d'Arlincourt, traduzido,  que lá achei, e pus-me a lê-lo, no mesmo quarto, a pequena distância da cama;  tinha de acordá-lo à meia-noite para lhe dar o remédio. Ou fosse de cansaço, ou  do livro, antes de chegar ao fim da segunda página adormeci também. Acordei aos  gritos do coronel, e levantei-me estremunhado. Ele, que parecia delirar,  continuou nos&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;mesmos gritos, e acabou por lançar mão da moringa e arremessá-la contra mim.  Não tive tempo de desviar-me; a moringa bateu-me na face esquerda, e tal foi a  dor que não vi mais nada; atirei-me ao doente, pus-lhe as mãos ao pescoço,  lutamos, e esganei-o.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;Quando percebi que o doente expirava, recuei aterrado, e dei um grito; mas  ninguém me ouviu. Voltei à cama, agitei-o para chamá-lo à vida, era tarde;  arrebentara o aneurisma, e o coronel morreu. Passei à sala contígua, e durante  duas horas não ousei voltar ao quarto. Não posso mesmo dizer tudo o que passei,  durante esse tempo. Era um atordoamento, um delírio vago e estúpido. Parecia-me  que as paredes tinham vultos; escutava umas vozes surdas. Os gritos da vítima,  antes da luta e durante a luta, continuavam a repercutir dentro de mim, e o ar,  para onde quer que me voltasse, aparecia recortado de convulsões. Não creia que  esteja fazendo imagens nem estilo; digo-lhe que eu ouvia distintamente umas  vozes que me bradavam: assassino! assassino!&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;Tudo o mais estava calado. O mesmo som do relógio, lento, igual e seco,  sublinhava o silêncio e a solidão. Colava a orelha à porta do quarto na  esperança de ouvir um gemido, uma palavra, uma injúria, qualquer coisa que  significasse a vida, e me restituísse a paz à consciência. Estaria pronto a  apanhar das mãos do coronel, dez, vinte, cem vezes. Mas nada, nada; tudo calado.  Voltava a andar à toa na sala, sentava-me, punha as mãos na cabeça;  arrependia-me de ter vindo.  "Maldita a hora&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;em que aceitei semelhante coisa!" exclamava. E descompunha o padre de  Niterói, o médico, o vigário, os que me arranjaram um lugar, e os que me pediram  para ficar mais algum tempo. Agarrava-me à cumplicidade dos outros homens.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;Como o silêncio acabasse por aterrar-me, abri uma das janelas, para escutar o  som do vento, se ventasse. Não ventava. A noite ia tranqüila, as estrelas  fulguravam, com a indiferença de pessoas que tiram o chapéu a um enterro que  passa, e continuam a falar de outra coisa. Encostei-me ali por algum tempo,  fitando a noite, deixando-me ir a uma recapitulação da vida, a ver se descansava  da dor presente. Só então posso dizer que pensei claramente no castigo. Achei-me  com um crime às costas e vi a punição certa. Aqui o temor complicou o remorso.  Senti que os cabelos me ficavam de pé. Minutos depois, vi três ou quatro vultos  de pessoas, no terreiro espiando, com um ar de emboscada; recuei, os vultos  esvaíram-se no ar; era uma alucinação.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;Antes do alvorecer curei a contusão da face. Só então ousei voltar ao quarto.  Recuei duas vezes, mas era preciso e entrei; ainda assim, não cheguei logo à  cama. Tremiam-me as pernas, o coração batia-me; cheguei a pensar na fuga; mas  era confessar o crime, e, ao contrário, urgia fazer desaparecer os vestígios  dele. Fui até a cama; vi o cadáver, com os olhos arregalados e a boca aberta,  como deixando passar a eterna palavra dos séculos: "Caim, que fizeste de teu  irmão?" Vi no&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;pescoço o sinal das minhas unhas; abotoei alto a camisa e cheguei ao queixo a  ponta do lençol. Em seguida, chamei um escravo, disse-lhe que o coronel  amanhecera morto; mandei recado ao vigário e ao médico.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;A primeira idéia foi retirar-me logo cedo, a pretexto de ter meu irmão  doente, e, na verdade, recebera carta dele, alguns dias antes, dizendo-me que se  sentia mal. Mas adverti que a retirada imediata poderia fazer despertar  suspeitas, e fiquei. Eu mesmo amortalhei o cadáver, com o auxílio de um preto  velho e míope. Não saí da sala mortuária; tinha medo de que descobrissem alguma  cousa. Queria ver no rosto dos outros se desconfiavam; mas não ousava fitar  ninguém. Tudo me dava&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;impaciências: os passos de ladrão com que entravam na sala, os cochichos, as  cerimônias e as rezas do vigário. Vindo a hora, fechei o caixão, com as mãos  trêmulas, tão trêmulas que uma pessoa, que reparou nelas, disse a outra com  piedade:&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt; Coitado do Procópio! apesar do que padeceu, está muito sentido.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;Pareceu-me ironia; estava ansioso por ver tudo acabado. Saímos à rua. A  passagem da meia escuridão da casa para a claridade da rua deu-me grande abalo;  receei que fosse então impossível ocultar o crime. Meti os olhos no chão, e fui  andando. Quando tudo acabou, respirei. Estava em paz com os homens. Não o estava  com a consciência, e as primeiras noites foram naturalmente de desassossego e  aflição. Não é preciso dizer que vim logo para o Rio de Janeiro, nem que vivi  aqui aterrado, embora longe do crime; não ria, falava pouco, mal comia, tinha  alucinações, pesadelos...&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt; Deixa lá o outro que morreu, diziam-me. Não é caso para tanta  melancolia.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;E eu aproveitava a ilusão, fazendo muitos elogios ao morto, chamando-lhe boa  criatura, impertinente, é verdade, mas um coração de ouro. E elogiando,  convencia-me também, ao menos por alguns instantes. Outro fenômeno interessante,  e que talvez lhe possa aproveitar, é que, não sendo religioso, mandei dizer uma  missa pelo eterno descanso do coronel, na igreja do Sacramento. Não fiz  convites, não disse nada a ninguém; fui ouvi-la, sozinho, e estive de joelhos  todo o tempo, persignando-me a miúdo. Dobrei a espórtula do padre, e distribuí  esmolas à porta, tudo por intenção do finado. Não queria embair os homens; a  prova é que fui só. Para completar este ponto, acrescentarei que nunca aludia ao  coronel, que não dissesse: "Deus lhe fale n'alma!" E contava dele algumas  anedotas alegres, rompantes engraçados...&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;Sete dias depois de chegar ao Rio de Janeiro, recebi a carta do vigário, que  lhe mostrei, dizendo-me que fora achado o testamento do coronel, e que eu era o  herdeiro universal. Imagine o meu pasmo. Pareceu-me que lia mal, fui a meu  irmão, fui aos amigos; todos leram a mesma cousa. Estava escrito; era eu o  herdeiro universal do coronel. Cheguei a supor que fosse uma cilada; mas adverti  logo que havia outros meios de capturar-me, se o crime estivesse descoberto.  Demais, eu conhecia a&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;probidade do vigário, que não se prestaria a ser instrumento. Reli a carta,  cinco, dez, muitas vezes; lá estava a notícia.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt; Quanto tinha ele? perguntava-me meu irmão.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt; Não sei, mas era rico.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt; Realmente, provou que era teu amigo.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt; Era... Era...&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;Assim por uma ironia da sorte, os bens do coronel vinham parar às minhas  mãos. Cogitei em recusar a herança. Parecia-me odioso receber um vintém do tal  espólio; era pior do que fazer-me esbirro alugado. Pensei nisso três dias, e  esbarrava sempre na consideração de que a recusa podia fazer desconfiar alguma  cousa. No fim dos três dias, assentei num meio-termo; receberia a herança e  dá-la-ia toda, aos bocados e às escondidas. Não era só escrúpulo; era também o  modo de resgatar&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;o crime por um ato de virtude; pareceu-me que ficava assim de contas  saldas.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;Preparei-me e segui para a vila. Em caminho, à proporção que me ia  aproximando, recordava o triste sucesso; as cercanias da vila tinham um aspecto  de tragédia, e a sombra do coronel parecia-me surgir de cada lado. A imaginação  ia reproduzindo as palavras, os gestos, toda a noite horrenda do crime...&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;Crime ou luta? Realmente, foi uma luta, em que eu, atacado, defendi-me, e na  defesa... Foi uma luta desgraçada, uma fatalidade. Fixei-me nessa idéia. E  balanceava os agravos, punha no ativo as pancadas, as injúrias... Não era culpa  do coronel, bem o sabia, era da moléstia, que o tornava assim rabugento e até  mau... Mas eu perdoava tudo, tudo... O pior foi a fatalidade daquela noite...  Considerei também que o coronel não podia viver muito mais; estava por pouco;  ele mesmo o sentia e dizia. Viveria quanto? Duas semanas, ou uma; pode ser até  que menos. Já não era vida, era um molambo de vida, se isto mesmo se podia  chamar ao padecer contínuo do pobre homem... E quem sabe mesmo se a luta e a  morte não foram apenas coincidentes? Podia ser, era até o mais provável; não foi  outra cousa. Fixei-me também nessa idéia...&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;Perto da vila apertou-se-me o coração, e quis recuar; mas dominei-me e fui.  Receberam-me com parabéns. O vigário disse-me as disposições do testamento, os  legados pios, e de caminho ia louvando a mansidão cristã e o zelo com que eu  servira ao coronel, que, apesar de áspero e duro, soube ser grato.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt; Sem dúvida, dizia eu olhando para outra parte.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;Estava atordoado. Toda a gente me elogiava a dedicação e a paciência. As  primeiras necessidades do inventário detiveram-me algum tempo na vila. Constituí  advogado; as cousas correram placidamente. Durante esse tempo, falava muita vez  do coronel. Vinham contar-me cousas dele, mas sem a moderação do padre; eu  defendia-o, apontava algumas virtudes, era austero...&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt; Qual austero! Já morreu, acabou; mas era o diabo.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;E referiam-me casos duros, ações perversas, algumas extraordinárias. Quer que  lhe diga? Eu, a princípio, ia ouvindo cheio de curiosidade; depois, entrou-me no  coração um singular prazer, que eu sinceramente buscava expelir. E defendia o  coronel, explicava-o, atribuía alguma coisa às rivalidades locais; confessava,  sim, que era um pouco violento... Um pouco? Era uma cobra assanhada,  interrompia-me o barbeiro; e todos, o coletor, o boticário, o escrivão, todos  diziam a mesma coisa; e&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;vinham outras anedotas, vinha toda a vida do defunto. Os velhos lembravam-se  das crueldades dele, em menino. E o prazer íntimo, calado, insidioso, crescia  dentro de mim, espécie de tênia moral, que por mais que a arrancasse aos pedaços  recompunha-se logo e ia ficando.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;As obrigações do inventário distraíram-me; e por outro lado a opinião da vila  era tão contrária ao coronel, que a vista dos lugares foi perdendo para mim a  feição tenebrosa que a princípio achei neles. Entrando na posse da herança,  converti-a em títulos e dinheiro. Eram então passados muitos meses, e a idéia de  distribuí-la toda em esmolas e donativos pios não me dominou como da primeira  vez; achei mesmo que era afetação. Restringi o plano primitivo: distribuí alguma  cousa aos pobres, dei à matriz da vila uns paramentos novos, fiz uma esmola à  Santa Casa da Misericórdia, etc.: ao todo trinta e dous contos. Mandei também  levantar um túmulo ao coronel, todo de mármore, obra de um napolitano, que aqui  esteve até 1866, e foi morrer, creio eu, no Paraguai.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;Os anos foram andando, a memória tornou-se cinzenta e desmaiada. Penso às  vezes no coronel, mas sem os terrores dos primeiros dias. Todos os médicos a  quem contei as moléstias dele, foram acordes em que a morte era certa, e só se  admiravam de ter resistido tanto tempo. Pode ser que eu, involuntariamente,  exagerasse a descrição que então lhes fiz; mas a verdade é que ele devia morrer,  ainda que não fosse aquela fatalidade...&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;Adeus, meu caro senhor. Se achar que esses apontamentos valem alguma coisa,  pague-me também com um túmulo de mármore, ao qual dará por epitáfio esta emenda  que faço aqui ao divino sermão da montanha: "Bem-aventurados os que possuem,  porque eles serão consolados."&lt;/P&gt; &lt;DIV align=right&gt;Obra Completa, de Machado de Assis, vol. II,&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV align=right&gt;Nova Aguilar, Rio de Janeiro,  1994&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1618973231083522412-1852872351830904259?l=bancadetexto.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/feeds/1852872351830904259/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1618973231083522412&amp;postID=1852872351830904259' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/1852872351830904259'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/1852872351830904259'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/2011/02/bem-aventurados-os-que-possuem-porque.html' title='&quot;Bem-aventurados os que possuem, porque eles serão consolados.&quot;'/><author><name>STARK!</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nYG86XB013I/TnZCEdj4lBI/AAAAAAAAGQo/AkfC5-uNvJE/s220/papilon%2B%25285%252928.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618973231083522412.post-9054586590542488186</id><published>2011-02-24T09:54:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-24T09:54:21.674-08:00</updated><title type='text'>O ENFERMEIRO - MACHADO DE ASSIS</title><content type='html'>&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Garamond&gt;&lt;SPAN lang=PT-BR&gt; &lt;P&gt;Obra Completa, de Machado de Assis, vol. II,&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;Nova Aguilar, Rio de Janeiro, 1994&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1618973231083522412-9054586590542488186?l=bancadetexto.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/feeds/9054586590542488186/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1618973231083522412&amp;postID=9054586590542488186' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/9054586590542488186'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/9054586590542488186'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/2011/02/o-enfermeiro-machado-de-assis.html' title='O ENFERMEIRO - MACHADO DE ASSIS'/><author><name>STARK!</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nYG86XB013I/TnZCEdj4lBI/AAAAAAAAGQo/AkfC5-uNvJE/s220/papilon%2B%25285%252928.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618973231083522412.post-8984505149531251850</id><published>2011-02-17T12:54:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-17T12:54:09.140-08:00</updated><title type='text'>FARNOOSH   FATHI</title><content type='html'>&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Garamond&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;I&gt;&lt;FONT face="Palatino,Palatino Linotype"&gt; &lt;P&gt;A Tiger is Getting Married&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/I&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Calisto MT,Palatino Linotype"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Palatino,Palatino Linotype"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Calisto MT,Palatino Linotype"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Palatino,Palatino Linotype"&gt;(Korean idiom used to describe simultaneously  sunny and rainy weather)&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Calisto MT,Palatino Linotype"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Palatino,Palatino Linotype"&gt; &lt;P&gt;Some were invited; you are&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Calisto MT,Palatino Linotype"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Palatino,Palatino Linotype"&gt;to imagine:&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Calisto MT,Palatino Linotype"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Palatino,Palatino Linotype"&gt;a tiger's weddingwhich it was,&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Calisto MT,Palatino Linotype"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Palatino,Palatino Linotype"&gt;you were involved&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Calisto MT,Palatino Linotype"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Palatino,Palatino Linotype"&gt;is the rain alone and sun,&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Calisto MT,Palatino Linotype"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Palatino,Palatino Linotype"&gt;alone to be imagined.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Calisto MT,Palatino Linotype"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Palatino,Palatino Linotype"&gt;Alone as pure. Rain, the veil&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Calisto MT,Palatino Linotype"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Palatino,Palatino Linotype"&gt;to a round glowing face&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Calisto MT,Palatino Linotype"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Palatino,Palatino Linotype"&gt;and all the attending faces below.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Calisto MT,Palatino Linotype"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Palatino,Palatino Linotype"&gt;Oh the streaming,&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Calisto MT,Palatino Linotype"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Palatino,Palatino Linotype"&gt;every color a lace before the  eyes.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT face="Calisto MT,Palatino Linotype"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Palatino,Palatino Linotype"&gt;Carry that train!&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Calisto MT,Palatino Linotype"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Palatino,Palatino Linotype"&gt;But it slips between the fingers,&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Calisto MT,Palatino Linotype"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Palatino,Palatino Linotype"&gt;diamonds.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Calisto MT,Palatino Linotype"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Palatino,Palatino Linotype"&gt;No groom in sight,&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Calisto MT,Palatino Linotype"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Palatino,Palatino Linotype"&gt;which reminds me the clouds&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Calisto MT,Palatino Linotype"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Palatino,Palatino Linotype"&gt;kindly fled. To not go blind,&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Calisto MT,Palatino Linotype"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Palatino,Palatino Linotype"&gt;so close at the kiss,&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Calisto MT,Palatino Linotype"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Palatino,Palatino Linotype"&gt;there was no kiss at the tiger's  wedding,&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT face="Calisto MT,Palatino Linotype"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Palatino,Palatino Linotype"&gt;(some were diamonds,&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Calisto MT,Palatino Linotype"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Palatino,Palatino Linotype"&gt;others pelted)&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Calisto MT,Palatino Linotype"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Palatino,Palatino Linotype"&gt;which is the rain alone and sun.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Calisto MT,Palatino Linotype"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Palatino,Palatino Linotype"&gt;No one cried, no one forgotten,&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Calisto MT,Palatino Linotype"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Palatino,Palatino Linotype"&gt;imagine that&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Calisto MT,Palatino Linotype"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Palatino,Palatino Linotype"&gt;a tiger's wedding involving the whole,&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;stripped and pure,&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;and you, a singular absence.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;Only water flashes against the sun's eyes like a veil.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;I&gt; &lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;SPAN lang=PT-BR&gt; &lt;P&gt;Um Tigre Vai Se Casar &lt;/B&gt;&lt;/I&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Calisto MT,Palatino Linotype"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Palatino,Palatino Linotype"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Calisto MT,Palatino Linotype"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Palatino,Palatino Linotype"&gt;(Expressão em coreano usada para descrever o  tempo ensolarado e chuvoso*)&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Calisto MT,Palatino Linotype"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Palatino,Palatino Linotype"&gt; &lt;P&gt;Alguns foram convidados; você a&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Calisto MT,Palatino Linotype"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Palatino,Palatino Linotype"&gt;imaginar:&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Calisto MT,Palatino Linotype"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Palatino,Palatino Linotype"&gt;um casamento de tigreque era, &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Calisto MT,Palatino Linotype"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Palatino,Palatino Linotype"&gt;você estava envolvida&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Calisto MT,Palatino Linotype"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Palatino,Palatino Linotype"&gt;é só a chuva e o sol,&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Calisto MT,Palatino Linotype"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Palatino,Palatino Linotype"&gt;só para ser imaginada.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Calisto MT,Palatino Linotype"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Palatino,Palatino Linotype"&gt;Tão só como pura. Chuva, o véu&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Calisto MT,Palatino Linotype"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Palatino,Palatino Linotype"&gt;para uma face radiante e redonda&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Calisto MT,Palatino Linotype"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Palatino,Palatino Linotype"&gt;e todas as faces presentes  embaixo.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT face="Calisto MT,Palatino Linotype"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Palatino,Palatino Linotype"&gt;Oh a correnteza,&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Calisto MT,Palatino Linotype"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Palatino,Palatino Linotype"&gt;cada cor uma renda diante dos  olhos.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT face="Calisto MT,Palatino Linotype"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Palatino,Palatino Linotype"&gt;Carregue aquele trem!&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Calisto MT,Palatino Linotype"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Palatino,Palatino Linotype"&gt;Mas ele escorrega entre os dedos,&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Calisto MT,Palatino Linotype"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Palatino,Palatino Linotype"&gt;diamantes.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Calisto MT,Palatino Linotype"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Palatino,Palatino Linotype"&gt;Nenhum noivo em vista,&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Calisto MT,Palatino Linotype"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Palatino,Palatino Linotype"&gt;o que me lembra das nuvens&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Calisto MT,Palatino Linotype"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Palatino,Palatino Linotype"&gt;amavelmente em fuga. Não cegar,&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Calisto MT,Palatino Linotype"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Palatino,Palatino Linotype"&gt;tão perto do beijo,&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Calisto MT,Palatino Linotype"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Palatino,Palatino Linotype"&gt;não houve beijo no casamento do  tigre,&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT face="Calisto MT,Palatino Linotype"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Palatino,Palatino Linotype"&gt;(alguns eram diamantes,&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Calisto MT,Palatino Linotype"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Palatino,Palatino Linotype"&gt;outros bombardearam)&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Calisto MT,Palatino Linotype"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Palatino,Palatino Linotype"&gt;que é só a chuva e o sol.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Calisto MT,Palatino Linotype"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Palatino,Palatino Linotype"&gt;Ninguém gritou, ninguém esqueceu,&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Calisto MT,Palatino Linotype"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Palatino,Palatino Linotype"&gt;imagine aquilo&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Calisto MT,Palatino Linotype"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face="Palatino,Palatino Linotype"&gt;um casamento de tigre envolvendo o todo,&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;despojado e puro,&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;e você, uma ausência singular.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;Apenas lampejos de água contra os olhos do sol como um véu.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt; &lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;* O mesmo que "casamento da viúva" no  Brasil&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1618973231083522412-8984505149531251850?l=bancadetexto.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/feeds/8984505149531251850/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1618973231083522412&amp;postID=8984505149531251850' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/8984505149531251850'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/8984505149531251850'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/2011/02/farnoosh-fathi.html' title='FARNOOSH   FATHI'/><author><name>STARK!</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nYG86XB013I/TnZCEdj4lBI/AAAAAAAAGQo/AkfC5-uNvJE/s220/papilon%2B%25285%252928.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618973231083522412.post-7764918655020538531</id><published>2011-02-17T12:13:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-17T12:13:46.276-08:00</updated><title type='text'>NÃO SEI DANÇAR | manuel bandeira</title><content type='html'>&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Garamond&gt;&lt;SPAN lang=PT-BR&gt; &lt;P&gt;petrópolis, 1925&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;Uns tomam éter, outros cocaína.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;Eu já tomei tristeza, hoje tomo alegria.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;Tenho todos os motivos menos um de ser triste.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;Mas o cálculo das probabilidades é uma pilhéria...&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;Abaixo Amiel!&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;Eu nunca lerei o diário de Maria Bashkirtseff.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;Sim, já perdi pai, mãe, irmãos.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;Perdi a saúde também.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;É por isso que sinto como ninguém o ritmo do jazz-band.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;Uns tomam éter, outros cocaína.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;Eu tomo alegria!&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;Eis aí por que vim assistir a este baile de terça-feira gorda.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;Mistura muito excelente de chás...&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;________________________Esta foi açafata...&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;- Não, foi arrumadeira.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;E está dançando com o ex-prefeito municipal:&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;tão Brasil!&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;De fato este salão de sangues misturados parece o Brasil...&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;Há até a fração incipiente amarela&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;na figura de um japonês.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;O japonês também dança maxixe:&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;acugelê banzai!&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;A filha do usineiro de Campos&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;olha com repugnância&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;para a crioula imoral,&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;no entanto o que faz a indecência da outra&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;é dengue nos olhos maravilhosos da moça.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;E aquele cair de ombros...&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;Mas ela não sabe...&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;Tão Brasil!&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;Ninguém se lembra de política...&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;Nem dos oito mil quilômetros de costa...&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;O algodão do Seridó é o melhor do mundo?... Que me importa?&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;Não há malária nem moléstia de Chagas nem ancilóstomos.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;A sereia sibila e o ganzá do jazz-band batuca.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;Eu tomo alegria!&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;**Manuel Carneiro de Sousa Bandeira Filho (Recife, 19 de abril de 1886 - Rio  de Janeiro, 13 de outubro de 1968) &lt;/P&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1618973231083522412-7764918655020538531?l=bancadetexto.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/feeds/7764918655020538531/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1618973231083522412&amp;postID=7764918655020538531' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/7764918655020538531'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/7764918655020538531'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/2011/02/nao-sei-dancar-manuel-bandeira.html' title='NÃO SEI DANÇAR | manuel bandeira'/><author><name>STARK!</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nYG86XB013I/TnZCEdj4lBI/AAAAAAAAGQo/AkfC5-uNvJE/s220/papilon%2B%25285%252928.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618973231083522412.post-8974469917379753100</id><published>2011-02-17T12:08:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-17T12:07:58.160-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Garamond&gt;&lt;SPAN lang=PT-BR&gt; &lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;"O inferno dos vivos não é algo que será; se existe, é aquele que já  está aqui, o inferno no qual vivemos todos os dias, que formamos estando juntos.  Existem duas maneiras de não sofrer. A primeira é fácil para a maioria das  pessoas: aceitar o inferno e tornar-se parte deste até o ponto de deixar de  percebê-lo. A segunda é arriscada e exige atenção e aprendizagem contínuas:  tentar saber reconhecer quem e o que, no meio do inferno, não é inferno, e  preservá-lo, e abrir espaço." parágrafo final do livro "As cidades invisíveis"  de Italo Calvino:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1618973231083522412-8974469917379753100?l=bancadetexto.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/feeds/8974469917379753100/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1618973231083522412&amp;postID=8974469917379753100' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/8974469917379753100'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/8974469917379753100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/2011/02/inferno-dos-vivos-nao-e-algo-que-sera.html' title=''/><author><name>STARK!</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nYG86XB013I/TnZCEdj4lBI/AAAAAAAAGQo/AkfC5-uNvJE/s220/papilon%2B%25285%252928.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618973231083522412.post-3486270835067613304</id><published>2011-02-16T09:30:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-16T09:30:57.477-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Garamond&gt;&lt;FONT size=5&gt; &lt;P&gt;"É como uma doença, o desejo de ver alguém, o anseio profundo e forte. E você  acabou de vê-lo, e vê-lo amanhã não vai satisfazer, e a mesma doença, como uma  fome, chegará até você, mais forte a cada vez que você o vê. Não, eu não  expliquei isso. Eu estava trabalhando hoje, escrevendo. Minha cabeça estava  ocupada: minha mente estava repleta do trabalho. Ainda assim, todo o tempo, eu  estava ciente de uma dor - corrosiva  como se um pedaço de mim tivesse sido  arrancado. E a mente não pudesse fazer nada sobre isso. Era físico: estava nas  veias, no sangue, na pele. Eis por que as relações humanas são tão perigosas -  porque a mente não tem poder sobre elas. Estou diabolicamente só. O que eu  precisava era de alguém que pudesse me dar o que eu dou a Henry: essa atenção  constante. Eu leio cada página do que ele escreve, eu acompanho suas leituras,  eu respondo a suas cartas, eu o ouço, eu lembro de tudo que&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;ele diz, eu escrevo sobre ele, eu lhe faço presentes, eu o protejo, &lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;estou pronta, para a qualquer momento, desistir de qualquer pessoa por causa  dele, eu acompanho seus pensamentos, entro em seus planos - um cuidado  apaixonado, maternal e intelectual. Ele.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;Ele não pode fazer isso. Ninguém pode. Ninguém sabe como. É uma arte, um dom.  Hugh me protege, mas ele não corresponde. Henry corresponde, mas ele não  encontra tempo para ler o que eu escrevo. Ele não entende todos meus humores,  nem escreve sobre mim.".&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;ANAIS NINN&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT size=3&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1618973231083522412-3486270835067613304?l=bancadetexto.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/feeds/3486270835067613304/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1618973231083522412&amp;postID=3486270835067613304' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/3486270835067613304'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' 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viver junto às outras fadas, sem culpa por  abandonar um amor que julgaria sem magia neste mundo limitado às humanas  possibilidades." &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1618973231083522412-1824549768945452312?l=bancadetexto.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/feeds/1824549768945452312/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1618973231083522412&amp;postID=1824549768945452312' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/1824549768945452312'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/1824549768945452312'/><link rel='alternate' 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limitado às humanas  possibilidades." &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1618973231083522412-2269472953025893113?l=bancadetexto.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/feeds/2269472953025893113/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1618973231083522412&amp;postID=2269472953025893113' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/2269472953025893113'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/2269472953025893113'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/2011/01/haroldo-barbosa-filho_09.html' title='Haroldo Barbosa Filho'/><author><name>STARK!</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nYG86XB013I/TnZCEdj4lBI/AAAAAAAAGQo/AkfC5-uNvJE/s220/papilon%2B%25285%252928.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618973231083522412.post-5946894356447679386</id><published>2011-01-09T16:15:00.007-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-09T16:16:04.577-08:00</updated><title type='text'>shakespeare</title><content type='html'>&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial size=2&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT color=#0000ff&gt; &lt;P&gt;Why is my verse so barren of new pride,&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;So far from variation and quick change?&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;Why with the time do I not glance aside&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;To new-found methods and to compounds strange?&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;Why write I still all one, ever the same,&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;And keep invention in a noted weed,&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;That every word doth almost tell my name,&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;Showing their birth and where they did proceed?&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;O, know, sweet love, I always write of you,&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;And you and love are still my argument&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;So all my best is dressing old words new.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;Spending again what is already spent:&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;For as the sun is daily new and old,&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;So is my love still telling what is  told.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1618973231083522412-5946894356447679386?l=bancadetexto.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/feeds/5946894356447679386/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' 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src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nYG86XB013I/TnZCEdj4lBI/AAAAAAAAGQo/AkfC5-uNvJE/s220/papilon%2B%25285%252928.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618973231083522412.post-5838225402478865908</id><published>2011-01-09T16:15:00.006-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-09T16:16:00.876-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Haroldo Barbosa Filho</title><content type='html'>&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial size=2&gt;&amp;#8206;"Se soubesse mentir, diria que são mentiras o que  lhe falei sobre minhas verdades, cara Wendy, só para que fugisse em direção à  floresta e ganhasse a liberdade para viver junto às outras fadas, sem culpa por  abandonar um amor que julgaria sem magia neste mundo limitado às humanas  possibilidades." &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1618973231083522412-5838225402478865908?l=bancadetexto.blogspot.com' alt='' 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src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nYG86XB013I/TnZCEdj4lBI/AAAAAAAAGQo/AkfC5-uNvJE/s220/papilon%2B%25285%252928.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618973231083522412.post-5787250051287813623</id><published>2011-01-09T16:15:00.005-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-09T16:15:59.355-08:00</updated><title type='text'>PLAY   Samuel Beckett</title><content type='html'>&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial size=2&gt;&lt;SPAN lang=PT-BR&gt;A play in one act by Samuel  Beckett&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt; &lt;P&gt;Written in English in late 1962-3. First published in German, as  &lt;I&gt;Spiel&lt;/I&gt;, in &lt;I&gt;Theatre Heute&lt;/I&gt; (July 1963). First published in English by  Faber and Faber, London, in 1964. First performance was of &lt;I&gt;Spiel&lt;/I&gt;,  translated by Erika and Elmar Tophoven, at the Ulmer Theater, Ulm-Donau, on 14  June 1963. First performed in Britain by the National Theatre Company at the Old  Vic Theatre, London, on 7 April 1964.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;I&gt; &lt;P&gt;Front centre, touching one another, three identical grey urns (see page 319)  about one yard high. From each a head protrudes, the neck held fast in the urn's  mouth. The heads are those, from left to right as seen from auditorium, of w2, m  and w1. They face undeviatingly front throughout the play. Faces so lost to age  and aspect as to seem almost part of urns. But no masks.&lt;BR&gt;Their speech is  provoked by a spotlight projected on faces alone (see page 318).&lt;BR&gt;The transfer  of light from one face to another is immediate.&lt;BR&gt;No blackout, i.e. return to  almost complete darkness of opening, except where indicated.&lt;BR&gt;The response to  light is immediate.&lt;BR&gt;Faces impassive throughout. Voices toneless except where  an expression is indicated.&lt;BR&gt;Rapid tempo throughout.&lt;BR&gt;The curtain rises on a  stage in almost complete darkness.&lt;BR&gt;Urns just discernible. Five  seconds.&lt;BR&gt;Faint spots simultaneously on three faces. Three seconds. Voice  faint, largely unintelligible.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/I&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt; &lt;TABLE dir=ltr cellSpacing=0 width=633 border=0&gt;   &lt;TBODY&gt;   &lt;TR&gt;     &lt;TD vAlign=center width="6%"&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;SPAN lang=PT-BR&gt;       &lt;P&gt;w1:&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/P&gt;       &lt;P&gt;w2:&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;     &lt;TD vAlign=center width="19%" rowSpan=2&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;SPAN lang=PT-BR&gt;       &lt;P&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Together. &lt;BR&gt;See page 319&lt;/I&gt;.]&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;     &lt;TD vAlign=center width="75%"&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;SPAN lang=PT-BR&gt;       &lt;P&gt;Yes, strange, darkness best, and the darker the worse, then all well,        for the time, but it will come, the time will come, the thing is there,        you'll see it, get off me, keep off me, all dark, all still, all over,        wiped out-- Yes, perhaps, a shade gone, I suppose, some might say, poor        thing, a shade gone, just a shade, in the head--[&lt;I&gt;Faint wild        laugh&lt;/I&gt;.]--just a shade, but I doubt it, I doubt it, not really, I'm all        right, still all right, do my best, all I can--&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;   &lt;TR&gt;     &lt;TD vAlign=center width="6%"&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;SPAN lang=PT-BR&gt;       &lt;P&gt;M:&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;     &lt;TD vAlign=center width="75%"&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;SPAN lang=PT-BR&gt;       &lt;P&gt;Yes, peace, one assumed, all out, all the pain, all as if . . . never        been, it will come--[&lt;I&gt;Hiccup&lt;/I&gt;.]--pardon, no sense in this, oh I know        . . . none the less, one assumed, peace . . . I mean . . . not merely all        over, but as if . . . never  been--&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;/TBODY&gt;&lt;/TABLE&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;SPAN lang=PT-BR&gt; &lt;P&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spots off. Blackout. Five seconds. Strong spots simultaneously on three  faces. Three seconds. Voices normal strength&lt;/I&gt;.]&lt;/B&gt; &lt;/P&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt; &lt;TABLE dir=ltr cellSpacing=0 width=633 border=0&gt;   &lt;TBODY&gt;   &lt;TR&gt;     &lt;TD vAlign=center width="5%"&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;SPAN lang=PT-BR&gt;       &lt;P&gt;w1:&lt;/P&gt;       &lt;P&gt;w2: &lt;/P&gt;       &lt;P&gt;M : &lt;/B&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;     &lt;TD vAlign=center width="17%"&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;SPAN lang=PT-BR&gt;       &lt;P&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Together&lt;/I&gt;]&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;     &lt;TD vAlign=center width="78%"&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;SPAN lang=PT-BR&gt;       &lt;P&gt;I said to him, Give her up--&lt;BR&gt;One Morning as I was sitting--&lt;BR&gt;We        were not long together--&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;/TBODY&gt;&lt;/TABLE&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;SPAN  lang=PT-BR&gt; &lt;P&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spots off. Blackout. Five seconds. Spot on&lt;/I&gt; w1.]&lt;BR&gt;W1 : I said to  him, Give her up. I swore by all I held most sacred--&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from&lt;/I&gt; w1  &lt;I&gt;to&lt;/I&gt; w2.]&lt;BR&gt;W2 : One morning as I was sitting stitching by the open window  she burst in and flew at me. Give me up, she screamed, he's mine. Her  photographs were kind to her. Seeing her now for the first time full length in  the flesh I understood why he preferred me.&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;w2&lt;I&gt; to  &lt;/I&gt;M.]&lt;BR&gt;M : We were not long together when she smelled the rat. Give up that  whore, she said, or I'll cut my throat--[Hiccup.]&lt;BR&gt;pardon--so help me God. I  knew she could have no proof. So I told her I did not know what she was talking  about.&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;M&lt;I&gt; to &lt;/I&gt;W2.]&lt;BR&gt;W2 : What are you talking about?  I said, stitching away. Someone yours? Give up whom? I smell you off him, she  screamed, he stinks of bitch.&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;w2 &lt;I&gt;to &lt;/I&gt;w1.]&lt;BR&gt;W1 :  Though I had him dogged for months by a first-rate man, no shadow of proof was  forthcoming. And there was no denying that he continued as . . . assiduous as  ever. This, and his horror of the merely Platonic thing, made me sometimes  wonder if I were not accusing him unjustly. Yes.&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;w1&lt;I&gt; to  &lt;/I&gt;M.]&lt;BR&gt;M : What have you to complain of ? I said. Have I been neglecting  you? How could we be together in the way we are if there were someone else?  Loving her as I did, with all my heart, I could not but feel sorry for  her.&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;M&lt;I&gt; to &lt;/I&gt;W2.]&lt;BR&gt;W2 : Fearing she was about to  offer me violence I rang for Erskine and had her shown out. Her parting words,  as he could testify, if he is still living, and has not forgotten, coming and  going on the earth, letting people in, showing people out, were to the effect  that she would settle my hash. I confess this did alarm me a little, at the  time.&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;W2&lt;I&gt; to &lt;/I&gt;M.]&lt;BR&gt;M : She was not convinced. I  might have known. I smell her off you, she kept saying. There was no answer to  this. So I took her in my arms and swore I could not live without her. I meant  it, what is more. Yes, I am sure I did. She did not repulse me.&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from  &lt;/I&gt;M &lt;I&gt;to &lt;/I&gt;W 1.]&lt;BR&gt;W1 : Judge then of my ashonishment when one fine  morning, as I was sitting stricken in the morning room, he slunk in, fell on his  knees before me, buried his face in my lap and . . . confessed.&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from  &lt;/I&gt;w1&lt;I&gt; to &lt;/I&gt;M.]&lt;BR&gt;M : She put a bloodhound on me, but I had a little chat  with him. He was glad of the extra money.&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;M&lt;I&gt; to  &lt;/I&gt;W2.]&lt;BR&gt;W2 : Why don't you get out, I said, when he started moaning about  his home life, there is obviously nothing between you any more. Or is  there?&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;w2&lt;I&gt; to &lt;/I&gt;w1.]&lt;BR&gt;W1 : I confess my first feeling  was one of wonderment. What a male!&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;w1&lt;I&gt; to &lt;/I&gt;M. &lt;I&gt;He  opens his mouth to speak. Spot from&lt;/I&gt; M &lt;I&gt;to&lt;/I&gt; W2.]&lt;BR&gt;W2 : Anything  between us, he said, what do you take me for, a something machine? And of course  with him no danger of the . . . spiritual thing. Then why don't you get out? I  said. I sometimes wondered if he was not living with her for her  money.&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;w2&lt;I&gt; to &lt;/I&gt;M.]&lt;BR&gt;M : The next thing was the scene  between them. I can't have her crashing in here, she said, threatening to take  my life. I must have looked incredulous. Ask Erskine, she said, if you don't  believe me. But she threatens to take her own, I said. Not yours? she said. No,  I said, hers. We had fun trying to work this out.&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;M&lt;I&gt; to  &lt;/I&gt;W1.]&lt;BR&gt;W1 : Then I forgave him. To what will love not stoop! I suggested a  little jaunt to celebrate, to the Riviera or our darling Grand Canary. He was  looking pale. Peaked. But this was not possible just then. Professional  commitments.&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;w1&lt;I&gt; to &lt;/I&gt;w2.]&lt;BR&gt;W2 : She came again. Just  strolled in. All honey. Licking her lips. Poor thing. I was doing my nails, by  the open window. He has told me all about it, she said. Who he, I said filing  away, and what it? I know what torture you must be going through, she said, and  I have dropped in to say I bear you no ill-feeling. I rang for  Erskine.&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;w2&lt;I&gt; to &lt;/I&gt;M.]&lt;BR&gt;M : Then I got frightened and  made a clean breast of it. She was looking more and more desperate. She had a  razor in her vanity-bag. Adulterers, take warning, never admit.&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from  &lt;/I&gt;M&lt;I&gt; to &lt;/I&gt;w1.]&lt;BR&gt;W1 : When I was satisfied it was all over I went to have  a gloat. Just a common tart. What he could have found in her when he had  me--&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;w1&lt;I&gt; to &lt;/I&gt;w2.]&lt;BR&gt;W2 : When he came again we had it  out. I felt like death. He went on about why he had to tell her. Too risky and  so on. That meant he had gone back to her. Back to that!&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from  &lt;/I&gt;w2&lt;I&gt; to &lt;/I&gt;w1.]&lt;BR&gt;W1 : Pudding face, puffy, spots, blubber mouth, jowls,  no neck, drugs you could--&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;w1&lt;I&gt; to &lt;/I&gt;w2.]&lt;BR&gt;W2 : He  went on and on. I could hear a mower. An old hand mower. I stopped him and said  that whatever I might feel I had no silly threats to offer--but not much stomach  for her leavings either. He thought that over for a bit.&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from  &lt;/I&gt;w2&lt;I&gt; to &lt;/I&gt;w1.]&lt;BR&gt;W1 : Calves like a flunkey--&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;w1&lt;I&gt;  to &lt;/I&gt;M.]&lt;BR&gt;M : When I saw her again she knew. She was  looking--[Hiccup.]--wretched. Pardon. Some fool was cutting grass. A little  rush, then another. The problem was how to convince her that no . . . revival of  intimacy was involved. I couldn't. I might have known. So I took her in my arms  and said I could not go on living without her. I don't believe I could  have.&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;M &lt;I&gt;to &lt;/I&gt;W2.]&lt;BR&gt;W2 : The only solution was to go  away together. He swore we should as soon as he had put his affairs in order. In  the meantime we were to carry on as before. By that he meant as best we  could.&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;w2&lt;I&gt; to &lt;/I&gt;w1.]&lt;BR&gt;W1 : So he was mine again. All  mine. I was happy again. I went about singing. The world--&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from  &lt;/I&gt;w1&lt;I&gt; to &lt;/I&gt;M.]&lt;BR&gt;M : At home all heart to heart, new leaf and bygones  bygones. I ran into your ex-doxy, she said one night, on the pillow, you're well  out of that. Rather uncalled for, I thought. I am indeed, sweetheart, I said, I  am indeed. God what vermin women. Thanks to you, angel, I said.&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from  &lt;/I&gt;M&lt;I&gt; to &lt;/I&gt;W1.]&lt;BR&gt;W1 : Then I began to smell her off him again.  Yes.&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;w1&lt;I&gt; to &lt;/I&gt;w2.]&lt;BR&gt;W2 : When he stopped coming I was  prepared. More or less.&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;w2&lt;I&gt; to &lt;/I&gt;M.]&lt;BR&gt;M : Finally it  was all too much. I simply could no longer--&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;M&lt;I&gt; to  &lt;/I&gt;W1.]&lt;BR&gt;W1 : Before I could do anything he disappeared. That meant she had  won. That slut! I couldn't credit it. I lay stricken for weeks. Then I drove  over to her place. It was all bolted and barred. All grey with frozen dew. On  the way back by Ash and Snodland--&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;w1&lt;I&gt; to &lt;/I&gt;M.]&lt;BR&gt;M :  I simply could no longer--&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;M&lt;I&gt; to &lt;/I&gt;W2.]&lt;BR&gt;W2: I made a  bundle of his things and burnt them. It was November and the bonfire was going.  All night I smelt them smouldering.&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot off &lt;/I&gt;W 2&lt;I&gt;. Blackout. Five  seconds. Spots half previous strength simultaneously on three faces. Three  seconds. Voices proportionately lower.&lt;/I&gt;]&lt;/B&gt; &lt;/P&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt; &lt;TABLE dir=ltr cellSpacing=0 width=442 border=0&gt;   &lt;TBODY&gt;   &lt;TR&gt;     &lt;TD vAlign=center width="15%"&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;SPAN lang=PT-BR&gt;       &lt;P&gt;W 1 :&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;     &lt;TD vAlign=center width="19%"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/TD&gt;     &lt;TD vAlign=center width="66%"&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;SPAN lang=PT-BR&gt;       &lt;P&gt;Mercy, mercy--&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;   &lt;TR&gt;     &lt;TD vAlign=center width="15%"&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;SPAN lang=PT-BR&gt;       &lt;P&gt;W 2 :&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;     &lt;TD vAlign=center width="19%"&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;SPAN lang=PT-BR&gt;       &lt;P&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Together&lt;/I&gt;]&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;     &lt;TD vAlign=center width="66%"&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;SPAN lang=PT-BR&gt;       &lt;P&gt;To say I am--&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;   &lt;TR&gt;     &lt;TD vAlign=center width="15%"&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;SPAN lang=PT-BR&gt;       &lt;P&gt;M :&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;     &lt;TD vAlign=center width="19%"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/TD&gt;     &lt;TD vAlign=center width="66%"&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;SPAN lang=PT-BR&gt;       &lt;P&gt;When first this change--&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;/TBODY&gt;&lt;/TABLE&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;SPAN  lang=PT-BR&gt; &lt;P&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spots off. Blackout. Five seconds. Spot on &lt;/I&gt;M.]&lt;BR&gt;M : When first this  change I actually thanked God. I thought, It is done, it is said, now all is  going out--[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;M&lt;I&gt; to &lt;/I&gt;W1.]&lt;BR&gt;W 1 : Mercy, mercy, tongue  still hanging out for mercy. It will come. You haven't seen me. But you will.  Then it will come.&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;W1&lt;I&gt; to &lt;/I&gt;W2.]&lt;BR&gt;W 2 : To say I am  not disappointed, no, I am. I had anticipated something better. More restful.  &lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;W2&lt;I&gt; to &lt;/I&gt;W1.]&lt;BR&gt;W 1 : Or you will weary of  me.&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;W1&lt;I&gt; to &lt;/I&gt;M.]&lt;BR&gt;M : Down, all going down, into the  dark, peace is coming, I thought, after all, at last, I was right, after all,  thank God, when first this change.&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;M&lt;I&gt; to &lt;/I&gt;W2.]&lt;BR&gt;W 2  : Less confused. Less confusing. At the same time I prefer this to . . . the  other thing. Definitely. There are endurable moments.&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;W2  &lt;I&gt;to &lt;/I&gt;M&lt;I&gt; &lt;/I&gt;.]&lt;BR&gt;M : I thought.&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;M&lt;I&gt; to  &lt;/I&gt;W2.]&lt;BR&gt;W 2 : When you go out--and I go out. Some day you will tire of me  and go out . . . for good.&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;W2&lt;I&gt; to &lt;/I&gt;W1.]&lt;BR&gt;W 1 :  Hellish half-light.&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;W1&lt;I&gt; to &lt;/I&gt;M.]&lt;BR&gt;M : Peace, yes, I  suppose, a kind of peace, and all that pain as if . . . never been.&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot  from &lt;/I&gt;M&lt;I&gt; to &lt;/I&gt;W2.]&lt;BR&gt;W 2 : Give me up, as a bad job. Go away and start  poking and pecking at someone else. On the other hand--&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from  &lt;/I&gt;W2&lt;I&gt; to &lt;/I&gt;W1.]&lt;BR&gt;W 1 : Get off me! Get off me!&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from  &lt;/I&gt;W1&lt;I&gt; to &lt;/I&gt;M.]&lt;BR&gt;M : It will come. Must come. There is no future in  this.&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;M&lt;I&gt; to &lt;/I&gt;W2.]&lt;BR&gt;W 2 : On the other hand things  may disimprove, there is that danger.&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;W2 &lt;I&gt;to &lt;/I&gt;M&lt;I&gt;  &lt;/I&gt;.]&lt;BR&gt;M : Oh of course I know now--&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;M&lt;I&gt; to  &lt;/I&gt;W1.]&lt;BR&gt;W 1 : Is it that I do not tell the truth, is that it, that some day  somehow I may tell the truth at last and then no more light at last, for the  truth?&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;W1&lt;I&gt; to &lt;/I&gt;W2.]&lt;BR&gt;W 2 : You might get angry and  blaze me clean out of my wits. Mightn't you?&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;W2 &lt;I&gt;to  &lt;/I&gt;M&lt;I&gt; &lt;/I&gt;.]&lt;BR&gt;M : I know now, all that was just . . . play. And all this?  When will all this--&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;M&lt;I&gt; to &lt;/I&gt;W1.]&lt;BR&gt;W 1 : Is that  it?&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;W1&lt;I&gt; to &lt;/I&gt;W2.]&lt;BR&gt;W 2 : Mightn't you?&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot  from &lt;/I&gt;W2 &lt;I&gt;to &lt;/I&gt;M&lt;I&gt; &lt;/I&gt;.]&lt;BR&gt;M : All this, when will all this have been  . . . just play?&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;M&lt;I&gt; to &lt;/I&gt;W1.]&lt;BR&gt;W 1 : I can do nothing  . . . for anybody . . . any more . . . thank God. So it must be something I have  to say. How the mind works still!&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;W1&lt;I&gt; to &lt;/I&gt;W2.]&lt;BR&gt;W 2  : But I doubt it. It would not be like you somehow. And you must know I am doing  my best. Or don't you?&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;W2 &lt;I&gt;to &lt;/I&gt;M&lt;I&gt; &lt;/I&gt;.]&lt;BR&gt;M :  Perhaps they have become friends. Perhaps sorrow--&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;M&lt;I&gt; to  &lt;/I&gt;W1.]&lt;BR&gt;W 1 : But I have said all I can. All you let me. All I--&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot  from &lt;/I&gt;W1 &lt;I&gt;to &lt;/I&gt;M&lt;I&gt; &lt;/I&gt;.]&lt;BR&gt;M : Perhaps sorrow has brought them  together.&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;M&lt;I&gt; to &lt;/I&gt;W2.]&lt;BR&gt;W 2 : No doubt I make the  same mistake as when it was the sun that shone, of looking for sense where  possibly there is none.&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;W2 &lt;I&gt;to &lt;/I&gt;M&lt;I&gt; &lt;/I&gt;.]&lt;BR&gt;M :  Perhaps they meet, and sit, over a cup of that green tea they both so loved,  without milk or sugar not even a squeeze of lemon--&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;M&lt;I&gt; to  &lt;/I&gt;W2.]&lt;BR&gt;W 2 : Are you listening to me? Is anyone bothering about me at  all?&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;W2 &lt;I&gt;to &lt;/I&gt;M&lt;I&gt; &lt;/I&gt;.]&lt;BR&gt;M : Not even a squeeze  of--&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;M&lt;I&gt; to &lt;/I&gt;W1.]&lt;BR&gt;W 1 : Is it something I should do  with my face, other than utter? Weep?&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;w1&lt;I&gt; to  &lt;/I&gt;w2.]&lt;BR&gt;W 2 : Am I taboo, I wonder. Not necessarily, now that all danger is  averted. That poor creature--I can hear her--that poor creature--&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot  from &lt;/I&gt;w2&lt;I&gt; to &lt;/I&gt;w1.]&lt;BR&gt;W 1 : Bite off my tongue and swallow it? Spit it  out? Would that placate you? How the mind works still to be sure!&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot  from &lt;/I&gt;W1 &lt;I&gt;to &lt;/I&gt;M&lt;I&gt; &lt;/I&gt;.]&lt;BR&gt;M : Meet, and sit, now in the one dear  place, now in the other, and sorrow together, and compare--[&lt;I&gt;Hiccup&lt;/I&gt;.]  pardon-- happy memories.&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;M&lt;I&gt; to &lt;/I&gt;W1.]&lt;BR&gt;W 1 : If only  I could think. There is no sense in this . . . either, none whatsoever. I  can't.&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;w1&lt;I&gt; to &lt;/I&gt;w2.]&lt;BR&gt;W 2 : That poor creature who  tried to seduce you, what ever became of her, do you suppose?--I can hear her.  Poor thing.&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;W2 &lt;I&gt;to &lt;/I&gt;M&lt;I&gt; &lt;/I&gt;.]&lt;BR&gt;M : Personally I  always preferred Lipton's.&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;M&lt;I&gt; to &lt;/I&gt;W1.]&lt;BR&gt;W 1 : And  that all is falling, all fallen, from the beginning, on empty air. Nothing being  asked at all. No one asking me for anything at all.&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;w1&lt;I&gt;  to &lt;/I&gt;w2.]&lt;BR&gt;W 2 : They might even feel sorry for me, if they could see me.  But never so sorry as I for them.&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;w2&lt;I&gt; to &lt;/I&gt;w1.]&lt;BR&gt;W 1  : I can't&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;w1&lt;I&gt; to &lt;/I&gt;w2.]&lt;BR&gt;W 2 : Kissing their sour  kisses.&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;W2 &lt;I&gt;to &lt;/I&gt;M&lt;I&gt; &lt;/I&gt;.]&lt;BR&gt;M : I pity them in any  case, yes, compare my lot with theirs, however blessed, and--&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from  &lt;/I&gt;M&lt;I&gt; to &lt;/I&gt;W1.]&lt;BR&gt;W 1 : I can't. The mind won't have it. It would have to  go. Yes.&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;W1&lt;I&gt;to &lt;/I&gt;M&lt;I&gt; &lt;/I&gt;.]&lt;BR&gt;M : Pity  them.&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;M&lt;I&gt; to &lt;/I&gt;W2.]&lt;BR&gt;W 2 : What do you do when you go  out? Shift?&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;W2 &lt;I&gt;to &lt;/I&gt;M&lt;I&gt; &lt;/I&gt;.]&lt;BR&gt;M : Am I hiding  something? Have I lost--&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;M&lt;I&gt; to &lt;/I&gt;W1.]&lt;BR&gt;W 1 : She had  means, I fancy, though she lived like a pig.&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;W 1&lt;I&gt;to  &lt;/I&gt;W2.]&lt;BR&gt;W 2 : Like dragging a great roller, on a scorching day. The strain .  . . to get it moving, momentum coming--&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot off &lt;/I&gt;W2. &lt;I&gt;Blackout.  Three seconds. Spot on &lt;/I&gt;W2.]&lt;BR&gt;W 2 : Kill it and strain again. &lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot  from &lt;/I&gt;W2 &lt;I&gt;to &lt;/I&gt;M&lt;I&gt; &lt;/I&gt;.]&lt;BR&gt;M : Have I lost . . . the thing you want?  Why go out? Why go--&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;M&lt;I&gt; to &lt;/I&gt;W2.]&lt;BR&gt;W 2 : And you  perhaps pitying me, thinking. Poor thing, she needs a rest.&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from  &lt;/I&gt;W2 &lt;I&gt;to &lt;/I&gt;W1.]&lt;BR&gt;W 1 :Perhaps she has taken him away to live . . .  somewhere in the sun.&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;W 1&lt;I&gt;to &lt;/I&gt;M.]&lt;BR&gt;M : Why go down?  Why not--&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;M&lt;I&gt; to &lt;/I&gt;W2.]&lt;BR&gt;W2 : I don't  know.&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;W2 &lt;I&gt;to &lt;/I&gt;W1.]&lt;BR&gt;W 1 : Perhaps she is sitting  somewhere, by the open window, her hands folded in her lap, gazing down out over  the olives--&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;W 1&lt;I&gt;to &lt;/I&gt;M.]&lt;BR&gt;M : Why not keep on  glaring at me without ceasing? I might start to rave and--  [&lt;I&gt;Hiccup&lt;/I&gt;.]--bring it up for you. Par--&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;M&lt;I&gt; to  &lt;/I&gt;W2.]&lt;BR&gt;W 2 : No.&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;W2 &lt;I&gt;to &lt;/I&gt;M&lt;I&gt; &lt;/I&gt;.]&lt;BR&gt;M :  --don&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;M&lt;I&gt; to &lt;/I&gt;W1.]&lt;BR&gt;W 1 : Gazing down out over the  olives, then the sea, wondering what can be keeping him, growing cold. Shadow  stealing over everything. Creeping. Yes.&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;W 1&lt;I&gt;to  &lt;/I&gt;M.]&lt;BR&gt;M : To think we were never together.&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;M&lt;I&gt; to  &lt;/I&gt;W2.]&lt;BR&gt;W 2 : Am I not perhaps a little unhinged already?&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from  &lt;/I&gt;W2 &lt;I&gt;to &lt;/I&gt;W1.]&lt;BR&gt;W 1 : Poor creature. Poor creatures.&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from  &lt;/I&gt;W 1&lt;I&gt;to &lt;/I&gt;M.]&lt;BR&gt;M : Never woke together, on a May morning, the first to  wake to wake the other two. Then in a little dinghy--&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;M&lt;I&gt;  to &lt;/I&gt;W1.]&lt;BR&gt;W 1 : Penitence, yes, at a pinch, atonement, one was resigned,  but no, that does not seem to be the point either.&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;W1&lt;I&gt; to  &lt;/I&gt;W2.]&lt;BR&gt;W 2 : I say, Am I not perhaps a little unhinged already?  [&lt;I&gt;Hopefully&lt;/I&gt;.] Just a little? [&lt;I&gt;Pause&lt;/I&gt;.] I doubt it.&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from  &lt;/I&gt;W2 &lt;I&gt;to &lt;/I&gt;M&lt;I&gt; &lt;/I&gt;.]&lt;BR&gt;M : A little dinghy--&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;M&lt;I&gt;  to &lt;/I&gt;W1.]&lt;BR&gt;W 1 : Silence and darkness were all I craved. Well, I get a  certain amount of both. They being one. Perhaps it is more wickedness to pray  for more.&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;W 1&lt;I&gt;to &lt;/I&gt;M.]&lt;BR&gt;M : A little dinghy, on the  river, I resting on my oars, they lolling on air-pillows in the stern . . .  sheets. Drifting. Such fantasies.&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;M &lt;I&gt;to &lt;/I&gt;W 1.]&lt;BR&gt;W 1  : Hellish half-light.&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;W 1&lt;I&gt;to &lt;/I&gt;W2.]&lt;BR&gt;W 2 : A shade  gone. In the head. Just a shade. I doubt it.&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;W2&lt;I&gt;to  &lt;/I&gt;M.]&lt;BR&gt;M : We were not civilized.&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;M &lt;I&gt;to &lt;/I&gt;W  1.]&lt;BR&gt;W 1 : Dying for dark--and the darker the worse. Strange.&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from  &lt;/I&gt;W 1&lt;I&gt;to &lt;/I&gt;M.]&lt;BR&gt;M : Such fantasies. Then. And now--&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from  &lt;/I&gt;M &lt;I&gt;to &lt;/I&gt;W2.]&lt;BR&gt;W 2 : I doubt it.&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Pause. Peal of wild low  laughter from &lt;/I&gt;W2 &lt;I&gt;cut short as spot from her to&lt;/I&gt; W1.]&lt;BR&gt;W 1 : Yes, and  the whole thing there, all there, staring you in the face. You will see it. Get  off me. Or weary.&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;W 1&lt;I&gt;to &lt;/I&gt;M.]&lt;BR&gt;M : And now, that you  are . . . mere eye. Just looking. At my face. On and off.&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;M  &lt;I&gt;to &lt;/I&gt;W 1.]&lt;BR&gt;W 1 : Weary of playing with me. Get off me. Yes.&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot  from &lt;/I&gt;W 1&lt;I&gt;to &lt;/I&gt;M.]&lt;BR&gt;M : Looking for something. In my face. Some truth.  In my eyes. Not even.&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot from &lt;/I&gt;M &lt;I&gt;to&lt;/I&gt; W2. &lt;I&gt;Laugh as before  from &lt;/I&gt;W2 &lt;I&gt;cut short as spot from her to&lt;/I&gt; M.]&lt;BR&gt;M : Mere eye. No mind.  Opening and shutting on me. Am I as much--&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot off. Blackout. Three  seconds. Spot on &lt;/I&gt;M.]&lt;BR&gt;As I much as . . . being seen?&lt;BR&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Spot off  &lt;/I&gt;M. &lt;I&gt;Blackout. Five seconds. Faint spots simultaneously on three faces.  Three seconds. Voices faint largely unintelligible.&lt;/I&gt;]&lt;/B&gt; &lt;/P&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt; &lt;TABLE dir=ltr cellSpacing=0 width=401 border=0&gt;   &lt;TBODY&gt;   &lt;TR&gt;     &lt;TD vAlign=center width="13%"&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;SPAN lang=PT-BR&gt;       &lt;P&gt;W 1 : &lt;/B&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;     &lt;TD vAlign=center width="25%"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/TD&gt;     &lt;TD vAlign=center width="62%"&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;SPAN lang=PT-BR&gt;       &lt;P&gt;Yes, strange, etc.&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;   &lt;TR&gt;     &lt;TD vAlign=center width="13%"&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;SPAN lang=PT-BR&gt;       &lt;P&gt;W 2 :&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;     &lt;TD vAlign=center width="25%"&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;SPAN lang=PT-BR&gt;       &lt;P&gt;[&lt;I&gt;Together&lt;/I&gt;]&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;     &lt;TD vAlign=center width="62%"&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;SPAN lang=PT-BR&gt;       &lt;P&gt;Yes, perhaps, etc.&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;   &lt;TR&gt;     &lt;TD vAlign=center width="13%"&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;SPAN lang=PT-BR&gt;       &lt;P&gt;M :&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;     &lt;TD vAlign=center width="25%"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/TD&gt;     &lt;TD vAlign=center width="62%"&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;SPAN lang=PT-BR&gt;       &lt;P&gt;Yes, peace, etc.&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;/TBODY&gt;&lt;/TABLE&gt;&lt;SPAN lang=PT-BR&gt; &lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1618973231083522412-5787250051287813623?l=bancadetexto.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/feeds/5787250051287813623/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1618973231083522412&amp;postID=5787250051287813623' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/5787250051287813623'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/5787250051287813623'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/2011/01/play-samuel-beckett.html' title='PLAY   Samuel Beckett'/><author><name>STARK!</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nYG86XB013I/TnZCEdj4lBI/AAAAAAAAGQo/AkfC5-uNvJE/s220/papilon%2B%25285%252928.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618973231083522412.post-5403589038676538190</id><published>2011-01-09T16:15:00.003-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-09T16:15:36.617-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Deus não pode inspirar desejos irrealizáveis</title><content type='html'>&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial size=2&gt;&lt;FONT face=Verdana&gt;Bem sabeis, minha Madre, que  sempre desejei ser santa.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/FONT&gt; &lt;P class=9-Texto  style="MARGIN-TOP: 0cm; TEXT-INDENT: 0cm; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"&gt;&lt;FONT size=2&gt;Mas, ai de mim!  sempre verifiquei, ao comparar-me com os Santos, que há entre eles e eu a mesma  diferença que existe entre uma montanha, cujo cume se perde nos céus, e o  obscuro grão de areia &amp;nbsp;pisado pelos pés dos caminhantes. Em vez de  desanimar, disse para comigo: Deus não pode inspirar desejos irrealizáveis.  Posso, portanto, apesar da minha pequenez, aspirar à santidade. Fazer-me crescer  a mim mesma é impossível; tenho de suportar-me tal como sou, com todas as minhas  imperfeições. Mas quero procurar a maneira de ir para o Céu por um caminhito  muito direito, muito curto; um caminhito completamente novo. &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 5.65pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"&gt;&lt;I&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; TEXT-DECORATION: none"&gt;&lt;FONT  size=2&gt;(SANTA TEREZINHA DO MENINO JESUS, História de uma Alma, Ms C  2vº)&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/I&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1618973231083522412-5403589038676538190?l=bancadetexto.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/feeds/5403589038676538190/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1618973231083522412&amp;postID=5403589038676538190' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/5403589038676538190'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/5403589038676538190'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/2011/01/deus-nao-pode-inspirar-desejos.html' title='Deus não pode inspirar desejos irrealizáveis'/><author><name>STARK!</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nYG86XB013I/TnZCEdj4lBI/AAAAAAAAGQo/AkfC5-uNvJE/s220/papilon%2B%25285%252928.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618973231083522412.post-1363437616400537628</id><published>2011-01-09T16:15:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-09T16:15:34.417-08:00</updated><title type='text'>ANAIS NINN</title><content type='html'>&lt;FONT face=Garamond&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face=Garamond&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;FONT face=Garamond size=4&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;"É como uma doença,  o desejo de ver alguém, o anseio profundo e forte. E &lt;BR&gt;você acabou de vê-lo, e  vê-lo amanhã não vai satisfazer, e a mesma doença, &lt;BR&gt;como uma fome, chegará  até você, mais forte a cada vez que você o vê. Não, &lt;BR&gt;eu não expliquei isso.  Eu estava trabalhando hoje, escrevendo. Minha cabeça &lt;BR&gt;estava ocupada: minha  mente estava repleta do trabalho. Ainda assim, todo o &lt;BR&gt;tempo, eu estava  ciente de uma dor - corrosiva - como se um pedaço de mim &lt;BR&gt;tivesse sido  arrancado. E a mente não pudesse fazer nada sobre isso. Era &lt;BR&gt;físico: estava  nas veias, no sangue, na pele. Eis por que as relações &lt;BR&gt;humanas são tão  perigosas - porque a mente não tem poder sobre elas Estou &lt;BR&gt;diabolicamente só.  O que eu precisava era de alguém que pudesse me dar o que &lt;BR&gt;eu dou a Henry:  essa atenção constante. Eu leio cada página do que ele &lt;BR&gt;escreve, eu acompanho  suas leituras, eu respondo a suas cartas, eu o ouço, &lt;BR&gt;eu&amp;nbsp; lembro de tudo  que ele diz, eu escrevo sobre ele, eu lhe faço presentes, &lt;BR&gt;eu o protejo,  estou pronta, para a qualquer momento, desistir de qualquer &lt;BR&gt;pessoa por causa  dele, eu acompanho seus pensamentos, entro em seus planos - &lt;BR&gt;um cuidado  apaixonado, maternal e intelectual. Ele não pode fazer isso. &lt;BR&gt;Ninguém pode.  Ninguém sabe como. É uma arte,&lt;BR&gt;um dom. Hugh me protege, mas ele não  corresponde. Henry corresponde, mas ele &lt;BR&gt;não encontra tempo para ler o que eu  escrevo. Ele não entende todos meus &lt;BR&gt;humores, nem escreve sobre  mim.".&lt;BR&gt;ANAIS NINN &lt;BR&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1618973231083522412-1363437616400537628?l=bancadetexto.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/feeds/1363437616400537628/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1618973231083522412&amp;postID=1363437616400537628' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/1363437616400537628'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/1363437616400537628'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/2011/01/anais-ninn.html' title='ANAIS NINN'/><author><name>STARK!</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nYG86XB013I/TnZCEdj4lBI/AAAAAAAAGQo/AkfC5-uNvJE/s220/papilon%2B%25285%252928.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618973231083522412.post-1482618659085567898</id><published>2011-01-09T16:14:00.002-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-09T16:15:25.834-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial size=2&gt;&lt;SPAN lang=PT-BR&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT size=3&gt;Eu acho que uma das coisas melhores que eu tenho feito na minha  vida, melhor que os livros que escrevi, foi não deixar morrer o menino que não  pude ser , o menino que eu fui, em mim (...) Sexagenário, tenho sete anos;  sexagenário, eu tenho quinze anos; sexagenário, amo a onda do mar, adoro ver a  neve caindo, parece até alienação. Algum companheiro meu de esquerda estará  dizendo: Paulo está irremediavelmente perdido. E eu diria a meu hipotético  companheiro de esquerda: Eu estou achado, precisamente porque me perco olhando a  neve cair. Sexagenário, eu tenho 25 anos. Depois de ter perdido uma mulher que  amei estrondosamente, eu começo a amar estrondosamente de novo, sem nenhum  sentido de culpa. E isso também é pedagógico. (PAULO FREIRE,&amp;nbsp;&lt;SPAN  lang=PT-BR&gt;&lt;B&gt;Pedagogia dos sonhos possíveis&lt;/B&gt;. São Paulo: UNESP, 2001,  &lt;/SPAN&gt;p. 101)&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1618973231083522412-1482618659085567898?l=bancadetexto.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/feeds/1482618659085567898/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1618973231083522412&amp;postID=1482618659085567898' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/1482618659085567898'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/1482618659085567898'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/2011/01/eu-acho-que-uma-das-coisas-melhores-que.html' title=''/><author><name>STARK!</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nYG86XB013I/TnZCEdj4lBI/AAAAAAAAGQo/AkfC5-uNvJE/s220/papilon%2B%25285%252928.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618973231083522412.post-5421212348846041500</id><published>2011-01-09T16:14:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-09T16:14:52.078-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Um pouco de Roland Barthes</title><content type='html'>&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial size=2&gt; &lt;DIV class=blog&gt; &lt;DIV id=menu&gt;&lt;FONT face=Garamond&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV class=blog&gt; &lt;DIV class=blogbody&gt; &lt;P&gt;&lt;I&gt;(in Fragmentos do Discurso Amoroso, 13ª ed., 1995 - Ed. Francisco Alves -  pg.98)&lt;/I&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;Sobre "Eu-te-amo"&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;"Passada a primeira confissão, "eu te amo" não quer dizer mais  nada; apenas retoma de um modo enigmático, de tanto que ela parece vazia, a  antiga mensagem (que talvez não tenha passado por essas palavras). Eu o repito  fora de toda pertinência; ele sai da linguagem, divaga,  onde?&lt;BR&gt;...&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;I&gt;Eu-te-amo &lt;/I&gt;não tem empregos. Essa palavra, tanto  quanto a de uma criança, não está submetida a nenhuma imposição social; pode ser  uma palavra sublime, solene, frívola, pode ser uma palavra erótica,  pornográfica. É uma palavra que se desloca socialmente.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;I&gt;Eu-te-amo&lt;/I&gt;  não tem nuances. Dispensa as explicações, as organizações, os graus e os  escrúpulos. De uma certa forma - paradoxo exorbitante da linguagem -, dizer  "eu-te-amo" é fazer como se não existisse nenhum teatro da fala, e é uma palavra  sempre verdadeira (não tem outro referente a não ser seu proferimento: é um  performativo).&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;...&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;I&gt;Eu-te-amo - Eu-também&lt;/I&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Eu  fantasio aquilo que é empiricamente impossível: que nossos dois proferimentos  sejam ditos ao mesmo tempo; que um não suceda ao outro, como se dependesse dele.  O proferimento não devia ser duplo (desdobrado): só lhe convém o &lt;I&gt;clarão  único&lt;/I&gt;, onde duas forças se reúnem (separadas, desencontradas, elas não  passariam de um comum acordo). O &lt;I&gt;clarão únic&lt;/I&gt;o realiza, pois, essa coisa  rara: a abolição de toda contabilidade. A troca, o dom, o roubo (únicas formas  conhecidas da economia) implicam, cada um a seu modo, objetos heterogêneos e um  tempo desencontrado: meu desejo em troca de outra coisa - e o tempo de que se  precisa para a transmissão. O proferimento simultâneo funda um movimento cujo  modelo é socialmente desconhecido, impensável; nosso proferimento, que não é  troca, nem dom, nem roubo, surge de fogos cruzados, designa um gasto que não  recai em lugar nenhum e do qual todo pensamento de reserva é abolido pela  própria comunidade: entramos um pelo outro no materialismo  absoluto."&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1618973231083522412-5421212348846041500?l=bancadetexto.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/feeds/5421212348846041500/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1618973231083522412&amp;postID=5421212348846041500' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/5421212348846041500'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/5421212348846041500'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/2011/01/um-pouco-de-roland-barthes.html' title='Um pouco de Roland Barthes'/><author><name>STARK!</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nYG86XB013I/TnZCEdj4lBI/AAAAAAAAGQo/AkfC5-uNvJE/s220/papilon%2B%25285%252928.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618973231083522412.post-4570588732760596300</id><published>2011-01-04T16:22:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-09T15:43:47.081-08:00</updated><title type='text'>POEMAS PARA UM FILHO</title><content type='html'>&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial size=2&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial size=2&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;EM&gt;Cordeirinho&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial size=2&gt;&lt;EM&gt;&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial size=2&gt;&lt;EM&gt;O mundo, que vale?&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial size=2&gt;&lt;EM&gt;De mim não percebo&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial size=2&gt;&lt;EM&gt;mais que o colo farto&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial size=2&gt;&lt;EM&gt;com que te sustento&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial size=2&gt;&lt;EM&gt;&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial size=2&gt;&lt;EM&gt;de mim sei apenas&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial size=2&gt;&lt;EM&gt;que em mim te reclinas&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial size=2&gt;&lt;EM&gt;Tua festa, filho, &lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial size=2&gt;&lt;EM&gt;toda festa exprime.&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial size=2&gt;&lt;EM&gt;&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial size=2&gt;&lt;EM&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Gabriela Mistral  (1889-1957)&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial  size=2&gt;-------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;STRONG&gt;-&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial size=2&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Cantos&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial size=2&gt;Brincalhão,&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial size=2&gt;esta idade florida&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial size=2&gt;é como um dia cheio de alegria&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial size=2&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial size=2&gt;claro, sereno&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; 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&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT face=GoudyOldStyleT-Regular size=3&gt;&lt;FONT face=GoudyOldStyleT-Regular  size=3&gt;&lt;FONT size=2&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;FONT  face=GoudyOldStyleT-Regular size=3&gt;&lt;FONT face=GoudyOldStyleT-Regular  size=3&gt;&lt;FONT face=ArialMT&gt; &lt;P align=left&gt;&lt;EM&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Até o século XVIII, os autores nunca haviam sido outra  coisa&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=left&gt;&lt;EM&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;senão os porta-vozes do seu público; cuidavam dos seus  leitores,&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=left&gt;&lt;EM&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;assim como os criados e empregados tratavam dos seus  bens&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=left&gt;&lt;EM&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;materiais. Aceitavam e confirmavam os princípios  morais e os critérios&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=left&gt;&lt;EM&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;de gosto geralmente reconhecidos, não os inventavam  nem&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=left&gt;&lt;EM&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;os alteravam (...) É só no século XVIII que o público  se separa&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=left&gt;&lt;EM&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;em dois campos diferentes, e a arte em duas tendências  rivais.&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=left&gt;&lt;EM&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Daí por diante, cada artista é confrontado por uma  dualidade de&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=left&gt;&lt;EM&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;ordens opostas: o mundo da aristocracia conservadora e  o da&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=left&gt;&lt;EM&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;burguesia progressiva, entre um grupo que se agarra  obstinadamente&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=left&gt;&lt;EM&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;aos velhos valores, tradicionais e supostamente  absolutos,&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=left&gt;&lt;EM&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;e outro que se baseia no ponto de vista de que mesmo  esses&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=left&gt;&lt;EM&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;valores, e eles mais do que nada, são historicamente  condicionados,&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=left&gt;&lt;EM&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;e que outros, mais recentes, estão mais de acordo com  o&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=left&gt;&lt;EM&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;bem geral.&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/EM&gt; &lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=left&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;FONT face=ArialMT&gt; &lt;P align=left&gt;HAUSER, Arnold. História social da literatura e da arte, Tomo  II.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=left&gt;Trad.: Walter Geenen. 3ª ed. São Paulo: Ed. Mestre Jou, 1982, p  884.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1618973231083522412-5026245658194455262?l=bancadetexto.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/feeds/5026245658194455262/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1618973231083522412&amp;postID=5026245658194455262' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/5026245658194455262'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/5026245658194455262'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/2010/08/hauser.html' title='HAUSER'/><author><name>STARK!</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nYG86XB013I/TnZCEdj4lBI/AAAAAAAAGQo/AkfC5-uNvJE/s220/papilon%2B%25285%252928.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618973231083522412.post-271137738097517977</id><published>2010-08-26T16:34:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-08-26T16:34:49.799-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Samuel Beckett, Não Eu, 1972.</title><content type='html'>&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial size=2&gt;&lt;FONT face=GoudyOldStyleT-Regular size=3&gt;&lt;FONT  face=GoudyOldStyleT-Regular size=3&gt; &lt;P align=left&gt;...re-explorando no passado...&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=left&gt;pequenas cenas claras... &lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=left&gt;sobretudo passeios...&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=left&gt;toda sua vida a passar...todos os dias de sua vida...&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=left&gt;dia após dia...dois, três passos, depois pára...os olhos no  vazio...&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=left&gt;depois faz ainda dois, três...pára e o vazio de novo...assim  segue...&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=left&gt;a deriva...dia após dia...ou às vezes ela chora....sozinha com  sua&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=left&gt;recordação...desde os cueiros...do chorar nos cueiros...talvez  não...&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=left&gt;não indispensável a vida...a sobrevida...soluçar um ponto é  tudo.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;S. Beckett, &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;I&gt;&lt;FONT face=GoudyOldStyleT-Italic size=3&gt;&lt;FONT  face=GoudyOldStyleT-Italic size=3&gt;Não Eu&lt;/I&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face=GoudyOldStyleT-Regular size=3&gt;&lt;FONT face=GoudyOldStyleT-Regular size=3&gt;,  1972.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT face=GoudyOldStyleT-Regular size=3&gt;&lt;FONT face=GoudyOldStyleT-Regular  size=3&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1618973231083522412-271137738097517977?l=bancadetexto.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/feeds/271137738097517977/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1618973231083522412&amp;postID=271137738097517977' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/271137738097517977'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/271137738097517977'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/2010/08/samuel-beckett-nao-eu-1972.html' title='Samuel Beckett, Não Eu, 1972.'/><author><name>STARK!</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nYG86XB013I/TnZCEdj4lBI/AAAAAAAAGQo/AkfC5-uNvJE/s220/papilon%2B%25285%252928.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618973231083522412.post-6393544605857574725</id><published>2010-07-25T20:14:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-25T20:14:07.053-07:00</updated><title type='text'>A volta do caderno rabugento - João Ubaldo Ribeiro</title><content type='html'>jORNAL O GLOBO, 18 de julho de 2010&lt;br&gt;N&amp;#227;o sei se voc&amp;#234;s se lembram de quando lhes falei, acho que no ano passado, &lt;br&gt;num caderninho rabugento que eu mantenho. Ali&amp;#225;s, &amp;#233; um caderninho para &lt;br&gt;anota&amp;#231;&amp;#245;es diversas, mas as &amp;#250;nicas que consigo entender algum tempo depois &lt;br&gt;s&amp;#227;o as rabugentas, pois as outras se convertem em hier&amp;#243;glifos indecifr&amp;#225;veis &lt;br&gt;(eu sei que o recomendado &amp;#233; &amp;quot;hier&amp;#243;glifo&amp;quot;, mas sempre achei que quem diz &lt;br&gt;&amp;quot;hier&amp;#243;glifo&amp;quot; est&amp;#225; tentando descolar alguma coisa dos dentes), assim que &lt;br&gt;fecho o caderno. Claro, &amp;#233; o reacionarismo pr&amp;#243;prio da idade, pois, afinal, as &lt;br&gt;l&amp;#237;nguas s&amp;#227;o vivas e, se n&amp;#227;o mudassem, ainda estar&amp;#237;amos falando latim. Mas, &lt;br&gt;por outro lado, se algu&amp;#233;m n&amp;#227;o resistir, a confus&amp;#227;o acaba por instalar-se e, &lt;br&gt;tenho certeza, a l&amp;#237;ngua se empobrece, perde recursos expressivos, torna-se &lt;br&gt;cada vez menos precisa.&lt;br&gt;Quer dizer, isso acho eu, que n&amp;#227;o sou fil&amp;#243;logo nem nada e vivo estudando nas &lt;br&gt;gram&amp;#225;ticas, para n&amp;#227;o passar vexame. N&amp;#227;o se trata de impor a norma culta a &lt;br&gt;qualquer custo, at&amp;#233; porque, na minha opini&amp;#227;o, est&amp;#225; correto o enunciado que, &lt;br&gt;observadas as circunst&amp;#226;ncias do discurso, comunica com efic&amp;#225;cia. N&amp;#227;o &amp;#233; &lt;br&gt;necess&amp;#225;rio seguir receitu&amp;#225;rios abstrusos sobre coloca&amp;#231;&amp;#227;o de pronomes e fazer &lt;br&gt;gin&amp;#225;sticas verbais para empregar regras semicabal&amp;#237;sticas, que s&amp;#243; t&amp;#234;m como &lt;br&gt;efeito emperrar o discurso. Mas h&amp;#225; regras que nem precisam ser formuladas ou &lt;br&gt;lembradas, porque s&amp;#227;o parte das exig&amp;#234;ncias de clareza e precis&amp;#227;o - e essas &lt;br&gt;deviam ser observadas. N&amp;#227;o anoto, nem tenho qualifica&amp;#231;&amp;#245;es para isto, com a &lt;br&gt;finalidade de apontar o &amp;quot;erro de portugu&amp;#234;s&amp;quot;, mas a m&amp;#225; ou inadequada &lt;br&gt;linguagem.&lt;br&gt;E devo confessar que fico com medo de que certas pr&amp;#225;ticas deixem de ser &lt;br&gt;modismo e virem novas regras, bem ao gosto dos decorebas. &amp;#201; o que acontece &lt;br&gt;com o, com perd&amp;#227;o da m&amp;#225; palavra, anacolutismo que grassa entre os falantes &lt;br&gt;brasileiros do portugu&amp;#234;s. Vejam bem, nada contra o anacoluto, que tem nome &lt;br&gt;de origem grega e tudo, e pode ser uma figura de sintaxe de uso leg&amp;#237;timo. O &lt;br&gt;anacoluto ocorre, se n&amp;#227;o me trai mais uma vez a vil mem&amp;#243;ria, quando um &lt;br&gt;elemento da ora&amp;#231;&amp;#227;o fica meio pendurado, sem fun&amp;#231;&amp;#227;o sint&amp;#225;tica. H&amp;#225; um &lt;br&gt;anacoluto, por exemplo, na frase &amp;quot;A democracia, ela &amp;#233; a nossa op&amp;#231;&amp;#227;o&amp;quot;. Para &lt;br&gt;que &amp;#233; esse &amp;quot;ela&amp;quot; a&amp;#237;? Est&amp;#225; certo que, para dar &amp;#234;nfase ou ritmo &amp;#224; fala, isso &lt;br&gt;seja feito uma vez ou outra, mas como pr&amp;#225;tica universal &amp;#233; meio enervante. De &lt;br&gt;alguns anos para c&amp;#225;, s&amp;#243; se fala assim, basta assistir aos notici&amp;#225;rios e &lt;br&gt;programas de entrevistas. Quase nenhum entrevistado consegue enunciar uma &lt;br&gt;frase direta, na terceira pessoa - sujeito, predicado, objeto - sem dobrar &lt;br&gt;esse sujeito anacoluticamente (perd&amp;#227;o outra vez). S&amp;#243; se diz &amp;quot;o policiamento, &lt;br&gt;ele tem como objetivo&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;a preven&amp;#231;&amp;#227;o da dengue, ela deve come&amp;#231;ar&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;a &lt;br&gt;crian&amp;#231;a, ela n&amp;#227;o pode&amp;quot; e assim por diante. O escritor, ele teme seriamente &lt;br&gt;que daqui a pouco isso, ele vire regra.&lt;br&gt;E os verbos em &amp;quot;izar&amp;quot;? N&amp;#227;o sei se voc&amp;#234;s j&amp;#225; notaram que h&amp;#225; muito tempo, &lt;br&gt;principalmente por escrito, ningu&amp;#233;m v&amp;#234;, enxerga, discerne, descortina, ou &lt;br&gt;qualquer outro sin&amp;#244;nimo decente. Agora s&amp;#243; se visualiza, mais nada e, em &lt;br&gt;Itaparica, ouvi de um menino turista a comunica&amp;#231;&amp;#227;o, feita ao pai dele, de &lt;br&gt;que estava visualizando de bin&amp;#243;culo. &amp;quot;Vender&amp;quot; tem sofrido uma sabotagem &lt;br&gt;inclemente por parte de &amp;quot;comercializar&amp;quot; e n&amp;#227;o duvido nada que venha a ser &lt;br&gt;banido, assim como foram &amp;quot;p&amp;#244;r&amp;quot; e &amp;quot;botar&amp;quot;. Hoje em dia, o verbo &amp;quot;colocar&amp;quot; &lt;br&gt;perdeu o sentido mais preciso que tinha e substitui os dois outros, &lt;br&gt;inclusive em usos tradicionais. A galinha coloca ovo, dando a impress&amp;#227;o, &lt;br&gt;para quem aprendeu o uso mais espec&amp;#237;fico desse verbo, de que a galinha faz a &lt;br&gt;postura (ali&amp;#225;s, talvez devesse dizer &amp;quot;coloca&amp;#231;&amp;#227;o&amp;quot;) ajustando cuidadosamente o &lt;br&gt;fiof&amp;#243; num canto do ninho escrupulosamente escolhido. O mesmo tipo de &lt;br&gt;impress&amp;#227;o se tem, quando se ouve no notici&amp;#225;rio que algu&amp;#233;m colocou fogo num &lt;br&gt;barraco. Atear fogo, nem pensar. Vir&amp;#225; o dia em que algu&amp;#233;m vai colocar pra &lt;br&gt;quebrar. E j&amp;#225; ouvi tamb&amp;#233;m (ou vi escrito; com esse neg&amp;#243;cio de internet, n&amp;#227;o &lt;br&gt;sei mais o que li onde) &amp;quot;ajustabilizar&amp;quot; e &amp;quot;ausentabilizar&amp;quot;, este &amp;#250;ltimo, a &lt;br&gt;julgar pelo som, um verbo que haver&amp;#225; de ter l&amp;#225; sua serventia, usado em &lt;br&gt;rela&amp;#231;&amp;#227;o ao Congresso Nacional.&lt;br&gt;&amp;quot;Prejudicar&amp;quot;, com longa e honrada folha de servi&amp;#231;os prestados ao povo &lt;br&gt;brasileiro, tamb&amp;#233;m est&amp;#225; no caminho c&amp;#233;lere do ostracismo. Ningu&amp;#233;m mais &amp;#233; &lt;br&gt;prejudicado, agora todo mundo &amp;#233; penalizado. Quem estiver pensando em usar a &lt;br&gt;palavra no sentido antigo melhor far&amp;#225; se a substituir por &amp;quot;comiserar&amp;quot;, &lt;br&gt;enquanto esta ainda se encontra dispon&amp;#237;vel, pois, no futuro, &amp;quot;comiserado&amp;quot; &lt;br&gt;poder&amp;#225; ser a designa&amp;#231;&amp;#227;o aplicada por alguma ONG a companheiros de mis&amp;#233;ria no &lt;br&gt;Terceiro Mundo. &amp;quot;Personalizar&amp;quot;, palavra com mais de cem anos de batente, &lt;br&gt;agora est&amp;#225; de aviso pr&amp;#233;vio e marchar&amp;#225; para o esquecimento a que lhe votam os &lt;br&gt;cada vez mais numerosos aficionados de &amp;quot;customizar&amp;quot;. Os verbos em &amp;quot;ionar&amp;quot; &lt;br&gt;tamb&amp;#233;m desfrutam de grande voga e um deles, &amp;quot;posicionar&amp;quot;, j&amp;#225; mandou &amp;quot;dispor&amp;quot; &lt;br&gt;para o espa&amp;#231;o. Nenhum general disp&amp;#245;e mais suas tropas assim ou assado, n&amp;#227;o &lt;br&gt;mais se disp&amp;#245;em as pe&amp;#231;as de um jogo de tabuleiro. E se arruma bem menos que &lt;br&gt;no passado. Acho que qualquer t&amp;#233;cnico de futebol contempor&amp;#226;neo ficaria &lt;br&gt;ofendido, se algu&amp;#233;m comentasse que ele arrumou seu time assim ou assado, &lt;br&gt;porque ele posiciona, tudo &amp;#233; posicionado. Da mesma forma que &amp;quot;colocar&amp;quot;, &lt;br&gt;fica, por alguma raz&amp;#227;o, mais chique.&lt;br&gt;Finalmente, para n&amp;#227;o perder o costume, fa&amp;#231;o mais um r&amp;#233;quiem para o finado &lt;br&gt;&amp;quot;cujo&amp;quot;. Tenho a certeza de que, entre os muito jovens, a palavra &amp;#233; &lt;br&gt;desconhecida e n&amp;#227;o dever&amp;#225; ter mais uso, dentro de talvez uma d&amp;#233;cada. A gente &lt;br&gt;at&amp;#233; se acostuma a ouvir falar em esp&amp;#233;cies em extin&amp;#231;&amp;#227;o, mas, n&amp;#227;o sei por que, &lt;br&gt;palavras em extin&amp;#231;&amp;#227;o me comovem mais, vai ver que &amp;#233; porque vivo delas. E n&amp;#227;o &lt;br&gt;&amp;#233; consolo imaginar que o cujo e eu vamos nos defuntabilizar juntos.&lt;br&gt;?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1618973231083522412-6393544605857574725?l=bancadetexto.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/feeds/6393544605857574725/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1618973231083522412&amp;postID=6393544605857574725' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/6393544605857574725'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/6393544605857574725'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/2010/07/volta-do-caderno-rabugento-joao-ubaldo.html' title='A volta do caderno rabugento - João Ubaldo Ribeiro'/><author><name>STARK!</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nYG86XB013I/TnZCEdj4lBI/AAAAAAAAGQo/AkfC5-uNvJE/s220/papilon%2B%25285%252928.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618973231083522412.post-4443308686485861629</id><published>2010-07-07T18:10:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-07T18:10:25.283-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial size=2&gt;&amp;nbsp;"(...) ainda que nunca venhas a conhecer  estas linhas, a narrativa desaba, e finjo que existas, é isso; quanto à sucessão  de eventos, todos misteriosos, todos absurdamente compulsivos, e quase teatrais,  o barulho no noticiário e os cochichos pelas esquinas, ainda não explico a mim  mesmo o que de farsa, o que de um cetim rasgando-se no silêncio das galerias da  noite(WILSON BUENO, "Amar-te a ti nem sei se com carícias", 2004, p. 26).&amp;nbsp;  &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1618973231083522412-4443308686485861629?l=bancadetexto.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/feeds/4443308686485861629/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1618973231083522412&amp;postID=4443308686485861629' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/4443308686485861629'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/4443308686485861629'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/2010/07/ainda-que-nunca-venhas-conhecer-estas.html' title=''/><author><name>STARK!</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nYG86XB013I/TnZCEdj4lBI/AAAAAAAAGQo/AkfC5-uNvJE/s220/papilon%2B%25285%252928.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618973231083522412.post-7885476173436719551</id><published>2010-06-11T05:50:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-06-11T05:50:15.791-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Do filme "The Hours"</title><content type='html'>&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial size=2&gt; &lt;DIV class=mobile_status&gt;&lt;SPAN class="" id=profile_status  style="FILTER: ; opacity: "&gt;&lt;SPAN id=status_text&gt;"Dear Leonard. To look life in  the face, always, to look life in the face and to know it for what it is. At  last to know it, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away. Leonard,  always the years between us, always the years. Always the love. Always the  hours." &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1618973231083522412-7885476173436719551?l=bancadetexto.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/feeds/7885476173436719551/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1618973231083522412&amp;postID=7885476173436719551' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/7885476173436719551'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/7885476173436719551'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/2010/06/do-filme-hours.html' title='Do filme &quot;The Hours&quot;'/><author><name>STARK!</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nYG86XB013I/TnZCEdj4lBI/AAAAAAAAGQo/AkfC5-uNvJE/s220/papilon%2B%25285%252928.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618973231083522412.post-2378207434472495687</id><published>2010-06-11T05:41:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-06-11T05:41:37.804-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Aldous Huxley-NINTH PHILOSOPHER'S SONG</title><content type='html'>&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial size=2&gt;&lt;BR&gt;NINTH PHILOSOPHER'&lt;WBR&gt;S SONG &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;GOD'S in  His Heaven: He never issues&lt;BR&gt;Jr. (Wise Man!) to visit this world of ours.  &lt;BR&gt;Unchecked the cancer gnaws our tissues,&lt;BR&gt;Stops to lick chops and then  again devours.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Those find, who most delight to roam&lt;BR&gt;'Mid castles of  remotest Spain, &lt;BR&gt;That there's, thank Heaven, no place like home; &lt;BR&gt;So they  set out upon their travels again. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Beauty for some provides escape,  &lt;BR&gt;Who gain a happiness in eyeing&lt;BR&gt;The gorgeous buttocks of the ape&lt;BR&gt;Or  Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;And some to better worlds than  this&lt;BR&gt;Mount up on wings as frail and misty&lt;BR&gt;As passion's all-too-transient  kiss&lt;BR&gt;(Though afterwards  oh, omne animal triste!)&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;But I, too rational  by half &lt;BR&gt;To live but where I bodily am, &lt;BR&gt;Can only do my best to laugh,  &lt;BR&gt;Can only sip my misery dram by dram. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;While happier mortals take to  drink,&lt;BR&gt;A dolorous dipsomaniac,&lt;BR&gt;Fuddled with grief I sit and  think,&lt;BR&gt;Looking upon the bile when it is black. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Then brim the bowl  with atrabilious liquor! &lt;BR&gt;We'll pledge our Empire vast across the  flood:&lt;BR&gt;For Blood, as all men know, than Water's thicker.&lt;BR&gt;But water's  wider, thank the Lord, than Blood. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;NONA CANÇÃO DO FILÓSOFO&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;DEUS  está em Seu Céu: Ele nunca manda&lt;BR&gt;(Quão Sábio!) seu guri aqui em  visita.&lt;BR&gt;Incógnito o câncer nos morde a vianda,&lt;BR&gt;Nos lambe os pedaços e  regurgita.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Uns acham (os que mais fruem vagar&lt;BR&gt;Pelos castelos da  longínqua Espanha)&lt;BR&gt;Que não há nada como o próprio lar;&lt;BR&gt;E logo partem a  outra terra estranha.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;A alguns a beleza oferece fuga,&lt;BR&gt;Os que se prazem  na contemplação&lt;BR&gt;Das nádegas das primatas sem ruga&lt;BR&gt;Ou dos crepúsculos em  explosão.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;E outros alçam voos com asas frágeis&lt;BR&gt;Rumando a mundos  melhores do que este,&lt;BR&gt;Movidos por paixões, beijos voláteis&lt;BR&gt;(Pesar que após   ó, omne animal triste!).&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Mas eu, tão racional até a raiz&lt;BR&gt;Dessa  fração que o corpo não me abole,&lt;BR&gt;Só posso mesmo me esforçar em rir,&lt;BR&gt;Só  posso sorver meu fel gole a gole.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Enquanto os mais felizes enchem  taças,&lt;BR&gt;Eu, um doloroso dipsomaníaco,&lt;BR&gt;Embaraçado nas minhas  desgraças,&lt;BR&gt;Medito em minha bile de cardíaco.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Então: taça cheia e  atrabiliária!&lt;BR&gt;Brindemos nosso vasto Império-mangue:&lt;BR&gt;Pois Sangue, sabe-se,  é mais denso que água&lt;BR&gt;Mas a água, salve!, é mais larga que o  Sangue.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Aldous Huxley&lt;BR&gt;versão brasileira:&lt;BR&gt;Ivan Justen  Santana&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1618973231083522412-2378207434472495687?l=bancadetexto.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/feeds/2378207434472495687/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1618973231083522412&amp;postID=2378207434472495687' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/2378207434472495687'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/2378207434472495687'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/2010/06/aldous-huxley-ninth-philosophers-song.html' title='Aldous Huxley-NINTH PHILOSOPHER&apos;S SONG'/><author><name>STARK!</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nYG86XB013I/TnZCEdj4lBI/AAAAAAAAGQo/AkfC5-uNvJE/s220/papilon%2B%25285%252928.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618973231083522412.post-3224284785831481041</id><published>2010-06-10T07:17:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-06-10T07:17:56.239-07:00</updated><title type='text'>WHAT ENCHANTS</title><content type='html'>&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial size=2&gt;&lt;SPAN lang=PT-BR&gt; &lt;P&gt;O QUE ME ENCANTA É O ESTÍMULO,NÃO O EFEITO; O QUE ME CATIVA É O CURSO, NÃO O  RECURSO; O QUE ME CHAMA É A TESE, NÃO A CERTEZA.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;WHAT ENCHANTS ME IS THE STIMULUS, NOT THE EFFECT; WHAT CAPTIVATES ME IS THE  COURSE, NOT THE RESOURCE; WHAT CALLS ME IS THE THESIS NOT THE CERTAINTY.  &lt;/P&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1618973231083522412-3224284785831481041?l=bancadetexto.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/feeds/3224284785831481041/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1618973231083522412&amp;postID=3224284785831481041' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/3224284785831481041'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/3224284785831481041'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/2010/06/what-enchants.html' title='WHAT ENCHANTS'/><author><name>STARK!</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nYG86XB013I/TnZCEdj4lBI/AAAAAAAAGQo/AkfC5-uNvJE/s220/papilon%2B%25285%252928.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618973231083522412.post-6860853246533265110</id><published>2010-06-10T06:31:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-06-10T06:31:21.875-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Briga no Beco - Adélia Prado</title><content type='html'>&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Georgia&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Briga no Beco&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  face=Arial size=2&gt;&lt;FONT face=Georgia size=3&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial size=2&gt;&lt;FONT face=Georgia size=3&gt;Encontrei meu marido às  três horas da tarde&lt;BR&gt;com uma loura oxidada.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Georgia size=3&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Georgia size=3&gt;Tomavam guaraná e riam, os  desavergonhados.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Georgia size=3&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Georgia size=3&gt;Ataquei-os por trás com mãos e palavras&lt;BR&gt;que  nunca suspeitei conhecesse.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Georgia size=3&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Georgia size=3&gt;Voaram três dentes e gritei, esmurrei-os e  gritei,&lt;BR&gt;gritei meu urro, a torrente de impropérios.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Georgia size=3&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Georgia size=3&gt;Ajuntou gente, escureceu o sol, &lt;BR&gt;a poeira  adensou como cortina.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Georgia size=3&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Georgia size=3&gt;Ele me pegava nos braços, nas pernas, na  cintura,&lt;BR&gt;sem me reter, peixe-piranha, bicho pior, fêmea  ofendida,&lt;BR&gt;uivava.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Georgia size=3&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Georgia size=3&gt;Gritei, gritei, gritei, até a cratera  exaurir-se.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Georgia size=3&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Georgia size=3&gt;Quando não pude mais, fiquei rígida,&lt;BR&gt;as mãos  na garganta dele, nós dois petrificados,&lt;BR&gt;eu sem tocar o chão. Quando abri os  olhos, &lt;BR&gt;as mulheres abriam alas, me tocando, me pedindo graças.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Georgia size=3&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Georgia size=3&gt;Desde então faço milagres. &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT color=#000080&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT color=#000080&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT color=#000080&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT color=#000080&gt;* É boa demais da conta essa mineira, né!?&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT color=#000080&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT color=#000080&gt;Bjs,&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT color=#000080&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT color=#000080&gt;Cintia &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;FONT color=#000080&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1618973231083522412-6860853246533265110?l=bancadetexto.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/feeds/6860853246533265110/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1618973231083522412&amp;postID=6860853246533265110' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/6860853246533265110'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/6860853246533265110'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/2010/06/briga-no-beco-adelia-prado.html' title='Briga no Beco - Adélia Prado'/><author><name>STARK!</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nYG86XB013I/TnZCEdj4lBI/AAAAAAAAGQo/AkfC5-uNvJE/s220/papilon%2B%25285%252928.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618973231083522412.post-6531208897727458428</id><published>2010-04-09T18:58:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-09T18:58:57.890-07:00</updated><title type='text'>"melancholía". Estado de tristeza.</title><content type='html'>&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial size=2&gt;&lt;SPAN lang=PT-BR&gt; &lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT face=Garamond size=4&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;MELANCOLIA = Substantivo feminino. Do  grego &amp;#956;&amp;#949;&amp;#955;&amp;#945;&amp;#947;&amp;#967;&amp;#959;&amp;#955;&amp;#943;&amp;#945;  (melagcholía; de &amp;#956;&amp;#941;&amp;#955;&amp;#945;&amp;#962; - mélas, "negro" e &amp;#967;&amp;#959;&amp;#955;&amp;#942; - cholé,  "bílis"&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT size=2&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT size=2&gt; &lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1618973231083522412-6531208897727458428?l=bancadetexto.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/feeds/6531208897727458428/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1618973231083522412&amp;postID=6531208897727458428' title='1 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/6531208897727458428'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/6531208897727458428'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/2010/04/melancholia-estado-de-tristeza.html' title='&quot;melancholía&quot;. Estado de tristeza.'/><author><name>STARK!</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nYG86XB013I/TnZCEdj4lBI/AAAAAAAAGQo/AkfC5-uNvJE/s220/papilon%2B%25285%252928.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618973231083522412.post-6507329380124040409</id><published>2010-04-09T18:55:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-09T18:55:05.481-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Sophia de Mello Breyner - "Poema de Helena Lanari"</title><content type='html'>&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial size=2&gt;&lt;SPAN lang=PT-BR&gt; &lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;FONT size=3&gt;Gosto de ouvir o Português do Brasil&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;FONT size=3&gt;Onde as palavras recuperam sua substância  total&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;FONT size=3&gt;Concretas como frutos, nítidas como  pássaros&amp;nbsp;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;FONT size=3&gt;Gosto de ouvir a palavra com suas sílabas  todas&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;FONT size=3&gt;Sem perder sequer um quinto de  vogal&amp;nbsp;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;FONT size=3&gt;Quando Helena Lanari dizia  'coqueiro"&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;FONT size=3&gt;O coqueiro ficava muito mais  vegetal&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1618973231083522412-6507329380124040409?l=bancadetexto.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/feeds/6507329380124040409/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' 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src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nYG86XB013I/TnZCEdj4lBI/AAAAAAAAGQo/AkfC5-uNvJE/s220/papilon%2B%25285%252928.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618973231083522412.post-3499080901943362131</id><published>2010-04-09T18:50:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-09T18:50:23.891-07:00</updated><title type='text'>CARLOS E JOÃO</title><content type='html'>&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial size=2&gt;&lt;SPAN lang=PT-BR&gt; &lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Música&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;Uma coisa triste no fundo da sala.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;Me disseram que era Chopin.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;A mulher de braços redondos que nem coxas&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;martelava na dentadura dura&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;sob o lustre complacente.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;Eu considerei as contas que era preciso pagar,&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;os passos que era preciso dar,&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;as dificuldades...&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;Enquadrei o Chopin na minha tristeza&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;e na dentadura amarela e preta&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;meus cuidados voaram como borboletas.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;(Carlos Drummond de Andrade, &lt;I&gt;Alguma Poesia&lt;/I&gt;)&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;SPAN lang=PT-BR&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;B&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;SOBRE O SENTAR-/ESTAR-NO-MUNDO&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/B&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;Ondequer que certos homens se sentem&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;sentam poltrona, qualquer o assento,&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;Sentam poltrona: ou tábua-de-latrina,&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;assento além de anatômico, ecumênico,&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;exemplo único de concepção universal,&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;onde cabe qualquer homem e a contento.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=center&gt;*&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;Ondequer que certos homens se sentem&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;sentam banco ferrenhos, de colégio;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;por afetuoso e diplomata o estofado,&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;os ferem nós debaixo, senão pregos,&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;e mesmo a tábua-de-latrina lhes nega&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;o abaulado amigo, as curvas de afeto.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;A vida toda, se sentam mal sentados,&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;e mesmo de pé algum assento os fere:&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;eles levam em si os nós-senão-pregos,&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;nas nádegas da alma, em efes e erres.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;(João Cabral de Melo Neto, &lt;I&gt;A educação pela  pedra&lt;/I&gt;)&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1618973231083522412-3499080901943362131?l=bancadetexto.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/feeds/3499080901943362131/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1618973231083522412&amp;postID=3499080901943362131' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/3499080901943362131'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/3499080901943362131'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/2010/04/carlos-e-joao.html' title='CARLOS E JOÃO'/><author><name>STARK!</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nYG86XB013I/TnZCEdj4lBI/AAAAAAAAGQo/AkfC5-uNvJE/s220/papilon%2B%25285%252928.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618973231083522412.post-9064362571645589180</id><published>2010-04-09T05:41:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-09T05:41:39.664-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='TUDO'/><title type='text'>These foolish things remind me of you</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/mshV7ug8cdE&amp;hl=pt_BR&amp;fs=1&amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/mshV7ug8cdE&amp;hl=pt_BR&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A cigarette that bares a lipsticks traces&lt;br /&gt;An airline ticket to romantic places&lt;br /&gt;And still my heart has wings&lt;br /&gt;These foolish things remind me of you.&lt;br /&gt;A tinkling piano in the next apartment&lt;br /&gt;Those stumblin´ words that told you what my heart meant&lt;br /&gt;A fairground´s painted swings&lt;br /&gt;These foolish things&lt;br /&gt;Remind me of you.&lt;br /&gt;You came,&lt;br /&gt;You saw,&lt;br /&gt;You conquered me&lt;br /&gt;When you did that to me&lt;br /&gt;I knew somehow this had to be&lt;br /&gt;The winds of march that made my heart a dancer&lt;br /&gt;A telephone that rings but who�s to answer&lt;br /&gt;Oh, how the ghost of you clings&lt;br /&gt;These foolish things&lt;br /&gt;Remind me of you&lt;br /&gt;First daffodils&lt;br /&gt;And long excited cables&lt;br /&gt;And candle lights&lt;br /&gt;A little corner table&lt;br /&gt;And still my heart has wings&lt;br /&gt;These foolish things remind me of you&lt;br /&gt;The park at evening&lt;br /&gt;When the bell has sounded&lt;br /&gt;The pier in france&lt;br /&gt;With all the gulls around it&lt;br /&gt;The beauty that is spring&lt;br /&gt;These foolish things&lt;br /&gt;Remind me of you&lt;br /&gt;How strange,&lt;br /&gt;How sweet,&lt;br /&gt;To find you still,&lt;br /&gt;These things are dear to me&lt;br /&gt;They seem to bring you near to me&lt;br /&gt;The sigh of midnight trains&lt;br /&gt;At empty stations&lt;br /&gt;Silk stockings thrown aside&lt;br /&gt;Dance invitations&lt;br /&gt;Oh how the ghost of you clings&lt;br /&gt;These foolish things&lt;br /&gt;Remind me of you&lt;br /&gt;Gardenia perfume&lt;br /&gt;Lingering on a pillow&lt;br /&gt;Wild strawberries&lt;br /&gt;Only seven francs a kilo&lt;br /&gt;And still my heart has wings,&lt;br /&gt;These foolish things,&lt;br /&gt;Remind me of you&lt;br /&gt;The smile of garbo&lt;br /&gt;And the scent of roses&lt;br /&gt;The waiters whistling&lt;br /&gt;As the last bar closes&lt;br /&gt;The song that crosby sings&lt;br /&gt;These foolish things&lt;br /&gt;Remind me of you&lt;br /&gt;How strange&lt;br /&gt;How sweet&lt;br /&gt;To find you still&lt;br /&gt;These things are dear to me&lt;br /&gt;They seem to bring you near to me&lt;br /&gt;The scent of smoldering leaves&lt;br /&gt;The wail of steamers&lt;br /&gt;Two lovers on the street&lt;br /&gt;Who walk like dreamers&lt;br /&gt;Oh how the ghost of you clings&lt;br /&gt;These foolish things&lt;br /&gt;Remind me of you.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1618973231083522412-9064362571645589180?l=bancadetexto.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/feeds/9064362571645589180/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1618973231083522412&amp;postID=9064362571645589180' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/9064362571645589180'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/9064362571645589180'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/2010/04/these-foolish-things-remind-me-of-you.html' title='These foolish things remind me of you'/><author><name>STARK!</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nYG86XB013I/TnZCEdj4lBI/AAAAAAAAGQo/AkfC5-uNvJE/s220/papilon%2B%25285%252928.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618973231083522412.post-5432234684806202489</id><published>2010-03-26T12:14:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-03-26T12:14:26.542-07:00</updated><title type='text'>ANGEL EYES</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/-n1R4woPPUE&amp;hl=pt_BR&amp;fs=1&amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/-n1R4woPPUE&amp;hl=pt_BR&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Try to think that love's not around&lt;br /&gt;But it's uncomfortably near&lt;br /&gt;My old heart ain't gaining no ground&lt;br /&gt;Because my angel eyes ain't here&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Angel eyes, that old devil sent&lt;br /&gt;They glow unbearably bright&lt;br /&gt;Need I say that my love's mispent&lt;br /&gt;Mispent with angel eyes tonight&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So drink up all you people&lt;br /&gt;Order anything you see&lt;br /&gt;Have fun you happy people&lt;br /&gt;The laughs and the jokes are on me&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pardon me but I got to run&lt;br /&gt;The fact's uncommonly clear&lt;br /&gt;Got to find who's now number one&lt;br /&gt;And why my angel eyes ain't here&lt;br /&gt;Oh, where is my angel eyes&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Excuse me while I disappear&lt;br /&gt;Angel eyes, angel eyes.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1618973231083522412-5432234684806202489?l=bancadetexto.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' 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src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nYG86XB013I/TnZCEdj4lBI/AAAAAAAAGQo/AkfC5-uNvJE/s220/papilon%2B%25285%252928.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618973231083522412.post-2169922612202377142</id><published>2010-03-26T12:02:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-03-26T12:07:35.811-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='TUDO'/><title type='text'>BLACK COFEE</title><content type='html'>&lt;object height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/KRxS7Q64xUQ&amp;amp;hl=pt_BR&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/KRxS7Q64xUQ&amp;amp;hl=pt_BR&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm feeling mighty lonesome&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Haven't slept a wink&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I walk the floor and watch the door&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And in between I drink&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Black coffee&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Love's a hand me down brew&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'll never know a Sunday&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In this weekday room&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm talking to the shadows&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;from 1 o'clock til 4&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And lord, how slow the moments go&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When all I do is pour&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Black coffee&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since the blues caught my eye&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm hanging out on Monday&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My Sunday dreams to dry&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now a man is born to go a lovin'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A woman's born to weep and fret&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To stay at home and tend her oven&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And drown her past regrets&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In coffee and cigarettes&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm moaning all the morning&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and mourning all the night&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And in between it's nicotine&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And not much heart to fight&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Black coffee&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Feelin' low as the ground&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's driving me crazy just waiting for my baby&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To maybe come around... around&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm waiting for my baby&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To maybe come around&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My nerves have gone to pieces&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My hair is turning gray&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All I do is drink black coffee&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since my man's gone away&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" 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cellPadding=3 width="96%" align=center border=0&gt;   &lt;TBODY&gt;   &lt;TR&gt;     &lt;TD class=noticia width="82%"&gt;       &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt;       &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Habilidade com a leitura e a escrita&lt;/STRONG&gt; &lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;   &lt;TR&gt;     &lt;TD&gt;&lt;IMG height=3        src="mhtml:mid://00000144/!http://www.vivaleitura.com.br/images/pixel.gif"        width=1&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;   &lt;TR&gt;     &lt;TD class=texto10 align=left&gt;&lt;I&gt;Estado de Minas, 14/02/2006 - Belo        Horizonte MG &lt;/I&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;   &lt;TR&gt;     &lt;TD&gt;&lt;IMG height=8        src="mhtml:mid://00000144/!http://www.vivaleitura.com.br/images/pixel.gif"        width=1&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;   &lt;TR&gt;     &lt;TD class=texto10 align=left&gt;&lt;I&gt;Ana Elisa Ribeiro&lt;/I&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;   &lt;TR&gt;     &lt;TD&gt;&lt;IMG height=24        src="mhtml:mid://00000144/!http://www.vivaleitura.com.br/images/pixel.gif"        width=1&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;   &lt;TR&gt;     &lt;TD class=texto10&gt;       &lt;P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"&gt;&lt;FONT        face="Times New Roman"        size=3&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; O        conceito de letramento, muito divulgado no Brasil, nas pesquisas da área        de educação pela professora Magda Soares (entre outras), deixou de lado o        contraste entre pessoas que sabem e que não sabem ler. O letramento        considera graus de intimidade do indivíduo com materiais de escrita e de        leitura. Para não assustar ninguém, é bom deixar claro que o letramento é        algo que está em nosso dia-a-dia. Nada mais é do que parte de nossa        necessidade diária de ação pela linguagem, especialmente lendo e        escrevendo. &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;       &lt;P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"&gt;&lt;FONT        size=3&gt;&lt;FONT face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;SPAN        style="mso-tab-count: 1"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;        &lt;/SPAN&gt;Quando alguém sabe ler, mas não consegue compreender sequer textos        curtos, essa pessoa pode ser alfabetizada, mas tem um nível de letramento        muito baixo. Esse nível pode aumentar à medida que o indivíduo aprende a        lidar com mais e diferentes materiais de leitura e de escrita. Quanto mais        textos alguém é capaz de ler e entender, mais letrado é. Assim também        funciona com a escrita. Quanto mais material escrito alguém é capaz de        produzir, mais letramento tem. E não adianta produzir apenas em        quantidade. É preciso ampliar o leque de possibilidades, ou seja, ler        muitas coisas diferentes e saber o que fazer com elas. &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;       &lt;P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"&gt;&lt;FONT        size=3&gt;&lt;FONT face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;SPAN        style="mso-tab-count: 1"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;        &lt;/SPAN&gt;Por exemplo: você é capaz de ler bem uma tirinha? Sabe lidar com o        texto do rótulo de uma lata de ervilhas? Consegue produzir um bom bilhete        para um familiar? Pode se mover na cidade lendo as placas de rua? Sabe        como procurar informações numa bula de remédio? Então você tem letramento        suficiente para o dia-a-dia. O caixa eletrônico do banco é mais uma        possibilidade de letramento. Já que está numa máquina, ficou sendo chamado        de letramento digital. As pessoas que entraram nesse tipo de letramento        podem atuar na linguagem por meio da leitura e da escrita de textos        produzidos no e para o computador, estejam eles na internet ou nos        programas de produção e leitura de material textual. &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;       &lt;P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"&gt;&lt;FONT        size=3&gt;&lt;FONT face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;SPAN        style="mso-tab-count: 1"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;        &lt;/SPAN&gt;Uma instituição de ensino é a responsável, em grande medida, pelo        aumento do letramento das pessoas. É lá que o indivíduo deixa de ler e        escrever apenas os textos do dia-a-dia e passa a ter contato com materiais        elaborados de maneira diferente, às vezes mais complexos e menos comuns no        cotidiano. Na escola, aprendemos a escrever as famosas dissertações. Na        faculdade, chovem os resumos, as resenhas e as tenebrosas monografias. Os        artigos científicos tornam-se a leitura predileta de quem resolve se        especializar na carreira. E, mais tarde, para quem se aprofunda, chegam as        dissertações e teses. A leitura literária faz parte da ampliação do        letramento. Tudo isso faz aumentar, também, a quantidade e a qualidade das        informações na nossa memória, ou seja, nossa bagagem cultural. Isso é        letramento. E quando alguém também domina os textos feitos na e para a        tela do computador, isso é letramento digital. &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;       &lt;P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"&gt;&lt;FONT        size=3&gt;&lt;FONT face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;SPAN        style="mso-tab-count: 1"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;        &lt;/SPAN&gt;Quando o indivíduo entra numa agência bancária e não consegue lidar        com as orientações escritas na máquina, é preciso introduzi-lo nessa nova        possibilidade de leitura. As escolas, há vários anos, têm oferecido        computadores e laboratórios de informática aos alunos para que todos        tenham acesso às novas maneiras de ler e escrever. No entanto, nem sempre        apenas as máquinas bastam.&amp;nbsp; É preciso que o professor planeje uma        nova maneira de dar aulas, um novo jeito de ensinar, com novas        tecnologias.&amp;nbsp;&lt;EM&gt; &lt;/EM&gt;Isso é aumentar o letramento e entrar no mundo        das possibilidades digitais.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;   &lt;TR&gt;     &lt;TD&gt;&lt;IMG height=8        src="mhtml:mid://00000144/!http://www.vivaleitura.com.br/images/pixel.gif"        width=1&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;   &lt;TR&gt;     &lt;TD class=texto10 align=left bgColor=#f3f3f3&gt;&lt;B&gt;Mais        Informações:&lt;/B&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Ana Elisa Ribeiro é professora do Centro Universitário        UNA, doutoranda pela UFMG e autora de Letramento digital: aspectos sociais        e possibilidades  pedagógicas.&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;/TBODY&gt;&lt;/TABLE&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1618973231083522412-5704239648718992354?l=bancadetexto.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/feeds/5704239648718992354/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1618973231083522412&amp;postID=5704239648718992354' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/5704239648718992354'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/5704239648718992354'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/2010/03/letramento.html' title='letramento'/><author><name>STARK!</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nYG86XB013I/TnZCEdj4lBI/AAAAAAAAGQo/AkfC5-uNvJE/s220/papilon%2B%25285%252928.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618973231083522412.post-7692453669824571536</id><published>2010-03-13T09:52:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-03-13T09:47:51.923-08:00</updated><title type='text'>DO AMOROSO ESQUECIMENTO</title><content type='html'>&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial size=2&gt; 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(...) Quando acontece alguma coisa, algo adverso, significa simplesmente que recebemos uma carta em que nos comunicam isso.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1618973231083522412-5252937634908163644?l=bancadetexto.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/feeds/5252937634908163644/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1618973231083522412&amp;postID=5252937634908163644' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/5252937634908163644'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/5252937634908163644'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/2010/02/jorge-luis-borges-sobre-amizade-e.html' title='Jorge Luis Borges, Sobre a amizade e outros diálogos'/><author><name>STARK!</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nYG86XB013I/TnZCEdj4lBI/AAAAAAAAGQo/AkfC5-uNvJE/s220/papilon%2B%25285%252928.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618973231083522412.post-2906294198208647899</id><published>2010-02-10T14:22:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-10T14:22:25.853-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial&gt;&lt;FONT size=4&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;"CITAÇÕES EM MEU TRABALHO SÃO COMO  SALTEADORES NO CAMINHO, QUE IRROMPEM ARMADOS E ROUBAM AO PASSEANTE A  CONVICÇÃO".&lt;/STRONG&gt; (WALTER BENJAMIN )&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1618973231083522412-2906294198208647899?l=bancadetexto.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/feeds/2906294198208647899/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1618973231083522412&amp;postID=2906294198208647899' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/2906294198208647899'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/2906294198208647899'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/2010/02/citacoes-em-meu-trabalho-sao-como.html' title=''/><author><name>STARK!</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nYG86XB013I/TnZCEdj4lBI/AAAAAAAAGQo/AkfC5-uNvJE/s220/papilon%2B%25285%252928.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618973231083522412.post-8285200291324924581</id><published>2010-02-10T04:30:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-10T04:29:48.965-08:00</updated><title type='text'>O sempre desequilibrado humano - Roberto da Matta</title><content type='html'>&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT face=Calibri size=3&gt;&lt;SPAN lang=PT  style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri"&gt;Tudo o que é  humano é complicado; ou melhor: não pode ser simples, senão não é humano. O  humano é impreciso, enigmático, ambíguo, pérfido e, acima de tudo, espesso como  os nevoeiros e as peças de Shakespeare. É como as máscaras de carnaval e as  cebolas: múltiplo; e tem muitas caras, varandas, porões e infindáveis  corredores. Tem também o abraço solar, a mão aberta e calorosa, o sorriso que  cativa e o beijo apaixonado que promove a vida. Tudo nasce de uma mesma fonte da  qual jorra igualmente ódio, inveja, coragem e ressentimento. O transitório que,  para Freud e Thomas Mann é tudo, promove a busca de consistência e do eterno. A  saudade articula o instantâneo que é vida e a eternidade feita do nada. Os  deuses nos invejam não só porque não existiriam sem nossas preces e oferendas,  pois eles precisam de nós tanto quanto nós necessitamos deles, mas porque  vivemos na transitoriedade e na dúvida do aqui agora, do ser ou não ser e do  você e eu que engendram tenacidade, desejo, amor, lealdade e honra. Aquele  "fazer ou morrer" da canção As Time Goes By. Não estamos aqui para brincadeiras  e, diferentemente dos deuses, não temos tempo a perder. Exceto no  carnaval...&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;No labirinto da vida, como na velha Creta de Teseu, ou se  encontra uma saída ou se dá de cara com o Minotauro. O caso Lula é exemplar. Ele  tem mais popularidade do que qualquer outro presidente. Ademais, como Prometeu  (sem trocadilho), ele roubou a mais decisiva contribuição à modernidade  democrática brasileira ? o Plano Real. Virou pai da revolução realizada pelo  satanizado FHC que, como manda o paradoxal esquecimento humano, era  estigmatizado pelo PT como "herança maldita". Hoje, vendo o Lula como cidadão do  mundo, fazendo abertamente uma campanha política que os juízes não enxergam,  transferindo votos para sua chefe da Casa Civil e rompendo com o dogma da  transferência de votos que os marqueteiros ? esses derradeiros matemáticos do  humano ? diziam ser impossível, julguei que o "cara" estava num mar de rosas.  Mas eis que ele sofre um "piripaque". Eu medito: só os seres humanos sofrem tais  reviravoltas. Só eles podem ficar mal quando tudo aparentemente vai bem. Seria  uma premonição, por que quem tudo promete não consegue decidir? Ou seria algo  sem importância? Mas há mesmo algo sem importância quando se trata do humano? Os  tigres de dente de sabre quanto mais matavam, mais lhes cresciam e afiavam os  dentes. Entre nós, porém, quanto mais sucesso, mais o fracasso ronda nossa casa;  quanto mais subimos, mais depressa descemos; quanto mais gozo, mais angústia e  sofrimento. O amor faz sangrar como os animais sacrificados. E a morte, sendo o  nosso destino, só se desliga da vida pela paixão que ilude e vira o mundo pelo  avesso.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Foi só a partir da institucionalização do individualismo que  começamos a dizer abertamente que "Estamos muito bem, obrigado!". Antigamente,  os brasileiros eram proibidos de assumir toda e qualquer felicidade. Não pegava  bem ser feliz num mundo inseguro, desigual e injusto. Todos iam de mal a pior,  como aqueles personagens de Machado de Assis. Aprendi a insistir no "vou indo"  e, quando muito, soltar um "mais ou menos" que, nos Estados Unidos, assustava  meus amigos crentes no "the sunny side of the street" (no lado ensolarado da  rua). Se para nós, sofrer é mais ou menos normal, para eles o direito à  felicidade é um projeto possível, autoevidente e constitucional. Em minhas  preces eu rogo pelo amor e pela felicidade; meus amigos americanos, porém,  nascem com a certeza de tudo isso e o céu também.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Vejam vocês: o sujeito  se livra de um apuro apenas para descobrir que passou de um problema para outro.  "Controlei finalmente o meu peso ? disse-me a ex-gordinha Selma ?, só que não  como mais!"&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;O antropólogo e escritor maranhense Nunes Pereira, de  saudosíssima memória, era meu amigo e me visitava de quando em vez quando eu  trabalhava num museu. Fazia minha alegria, porque não é fácil trabalhar no meio  de pesquisadores, coleção de ossos, bichos empalhados e múmias. Um dia, ele me  contou o caso de um médico amazonense desgostoso com a depravação reinante na  civilização da borracha que fazia de Manaus um centro de esbórnia. Constatado o  hedonismo da capital amazonense resolveu, como um personagem de Joseph Conrad,  renunciar à fortuna e aos vícios confortáveis, para viver em simplicidade e  pureza. Afastou-se de Manaus até chegar a um derradeiro povoado, limite entre o  civilizado impuro e o selvagem virginal. Ali, pegou uma canoa e remou em direção  a uma casa de palafita situada no mais fundo da mata. Ao aproximar-se,  vislumbrou formas estranhas num barranco. De perto, discerniu enojado: era um  caboclo que copulava com um mamífero cetáceo de água doce ? um boto-fêmea! ? no  barranco. A bestialidade no meio da selva mais pura, como queriam ele e José de  Alencar, era muito mais ofensiva do que as perversidades pagãs dos lupanares de  Manaus. Depois de tanto fugir, voltara ao ponto de partida. A fábula era sempre  arrematada com um sorriso e o seguinte: Ele aprendeu que onde há o humano há o  depravado e o perverso. Ou o desvio seria apenas um episódio na vida de um bicho  não declinável, mas que se pensa como tal? &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV class=Section1&gt; &lt;P class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT face=Calibri size=3&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial size=2&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial size=2&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;O sempre desequilibrado humano - Roberto da Matta. Publicado em O &lt;FONT  size=3&gt;Estado de SP, 10 de fevereiro de 2010  &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1618973231083522412-8285200291324924581?l=bancadetexto.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/feeds/8285200291324924581/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1618973231083522412&amp;postID=8285200291324924581' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/8285200291324924581'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/8285200291324924581'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/2010/02/o-sempre-desequilibrado-humano-roberto.html' title='O sempre desequilibrado humano - Roberto da Matta'/><author><name>STARK!</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nYG86XB013I/TnZCEdj4lBI/AAAAAAAAGQo/AkfC5-uNvJE/s220/papilon%2B%25285%252928.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618973231083522412.post-514404539616027100</id><published>2010-02-03T12:23:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-03T12:23:47.404-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Entrevista Contardo Calligaris</title><content type='html'>&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial size=2&gt; &lt;DIV align=left&gt; &lt;P align=left&gt;&lt;SPAN class=revistasTitulo&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;FONT size=5&gt;Nossa, como eles  sofrem&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=revistasSubTitulo align=left&gt;&lt;EM&gt;O psicanalista explica a angústia de  homens contemporâneos&lt;BR&gt;com a perda de papéis tradicionais e o que mais eles  precisam &lt;BR&gt;que as mulheres lhes deem  compreensão e carinho&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=left&gt;&lt;IMG height=5  src="http://veja.abril.com.br/veja_online_2006/imagens/fio_assinatura.gif"  width=223&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;SPAN class=revistasAssinatura&gt;Juliana Linhares&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;TABLE cellSpacing=9 cellPadding=0 width="100%" bgColor=#eeeeee border=0&gt;   &lt;TBODY&gt;   &lt;TR&gt;     &lt;TD&gt;       &lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN class=revistasCredito&gt;Lailson Santos&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;IMG height=280        src="http://veja.abril.com.br/030609/imagens/entrevista1.jpg"        width=200&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;     &lt;TD&gt;       &lt;DIV align=center&gt;&lt;SPAN class=geralSubTitulo&gt;&lt;I&gt;"O homem passou a não        saber&lt;BR&gt;mais como 'ser homem'. Alguns &lt;BR&gt;encaram os esportes        radicais&lt;BR&gt;como o que lhes sobra de virilidade. &lt;BR&gt;Para outros, é a vida        sexual"&lt;/I&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;/TBODY&gt;&lt;/TABLE&gt; &lt;P align=left&gt;&lt;SPAN class=revistasCorpo&gt;O psicanalista Contardo Calligaris é  bonitão, sedutor e tem a solução para melhorar seu casamento: deixe seu marido  comprar aquela televisão enorme, compartilhe suas fantasias sexuais, incentive-o  a largar o emprego e vagar de moto pela América Latina. E sempre, sempre,  trate-o como um super-herói. Bem, como sabemos que isso não vai acontecer,  Calligaris também se tornou especialista nas sofridas psiques masculinas. Quando  fez o primeiro seminário sobre o tema, no fim dos anos 80, em Paris, ouviu de  alguns dos presentes: "Mas o homem é uma questão? Há alguma coisa para dizer  sobre isso?". Na época, as mudanças nos papéis femininos ainda estavam na  berlinda. Colunista e autor da peça &lt;I&gt;O Homem da Tarja Preta,&lt;/I&gt; Calligaris,  de 61 anos, italiano com nacionalidade americana radicado em São Paulo, fala  aqui do duro processo de aprendizagem que já alcançou progressos como a  "realização de que o bife não salta direto do supermercado para o  prato".&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=left&gt;&lt;SPAN class=revistasCorpo&gt;&lt;B&gt;Do que, afinal, os homens  reclamam?&lt;/B&gt; O homem herdou, em especial a partir do século XIX, dois tipos de  papel na sociedade. Um deles era o de provedor, representado bem pela figura de  terno e gravata, marido e pai de família. O outro era o de aventureiro, alguém  eventualmente próximo até de um criminoso. Essas duas figuras representavam  quase a totalidade do leque possível da masculinidade. A partir da metade do  século passado, a situação começou a mudar. O papel tradicional das mulheres  passou por grandes transformações, muito antes do dos homens. Elas tornaram-se  sujeitos jurídicos verdadeiros, não se viam mais na dependência de um casal ou  de um marido. E o lugar do provedor, que até então era exclusivamente masculino,  passou a ser distribuído entre homens e mulheres. O homem não se justificava  mais simplesmente por ser quem dava o sustento à família. E o avanço delas no  campo até então masculino não parou por aí. Elas passaram a ser mães solteiras,  não só por ação do destino, mas por vontade própria. Assim, outra faceta do  papel do homem, o de ter e cuidar de uma família, também caiu por terra.  &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=left&gt;&lt;SPAN class=revistasCorpo&gt;&lt;B&gt;Como eles passaram a ver seu novo  papel?&lt;/B&gt; Isso é uma coisa que quase todos os homens gostariam de saber. Algo  que pode nos dar uma pista é olhar para os ideais que foram propostos aos  meninos pelo mercado cultural na fase do pós-guerra. Houve uma enorme  proliferação de heróis masculinos profissionais. Mais tarde, surgiu uma outra  categoria de heróis, aqueles que cultuavam a ambição pelo poder, fosse ele  econômico, militar ou político. Na geração dos anos 60, por exemplo, apareceu a  fantasia do herói revolucionário. Che Guevara e Lenin faziam parte disso. Uma  vez internalizado esse ideal de herói, surgiu uma questão para os homens que, é  preciso que se diga, não se resolveu até hoje, que é a de redefinir a sua  virilidade. Se por um lado ele vinha perdido, por não possuir mais o papel  central de provedor, por outro, a exigência de que ele fosse um super-herói, ou  algo muito próximo dessa condição, só aumentava. Em várias línguas existe a  expressão "seja homem". Por trás dela há uma ordem para que o homem seja capaz,  por exemplo, de arriscar a sua vida ou aguentar uma dor muito forte.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=left&gt;&lt;SPAN class=revistasCorpo&gt;&lt;B&gt;Por que esse imperativo, que existe  desde sempre, teria agora se tornado mais pesado para os homens?&lt;/B&gt; Porque  antes o lugar de provedor que eles ocupavam, e que até então era exclusivo, de  alguma forma funcionava como uma moeda de troca. Agora, as mulheres competem por  essa posição. No mercado de trabalho, por exemplo, elas disputam quase em pé de  igualdade. O homem passou a não saber mais como "ser homem". Alguns começaram a  encarar o risco mortal na prática dos esportes radicais como tudo o que lhes  sobra de virilidade. Há outros que encaram a vida sexual como um lugar onde eles  deveriam provar a sua masculinidade. &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;TABLE cellSpacing=12 cellPadding=0 width=220 align=right border=0&gt;   &lt;TBODY&gt;   &lt;TR bgColor=#cccccc&gt;     &lt;TD width=471&gt;&lt;IMG height=1        src="http://veja.abril.com.br/veja_online_2006/imagens/pix.gif"    width=1&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;   &lt;TR&gt;     &lt;TD width=471&gt;       &lt;DIV align=center&gt;&lt;SPAN class=geralSubTitulo&gt;&lt;I&gt;"Exceto se for um Colombo        ou um Pizarro, a grande maioria dos homens vive entre a padaria, o bar, o        escritório e a casa. E eles se relacionam muito mal com essa vida        cotidiana.&lt;BR&gt;É como se não devessem fazer isso"&lt;/I&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;   &lt;TR bgColor=#cccccc&gt;     &lt;TD width=471&gt;&lt;IMG height=1        src="http://veja.abril.com.br/veja_online_2006/imagens/pix.gif"    width=1&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;/TBODY&gt;&lt;/TABLE&gt; &lt;P align=left&gt;&lt;SPAN class=revistasCorpo&gt;&lt;B&gt;O impulso das grandes realizações não  é parte natural da psique masculina?&lt;/B&gt; Não foi ele que promoveu, por exemplo,  a era das grandes navegações e as viagens no espaço? Esse sentimento teve dois  preços. O primeiro foi a supressão do corpo. A ideia de sacrifício, de  estoicismo, está sempre ligada aos heróis masculinos. O segundo preço está  relacionado com a distância da vida cotidiana. A não ser que o sujeito seja um  Colombo ou um Pizarro, a grande maioria dos homens vive entre a padaria, o bar,  o escritório e a casa. E eles se relacionam muito mal com essa vida cotidiana.  Uma grandíssima parte de sua existência é sempre vivida como se não fosse o que  eles deveriam estar fazendo. Isso não acontece com as mulheres. Elas têm um  saber prático, de apreciação da vida. Para eles, é como se fossem obrigados a se  acostumar com uma mediocridade que não é verdadeiramente o seu  destino.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=left&gt;&lt;SPAN class=revistasCorpo&gt;&lt;B&gt;E todos os bons maridos e bons pais,  que constroem uma vida em comum, dividem tarefas e parecem muito  satisfeitos?&lt;/B&gt; Os homens se adaptaram muito bem à prática de compartilhar a  função de provedor com a mulher e mesmo à de dividir as atribuições materna e  paterna. Os dois hoje educam e cuidam dos filhos juntos. Ela pode dar muito mais  regras e instruções às crianças do que o homem, e ele pode acompanhá-las até o  colégio, dois hábitos que, até pouco tempo atrás, eram feitos de maneira  inversa. Evidentemente que com alguns percalços, mas tudo isso tem funcionado. O  grande descompasso do homem contemporâneo está em outro lugar. Para ele, mesmo  que esteja empregado em um lugar bacana, que esteja ganhando tudo de que precisa  e pagando todas as contas, ainda o persegue o fantasma, fruto da tradição, de  que ele não está dando tudo de si. &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=left&gt;&lt;SPAN class=revistasCorpo&gt;&lt;B&gt;Um exemplo prático, por favor.&lt;/B&gt; O  sujeito está se matando no trabalho, mas lamenta o fato de não ser um Indiana  Jones. A mulher pode achar isso engraçado, mas para o homem não é. Na média, ele  pode ter tudo o que quiser, casa na praia, viagens para o exterior uma vez por  ano, mas lhe falta a dimensão de heroísmo. Ele não toca nem de perto a  constelação de imagens que culturalmente constituem o universo de figuras  masculinas com as quais sonhou. O que ele quer, acima de tudo, é uma dimensão de  aventura. Uma dimensão na qual ele tem de dar provas extremas de bravura, de  coragem, de desprendimento, em circunstâncias extremas. &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=left&gt;&lt;SPAN class=revistasCorpo&gt;&lt;B&gt;Ah, mas as mulheres reclamam de  maridos que nem sequer compram um bujão de gás. &lt;/B&gt;Em primeiro lugar, preciso  esclarecer que, quando digo que os homens estão oprimidos, não acho que o sejam  necessariamente pelas mulheres. E nem estou negando que tenham sido, por um  longuíssimo período, os opressores delas. Posto isso, acredito que estão  certíssimas em reclamar. O homem tem uma enorme incapacidade de lidar com a vida  prática. É muito difícil comprar o gás se você está viajando naquele momento,  querendo ser dom Pedro às margens do Ipiranga. É isso que está na cabeça deles  na hora do supermercado.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=left&gt;&lt;SPAN class=revistasCorpo&gt;&lt;B&gt;Por falar no que vai na cabeça deles,  que informação importante, do ponto de vista da sexualidade, as mulheres  ignoram? &lt;/B&gt;O mundo das fantasias masculinas é muito grande. Não existe um  homem que consiga ter uma vida sexual sem que ela seja organizada por fantasias.  Alguns casais conseguem compartilhar essas fantasias. Mas na maioria elas são  completamente silenciadas. Os homens acham que não têm espaço para falar sobre o  assunto e vivem uma vida de casal em que frequentemente a mulher aparece como a  mãe que poderá a qualquer momento surpreendê-los fazendo algo errado e feio.  Isso definitivamente não é a receita de um casal feliz. Mas é uma posição na  qual as mulheres entram com facilidade. As fantasias para o homem fazem com que  ele mantenha o desejo vivo, inclusive o desejo por sua própria mulher. E isso é  muito difícil de ser entendido pelas mulheres, porque o erotismo para elas não  funciona da mesma maneira. Um casal que não compartilha suas fantasias incorre  em dois riscos. O primeiro, claro, é o de o homem tentar realizá-las fora de  casa. O outro é o de o interesse sexual se acabar. O casal começa a ter relações  sexuais uma vez por semana, depois uma vez por mês e termina virando amigo. O  que não é algo necessariamente ruim. Mas simplesmente não precisa ser assim.  &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=left&gt;&lt;SPAN class=revistasCorpo&gt;&lt;B&gt;As mulheres devem tentar chegar mais  perto dessas fantasias? &lt;/B&gt;Esse é um conselho difícil de dar. Até porque muitas  vezes as fantasias do homem são ligadas a uma mecânica de poder e podem parecer  estranhas até para ele mesmo. É um clássico, por exemplo, a fantasia de ter  relações com a mulher em um local público, aos olhos de todos. Mas a grande  função das fantasias na vida do casal é a de serem ditas, e não necessariamente  a de serem realizadas. O papel da fantasia é manter o desejo vivo entre os  dois.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=left&gt;&lt;SPAN class=revistasCorpo&gt;&lt;B&gt;Em que medida o homem se sente  responsável pelo prazer da mulher? &lt;/B&gt;Eu acho que essa é uma declaração mais  moral do que científica. Mas o homem é responsável, sim, pelo prazer da sua  mulher. Além disso, ele se sente responsável por esse prazer. Essa é uma das  expectativas que pesam em cima dele. &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=left&gt;&lt;SPAN class=revistasCorpo&gt;&lt;B&gt;Não é importante para a imagem que os  homens têm de si mesmos propiciar esse prazer?&lt;/B&gt; No sentido darwiniano, não.  Darwin diria que o homem que sente essa responsabilidade perde tempo em muitas  atividades que não são necessárias para a reprodução. Mas, emocionalmente, o  homem que não gosta de dar prazer à sua mulher é, sim, pouco evoluído, quase  primário.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;TABLE cellSpacing=12 cellPadding=0 width=220 align=right border=0&gt;   &lt;TBODY&gt;   &lt;TR bgColor=#cccccc&gt;     &lt;TD width=471&gt;&lt;IMG height=1        src="http://veja.abril.com.br/veja_online_2006/imagens/pix.gif"    width=1&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;   &lt;TR&gt;     &lt;TD width=471&gt;       &lt;DIV align=center&gt;&lt;SPAN class=geralSubTitulo&gt;&lt;I&gt;"O homem espera que a        mulher participe de seu entusiasmo. Seja para fazer uma viagem longa e        largar o emprego por um ano, seja para comprar uma televisão enorme. Ele        gostaria que a mulher não colocasse o peso dela para matar seus        sonhos"&lt;/I&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;   &lt;TR bgColor=#cccccc&gt;     &lt;TD width=471&gt;&lt;IMG height=1        src="http://veja.abril.com.br/veja_online_2006/imagens/pix.gif"    width=1&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;/TBODY&gt;&lt;/TABLE&gt; &lt;P align=left&gt;&lt;SPAN class=revistasCorpo&gt;&lt;B&gt;Não havia muito mistério no que um  homem do passado esperava de sua mulher. Mas o que ele espera dela hoje?&lt;/B&gt; A  coisa mais importante é que ela seja a companheira que lhe permita pelo menos  cultivar os seus sonhos, mesmo os mais estranhos e, eventualmente, ir atrás  deles. Ele espera que a mulher participe de seu entusiasmo. Seja para fazer uma  viagem longa, em que eles tenham de, por exemplo, largar o emprego por um ano,  seja para comprar uma televisão enorme, cara e aparentemente desnecessária. Ele  gostaria que a mulher não colocasse o peso dela para matar seus sonhos.  &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=left&gt;&lt;SPAN class=revistasCorpo&gt;&lt;B&gt;É, de fato, muito difícil para o  homem aguentar o fato de que sua mulher ganha mais do que ele?&lt;/B&gt; Sim, há  homens para quem isso é um problema. Eles se sentem atingidos na tentativa de  salvar o que lhes restou da posição de provedor. Pior ainda é aguentar que a  mulher e os filhos dela com um primeiro marido recebam ajuda financeira desse  cara. O atual marido tem horror de se sentir o amante da mãe, provisoriamente  hospedado naquela casa. Acha que, se ele não está bancando tudo, não vai  conseguir ocupar nem a função de marido nem a de padrasto. &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=left&gt;&lt;SPAN class=revistasCorpo&gt;&lt;B&gt;O homem ainda mente muito sobre  sexo?&lt;/B&gt; Sim, sobretudo dizendo que pensa nisso mais do que verdadeiramente  pensa. O homem mente porque um dos lugares onde ele joga e arrisca sua imagem  masculina é no sexo. Ele mente também sobre o caráter aventuroso dele e sobre a  própria intensidade de seu interesse por sexo. Ele vive tentando demonstrar que  o sexo está constantemente presente na cabeça dele, o que muitas vezes não é  verdade. Isso porque a intensidade de seu desejo é uma demonstração de  virilidade. Para a mulher, de alguma forma, é mais fácil. Mesmo às que têm uma  vida sexual pobre não faltam ocasiões em que podem se assegurar da própria  feminilidade. Um exemplo claro é entrar em um restaurante e ver que há vários  homens olhando para ela. Já para o homem, isso não é tão fácil. Para se  assegurar de sua masculinidade é necessário que ele cultive seu desejo  sexual.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=left&gt;&lt;SPAN class=revistasCorpo&gt;&lt;B&gt;Dá para dizer, afinal, o que os  homens querem? &lt;/B&gt;A queixa dos homens é que, agora, elas não têm mais tempo  para eles. Que não cuidam mais deles. E a verdade é que eles querem muito ser  cuidados.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=left&gt;&lt;SPAN class=revistasCorpo&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;P align=left&gt;&lt;FONT color=#008000&gt;&lt;A class=l  onmousedown="return clk(this.href,'','','res','1','','0CAcQFjAA')"  href="http://veja.abril.com.br/030609/entrevista.shtml"&gt;&lt;FONT  color=#551a8b&gt;&lt;FONT size=3&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Revista VEJA&lt;/STRONG&gt; | Edição 2115 | 3 de  junho de 2009&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;FONT color=#000000  size=3&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=left&gt;&lt;FONT  color=#008000&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;veja&lt;/STRONG&gt;.abril.com.br/030609/ent&lt;B&gt;revista&lt;/B&gt;.shtml  &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1618973231083522412-514404539616027100?l=bancadetexto.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/feeds/514404539616027100/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1618973231083522412&amp;postID=514404539616027100' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/514404539616027100'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/514404539616027100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/2010/02/entrevista-contardo-calligaris.html' title='Entrevista Contardo Calligaris'/><author><name>STARK!</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nYG86XB013I/TnZCEdj4lBI/AAAAAAAAGQo/AkfC5-uNvJE/s220/papilon%2B%25285%252928.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618973231083522412.post-4898191271746344089</id><published>2010-01-31T17:21:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-27T19:24:19.771-08:00</updated><title type='text'>O declínio da crítica na imprensa brasileira</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2 class="category estudos "&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;div class="post-461 post hentry category-estudos tag-cadernos-de-teatro-do-tablado tag-critica-de-teatro tag-critica-teatral tag-o-declinio-da-critica-na-imprensa-brasileira tag-yan-michalski"&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Artigo de Yan Michalski publicado em 1984&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;div class="meta-info"&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Autor: &lt;a href="http://www.questaodecritica.com.br/author/yan-michalski/" title="Posts de Yan Michalski"&gt;Yan Michalski&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: #888888;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Esse texto foi publicado originalmente&amp;nbsp;nos Cadernos de Teatro do Tablado, na edição de número 100, de janeiro/junho de 1984.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quando, em 1963, fui fazer minha estréia como crítico do Jornal do Brasil, ouvi um solene sermão do então Secretário do Caderno B, Nonato Masson, sobre a responsabilidade que eu estava assumindo. Ele me dizia que a página 2 do Caderno, que na época reunia diariamente as diversas colunas especializadas em arte e cultura, era uma espécie de menina dos olhos do jornal; que por ela haviam passado alguns dos mais brilhantes expoentes do jornalismo brasileiro; que a empresa era particularmente exigente na escolha dos colaboradores dessa página de enorme prestígio; e, portanto, que eu teria de caprichar muito para mostrar-me à altura dessa admirável tradição.&lt;span id="more-461"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Caprichei como pude durante 19 anos. Quando, em 1982, comecei a cuidar da minha aposentadoria, ninguém na redação me falava mais do prestígio das colunas especializadas em críticas de artes. Pelo contrário, nas reuniões dos colunistas com os nossos superiores hierárquicos insistia-se no argumento de que o crítico se teria tornado, na imprensa atual, uma instituição ultrapassada, e teria de ser substituído por uma misteriosa nova figura denominada repórter-crítico. E a rádio JB irradiava chamas conclamando os leitores do jornal a não perderem, nas páginas do Caderno B, os fascinantes comentários "dos seus críticos mais especializados (grifo meu): os próprios leitores." Esses críticos mais especializados eram os que mandavam para publicação requintados comentários opinativos do tipo "adorei", "desempenho magistral", etc.; na sua maioria, disfarçados sob nomes fictícios, estavam os próprios produtores ou outros integrantes dos espetáculos assim criticados, que não seriam tolos a ponto de perder a publicidade gratuita e a autopromoção que lhes era oferecida na badalada coluna intitulada A Crítica do Leitor.&lt;br /&gt;Entre o pólo inicial, do alto prestígio e generoso espaço atribuído à critica, e o extremo oposto, do contundente desprestígio e espaço cada vez mais racionado, situa-se um progressivo esvaziamento das funções da crítica teatral (e não apenas teatral) na imprensa brasileira. As duas situações acima resumidas referem-se ao JB, apenas porque conheço mais de perto as formas que o processo assumiu nesse órgão (onde, diga-se de passagem, encontrei durante grande parte desses 19 anos as condições de trabalho mais estimulantes as quais um crítico brasileiro pode aspirar); mas o processo, longe de restringir-se a um determinado veículo, é generalizado. Ainda outro dia, um renomado crítico de O Estado de São Paulo (diário que durante muito tempo rivalizou com o JB quanto ao prestígio das suas colunas críticas) contou-me que recentemente esperou mais de 50 dias até que uma de suas críticas, ocupando um espaço de não mais de 40 linhas, fosse publicada.&lt;br /&gt;É provável que relativamente poucos leitores leigos se tenham dado bem conta desse processo de esvaziamento que a crítica tem sofrido ultimamente. E é provável que mesmo os artistas não tenham, no seu conjunto, percebido essa evolução com a devida clareza: pelo menos não se tem notícia de qualquer manifestação de preocupação, por parte da categoria, para com os declinantes destinos da crítica teatral brasileira. Manifestação, aliás, que seria difícil de se esperar de uma classe que, mesmo quando a crítica vivia seus períodos de esplendor, em geral só tomava publicamente conhecimento de sua existência quando determinados profissionais do palco, eventualmente feridos na sua vaidade por comentários menos elogiosos a alguns de seus trabalhos, corriam às televisões ou escreviam aos jornais para protestar contra a alegada incompetência e/ou má fé dos críticos; quando o exercício da crítica entrou em efetivo declínio, ouviram-se vozes isoladas reclamando da diminuição da cobertura dada ao teatro; mas estas preocupavam-se mais com a diminuição do espaço de divulgação gratuita oferecida aos seus espetáculos, através de reportagens, entrevistas, etc., do que com o enfraquecimento do debate opinativo proposto pelas colunas.&lt;br /&gt;Tudo bem: faz parte de uma respeitável e internacional tradição da categoria artística chiar contra a crítica e afirmar que ela não tem importância. É provável que ela não tenha mesmo, e poucas vezes tenha tido no passado, o tipo de importância que os artistas, segundo dizem, gostariam que ela tivesse: que ela abrisse "novos caminhos" diante do teatro, ou revelasse ao ator, diretor etc. como ele deve trabalhar, e que erros deve corrigir. Tal missão, queiram os artistas ou não, não faz e nem pode fazer normalmente parte das funções das colunas da imprensa não especializada, que por natureza se dirige ao leitor leigo e tenta abrir com ele um diálogo cujo âmbito é delimitado precisamente pelas características leigas do leitor. Ainda assim, e dentro dessas limitações, uma crítica sólida, competente e assumidamente opinativa e analítica é uma aliada importante do teatro, em qualquer época e lugar: ela cria em torno dele um clima de polêmica e discussão vital para o seu desenvolvimento, e contribui para formar no público uma curiosidade e um grau de exigência que, a longo prazo, só podem resultar saudáveis para o teatro.&lt;br /&gt;É verdade que a tradição da crítica teatral brasileira não é especialmente lisonjeira: com algumas exceções, entre os quais escritores do gabarito de um Arthur Azevedo ou de um Machado de Assis, que chegaram a ser críticos atuantes, no seu conjunto ela assumiu, no passado, uma linha paternalista e acomodada que pouco podia contribuir para a abertura de uma discussão fértil em torno do teatro. Mas não foi por eufemismo que mencionei acima "período de esplendor" da nossa crítica. Quando comecei a fazer teatro, em 1955, e mesmo quando comecei a criticar, em 1963, Décio de Almeida Prado dava prosseguimento, em São Paulo, à memorável tarefa de analisar em profundidade, através dos seus exemplares artigos no Estadão, o movimento do TBC, seus filhotes, e seus opositores, que desde o fim da década de 40 vinha mudando a mentalidade do teatro brasileiro; também em São Paulo, Sábato Magaldi deixava cada vez mais evidente a solidez do seu talento e a lucidez dos seus pontos de vista; no Rio, Bárbara Heliodora, apoiada numa formação erudita e numa inovadora contundência irônica, enfiava saudáveis alfinetadas em muitos balões excessivamente inflados; Paulo Francis levava a contundência a extremos ainda bem mais radicais, ao mesmo tempo em que abria em torno do teatro, pela primeira vez, uma discussão eminentemente política, sem prejuízo da pertinência das suas colocações estéticas; profissionais inegavelmente conhecedores do assunto e a ele profundamente dedicados, como Gustavo Dória ou Henrique Oscar, ajudavam a iniciar o público em muito segredos do teatro, e estimulavam o seu interesse. O teatro brasileiro, que queimava etapas na sua evolução, era diariamente discutido nos jornais, que lhe abriam generoso espaço, com uma vitalidade e um profissionalismo à altura do seu progresso.&lt;br /&gt;Numa etapa imediatamente posterior, ou a partir de 1964, e com maior nitidez a partir de 1968, a crítica viveu outro capítulo significativo, embora num contexto diametralmente oposto ao anterior: num momento em que o teatro se via esmagado pela mais brutal ação da censura e de outras formas de repressão de toda a sua História, a crítica – embora ela também, como todo jornalismo, sujeita a pressões impiedosas – assumiu bravamente a defesa da liberdade de expressão do teatro, e cumpriu um papel significativo neste campo de batalha. Foi, também, importante aliada do teatro ao denunciar à opinião pública as manobras oficiais que consistiam, por exemplo, em colocar à frente do Serviço Nacional de Teatro, medíocres burocratas sem nenhuma ligação com a vida teatral, mas de estrita confiança do sistema governante. Ao mesmo tempo, estimulada por um teatro que, apesar dos obstáculos, vivia um período de radical renovação formal, a crítica produzia um louvável esforço no sentido de adaptar seus critérios de análise às propostas inovadoras que se sucediam num ritmo vertiginoso, e de separar o joio do trigo apoiando as experiências baseadas num pensamento original e criativo, e desmascarando as imitações ou porralouquices que apareciam abundantemente na sua trilha. Alguns saudáveis choques de opiniões entre artistas e críticos (exemplo: o questionamento, por Anatol Rosenfeld, na exaltação do irracionalismo no teatro de José Celso Martinez Corrêa) colocaram a discussão crítica da época em níveis bastante excepcionais, e ajudaram a manter acesa a chama da polêmica em torno do teatro. Apenas 15 anos depois, a crítica teatral brasileira se vê reduzida a pequenos comentários opinativos sobre espetáculos isolados, ainda tolerados, mais do que valorizados e prestigiados, em alguns raros diários e revistas semanais. Vários órgãos de imprensa que tinham tradição no ramo desapareceram; outros extinguiram suas colunas de crítica; e mesmo os que ainda mantêm tais colunas com alguma regularidade, concedem-lhes um mini-espaço dentro do qual fica quase impossível abrir uma discussão crítica instigante, em alguns casos desestimulam tomadas de posição assumidamente opinativas, ou até determinam ao crítico normas de conduta jornalística que tolhem a sua liberdade de manifestação. O teatro só consegue ganhar espaços mais extensos quando serve de assunto mais "informativo" do que "crítico", ou seja, quando o jornalista é mero transmissor dos pontos-de-vista expressos por artistas ou por freqüentadores, sem posicionar-se ele mesmo enquanto autor de enfoques pessoais. Com isso, o peso da crítica, como é natural, diminui consideravelmente.&lt;br /&gt;Não se culpe por isso a jovem geração dos críticos que, pelo menos no Rio, assumiu por completo, nos últimos anos, os espaços que ainda sobram, depois da progressiva retirada dos veteranos mais experientes. (Em São Paulo, prosseguem ainda em atividade dois desses veteranos, Sábato Magaldi e Clóvis Garcia, bem como alguns profissionais bastante tarimbados da geração intermediária: Ilka Marinho Zanotto, Mariângela Alves de Lima, Jefferson Del Rios). É verdade que a maioria destes novos colunistas chegou à crítica sem ter passado por uma formação especializada, no campo do teatro, comparável àquela de que dispunham os profissionais da geração anterior, e o seu compromisso com o teatro talvez não seja tão visceral quanto era o nosso. Mas nas condições atuais eles dificilmente poderiam fazer muito mais do que fazem. A limitação da sua atuação deve-se sobretudo a fatores fora de seu alcance, que se situam, com igual peso, no campo da imprensa em que eles escrevem e nos campo do teatro a que eles assistem.&lt;br /&gt;O desanimador contexto em que o crítico vive dentro dos órgãos de imprensa já foi esboçado acima. Mas não vamos atribuir precipitadamente às empresas jornalísticas arbitrárias intenções de criticocídio. Do seu ponto de vista empresarial, o processo tem todo um sentido, sobre o qual vale a pena refletir.&lt;br /&gt;Nos tempos de vacas gordas, papel barato, lucro relativamente fácil e uma tradição beletrística, que vinha de longe na imprensa brasileira, os jornais podiam facilmente investir espaço numa discussão extensa sobre o teatro (ou o cinema, as artes plásticas, a música, etc.). Tal investimento era compensado por uma aura de prestígio intelectual que contribuía positivamente para a imagem do órgão. Quando a barra começou a pesar, e os jornais começaram a reduzir o número de suas páginas e a diminuir de todas as maneiras os seus custos operacionais, a preocupação com a eficiência passou a sobrepor-se a todas as outras considerações. No reino das comunicações, quem diz eficiência quer dizer, antes de mais nada, índices de consumo. Ora, num país em que a parcela da população que vai ao teatro é estatisticamente desprezível, é evidente que num jornal que se propõe a cobrir todos os setores da atividade a coluna de teatro não pode deixar de ser infinitamente menos lida do que as matérias dedicadas à política, à economia, aos esportes, ao consumo, aos crimes, aos problemas de comportamento, etc. Perante qualquer critério que se preocupasse em adequar os espaços setorias aos respectivos índices de leitura, o tipo de trabalho que Décio de Almeida Prado sempre desenvolveu no Estadão, e que eu cheguei ainda a adotar no JB, com qualquer espetáculo de importância sendo comentado através de uns três artigos sucessivos de até cinco laudas cada, só podia mesmo ser considerado hoje uma aberração. Daí a reduzir drasticamente o espaço disponível e o apoio dados à crítica, foi apenas um passo.&lt;br /&gt;Se sob esse ponto-de-vista o processo até que tem uma certa lógica, fica bem mais difícil entender as razões pelas quais essa redução do espaço veio acompanhada de uma ofensiva anti-analítica e anti-opinativa. Implicitamente, o crítico passou a ser encarado como um manipulador da opinião pública e detentor de um poder abusivo – qualificações que fazem sentido na boca de um artista magoado, mas não na cabeça de um órgão de imprensa que, nas suas outras seções (economia, política, etc.), não se cansa em valorizar o jornalismo opinativo, e sabe que a qualidade dos comentários especializados e bem fundamentados, tanto ou mais do que as informações objetivas, é que faz a diferença entre o bom jornal e o jornal menos bom.&lt;br /&gt;Por sua vez, o leque das realizações teatrais hoje oferecido à apreciação dos críticos também se revela pouco favorável à existência de uma crítica de qualidade. A tremenda pulverização quantitativa que o teatro sofreu nas últimas décadas tornou o trabalho muito desgastante e desestimulante. Enquanto no início da minha carreira havia no Rio não mais de 8 a 10 espetáculos simultaneamente em cartaz, esta média triplicou desde então. O crítico que se proponha a fazer uma cobertura razoavelmente completa é obrigado a passar mais da metade, e em certas semanas quase a totalidade, das suas noites no teatro. Inevitavelmente, a grande maioria desta enxurrada de lançamentos está literalmente abaixo da crítica, no sentido de não comportar nenhuma discussão minimamente instigante. Isso provoca no crítico, além de uma saturação que se torna insuportável no correr dos anos, uma irritante sensação de perda de tempo, pois ele sabe que a sua função, diante da quase totalidade dos espetáculos, praticamente não tem sentido, nem chance de ser exercida criativamente. Por outro lado, mesmo se considerarmos os espetáculos de nível, digamos, profissional, o panorama atual oferece muito poucas propostas que possam levar ao exercício de uma crítica estimulante e útil. A crítica é, basicamente, debate de idéias. Numa fase em que o teatro, ressalvadas as raras-exceções, se recusa a lançar idéias – sejam elas temáticas ou formais – e se limita, majoritariamente, a aplicar fórmulas, em muitos casos já testadas em outras e mais desenvolvidas praças, e meramente remontadas aqui, às vezes seguindo uma mise-en-scène já trazida pronta lá de fora, o trabalho do crítico se esvazia automaticamente: ele não tem o que questionar nem como tornar-se útil ao leitor, no sentido de tentar enriquecer&amp;nbsp;o seu eventual futuro contato com a encenação. Revendo a lista dos quase 200 espetáculos que os meus ex-colegas criticaram desde que, há um ano e meio, pendurei as chuteiras, vejo que não mais de 10, estourando uns 15, me dariam real vontade de comentá-los. Não vejo, tampouco, no horizonte qualquer causa importante em que o crítico possa sentir-se estimulado a engajar-se hoje, em benefício do teatro como instituição, como era o caso da luta pela implantação de uma dramaturgia nacional moderna e comprometida com os problemas do país por volta de 1960, ou a luta contra a censura e o arbítrio na etapa subseqüente.&lt;br /&gt;Nestas condições, assinar uma coluna teatral, na imprensa brasileira de hoje, é muito mais um emprego como outro qualquer do que uma missão vocacional. Ainda por cima, nas condições atuais do mercado de trabalho, um emprego inseguro, ameaçado, e na maioria dos casos provavelmente mal pago, pelo menos em relação aos sacrifícios que exige. Nada indica que esta situação possa modificar-se para melhor num futuro previsível. A crise econômica deverá apertar as empresas jornalísticas cada vez mais, e as colunas, tais como as de que nos ocupamos aqui, dificilmente deixarão de estar entre as suas primeiras vítimas. Assim sendo, a discussão crítica do teatro tenderá a ser cada vez mais substituída por um meramente informativo registro jornalístico. Diga-se de passagem, esta tendência não se manifesta só no Brasil, mas existe também, embora de modo talvez menos extremo, até mesmo em países europeus de admirável tradição teatral.&lt;br /&gt;Nesses países, porém, existe uma alternativa para os talentos que se propõem a investir estudo, espírito crítico, fidelidade ao teatro e capacidade de escrever bem numa carreira intelectualmente gratificante. Refiro-me às revistas especializadas que, por se dirigirem a priori a um leitor interessado e iniciado, podem abrigar a discussão num nível ensaístico, que permite um aprofundamento incomparavelmente maior sem as limitações de espaço e de atualidade imediata que prevalecem no jornalismo não especializado.&lt;br /&gt;No Brasil, o jornalismo ensaístico no campo do teatro não vingou ainda, sobretudo porque o potencial de mercado para revistas especializadas em teatro sempre foi, e continua sendo, muito fraco pra sustentar tais publicações. As que tentaram a sua sorte tiveram, nas últimas décadas, existência curta, a começar pelo excelente Teatro Brasileiro da década de 50, e terminando com Ensaio/Teatro, que encerrou sua trajetória no ano passado. Tendo sido coordenador dessa última revista, pude dar-me conta da virtual inviabilidade de sobrevivência de uma publicação como essa em bases puramente comerciais, sem um substancial patrocínio oficial ou particular.&lt;br /&gt;Dentro desse panorama, a façanha dos Cadernos de Teatro, que chegam agora ao seu número 100, é um fenômeno que dá margem a alegria e esperança. Embora sua opção editorial não tenha até hoje favorecido a discussão crítica, só o fato de uma revista dedicada ao teatro alcançar um marco tão significativo é muito animador. E quem sabe se num futuro, o debate crítico sobre o teatro, cada vez mais banido da imprensa não especializada, não poderá encontrar um refúgio nas páginas da persistente publicação de O Tablado, iniciando aqui, num nível e sob uma forma diferentes, uma nova etapa da sua existência.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="footer"&gt;&lt;div class="span-3 append-1 small"&gt;&lt;div class="item"&gt;&lt;div class="textwidget"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;FONTE A Questão de Crítica – Revista eletrônica de críticas e estudos teatrais - &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.questaodecritica.com.br/2008/08/o-declinio-da-critica-na-imprensa-brasileira/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;http://www.questaodecritica.com.br/2008/08/o-declinio-da-critica-na-imprensa-brasileira/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1618973231083522412-4898191271746344089?l=bancadetexto.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/feeds/4898191271746344089/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1618973231083522412&amp;postID=4898191271746344089' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/4898191271746344089'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/4898191271746344089'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/2010/01/o-declinio-da-critica-na-imprensa.html' title='O declínio da crítica na imprensa brasileira'/><author><name>STARK!</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nYG86XB013I/TnZCEdj4lBI/AAAAAAAAGQo/AkfC5-uNvJE/s220/papilon%2B%25285%252928.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618973231083522412.post-470631510573390714</id><published>2010-01-31T15:49:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-31T15:49:04.098-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Antonio Candido relança clássico e defende rigor do pensamento</title><content type='html'>&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial size=2&gt; &lt;H1&gt;Antonio Candido relança clássico e defende rigor do pensamento&lt;!--/TITULO--&gt;  &lt;/H1&gt;&lt;!--noindex--&gt;&lt;!--PRINT:EXCLUDE--&gt;&lt;!--PUBLICIDADE--&gt; &lt;DIV class=ad1 id=articleButton style="DISPLAY: block"&gt; &lt;SCRIPT language=javascript type=text/javascript&gt;&lt;!-- folha_ads_show( "online.ilustrada" , "180x150" , "1" ) ; //--&gt;&lt;/SCRIPT&gt;  &lt;SCRIPT language=javascript1.1  src="http://bn.uol.com.br/js.ng/site=folha&amp;amp;chan=online.ilustrada&amp;amp;size=180x150&amp;amp;page=7&amp;amp;expble=1&amp;amp;conntype=0&amp;amp;tile=698091254368314?"  type=text/javascript&gt;&lt;/SCRIPT&gt;  &lt;SCRIPT language=javascript type=text/javascript&gt;&lt;!-- check_dart_response( "articleButton" ) ; //--&gt;&lt;/SCRIPT&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;!--/PUBLICIDADE--&gt;&lt;!--/PRINT:EXCLUDE--&gt;&lt;!--/noindex--&gt;&lt;!--/--&gt;&lt;!--TEXTO--&gt;&lt;B&gt;RAFAEL  CARIELLO&lt;/B&gt;&lt;BR&gt;da &lt;B&gt;Folha de S.Paulo&lt;/B&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;O filósofo Paulo Arantes e o  crítico Roberto Schwarz estão entre os que chegam a comparar sua importância na  crítica literária e no pensamento social brasileiro à de Machado de Assis na  literatura. Walnice Nogueira Galvão, professora titular de literatura na USP,  considera que o paralelo ainda não expressa a estatura de Antonio Candido, 88.  &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Professor de gerações dos mais importantes críticos literários e  culturais do país, Candido acompanha há dois anos a reedição de seus livros pela  editora Ouro Sobre Azul, projeto coordenado por sua filha Ana Luisa Escorel.  &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;!--FOTO--&gt; &lt;TABLE class=fo1e cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=175 align=left border=0&gt;   &lt;TBODY&gt;   &lt;TR&gt;     &lt;TD class=fo1c align=right&gt;Júlia Moraes/Folha Imagem&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;   &lt;TR&gt;     &lt;TD&gt;&lt;IMG height=230        alt="Crítico Antonio Candido na biblioteca de sua casa, em São Paulo"        src="http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/ilustrada/images/20061109-senhor175.jpg"        width=175 border=0&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;   &lt;TR&gt;     &lt;TD class=fo1l&gt;Crítico Antonio Candido na biblioteca de sua casa, em São        Paulo&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;/TBODY&gt;&lt;/TABLE&gt;&lt;!--/FOTO--&gt;No final deste mês, chega às  livrarias do país a principal obra de Candido, "Formação da Literatura  Brasileira". Editado pela primeira vez em 1959, o livro procura dar conta da  formação de um "sistema literário" no país, nos séculos 18 e 19, a partir da  assimilação de influências estrangeiras, cada vez mais filtradas pela  constituição de um conjunto mais denso de obras, de autores e de um público  leitor no Brasil. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Já ali aparecia a articulação sofisticada entre  sociedade e literatura, marca do crítico. Por conta desta capacidade de análise,  os escritos de Candido também deram contribuições decisivas à compreensão da  sociedade brasileira. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Na entrevista a seguir, Candido fala de alguns  aspectos de seu trabalho, como a forma da relação entre condições sociais e  obras literárias, e a simplicidade e clareza de sua escrita. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;O professor  aposentado da USP respondeu às questões em oito páginas datilografadas. Ele diz  que prefere não usar vocabulário técnico ou conceitos sociológicos por, "no  fundo", não gostar "de termos difíceis, como os que predominaram no tempo da  moda estruturalista". &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;"Freqüentemente eles são um jeito de dar aparência  profunda a coisas simples", declara. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Ele afirma privilegiar a  "organização interna" dos textos, e diz que o estudo da relação entre a obra e o  meio social deve ser feito apenas quando "o texto assim exige". &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;B&gt;FOLHA  - O sr. usa como epígrafe de seu livro "O Discurso e a Cidade" uma frase de  Calvino, em que o escritor italiano diz que não se deve confundir a cidade com o  discurso que a descreve, embora haja sempre uma relação entre ambos. É possível  dizer que essa relação (e as formas dessa relação) entre sociedade e literatura  está no centro da sua obra e é o que a move? &lt;/B&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;B&gt;ANTONIO CANDIDO&lt;/B&gt;  - De uma parte do que escrevi, sim. Esta frase serve de epígrafe à primeira  parte do meu livro, que trata de romances vinculados à realidade social. Ela  precisa ser completada pela da segunda parte, que analisa textos marcados pela  fantasia, de um ângulo não-realista, e é uma frase de Verdi: "Copiar a realidade  pode ser uma boa coisa; mas inventar a realidade é melhor, é muito melhor". Um  conceito completa o outro, ambos registrando os pólos da criação literária e,  portanto, do trabalho analítico, o que me levou a optar pelo que denomino  "crítica de vertentes", ou seja, ajustada à natureza do texto e privilegiando a  sua organização interna, não os vínculos externos. Não se trata, portanto, de  impor nem rejeitar em princípio o estudo da relação entre a obra e o meio  social, mas de praticá-lo quando o texto assim exige. Em geral tenho sido  caracterizado com base na posição que assumi no começo da minha atividade,  quando era crítico deste jornal e escrevia artigos não só privilegiando a  dimensão social, mas, sobretudo, muito politizados. Com o tempo acho que  equilibrei melhor os meus pontos de vista, mas conservei o interesse pelos nexos  sociais da literatura. Quando se trata destes, procuro não fazer análises  paralelas, isto é, descrever as condições sociais e depois registrar a sua  ocorrência no texto, o que pode levar, por exemplo, a encarar a criação  ficcional como um tipo de documento. Isto pode ser legítimo para o sociólogo ou  o historiador, não para o crítico. O que procuro é, quando for o caso,  compreender como o dado social se transforma em estrutura literária.  &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;B&gt;FOLHA - O modo de abordar essa relação já estava plenamente  desenvolvido pelo sr. quando escreveu "Formação da Literatura Brasileira" ou há  diferenças e desenvolvimentos entre esse livro e os ensaios que escreveu nos  anos 60 e 70, como aqueles sobre "O Cortiço" e "Memórias de um Sargento de  Milícia"? &lt;/B&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;B&gt;CANDIDO&lt;/B&gt; - O preparo de "Formação", publicado em  1959, durou 12 anos, entre outros trabalhos. Um dos meus pressupostos era que a  literatura é sobretudo um conjunto de obras, mais do que de autores ou fatores.  No caso brasileiro, me pareceu que a análise das obras em perspectiva histórica  deveria atender tanto à singularidade estética de cada uma quanto ao seu papel  na formação da literatura como instituição regular da sociedade. Tratava-se,  portanto, de averiguar quando a conhecida trinca interativa "autor-obra-público"  se definiu e se prolongou no tempo pela "tradição", constituindo um "sistema",  em contraste com as "manifestações literárias" precedentes. Isso me parece ter  ocorrido mais ou menos entre 1750 e 1880, entre as Academias de meio-século e  Machado de Assis. Por isso delimitei como campo de estudo a Arcádia e o  Romantismo. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Eu já tinha publicado ensaios sobre o romance como expressão  de classe e do momento, mas esses ensaios não focalizavam a estrutura, como os  que menciona. De fato, eu não tinha ainda percebido com clareza que o essencial  no tocante às relações da ficção com a sociedade era demonstrar (não indicar  apenas) de que maneira as condições sociais são interiorizadas e se transformam  em estrutura literária, que pode ser analisada em si mesma. É o processo que  denominei "redução estrutural". Por outro lado, ainda não tinha refinado a  análise de textos poéticos. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Creio que o longo trabalho de preparo da  "Formação" me amadureceu em ambos os sentidos, podendo-se tomar como eixo os  anos de 1959 e 1960. Foi a partir de então que preparei muitas análises de  poemas para os meus cursos, algumas das quais estão em "Na Sala de Aula" e em  outros livros. Foi também naquela altura que publiquei o primeiro ensaio do tipo  a que se refere, sobre estrutura literária e função histórica, analisando o  "Caramuru", de Santa Rita Durão. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;B&gt;FOLHA - Há uma característica  interessante em sua obra que é a de não fazer uso direto e transplantado de  conceitos sociológicos, de teoria literária ou de filosofia na análise das  obras. O raciocínio é exposto com clareza e sem uso de recursos "esotéricos" ou  "técnicos". Isso foi uma decisão consciente desde o início do seu trabalho? O  que o levou a fazer essa escolha? &lt;/B&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;B&gt;CANDIDO&lt;/B&gt; - Não há razão para  evitar os termos técnicos quando são necessários, mas sempre que possível  prefiro usar a linguagem corrente. Digamos que é mais um modo de ser do que uma  decisão. Quando era moço li um livro do antropólogo inglês Evans-Pritchard que  me confirmou nesta tendência. Ele dizia que a antropologia não é ciência, mas  disciplina humanística, de modo que deve usar a linguagem comum. Foi o que  procurei fazer quando era assistente de sociologia, à qual estendi o conceito, e  foi o que sempre fiz nos estudos literários. Além disso, tenho o hábito didático  de ser o mais claro possível, reconhecendo que isto pode ser fator de  deficiência, pelo risco de simplificação indevida.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;B&gt;FOLHA - O sr.  chegou a ser criticado por esse seu estilo? &lt;/B&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;B&gt;ANTONIO CANDIDO&lt;/B&gt; -  Há muito tempo um colega do Rio disse que sou claro por ser superficial, pois as  coisas profundas são necessariamente complexas e só podem ser expressas de  maneira equivalente. Quem sabe? É preciso notar que em matéria de estudos  literários sou autodidata, formado, não em letras, mas em ciências sociais.  Aprendi a fazer crítica na imprensa, sobretudo neste jornal, depois de um início  em nossa revista "Clima", de modo que me acostumei à fluência jornalística. Mas  no fundo não gosto mesmo de termos difíceis, como os que predominaram no tempo  da moda estruturalista. Freqüentemente eles são um jeito de dar aparência  profunda a coisas simples. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;B&gt;FOLHA - O sr. acompanhou a quente a  produção do que houve de melhor na literatura no século 20, registrando suas  idéias e avaliações nos jornais. Como vê o trabalho da imprensa e o espaço da  crítica de artes e literatura nos grandes jornais de hoje? A que se devem as  diferenças entre esse trabalho na atualidade e na segunda metade do século 20 no  país? &lt;/B&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;B&gt;CANDIDO&lt;/B&gt; - Vou responder apenas a uma parte, ressalvando  que não sou muito qualificado no caso, porque leio pouco os jornais e na verdade  me limito a dar uma olhada nesta &lt;B&gt;Folha&lt;/B&gt;.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Mas acho que na segunda  metade do século 20 houve uma modificação acentuada no que se refere à atividade  crítica, com o desaparecimento progressivo do "crítico titular", que era como se  costumava designar o encarregado de uma seção, situada muitas vezes na parte  inferior da página e denominada "rodapé" ou "folhetim". Quase sempre ela tinha  um título permanente, abaixo do qual vinha o do artigo do dia, e o encarregado  devia fornecer um artigo por semana, tendendo ao tipo ensaio.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Era a velha  tradição francesa do jornalismo crítico, que no Brasil teve representantes de  qualidade, e a começar por José Veríssimo, prolongando-se por Alceu Amoroso  Lima, Álvaro Lins e outros. Essa linhagem assegurava um nível elevado e o leitor  se habituava ao critério de um esmo crítico, dando lugar ao que se pode  denominar "efeito de continuidade", importante para configurar a atuação  cultural da crítica. 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&lt;TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=10 border=0&gt;   &lt;TBODY&gt;   &lt;TR&gt;     &lt;TD vAlign=top&gt;&lt;I&gt;Quando fra l'altre donne ad ora ad ora&lt;BR&gt;Amor vien nel        bel viso di costei,&lt;BR&gt;quanto ciascuna è men bella di lei&lt;BR&gt;tanto cresce        'l desio che m'innamora.&lt;/I&gt;        &lt;P&gt;&lt;I&gt;I' benedico il loco e 'l tempo et l'ora&lt;BR&gt;che sí alto miraron gli        occhi mei,&lt;BR&gt;et dico: Anima, assai ringratiar dêi&lt;BR&gt;che fosti a tanto        honor degnata allora.&lt;/I&gt;&lt;/P&gt;       &lt;P&gt;&lt;I&gt;Da lei ti vèn l'amoroso pensero,&lt;BR&gt;che mentre 'l segui al sommo ben        t'invia,&lt;BR&gt;pocho prezando quel ch'ogni huom desia;&lt;/I&gt;&lt;/P&gt;       &lt;P&gt;&lt;I&gt;da lei vien l'animosa leggiadria&lt;BR&gt;ch'al ciel ti scorge per destro        sentero,&lt;BR&gt;sí ch'i' vo già de la speranza altero.&lt;/I&gt;&lt;/P&gt;       &lt;P&gt;&lt;EM&gt;&lt;/EM&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;       &lt;P&gt;When Love within her lovely face appears&lt;BR&gt;now and again among the        other ladies,&lt;BR&gt;as much as each is less lovely than she&lt;BR&gt;the more my        wish I love within me grows. &lt;/P&gt;       &lt;P&gt;I bless the place, the time and hour of the day&lt;BR&gt;that my eyes aimed        their sights at such a height,&lt;BR&gt;and say: 'My soul, you must be very        grateful&lt;BR&gt;that you were found worthy of such great honour.&lt;/P&gt;       &lt;P&gt;From her to you comes loving thought that leads,&lt;BR&gt;as long as you        pursue, to highest good,&lt;BR&gt;esteeming little what all men desire;&lt;/P&gt;       &lt;P&gt;there comes from her all joyous honesty&lt;BR&gt;that leads you by the        straight path up to Heaven-&lt;BR&gt;already I fly high upon my hope.'&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;     &lt;TD vAlign=top&gt;&lt;FONT size=2&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;/TBODY&gt;&lt;/TABLE&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial size=2&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1618973231083522412-888038747105906586?l=bancadetexto.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/feeds/888038747105906586/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1618973231083522412&amp;postID=888038747105906586' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/888038747105906586'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/888038747105906586'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/2010/01/petrarca.html' title='Petrarca'/><author><name>STARK!</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nYG86XB013I/TnZCEdj4lBI/AAAAAAAAGQo/AkfC5-uNvJE/s220/papilon%2B%25285%252928.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618973231083522412.post-616676212168643390</id><published>2010-01-28T10:10:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-28T15:05:17.781-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Lorrie Moore HOW TO BECOME A WRITER</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="mobile-photo"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IxV67tX2l1E/S2IYLW_7E-I/AAAAAAAAFoY/7LmLOFLqjk8/s1600-h/ba+escrevendo-717782.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IxV67tX2l1E/S2IYLW_7E-I/AAAAAAAAFoY/7LmLOFLqjk8/s320/ba+escrevendo-717782.jpg"  border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431930683993560034" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial size=2&gt;&lt;SPAN lang=PT-BR&gt; &lt;P&gt;First, try to be something, anything, else. A movie star/astronaut. A movie  star &lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;missionary. A movie star/kindergarten teacher. President of the World. Fail  miserably. It is best if you fail at an early age -- say, fourteen. Early,  critical disillusionment is necessary so that at fifteen you can write long  haiku sequences about thwarted desire. It is a pond, a cherry blossom, a wind  brushing against sparrow wing leaving for mountain. Count the syllables. &lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;Show it to your mom. She is touch and practical. She has a son in Vietnam and  a husband who may be having an affair. She believes in wearing brown because it  hides spots. She'll look briefly at your writing, then back up at you with a  face blank as a donut. She'll say: "How about emptying the dishwasher?" Look  away. Shove the forks in the fork drawer. Accidentally break one of the freebie  gas station glasses. This is the required pain and suffering. This is only for  starters.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;In your high school English class look only at Mr. Killian's face. Decide  faces are important. Write a villanelle about pores. Struggle. Write a sonnet.  County the syllables: nine, ten, eleven, thirteen. Decide to experiment with  fiction. Here you don't have to count syllables. Write a short story about an  elderly man and woman who accidentally shoot each other in the head, the result  of an inexplicable malfunction of a shotgun which appears mysteriously in their  living room one night. Give it to Mr. Killian as your final project. When you  get it back, he has written on it: "Some of your images are quite nice, but you  have no sense of plot." When you are home, in the privacy of your own room,  faintly crawl in pencil beneath his black-inked comments: "Plots are for dead  people, pore-face."&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;Take all the babysitting jobs you can get. You are great with kids. They love  you. You tell them stories about old people who die idiot deaths. You sing them  songs like "Blue Bells of Scotland," which is their favorite. And when they are  in their pajamas and have finally stopped pinching each other, when they are  fast asleep, you read every sex manual in the house, and wonder how on earth  anyone could ever do those things with someone they truly loved. Fall asleep in  a chair reading Mr. McMurphy's Playboy. When the McMurphys come home, they will  tap you on the shoulder, look at the magazine in your lap, and grin. You will  want to die. They will ask you if Tracey took her medicine all right. Explain,  yes, she did, that you promised her a story if she would take it like a big girl  and that seemed to work out just fine. "Oh, marvelous" they will exclaim.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;Try to smile proudly. Apply to college as a child psychology major.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;As a child psychology major, you have some electives. You've always liked  birds. Sign up &lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;for something called, "The Ornithological Field Trip." It meets Tuesdays and  Thursdays at two. When you arrive at Room 134 on the first day of class,  everyone is sitting around a seminar &lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;table talking about metaphors. You've heard of these. After a short,  excruciating while, raise your hand and say diffidently, "Excuse me, isn't this  Birdwatching One-oh-one?" The class tops and turns to look at you. They seem to  have one face -- giant and blank as a vandalized clock. Someone with a beard  booms out, "No, this is Creative Writing." Say: "Oh -- right," as if perhaps you  knew all along. Look down at your schedule. Wonder how the hell you ended up  here. The computer, apparently, has made an error. You start to get up to leave  and then don't. The lines at the reistrar this week are huge. Perhaps your  creative writing isn't all that bad. Perhaps it is fate. Perhaps this is what  your dad meant when he said, "It's the age of computers, Francie, it's the age  of computers."&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;Decide that you like college life. In your dorm you meet many nice people.  Some are &lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;smarter than you. And some, you notice, are dumber than you. You will  continue, &lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;unfortunately, to view the world in exactly these terms for the rest of your  life. The assignment this week in creative writing is to narrate a violent  happening. Turn in a story &lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;about driving with your Uncle Gordon and another one about two old people who  are accidentally electrocuted when they go to turn on a badly wired desk lamp.  The teacher will hand them back to you with comments: ''Much of your writing is  smooth and energetic. You have, however, a ludicrous notion of plot.'' Write  another story about a man and a woman who, in the very first paragraph, have  their lower torsos accidentally blitzed away by dynamite. In the second  paragraph, with the insurance money, they buy a frozen yogurt stand together.  There are six more paragraphs. You read the whole thing out loud in class. No  one likes it. They say your sense of plot is outrageous and incompetent. After  class someone asks you if you are crazy.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;Decide that perhaps you should stick to comedies. Start dating someone who is  funny, &lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;someone who has what in high school you called a ''really great sense of  humor'' and what now your creative writing class calls ''self-contempt giving  rise to comic form.'' Write down all of his jokes, but don't tell him you are  doing this. Make up anagrams of his old girlfriend's name and name all of your  socially handicapped characters with them. Tell him his old girlfriend is in all  of your stories and then watch how funny he can be, see what a really great  sense of humor he can have.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;Your child psychology adviser tells you you are neglecting courses in your  major. What &lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;you spend the most time on should be what you're majoring in. Say yes, you  understand.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;In creative writing seminars over the next two years, everyone continues to  smoke &lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;cigarettes and ask the same things: ''But does it work?'' ''Why should we  care about this &lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;character?'' ''Have you earned this cliche?'' These seem like important  questions. On days when it is your turn, you look at the class hopefully as they  scour your mimeographs for a plot. They look back up at you, drag deeply and  then smile in a sweet sort of way.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;You spend too much time slouched and demoralized. Your boyfriend suggests  bicycling. &lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;Your roommate suggests a new boyfriend. You are said to be self-mutilating  and losing weight, but you continue writing. The only happiness you have is  writing something new, in the middle of the night, armpits damp, heart pounding,  something no one has yet seen. You have only those brief, fragile, untested  moments of exhilaration when you know: you are a genius. &lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;Understand what you must do. Switch majors. The kids in your nursery project  will be &lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;disappointed, but you have a calling, an urge, a delusion, an unfortunate  habit. You have, as &lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;your mother would say, fallen in with a bad crowd.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;Why write? Where does writing come from? These are questions to ask yourself.  They are like: Where does dust come from? Or: Why is there war? Or: If there's a  God, then why is my brother now a cripple?These are questions that you keep in  your wallet, like calling cards. These are questions, your creative writing  teacher says, that are good to address in your journals but rarely in your  fiction.The writing professor this fall is stressing the Power of the  Imagination. Which means he doesn't want long descriptive stories about your  camping trip last July. He wants you to start in a realistic context but then to  alter it. Like recombinant DNA. He wants you to let your imagination sail, to  let it grow big-bellied in the wind. This is a quote from Shakespeare.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;Tell your roommate your great idea, your great exercise of imaginative power:  a &lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;transformation of Melville to contemporary life. It will be about monomania  and the fish-eat-fish world of life insurance in Rochester, N.Y. The first line  will be ''Call me Fishmeal,'' and it will feature a menopausal suburban husband  named Richard, who because he is so depressed all the time is called ''Mopey  Dick'' by his witty wife Elaine. Say to your roommate: ''Mopey Dick, get it?''  Your roommate looks at you, her face blank as a large Kleenex. She comes up to  you, like a buddy, and puts an arm around your burdened shoulders. ''Listen,  Francie,'' she says, slow as speech therapy. ''Let's go out and get a big  beer.''&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;The seminar doesn't like this one either. You suspect they are beginning to  feel sorry for &lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;you. They say: ''You have to think about what is happening. Where is the  story here?''&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;The next semester the writing professor is obsessed with writing from  personal &lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;experience. You must write from what you know, from what has happened to you.  He wants deaths, he wants camping trips. Think about what has happened to you.  In three years there have been three things: you lost your virginity; your  parents got divorced; and your brother came home from a forest 10 miles from the  Cambodian border with only half a thigh, a permanent smirk nestled into one  corner of his mouth. About the first you write: ''It created a new space, which  hurt and cried in a voice that wasn't mine, 'I'm not the same anymore, but I'll  be O.K.' ''About the second you write an elaborate story of an old married  couple who stumble upon an unknown land mine in their kitchen and accidentally  blow themselves up. You call it: ''For Better or for Liverwurst.''About the last  you write nothing. There are no words for this. Your typewriter hums. You can  find no words.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;At undergraduate cocktail parties, people say, ''Oh, you write? What do you  write about?'' &lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;Your roommate, who has consumed too much wine, too little cheese and no  crackers at all, &lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;blurts: ''Oh, my god, she always writes about her dumb boyfriend.''&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;Later on in life you will learn that writers are merely open, helpless texts  with no real &lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;understanding of what they have written and therefore must half-believe  anything and &lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;everything that is said of them. You, however, have not yet reached this  stage of literary &lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;criticism. You stiffen and say, ''I do not,'' the same way you said it when  someone in the fourth grade accused you of really liking oboe lessons and your  parents really weren't just making you take them.Insist you are not very  interested in any one subject at all, that you are interested in the music of  language, that you are interested in - in - syllables, because they are the  atoms of poetry, the cells of the mind, the breath of the soul. Begin to feel  woozy. Stare into your plastic wine cup.''Syllables?'' you will hear someone  ask, voice trailing off, as they glide slowly toward the reassuring white of the  dip.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;Begin to wonder what you do write about. Or if you have anything to say. Or  if there even &lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;is such a thing as a thing to say. Limit these thoughts to no more than 10  minutes a day, like &lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;sit- ups, they can make you thin.You will read somewhere that all writing has  to do with one's genitals. Don't dwell on this. It will make you nervous.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;Your mother will come visit you. She will look at the circles under your eyes  and hand you a brown book with a brown briefcase on the cover. It is entitled:  ''How to Become a Business Executive.'' She has also brought the ''Names for  Baby'' encyclopedia you asked for; one of your characters, the aging  clown-schoolteacher, needs a new name. Your mother will shake her head and say:  ''Francie, Francie, remember when you were going to be a child psychology  major?''&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;Say: ''Mom, I like to write.''&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;She'll say: ''Sure you like to write. Of course. Sure you like to  write.''&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;Write a story about a confused music student and title it: ''Schubert Was the  One with the &lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;Glasses, Right?'' It's not a big hit, although your roommate likes the part  where the two &lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;violinists accidentally blow themselves up in a recital room. ''I went out  with a violinist once,'' she says, snapping her gum.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;Thank god you are taking other courses. You can find sanctuary in  19th-century ontological &lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;snags and invertebrate courting rituals. Certain globular mollusks have what  is called ''Sex by the Arm.'' The male octopus, for instance, loses the end of  one arm when placing it inside the female body during intercourse. Marine  biologists call it ''Seven Heaven.'' Be glad you know these things. Be glad you  are not just a writer. Apply to law school.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;From here on in, many things can happen. But the main one will be this: You  decide not to &lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;go to law school after all, and, instead, you spend a good, big chunk of your  adult life telling people how you decided not to go to law school after all.  Somehow you end up writing again. &lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;Perhaps you go to graduate school. Perhaps you work odd jobs and take writing  courses at &lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;night. Perhaps you are working and writing down all the clever remarks and  intimate personal confessions you hear during the day. Perhaps you are losing  your pals, your acquaintances, your balance.You have broken up with your  boyfriend. You now go out with men who, instead of whispering ''I love you,''  shout: ''Do it to me, baby.'' This is good for your writing.Sooner or later you  have a finished manuscript more or less. People look at it in a vaguely troubled  sort of way and say, ''I'll bet becoming a writer was always a fantasy of yours,  wasn't it?'' Your lips dry to salt. Say that of all the fantasies possible in  the world, you can't imagine being a writer even making the top 20. Tell them  you were going to be a child psychology major. ''I bet,'' they always sigh,  ''you'd be great with kids.'' Scowl fiercely. Tell them you're a walking  blade.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;Quit classes. Quit jobs. Cash in old savings bonds. Now you have time like  warts on your &lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;hands. Slowly copy all of your friends' addresses into a new address  book.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;Vacuum. Chew cough drops. Keep a folder full of fragments.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;An eyelid darkening sideways.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;World as conspiracy.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;Possible plot? A woman gets on a bus.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;Suppose you threw a love affair and nobody came.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;At home drink a lot of coffee. At Howard Johnson's order the cole slaw.  Consider how it looks like the soggy confetti of a map: where you've been, where  you're going - ''You Are Here,'' says the red star on the back of the  menu.Occasionally a date with a face blank as a sheet of paper asks you whether  writers often become discouraged. Say that sometimes they do and sometimes they  do. Say it's a lot like having polio.''Interesting,'' smiles your date, and then  he looks down at his arm hairs and starts to smooth them, all, always, in the  same direction.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;I&gt; &lt;P&gt;From ''Self-Help,'' a collection of short stories by Lorrie Moore. Copyright  1985 by M. L. Moore.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/I&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;I&gt; &lt;P&gt;Lorrie Moore&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/I&gt; was born in Glen Falls, New York on January 13, 1957.  She attended St Lawrence University in Canton, New York, from 1974 to 1978  receiving a BA and graduating summa cum laude.She attended Cornell University in  Ithaca, New York, from 1980 to 1982 receiving an MFA. She is currently Professor  of English at the University of Wisconsin at Madison where she also lives with  her husband and son. &lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;Lorrie Moore has been the recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts  award in 1989, the Rockefeller Foundation fellowship in 1989, and the Guggenheim  fellowship in 1991. Her workfrequently appears in Fiction International, Ms, The  New York Times Book Review, Paris Review,The New Yorker, and others. Her  publications include: Self-Help (1985); Anagrams (1986); The Forgotten Helper  (1987); Like Life (1990); editor, I Know Some Things: Stories About Childhood by  Contemporary Writers (1992);&lt;FONT size=2&gt;Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? (1994)  and Birds of America (1998).&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1618973231083522412-616676212168643390?l=bancadetexto.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/feeds/616676212168643390/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1618973231083522412&amp;postID=616676212168643390' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/616676212168643390'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/616676212168643390'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/2010/01/lorrie-moore-how-to-become-writer.html' title='Lorrie Moore HOW TO BECOME A WRITER'/><author><name>STARK!</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nYG86XB013I/TnZCEdj4lBI/AAAAAAAAGQo/AkfC5-uNvJE/s220/papilon%2B%25285%252928.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IxV67tX2l1E/S2IYLW_7E-I/AAAAAAAAFoY/7LmLOFLqjk8/s72-c/ba+escrevendo-717782.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618973231083522412.post-5287878050046881878</id><published>2010-01-28T07:40:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-28T15:05:00.841-08:00</updated><title type='text'>"As cidades invisíveis" de Italo Calvino</title><content type='html'>&lt;DIV&gt;O inferno dos vivos não é algo que será; se existe, é aquele que já está  aqui, o inferno no qual vivemos todos os dias, que formamos estando juntos.  Existem duas maneiras de não sofrer. A primeira é fácil para a maioria das  pessoas: aceitar o inferno e tornar-se parte deste até o ponto de deixar de  percebê-lo. A segunda é arriscada e exige atenção e aprendizagem contínuas:  tentar saber reconhecer quem e o que, no meio do inferno, não é inferno, e  preservá-lo, e abrir espaço."&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;- trecho fnal do livro - &amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1618973231083522412-5287878050046881878?l=bancadetexto.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/feeds/5287878050046881878/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1618973231083522412&amp;postID=5287878050046881878' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/5287878050046881878'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/5287878050046881878'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/2010/01/as-cidades-invisiveis-de-italo-calvino.html' title='&quot;As cidades invisíveis&quot; de Italo Calvino'/><author><name>STARK!</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nYG86XB013I/TnZCEdj4lBI/AAAAAAAAGQo/AkfC5-uNvJE/s220/papilon%2B%25285%252928.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618973231083522412.post-4556134883292622880</id><published>2010-01-25T17:43:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-25T17:43:36.242-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Canção Óbvia - PAULO FREIRE</title><content type='html'>&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial size=2&gt;&lt;SPAN lang=PT-BR&gt; &lt;P&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Escolhi a sombra desta árvore para&lt;BR&gt;repousar do muito que  farei,&lt;BR&gt;enquanto esperarei por ti.&lt;BR&gt;Quem espera na pura espera&lt;BR&gt;vive um  tempo de espera vã.&lt;BR&gt;Por isto, enquanto te espero&lt;BR&gt;trabalharei os campos  e&lt;BR&gt;conversarei com os homens&lt;BR&gt;Suarei meu corpo, que o sol  queimará;&lt;BR&gt;minhas mãos ficarão calejadas;&lt;BR&gt;meus pés aprenderão o mistério  dos caminhos;&lt;BR&gt;meus ouvidos ouvirão mais,&lt;BR&gt;meus olhos verão o que antes não  viam,&lt;BR&gt;enquanto esperarei por ti.&lt;BR&gt;Não te esperarei na pura espera&lt;BR&gt;porque  o meu tempo de espera é um&lt;BR&gt;tempo de quefazer.&lt;BR&gt;Desconfiarei daqueles que  virão dizer-me,:&lt;BR&gt;em voz baixa e precavidos:&lt;BR&gt;É perigoso agir&lt;BR&gt;É perigoso  falar&lt;BR&gt;É perigoso andar&lt;BR&gt;É perigoso, esperar, na forma em que  esperas,&lt;BR&gt;porquê êsses recusam a alegria de tua chegada.&lt;BR&gt;Desconfiarei  também daqueles que virão dizer-me,&lt;BR&gt;com palavras fáceis, que já  chegaste,&lt;BR&gt;porque êsses, ao anunciar-te ingênuamente ,&lt;BR&gt;antes te  denunciam.&lt;BR&gt;Estarei preparando a tua chegada&lt;BR&gt;como o jardineiro prepara o  jardim&lt;BR&gt;para a rosa que se abrirá na primavera.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Paulo Freire&lt;BR&gt;Genève,  Março 1971.&lt;BR&gt;In: Freire, P. Pedagogia da Indignação. São Paulo: UNESP,  2000.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1618973231083522412-4556134883292622880?l=bancadetexto.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/feeds/4556134883292622880/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1618973231083522412&amp;postID=4556134883292622880' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/4556134883292622880'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/4556134883292622880'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/2010/01/cancao-obvia-paulo-freire.html' title='Canção Óbvia - PAULO FREIRE'/><author><name>STARK!</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nYG86XB013I/TnZCEdj4lBI/AAAAAAAAGQo/AkfC5-uNvJE/s220/papilon%2B%25285%252928.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618973231083522412.post-6910349375703998040</id><published>2010-01-25T17:40:00.002-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-25T17:40:19.534-08:00</updated><title type='text'>One Art</title><content type='html'>&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial size=2&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial size=2&gt;The art of losing isn't hard to master;&lt;BR&gt;so many  things seem filled with the intent&lt;BR&gt;to be lost that their loss is no  disaster.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial size=2&gt;Lose something every day.&amp;nbsp; Accept the  fluster&lt;BR&gt;of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.&lt;BR&gt;The art of losing isn't  hard to master.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial size=2&gt;Then practice losing farther, losing  faster:&lt;BR&gt;places, and names, and where it was you meant&lt;BR&gt;to travel.&amp;nbsp;  None of these will bring disaster.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial size=2&gt;I lost my mother's watch.&amp;nbsp; And look! my last,  or&lt;BR&gt;next-to-last, of three loved houses went.&lt;BR&gt;The art of losing isn't hard  to master.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial size=2&gt;I lost two cities, lovely ones.&amp;nbsp; And,  vaster,&lt;BR&gt;some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.&lt;BR&gt;I miss them, but it  wasn't a disaster.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial size=2&gt;---Even losing you (the joking voice, a  gesture&lt;BR&gt;I love) I shan't have lied.&amp;nbsp; It's evident&lt;BR&gt;the art of losing's  not too hard to master&lt;BR&gt;though it may look like (Write it!) like  disaster.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial size=2&gt;&amp;nbsp;-- Elizabeth  Bishop&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1618973231083522412-6910349375703998040?l=bancadetexto.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/feeds/6910349375703998040/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1618973231083522412&amp;postID=6910349375703998040' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/6910349375703998040'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/6910349375703998040'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/2010/01/one-art.html' title='One Art'/><author><name>STARK!</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nYG86XB013I/TnZCEdj4lBI/AAAAAAAAGQo/AkfC5-uNvJE/s220/papilon%2B%25285%252928.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618973231083522412.post-9120124528653016125</id><published>2010-01-25T17:40:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-25T17:39:56.777-08:00</updated><title type='text'>I'm black, born and raised in the United States.</title><content type='html'>&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial size=2&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV align=center&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial size=2&gt;&lt;FONT size=4&gt;Writers Like  Me&lt;/FONT&gt; &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV align=center&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial size=2&gt;&lt;/NYT_HEADLINE&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV class=image align=center&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;IMG height=103 alt=""  src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/07/01/books/sout600.jpg" width=600  border=0&gt; &lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV class=credit align=center&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Oliver Munday&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV class=credit align=center&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;NYT_BYLINE version="1.0" type=" "&gt; &lt;DIV class=byline align=center&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;By MARTHA  SOUTHGATE&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/NYT_BYLINE&gt; &lt;DIV class=timestamp align=center&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Published: NEW YORK TIMES, July 1,  2007&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;NYT_TEXT&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;I am a 46-year-old writer of "literary" fiction. I've  had three novels published  the first for young people, the last two for  adults. All have won minor prizes, been respectfully reviewed and sold modestly.  I've been awarded a few fairly competitive fellowships and grants. The business  is full of fiction writers like me. With one difference: I'm black, born and  raised in the United States. At the parties and conferences I attend, and in the  book reviews I read, I rarely encounter other African-American "literary"  writers, particularly in my age bracket. There just don't seem to be that many  of us out there, and that's something I've come to wonder about a great deal.  And so I got on the phone with some editors and African-American writers to talk  about it.&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;A name=secondParagraph&gt;&lt;/A&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;For many writers, middle age is when they hit their  stride. Robert Gottlieb of Knopf, who has been &lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;A  title="More articles about Toni Morrison"  href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/toni_morrison/index.html?inline=nyt-per"&gt;&lt;FONT  color=#004276&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Toni Morrison&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;'s editor for  many years, said, "Many very fine writers take time to get there." Looking at  the white American fiction writers who have the most cultural prominence, one  quickly sees a large group in their 40s or 50s (Michael Chabon, Jonathan  Franzen, Rick Moody, &lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;A title="More articles about Jane Smiley"  href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/jane_smiley/index.html?inline=nyt-per"&gt;&lt;FONT  color=#004276&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Jane Smiley&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;, Michael  Cunningham et al.) who have generally had four or more major works of fiction  published. Gottlieb points out that Morrison's first two books sold adequately,  but it wasn't until her third novel, "Song of Solomon," published the year she  turned 46, that she had a commercial breakthrough. "It was larger and more  ambitious, demonstrating a new power and authority, and the world noticed," he  said. "Some careers start with a bang  'Invisible Man,' 'Catch-22.' Others take  time to find a significant readership  &lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;A  title="Anne Tyler retrospective with articles and reviews."  href="http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2004/01/10/books/authors/index.html%7Carts,movies,theater?inline=nyt-per"&gt;&lt;FONT  color=#004276&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Anne Tyler&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;, Toni. And  sometimes I feel that those are the healthiest ones." &lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;But when you look at the careers of African- American  writers, you don't always see that healthy arc. Ralph Ellison, for example,  seemed to lose his way completely after "Invisible Man." These days, there are  only a few names of black authors born in the United States, beyond Morrison's,  that the average reader of serious fiction might easily drop  Colson Whitehead,  ZZ Packer, Edward P. Jones. Of these three, only Jones is over 40. &lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;In some ways, the American literary scene is more  racially and culturally diverse than ever. A few examples: Of the 21 writers on  Granta's recent Best of Young American Novelists list, six (including Packer and  Uzodinma Iweala) are people of color (many colors: black, South and East Asian,  Hispanic), and seven were born or raised outside the United States. Indian  writers born or educated here, like Jhumpa Lahiri, Vikram Chandra and Kiran  Desai, win critical acclaim and big sales. "Girlfriend," "urban-lit" and other  branches of commercial genre fiction by African-Americans have continued to  enjoy a boom since the door-busting success of Terry McMillan's "Waiting to  Exhale" in 1992. But black authors writing in an ambitious, thoughtful way about  American subjects are harder to find  even when they do get published. Malaika  Adero, a senior editor at Atria Books, said: "Literary African-American writers  have difficulty getting publicity. The retailers then don't order great  quantities of the books. Readers don't know what books are available and  therefore don't ask for them. It's a vicious cycle."&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Though the publishing industry remains overwhelmingly  white, editors say they are always looking for good, marketable work by writers  of any background. Morgan Entrekin, publisher of Grove/Atlantic, which recently  published Michael Thomas's first novel, "Man Gone Down"  one of the few novels  by an African-American to grace the cover of this publication of late  said: "I  don't tend to approach the black writers we publish as African-American. I see  them as writers first."&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;But there's colorblindness, and then there's blindness.  Christopher Jackson, executive editor at Spiegel &amp;amp; Grau, a division of  Random House, tells a story about being mistaken for Iweala at the launch party  for Granta's Best of Young American Novelists issue  even though Iweala is more  than 10 years Jackson's junior, had just left the stage as an honoree and,  frankly, doesn't look much like Jackson. Let's face it, something like that is  awfully unlikely to happen to a white editor or writer. It's hard to say whether  this obtuseness translates into a lack of interest in African-American work, but  some black writers think it might. The novelist Tayari Jones, author of "The  Untelling," said: "I know that there are very few black authors who publish the  fourth novel. Hardly any of us are considered prestige authors, so no one is  going to sign us up for our names alone." Calvin Reid, a senior news editor at  Publishers Weekly, who often covers African-American publishing, agrees that  black writers stuck in the midlist face an uphill battle, but he sees it as a  business reality, not a racial thing: "If you have two or three books out and  you've never sold more than 3,000 copies, people make decisions based on  that."&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Things are tough all over, but arguably tougher for  some. For many black writers, a writing life very rarely unfolds the way it does  for so many white writers you could name: know you want to be a writer from the  age of 10, get your first book published at 26, go on to produce slowly but  steadily over a lengthy career. Even Morrison didn't follow that timeline: her  first novel wasn't published until she was nearly 40 and had worked for a number  of years as a teacher and then an editor at Random House. And she didn't quit  that day job until urged to do so by Gottlieb in the mid-1970s, after "Sula" was  published. &lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;DIV id=inlineBox align=justify&gt; &lt;DIV id=sidebarArticles&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;So what's holding us up? Sometimes it's just the  ordinary difficulty of juggling family, writing and earning a living. But  African-American writers also speak of a larger problem of what I'd call  internal or cultural permission. It's just plain harder to decide to be a writer  if you don't have a financial cushion or a long cultural tradition of people  going out on that bohemian limb. Consider the case of Edward P. Jones. He  published his first book, "Lost in the City," in 1992 (he was 41 at the time) to  much critical acclaim and a number of significant honors, if not huge sales. He  returned to his day job at Tax Notes magazine, where he remained until he was  laid off 10 years later. He then wrote "The Known World" in about six months   though he told me he'd been thinking about it nearly those whole 10 years. The  novel won the &lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;A title="More articles about Pulitzer Prizes."  href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/p/pulitzer_prizes/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier"&gt;&lt;FONT  color=#004276&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Pulitzer  Prize&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;.&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;When asked why he didn't make the leap to full-time  writing sooner, Jones spoke firmly: "If you're born poor or you're born  working-class, a job is important. People who are born with silver spoons in  their mouths never have to worry. They know someone will take care of them.  Worrying about not having a job would have put a damper on any creativity that I  would have had. So I'm glad I had that job." &lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;The problem isn't just money, says Randall Kenan, a  1994 Whiting Award winner who published two critically acclaimed books of  fiction in 1989 and 1992, and two nonfiction books since 1999: "I think among  middle-class black folk, it's still a struggle to validate literature as a  worthy way to spend your time." ZZ Packer, the author of the story collection  "Drinking Coffee Elsewhere," who is currently at work on a novel, said the  situation is somewhat different for those who are younger. (She is 34.) "People  who came half a generation before us were the first ones to begin to go to elite  colleges in larger numbers," she said. "They were beholden to a lot of their  parents' expectations, namely, that if you go to a prestigious school, you're  going to become a doctor or a lawyer, you're not going to 'waste your time'  writing. People who are around my age have seen blacks in the Northeastern  establishment for a while. ... They don't always feel the same obligation to  ditch their dream for something more practical." &lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;It saddens me to think of the dreams that have been  ditched, the stories that haven't been told because of racism, because of fear  and economic insecurity, because that first novel didn't move enough copies. I  hope to see the day when there are more of us at the party (and the parties),  when the work of African-Americans who tell our part of the American story well  receives the celebration, and the sales, it deserves.&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;DIV  style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;NYT_AUTHOR_ID&gt; &lt;DIV id=authorId&gt; &lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Martha Southgate's most recent novels are "The Fall of Rome" and  "Third Girl From the  Left."&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/NYT_AUTHOR_ID&gt;&lt;NYT_UPDATE_BOTTOM&gt;&lt;/NYT_UPDATE_BOTTOM&gt;&lt;/NYT_TEXT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1618973231083522412-9120124528653016125?l=bancadetexto.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/feeds/9120124528653016125/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1618973231083522412&amp;postID=9120124528653016125' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/9120124528653016125'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/9120124528653016125'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/2010/01/im-black-born-and-raised-in-united.html' title='I&apos;m black, born and raised in the United States.'/><author><name>STARK!</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nYG86XB013I/TnZCEdj4lBI/AAAAAAAAGQo/AkfC5-uNvJE/s220/papilon%2B%25285%252928.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618973231083522412.post-4715051585434001676</id><published>2010-01-25T17:36:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-25T17:36:29.040-08:00</updated><title type='text'>true criticism is more than just an opinion.</title><content type='html'>&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial size=2&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&amp;nbsp;Los Angeles Times : May 20, 2007 &lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial size=2&gt; &lt;H1 align=center&gt;Not everybody's a critic&lt;/H1&gt; &lt;DIV class=storysubhead align=center&gt;Sure, anyone with a blog can express an  opinion about a book, but true criticism is more than just an opinion.&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV class=storybyline align=center&gt;By Richard Schickel, RICHARD SCHICKEL is a  film critic for Time magazine and a frequent book reviewer for The Times. His  most recent book is "Elia Kazan: A Biography."&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV align=justify&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV class=storybody align=justify&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV class=storybody align=justify&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV class=storybody align=justify&gt;THE MOST grating words I've read in a  newspaper recently were in a New York Times report on the shrinkage of book  reviewing in many of the nation's leading newspapers. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;The piece  suggested that this might not be an entirely bad thing. Into the breach, it  argued, will charge the bloggers, one of whom, a former quality-control manager  for a car parts maker, last year wrote 95 book reviews for his website.  &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;"Some publishers and literary bloggers," the article said, viewed this  development contentedly, "as an inevitable transition toward a new, more  democratic literary landscape where anyone can comment on books."&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Anyone?  Did I read that right? &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Let me put this bluntly, in language even a busy  blogger can understand: Criticism  and its humble cousin, reviewing  is not a  democratic activity. It is, or should be, an elite enterprise, ideally  undertaken by individuals who bring something to the party beyond their hasty,  instinctive opinions of a book (or any other cultural object). It is work that  requires disciplined taste, historical and theoretical knowledge and a fairly  deep sense of the author's (or filmmaker's or painter's) entire body of work,  among other qualities. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Opinion  thumbs up, thumbs down  is the least  important aspect of reviewing. Very often, in the best reviews, opinion is  conveyed without a judgmental word being spoken, because the review's highest  business is to initiate intelligent dialogue about the work in question,  beginning a discussion that, in some cases, will persist down the years, even  down the centuries. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;I know the objections to this argument: Most  reviewing, whether written for print or the blogosphere, is hack work, done on  the fly for short money. Anyone who has written a book has had the experience.  Your publisher kindly forwards the clippings, and you are appalled by the sheer  uselessness of their spray-painted opinions. Looked at this way, you could say  that book reviewing is already democratic enough, thanks much. It's more than  ready for the guy from car parts. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;But instead, let's think about what  reviewing ought to be. For example, French critic Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve,  a name not much bruited in the blogosphere, I'll warrant. In the middle of the  19th century, his reviews appeared every Monday for 28 years. He was a humane,  tolerant and relentlessly curious man who once summarized his method in two  words: "Just characterization." &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;That "just" did not mean "merely." It  meant doing justice to the work at hand and to the culture in which it appeared.  Another way of putting that is that he wrote with a blogger's alacrity but with  a thoughtful critic's sense of responsibility to, yes, "the great tradition" the  author aspired to join. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Think also of Edmund Wilson, the best book  reviewer this country ever had  alert to the possibilities, both moral and  aesthetic, of the "classics and commercial" (to invoke the title of one of his  collections) that passed before him. His method was usually rather reportorial   generally he let his opinions emerge indirectly, not as fiats but as muted  implications of the way he read (and quoted) the work at hand. He was not a  showy, or even particularly quotable, critic. But the clarity of his prose  remains exemplary. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Finally, there was George Orwell, scrambling to make  a living by writing reviews for London's intellectual press for maybe $20 or $30  a piece. He was more pointedly political than Wilson, and more attuned, perhaps,  to the vagaries of trash culture, but his defense of honest vernacular prose in  the face of bureaucratic (and totalitarian) obfuscation remains a critical  beacon. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;All of these men wrote ceaselessly, against deadlines and under  economic pressure, without succumbing to the temptation of merely popping off or  showing off. None of these men affected the supercilious high Mandarin manner  of, say, George Jean Nathan  as annoying in its way as hairy-chested populism  is in its. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;And all three wrote for intelligent readers who emerged from  their reviews grateful to know more than they did when they started to read,  grateful for their encounter with a serious and, indeed, superior, mind. We do  not  maybe I ought to make that "should not"  read to confirm our own  prejudices and stupidity. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;I don't think it's impossible for bloggers to  write intelligent reviews. I do think, however, that a simple "love" of reading  (or movie-going or whatever) is an insufficient qualification for the job. That  way often leads to cultishness (see the currently inflated reputations of Philip  K. Dick or Cornell Woolrich, both easy reads for lazy, word-addicted minds).  &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;And we have to find in the work of reviewers something more than idle  opinion-mongering. We need to see something other than flash, egotism and  self-importance. We need to see their credentials. And they need to prove, not  merely assert, their right to an opinion. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;At the recent Los Angeles  Times Festival of Books, there was a fascinating panel featuring writers whose  books were written in what time they could spare from their day jobs.  Inevitably, blogging was presented as an attractive alternative  it doesn't  take much time, and it is a method of publicly expressing oneself (like  finger-painting, I thought to myself, but never mind). &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;D.J. Waldie,  among the finest of our part-time scriveners, in effect said "fine." But  remember, he added, blogging is a form of speech, not of writing. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;I  thought it was a wonderful point. The act of writing for print, with its  implication of permanence, concentrates the mind most wonderfully. It imposes on  writer and reader a sense of responsibility that mere yammering does not. It is  the difference between cocktail-party chat and logically reasoned discourse that  sits still on a page, inviting serious engagement. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Maybe most reviewing,  whatever its venue, fails that ideal. But a purely "democratic literary  landscape" is truly a wasteland, without standards, without maps, without oases  of intelligence or delight. &lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1618973231083522412-4715051585434001676?l=bancadetexto.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/feeds/4715051585434001676/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1618973231083522412&amp;postID=4715051585434001676' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/4715051585434001676'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/4715051585434001676'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/2010/01/true-criticism-is-more-than-just.html' title='true criticism is more than just an opinion.'/><author><name>STARK!</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nYG86XB013I/TnZCEdj4lBI/AAAAAAAAGQo/AkfC5-uNvJE/s220/papilon%2B%25285%252928.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618973231083522412.post-6639544645959726931</id><published>2010-01-25T17:35:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-25T17:35:35.677-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Your 'how-to' guide to avoid offending anyone</title><content type='html'>&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial size=2&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial size=2&gt; &lt;H1 align=justify&gt;&lt;FONT size=1&gt; &lt;P&gt;times , February 21, 2007&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;A Politically Correct Lexicon&lt;/H1&gt; &lt;H2 align=justify&gt;Your 'how-to' guide to avoid offending anyone&lt;/H2&gt; &lt;H3 align=justify&gt;By &lt;A href="http://www.inthesetimes.com/about/author/10"&gt;Joel  Bleifuss&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/H3&gt; &lt;DIV align=justify&gt;&lt;IMG alt=""  src="http://www.inthesetimes.com/images/31/02/pc.jpg"&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV id=inset_share align=justify&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;In the late '70s, "politically correct," "PC" for short,  entered the public lexicon. Folks on the left used the term to dismiss views  that were seen as too rigid and, also, to poke fun at themselves for the immense  care they took to neither say nor do anything that might offend the political  sensibilities of others. "You are so PC," one would say with a smile. In the  '80s, the right, taking the words at face value, latched on to the term and used  it to deride leftish voices. Beleaguered progressives, ever earnest, then  defended political correctness as a worthy concept, thus validating  conservatives' derision. Today, on both the left and the right, being PC is no  laughing matter; three decades of culture wars have generated a bewildering  thicket of terminology.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;To help me parse what's PC and what's not, I had help from  people attuned to the nuances of words, particularly those that describe race,  ethnicity and sexual identity. Rinku Sen is a 40-year-old South Asian woman. She  is the publisher of &lt;I&gt;Colorlines&lt;/I&gt;, a national magazine of race and politics,  for which she has developed a PC style manual. Tracy Baim is a 44-year-old white  lesbian. She grapples with the ever-evolving nomenclature of sexual identity and  politics as the executive editor of Windy City Times, a Chicago-based gay  weekly. Lott Hill is a 36-year-old white gay male who works at Center for  Teaching Excellence at Columbia College in Chicago. He interacts with lots of  young peoplethe font from which much new language usage flows.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;&lt;B&gt;African American:&lt;/B&gt; In 1988 Jesse Jackson encouraged  people to adopt this term over the then-used "black." As he saw it, the words  acknowledged black America's ties to Africa. "African American," says Hill, is  now "used more by non-African-American people, who cling to it because they are  unsure what word to use." Sen says, "African American" is favored by "highly  educated people who are not black. Whether one uses 'black' or 'African  American' indicates how strong your social relations are with those  communities." And Chris Raab, founder of Afro-Netizen, says, "People who are  politically correct chose to use African American, but I don't recall any mass  of black folks demanding the use of African American." &lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;&lt;B&gt;Asian:&lt;/B&gt; The correct term to use for anyone of Asian  ancestry. When accuracy is desired, nationality of origin is appended to  "American," as in "Korean American." Sen, who describes herself as South Asian  or Indian American, says that there is "some push around not conflating  everybody into Asian. This is mostly an issue among new immigrants. If there  hasn't been time for a generation, it seems to be hard to move those folks to  the Asian category."&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;&lt;B&gt;Bitch:&lt;/B&gt; A word, says Baim, which is "absolutely being  reclaimed by a younger generation of women who are asserting their sexuality and  control of their sexuality." Successfully repurposed by &lt;I&gt;Bitch&lt;/I&gt; magazine  over the past decade, 'Bitch' is now becoming passé as less edgy writers like  Cathi Hanauer, author of &lt;I&gt;The Bitch in the House&lt;/I&gt;, adopt it. Similarly,  though more slowly, "slut," "whore" and "cunt" are being reappropriated. "The  young people use those terms all the time teasingly and sometimes to even refer  to themselves," says Hill. "It is more common to hear someone say 'I am a slut'  than 'I am a whore.' " "Cunt" is gaining currency among some young lesbians,  though Baim says it is a word that gets stuck in her throat. "While it is a  reclaimed word, it is one I can hardly say, the same way some older blacks have  trouble saying the n-word."&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;&lt;B&gt;Black:&lt;/B&gt; At &lt;I&gt;Colorlines&lt;/I&gt; "black" is used with a  capital B, while &lt;I&gt;The Associate Press Stylebook&lt;/I&gt; advises use of the lower  case.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;&lt;B&gt;Boi:&lt;/B&gt; A word, says Hill, that is "used by young queer  people to refer to either young gay males or young females who are presenting as  males."&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;&lt;B&gt;Brown:&lt;/B&gt; A general term for people who are not white.  Colorlines uses "brown" in a casual or playful way. "We might have a headline  'Brown People to the Back' in a story about restaurant hierarchy," Sen says.  Sometimes used to refer to Latinos, as in the "black-brown" coalition that  helped elect Harold Washington mayor of Chicago in 1983. &lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;&lt;B&gt;Chicano:&lt;/B&gt; Correct term for people of Mexican ancestry,  popularized during the civil rights movement. "We use it to refer to U.S.-born  people of Mexican descent," says Sen. "Mexican American is the more distant,  politer thing to say."&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;&lt;B&gt;Dyke:&lt;/B&gt; A word lesbians have reclaimed. Hill, however,  says that among the young it is "on its way out."&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;&lt;B&gt;Fag (faggot):&lt;/B&gt; The new "queer." "Like the n-word, it's a  word that can be said by gay people," says Hill. "I hear 'fag' a great deal,  especially among queer-identified young people, like 'don't be such a fag' or  'you are such a fag.' "&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;&lt;B&gt;Feminist:&lt;/B&gt; "A word that the younger generation doesn't  always embrace," is how Baim, 44, describes it. A lot of young women, she says,  are "feminists but they don't want to be pigeonholed." "Feminist somehow became  a tainted word along the way," says Hill. "I have heard a lot of people say,  'this sounds feminist' or 'I used to be a feminist.' "&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;&lt;B&gt;Gay:&lt;/B&gt; The word used to refer to males and, inclusively,  to the whole gender-bent community. "College-age people are more likely to refer  to themselves as queer," say Hill. "People out of college are more likely to  refer to themselves as gay." &lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;&lt;B&gt;Girl:&lt;/B&gt; "'Girl' is used by older women," says Baim. "It is  kind of nice because it used to be used derogatorily and now it is used in a fun  way." &lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;&lt;B&gt;GLBT:&lt;/B&gt; Shorthand for GLBTQ2IA. &lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;&lt;B&gt;GLBTQ2IA:&lt;/B&gt; The acronym for Gay, Lesbian, Bi,  Transgendered, Queer, Questioning, Intersex, Allies. "This is coming from the  youth movement, the college campuses, it has not seeped into the whole community  at this point," says Baim, who at the &lt;I&gt;Windy City Times&lt;/I&gt; uses GLBT, an  acronym the &lt;I&gt;New York Times&lt;/I&gt; has not yet seen fit to print. &lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;&lt;B&gt;Guys:&lt;/B&gt; Very controversial. Used, especially in the  Midwest, when referring to a group of people. "In Chicago that word gets used a  lot," says Hill. And Baim says, "I use it all of the time." Some feminists, like  Andi Zeisler, the editor of &lt;I&gt;Bitch&lt;/I&gt;, find "guys" problematic. "We assume  the descriptor 'guys' denotes a quality of universality," she says. "It would be  hard to imagine a group of men being addressed by their server as 'hey you gals'  and not taking offense, but the reverse happens all the time."&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;&lt;B&gt;Hir (Hirs):&lt;/B&gt; Gender neutral for him and her. At Wesleyan  University, incoming freshmen are instructed to use gender-neutral pronouns in  campus correspondence. As one person wrote on the university's online Anonymous  Confession Board, "I am usually attracted only to people of hir original gender,  rather than hir intended gender. As such, I'm afraid that I'm, like, viewing hir  wrong, or not respecting hir wishes or something."&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;&lt;B&gt;Hispanic:&lt;/B&gt; "We never use Hispanic," says Sen. "It  privileges the European roots of the identity of Mexicans born in the United  States." Hispanic, however, is the preferred term of people in the Southwest  whose families are descendents of Spanish colonists.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;&lt;B&gt;Indian:&lt;/B&gt; The preferred term for Native Americans.  "Indians either use their specific tribal name or use Indian," says Sen. "You  use the qualifier American when you need to distinguish from Indian  Indians."&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;&lt;B&gt;Latino:&lt;/B&gt; (capital "L," with "a" or "o" at the end used to  connote gender) Politically correct term for those from Spanish or Portuguese  speaking cultures. "We use it instead of Hispanic when we want to refer to many  different national groups where there has been an indigenous-European mix," says  Sen.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;&lt;B&gt;Lesbian:&lt;/B&gt; "The younger generations are less connected  with the terms 'gay' and 'lesbian'," says Baim. "Lesbian is out of favor as a  self-identifying label, it means something political, something more rigid than  the younger generation is comfortable with."&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;&lt;B&gt;Macaca:&lt;/B&gt; The latinization of the Bantu "ma-kako," meaning  monkey. According to the &lt;I&gt;Global Language Monitor&lt;/I&gt;, former Sen. George  Allen (R-Va.) helped make this the most politically incorrect word of 2006 by  using it to refer to an Indian American. &lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;&lt;B&gt;Native American:&lt;/B&gt; Some Indians object to the term, seeing  it as a way to linguistically eradicate "Indian" and thus the history of their  oppression by whites. "I almost always hear Native American, and in the more  enlightened conversations there is usually 'indigenous' thrown in there  somewhere," says Lott. Sen says, "Native American seems to be a more distant  construction, developed by academics." &lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;&lt;B&gt;Nigger:&lt;/B&gt; "It is a word that white students struggle with  and black students use pretty freely," says Hill. "Young people are much more  open to using it, especially young people who are black or who have been exposed  to more diverse groups of people." While Sen says, "I can't imagine a political  or a social multiracial situation where it would be appropriate, but I know that  is because I am too old. The word is so prevalent in the popular youth culture,  grounded in hip-hop, that I wouldn't like to predict where that debate is going  to end up. But if the popular culture ends up agreeing that it is okay to use,  then I think there are a lot of pretty scary implications."&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;&lt;B&gt;Queer:&lt;/B&gt; Anyone who falls outside the lines of straight.  "It has been reclaimed far ahead of faggot or dyke," says Baim. "It is our buzz  word," says Columbia College's Hill. "It is how we avoid saying all of those  letters [GLBTQ2IA]." REM lead singer Michael Stipe, for example, is queer, not  gay. "For me, queer describes something that's more inclusive of the gray  areas," he told Butt, a pocket-sized &lt;I&gt;Dutch&lt;/I&gt; "fagazine." "It's really about  identity I think. The identity I'm comfortable with is queer because I just  think it's more inclusive."&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;&lt;B&gt;Transgendered:&lt;/B&gt; (trans) A person who is not presenting as  their biological gender. "It is fascinating how transgendered is becoming like  an octopus with all the tentacles of identity and personal design. The  transgendered movement is burgeoning and fluid, they are creating all of these  new ways to define who they are," says Baim.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;&lt;B&gt;Ze:&lt;/B&gt; Gender neutral for he or she. As Mary Boenke writes  on the PFLAG (Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) Web site:  "When talking with Leslie Feinberg, noted transgender author, I asked Leslie  which pronouns to use. Ze shrugged hir shoulders and said ze didn't care."&lt;/P&gt; &lt;DIV class=moreby align=justify&gt;&lt;B&gt;Joel Bleifuss&lt;/B&gt; is the editor of &lt;I&gt;In  These Times,&lt;/I&gt; where he has worked as an investigative reporter, columnist and  editor since 1986. Bleifuss has had more stories on Project Censored's annual  list of the "10 Most Censored Stories" than any other  journalist.&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt; &lt;P&gt; &lt;HR&gt;  &lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1618973231083522412-6639544645959726931?l=bancadetexto.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/feeds/6639544645959726931/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1618973231083522412&amp;postID=6639544645959726931' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/6639544645959726931'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/6639544645959726931'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/2010/01/your-how-to-guide-to-avoid-offending.html' title='Your &apos;how-to&apos; 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 &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;SPAN class=bylinetext&gt;&lt;FONT face=Verdana size=2&gt;By Marta Falconi&lt;BR&gt;The  Associated Press &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV class=pubdate&gt;&lt;FONT size=2&gt;&lt;SPAN class=pubdatetext&gt;&lt;FONT  face=Verdana&gt;Thursday, July 19, 2007&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt; &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV class=pubdate&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV class=inlinead&gt;&lt;!-- begin mpu --&gt; &lt;DIV align=center&gt; &lt;SCRIPT type=text/javascript&gt; ord = Math.random() * 10000000000000000; document.write('&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/adj/health.iht.com/article;cat=article;sz=336x280;ptile=2;ord=' + ord + '?"&gt;&lt;' + '/' + 'script&gt;'); if ((!document.images &amp;&amp; navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Mozilla/2.') &gt;= 0)|| navigator.userAgent.indexOf('WebTV') &gt;= 0){ document.write('&lt;a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/health.iht.com/article;cat=article;sz=336x280;ptile=2;ord=123456789?" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/health.iht.com/article;cat=article;sz=336x280;ptile=2;ord=123456789?" width="336" height="280" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;'); 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Archaeologists said  Thursday they have partially dug up a 2nd-century bath complex believed to be  part of the vast, luxurious residence of a wealthy Roman.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=bodytextdiv align=justify&gt;&lt;FONT size=2&gt;The two-story complex, which  extends for at least 5 acres (2 hectares), includes exceptionally well-preserved  decorated hot rooms, vaults, changing rooms, marble latrines and an underground  room where slaves lit the fire to warm the baths.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=bodytextdiv align=justify&gt;&lt;FONT size=2&gt;Statues and water cascades  decorated the interiors, American archaeologist Darius A. Arya, the head of the  excavation, said during a tour of the digs offered to The Associated Press on  Thursday. Only pedestals and fragments have been recovered.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=bodytextdiv align=justify&gt;&lt;FONT size=2&gt;Arya spoke as students and  experts were brushing off earth and dust from ancient marbles, mosaic floors and  a rudimentary heating system, made of pipes that channeled hot air throughout  the complex.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=bodytextdiv align=justify&gt;&lt;FONT size=2&gt;"The Romans had more leisure  time than other people, and it's here in the baths that they typically spent  their time," Arya said. "Because you could eat well, you could get a massage,  you could have sex, you could gossip, you could play your games, you could talk  about politics - you could spend the whole day here."&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=bodytextdiv align=justify&gt;&lt;FONT size=2&gt;However, he added, "to have a  bath complex of this size, this scale, it's very unusual."&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=bodytextdiv align=justify&gt;&lt;FONT size=2&gt;The complex is believed to be  part of a multiple-story villa that belonged to the Roman equivalent of a  billionaire of today, a man called Quintus Servilius Pudens who was friends with  Emperor Hadrian, Arya said. It is not clear if the baths were open to the public  or reserved to distinguished guests of the owner.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=bodytextdiv align=justify&gt;&lt;FONT size=2&gt;"These people lived a  magnificent existence and were able to provide entertainment," to others, said  Arya, who is also a professor at the American Institute for Roman  Culture.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=bodytextdiv align=justify&gt;&lt;FONT size=2&gt;Excavations at the Villa delle  Vignacce park lasted a total of 10 weeks, and it is planned to continue, he  said. Future decisions, including whether the site will be opened to the public,  are still to be made.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=bodytextdiv align=justify&gt;&lt;FONT size=2&gt;Ancient Romans put a great deal  of emphasis on bathing, turning the art of the soak into a ritual.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=bodytextdiv align=justify&gt;&lt;FONT size=2&gt;Meeting at communal bath houses,  they would go through a series of rooms of alternating temperatures at a  leisurely pace, dipping themselves in hot and cold baths. It was a social event,  but also a way to purify their bodies of toxins and a form of  relaxation.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1618973231083522412-3906303174786830110?l=bancadetexto.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/feeds/3906303174786830110/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1618973231083522412&amp;postID=3906303174786830110' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/3906303174786830110'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/3906303174786830110'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/2010/01/archaeologists-dig-up-2nd-century-bath.html' title='Archaeologists dig up 2nd-century bath complex in Rome'/><author><name>STARK!</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nYG86XB013I/TnZCEdj4lBI/AAAAAAAAGQo/AkfC5-uNvJE/s220/papilon%2B%25285%252928.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618973231083522412.post-5066144837086596144</id><published>2010-01-25T17:30:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-25T17:30:43.964-08:00</updated><title type='text'>O novelo da novela</title><content type='html'>&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial size=2&gt;&lt;FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;FONT  size=4&gt;O novelo da novela&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;!-- ### fim_titulo --&gt; &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt; &lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT class=sinopse&gt;&lt;!-- ### inicio_olho --&gt;&lt;!-- ### fim_olho --&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt; &lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT class=credito&gt;&lt;I&gt;&lt;!-- ### inicio_assinatura --&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Roberto DaMatta&lt;!-- ### fim_assinatura --&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/I&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt; &lt;/STRONG&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;&lt;FONT  class=not&gt;&lt;!-- ### inicio_texto --&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;&lt;FONT class=not&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;'Vovô - perguntou umas das minhas netas  -, por que a gente vê e acompanha as novelas?' A indagação se endereçava não  tanto ao avô que, sendo professor, autor de livros e 'antropólogo-antropófago'  (de idéias, é claro), tinha a obrigação de saber a resposta, mas a todo grupo  que, de olhos vidrados, assistia a mais um capítulo de Paraíso Tropical em  mágica sincronia com milhões de outras pessoas.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;De fato, tirante a  novela, o carnaval, o futebol e os eventos não previstos pelas rotinas - como a  visita do papa que faz o mais empedernido materialista dialético e o mais  enfurecido ateu virar 'católico' -, só o vergonhoso cotidiano dessa atividade  contraditória que chamamos de 'política', faz com que alguém entre em sincronia  com seus semelhantes no Brasil.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Achei a pergunta pertinente porque ela  deixava de lado o julgamento de valor. O seu centro não era saber se a novela  era boa ou ruim, se diminuía ou elevava os espíritos (como gosta de colocar a  esquerda estrelada que odeia, mas vive da televisão; e agora vai montar uma  indefinível 'TV pública'), mas queria discutir o poder de atração dessa forma de  narrativa feita de situações em série, ligada entre si por meio de ganchos  retóricos repetitivos, como o arcaico folhetim, mas contada por meio de imagens  sucessivas e planos rápidos, palavras, gestos, montagem e música, como o moderno  cinema.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Respondi que a novela atraía e enredava porque - como o Brasil  das pessoas comuns, o nosso Brasil - ela contava muitas histórias ao mesmo  tempo, combinando múltiplas vidas, profissões, personagens, destinos, relações e  situações. São tantos contextos e personagens que alguma coisa acaba nos  agarrando, promovendo uma densa identificação. Seu poder de 'dar o que falar' e  de agregar o público era proporcional aos dilemas que ia apresentando paulatina,  ciclicamente. De modo que quando um caso de amor terminava, a narrativa  desvendava um ato criminoso, e assim por diante. Era uma forma de arte que  simultaneamente prometia as certezas que aliviam e sustentam o voyeurismo, mas  não deixava de garantir o inesperado, que é o sal da boa trama.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Por causa  disso - acrescentei entusiasmado como sempre, mas sem ver que ninguém estava  prestando a menor atenção ao que dizia, pois continuavam colados a telinha -, há  em toda novela um núcleo articulador - uma rede central de intrigas - que serve  de referência ao que se passa ao seu redor. Tal núcleo, ou centro dramático,  pode ser uma academia de ginástica, uma empresa, um casarão, uma fábrica ou um  clube, mas dentro desse quadro, o miolo é sempre uma família. Um grupo  construído por laços de carne e sangue, atribuído pelo destino (ou por Deus), e  dado a cada um de nós por nascimento. Esses laços - enfatizei olhando firme para  dentro dos olhos de minha neta - que, no Brasil, são vistos como indestrutíveis  e baseados em lealdades perpétuas, estão em oposição permanente com as relações  individuais fundadas em escolhas, feitas fora da casa, por meio daquilo que se  chama de liberdade.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;É o conflito entre essas lealdades de sangue (dadas  pelo nascimento), e os interesses individualizados, descobertos pelo amor e pelo  erotismo que, com suas ricas variações, forma o tema central das novelas. A  história é velha como um mito, todo mundo sabe o seu final e, no entanto, como  ela é contada (e não vivida), como é algo a ver visto de fora para dentro (e não  ao contrário), todo mundo assisti com interesse.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Ora, completei, esse  embate entre a obrigação (que tem a ver com o dever para com a família) e a  escolha individual (que promove riscos, pois está centrada num distanciamento do  grupo em que se nasce) é muito brasileiro. Fala de como os laços de sangue são  tão poderosos quanto as tais 'empresas' ou 'grupos' empresariais que, não apenas  na novela, mas no Jornal Nacional, fazem manchete com seus conflitos sucessórios  e suas sagas matrimoniais.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Deste modo, novela vai, novela vem, e o drama  é sempre o de honrar os laços formados na casa e de ser, na rua, um indivíduo  bem-sucedido. Coisa complexa quando sabemos que as normas da rua promovem uma  apreciação igualitária das ações e, as da casa, o contrário. Assim, o mandão  hierarquiza; mas seus filhos, mulher ou empregados são governados pela  igualdade.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;'Mas vovô, isso acontece em todas as histórias...' - retorquiu  minha neta.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Sem dúvida... Mas em outros trópicos, o ponto todo é romper  com a família e individualizar-se completamente, entrando de cabeça num mundo no  qual não se tem nenhuma relação pessoal. Mas na novela, tudo pode ocorrer, menos  cortar relações. Nosso romance não é biográfico. Não narra a saga de um  descobrir-se individualmente, como as histórias inglesas e alemãs. Nele, a regra  é o equilibrar-se no fio de navalha constituído pelo individualizar-se sem, em  nenhum momento, livrar-se desses laços de família que são leves como as penas de  um pardal, mas pesam como chumbo. &lt;!-- ### fim_texto --&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;!-- ### inicio_pe --&gt;&lt;!-- ### fim_pe --&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt; &lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;!-- ### inicio_servico --&gt;&lt;!-- ### fim_servico --&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt; &lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;ESTADO DE SP, &lt;FONT size=1&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;16 de maio de 2007&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1618973231083522412-5066144837086596144?l=bancadetexto.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/feeds/5066144837086596144/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1618973231083522412&amp;postID=5066144837086596144' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/5066144837086596144'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/5066144837086596144'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/2010/01/o-novelo-da-novela.html' title='O novelo da novela'/><author><name>STARK!</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nYG86XB013I/TnZCEdj4lBI/AAAAAAAAGQo/AkfC5-uNvJE/s220/papilon%2B%25285%252928.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618973231083522412.post-7104390414359045695</id><published>2010-01-25T17:29:00.002-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-25T17:29:39.479-08:00</updated><title type='text'>'Brasil está destinado a ficar estacionado'</title><content type='html'>&lt;DIV&gt;March 25, 2007&amp;nbsp; -&amp;nbsp; Estadão&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV align=center&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial size=2&gt;&lt;FONT face="Times New Roman"  size=3&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;FONT size=4&gt;'Brasil está destinado a ficar  estacionado'&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;!-- ### fim_titulo --&gt; &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;P align=center&gt;&lt;FONT class=sinopse&gt;&lt;!-- ### inicio_olho --&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Desencantado  com o País, príncipe francês dizia em 1838 que aqui só a natureza prestava&lt;!-- ### fim_olho --&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt; &lt;/STRONG&gt; &lt;P align=center&gt;&lt;FONT  class=credito&gt;&lt;I&gt;&lt;!-- ### inicio_assinatura --&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Lilia Moritz Schwarcz&lt;!-- ### fim_assinatura --&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/I&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt; &lt;/STRONG&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;&lt;FONT  class=not&gt;&lt;!-- ### inicio_texto --&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;&lt;FONT class=not&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;O Brasil sempre significou um bom  espelho invertido a atazanar a imaginação dos franceses. Enquanto 'eles' tinham  muita 'civilização e pouca natureza', 'nós' éramos o local da 'grande flora, mas  da falta de civilização'. Por isso, a narrativa de viajantes setecentistas, como  Léris, Gandavo ou Thevet, acabou por germinar todo um imaginário acerca dessa  colônia perdida na América; uma espécie de paraíso perdido. Tal simbologia  tenderia a se arraigar ainda mais quando Rousseau, pautado na leitura dos  viajantes do 16 e no ensaio de Montaigne, chamado Os Canibais - verdadeiro  tratado elogioso sobre a maneira como os tupinambás faziam a guerra -, cunhou a  idéia do 'bom selvagem'. É fato que esse era um modelo e não uma realidade  empírica, mas a imagem romântica colou-se ao nosso território, associado à idéia  do sublime e do maravilhoso. Sublime era a natureza, porém estranhos eram seus  homens - nus e de costumes bizarros, ou ainda misturados em suas crenças e  raças.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;A vida dos franceses nesses trópicos americanos não seria, porém,  fácil. Com a vinda de d. João ao Brasil em 1808 e com a declaração de guerra à  França no mesmo ano, os compatriotas de Napoleão passaram a ser tratados como  inimigos e sofreram, eles sim, um bloqueio transcontinental. A situação só  começaria a mudar a partir de meados de 1814, quando, após o Congresso de Viena,  o príncipe regente português anunciava que as relações entre os países seriam, a  partir de então, 'amigáveis'; o que permitiria o livre trânsito de franceses em  Portugal e também na rica colônia americana. Data desse momento o começo das  novas relações oficiais franco-brasileiras, assim como se aceleram as trocas  culturais, econômicas, científicas e comerciais entre as duas  nações.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Entrariam no Brasil de d. João, de Pedro I e, sobretudo, de Pedro  II viajantes, naturalistas e curiosos franceses que pareciam querer redescobrir  um país descoberto há muito tempo. Para os franceses, que conheciam a América  espanhola por intermédio de Humboldt mas desconheciam o Brasil, esse era o país  mais 'exótico' do continente - com canibais, serpentes e natureza singular -  mas, paradoxalmente, o mais 'civilizado': uma monarquia cercada de  repúblicas.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;É imbuído do desejo de entender uma nação tão particular que  aporta no Rio, em 1838, o terceiro filho do rei-cidadão Luis Filipe de Orleáns;  monarca que governou a França de 1830 a 1848. François Ferdinand Filipe Louis  Marie d'Orleáns, futuro príncipe de Joinville, era na época um jovem tenente da  marinha, e com apenas 20 anos mal sabia que, no futuro, iria se casar com a irmã  de Pedro II, d. Francisca, que nesse momento achou desengonçada e com dentes  horríveis.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Esta primeira viagem ao Brasil foi talvez aquela que causou  maior impacto ao príncipe. François esteve no País de 1º de janeiro de 1838 a 22  de fevereiro e relatou as impressões da estada em um livro que está sendo  lançado pela José Olympio, Diário de um Príncipe no Rio de Janeiro (84 págs., R$  19). Nele, legou um relato espirituoso e escrachado, correspondente à atitude do  viajante que traz sempre em sua mala os próprios costumes e traduz tudo a partir  de suas lentes culturais, que o fazem oscilar entre o deslumbramento, o choque,  a imaginação e a rejeição.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;E no caso de nosso príncipe não seria  diferente. No ano em que François desembarca, vivíamos a maior das crises  regenciais. Feijó se demitira em 1837 e fora substituído interinamente por Pedro  de Araújo Lima, que não dera conta de debelar as rebeliões do período: a  Cabanagem no Pará, a Farroupilha no Rio Grande do Sul, a Revolta dos Malês na  Bahia, além da Sabinada que eclodira em novembro daquele ano na mesma província.  Não sem uma ponta de sarcasmo, Luis François refere-se a d. Pedro como 'o  pequeno imperador', lamenta o estado de 'abandono e isolamento' do futuro  monarca e de suas irmãs, assim como aposta que o País não ficaria integrado e  coeso por muito tempo. 'As províncias comerciais do Pará, de Pernambuco e da  Bahia vão separar-se, a do Rio Grande do Sul já se libertou e Santa Catarina  seguirá seu exemplo. Restará então um império composto do Rio, São Paulo, Goiás  e Matocross (sic) e alguns lugares cujo nome esqueci.'&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;François conhecia  pouco mas julgava muito. Já na chegada, começa a debochar do jovem d. Pedro  dizendo que, desde que havia sido anunciada sua visita, o futuro rei todo dia  alertava as irmãs: 'Vistam-se depressa que o príncipe vem aí.' E a recepção do  nobre francês não seria das melhores: um calor insuportável, 'negros pavorosos  de raça cafre ou moçambicanos horrorosos', ameaças de tempestade e nuvens de  mosquitos por todos os lados. A visita ao Paço de São Cristóvão também não o  impressionou. Ao contrário, quando François desembarcou diante do Palácio  Imperial, 'uma multidão enorme aí se comprimia, pois nesse país não há nenhum  traço de polícia'. Isso sem esquecer da nota de escárnio diante do fraco  cerimonial da corte: 'Uma carruagem atrelada a seis mulas escolta uma cavalaria  cujas trombetas produzem sons como de chifres de boi.'&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;E era chegada a  hora de encontrar a família imperial: 'Finalmente percebo uma figura miudinha,  da altura da minha perna, empertigada, emproada: é sua Majestade!!' O pior é que  a conversa não andava - 'nada o divertia'. Até o regente, percebendo o  constrangimento, tentou puxar conversa com o príncipe francês. Parece que  ninguém se entendia: o príncipe brasileiro falava sem parar, o francês respondia  'a torto e a direito' e nada descontraía o ambiente. 'Voltei como vim', escreveu  o príncipe de Joinville, desfazendo do jovem rei, segundo ele, louro e miúdo  como a família austríaca, 'mas com modos de um homem de 40 anos'. A visita a d.  Pedro terminara: 'Logo me retirei cheio de piedade por essas pobres crianças  abandonadas a quem dão apenas aquilo que é preciso para viver e que são  perseguidas por uma nuvem de gente sem moral que deixa o país que lhes foi  confiado dividir-se e cair em uma rápida decadência.'&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Os costumes também  faziam rir a esse representante da Monarquia de Julho. No baile que recebeu,  estranhou as roupas da nobreza, e as danças lhe deram uma 'vontade inextinguível  de rir'. O jeito foi ficar sentado no sofá, 'morrendo de tédio'. O príncipe só  dava sinais de apreciar, mesmo, a vegetação local; na verdade, sua grande missão  nessa viagem. Partiu com muita bagagem ('porque num país como este é preciso  levar tudo'), viu matas admiráveis cheias de pássaro, o Pão de Açúcar, o  Corcovado, atravessou rios de água fresca e montanhas arborizadas, além de ter  praticado a caça; atividade dileta dos Orléans. O Brasil lhe parecia, sob esse  ângulo, 'um país virgem', o que só fazia aumentar sua saudade da  França.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Também não deixou de reparar 'na diferença de cores de toda essa  gente'. O império americano era mesmo um 'laboratório de raças' aos olhos desses  viajantes. Entabulou conversa com alguns proprietários de terra a respeito do  tratamento, castigo e governo dos escravos e, aí sim, desfez dessa 'pobre  civilização'. Por essas e por outras é que asseverou que 'o País, por causa de  sua situação, população e personalidade dos habitantes, estava destinado a ficar  estacionado por muito tempo'. Tudo lhe parecia indecente: estradas, roupas, os  negros que dançavam com lascívia, a escravidão e a preguiça. E a conclusão era  uma só: 'A viagem foi interessante, me fez conhecer bem o Brasil, mas me  desencantei ...'&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;No entanto, até que a viagem trouxe rendimentos  pessoais. François saiu do Brasil levando um leão que crescia e a cada dia  ficava mais dócil; um gato tigrado; um sarigueia com seus filhotes no bolso;  gazelas; macacos; papagaios; coelhos; uma preguiça e seu filho: 'O animal mais  incrível que jamais vi.' Nosso príncipe virou feriado, ganhou medalha com a  imagem de um índio ao centro e mereceu uma chuva de fogos de artifício. Essa  gente era provinciana, mas sabia se divertir de vez em quando. François até que  aproveitou de seu baile de despedida e dançou até as 4 e meia da madrugada,  quando d. Pedro já se encontrava, faz tempo, embaixo dos lençóis: 'Dançamos um  cotilon no meio do qual soltamos o leão dancei até cair morto.' Não obstante,  partiu dizendo que daqui só a natureza prestava.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Mas vida de príncipe  também é sujeita a reviravoltas. François acabaria por mudar de opinião, ao  menos com relação à (outrora desengonçada) irmã de d. Pedro: d. Chica virou  beldade. Por sinal, ele teve de esperar muito para que seu pedido de casamento  fosse atendido e voltou mais duas vezes ao País. O bom humor do príncipe também  seria afetado pelo destino da 'Monarquia de Julho' e pela destituição da  dinastia de Luís Felipe de Orléans, que terminou seus dias com a revolução de  1848, a qual levou toda a sua família ao exílio na Inglaterra. O mundo andava  convulsionado e também a civilização dos franceses não era lá essa  coisas.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Diário de um Príncipe no Rio de Janeiro é um monumento ao bom  humor. Pena que nessa edição faltem os desenhos, aquarelas, estampas e  caricaturas que compõem o documento original; que pode ser encontrado no Museu  de Petrópolis. Ninguém vê com olhos livres e sem filtros e nosso príncipe estava  coberto deles. Mas esse diário não só testemunha a crise que viveu o Império  durante as regências, como é original na sua escrita divertida; oposta aos  documentos sisudos, que sempre legam uma visão enaltecedora e oficial. Nesse  caso, tudo é palco para o deboche.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;No fundo, nosso príncipe gozador só  pretendia passar pelo Brasil: seu destino sempre foi a França. Diz ele na  despedida: 'Velas ao vento, presentes a serem distribuídos e um baile à francesa  a me esperar, assim como a honra nacional e nossa bela família.' Quem diria que  todo esse cenário iria desabar em menos de 10 anos. Castelos são muitas vezes  cenários frágeis. &lt;!-- ### fim_texto --&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;&lt;!-- ### inicio_pe --&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Lilia Moritz Schwarcz é  professora titular do Departamento de Antropologia e autora, entre outros, de As  Barbas do Imperador&lt;!-- ### fim_pe --&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt; &lt;P&gt; &lt;HR&gt;  &lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;No virus found in this incoming message.&lt;BR&gt;Checked by AVG Free  Edition.&lt;BR&gt;Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.17/730 - Release Date:  22/3/2007 07:44&lt;BR&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1618973231083522412-7104390414359045695?l=bancadetexto.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/feeds/7104390414359045695/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1618973231083522412&amp;postID=7104390414359045695' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/7104390414359045695'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/7104390414359045695'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/2010/01/brasil-esta-destinado-ficar-estacionado.html' title='&apos;Brasil está destinado a ficar estacionado&apos;'/><author><name>STARK!</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nYG86XB013I/TnZCEdj4lBI/AAAAAAAAGQo/AkfC5-uNvJE/s220/papilon%2B%25285%252928.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618973231083522412.post-4939748077949477735</id><published>2010-01-25T17:29:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-25T17:28:53.862-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Hora de unir a obra de Bento Prado</title><content type='html'>&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial size=2&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;ESTADO DE SP - 21 de jan de 2007&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV align=center&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial size=2&gt;&lt;FONT face="Times New Roman"  size=3&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;FONT size=4&gt;Hora de unir a obra de Bento Prado&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;!-- ### fim_titulo --&gt; &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;P align=center&gt;&lt;FONT class=sinopse&gt;&lt;!-- ### inicio_olho --&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Notas de  aulas, trechos de conversas: as muitas idéias e conceitos do filósofo foram em  grande parte passados de forma oral&lt;!-- ### fim_olho --&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;  &lt;/STRONG&gt; &lt;P align=center&gt;&lt;FONT  class=credito&gt;&lt;I&gt;&lt;!-- ### inicio_assinatura --&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Renato Janine Ribeiro&lt;!-- ### fim_assinatura --&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/I&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt; &lt;/STRONG&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;&lt;FONT  class=not&gt;&lt;!-- ### inicio_texto --&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P align=justify&gt;&lt;FONT class=not&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Na adolescência tive uma professora  estupenda, que me incutiu amor pelas coisas do conhecimento: dona Lia de Almeida  Prado, que lecionava latim e português no Colégio Alberto Levy, em São Paulo.  Quando prestei o vestibular de filosofia eu sabia que um irmão seu era professor  destacado no departamento da USP, embora relativamente moço, mas demorei a  conhecê-lo. Não cheguei a ser aluno de Bento Prado - nem de Giannotti, os dois  cassados nossos de abril de 1969: eu entrava no segundo ano, eles não lecionavam  no primeiro e, na verdade, pude ter apenas três aulas com Bento antes que a Voz  do Brasil anunciasse a sua exclusão, arbitrária e criminosa, da universidade.  &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Assim, nunca fui próximo dele, que agora se extinguiu novo, aos 60 e  poucos anos. Quando voltou à universidade, foi pela Federal de São Carlos,  dirigida por um grande reitor, Saad Hossne, que se antecipou à USP na  reintegração dos antigos cassados. Ficou em São Carlos, assinando seus textos de  "Vila Pureza". Mas seus textos não foram, não são, pelo menos por ora, muitos.  Espero que a família e os mais chegados providenciem a edição do que ficou  inédito. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Só que o inédito de Bento nem sempre é um texto por ele  escrito. Ao contrário de Giannotti, que publicou e publica em dimensão  comparável à fama de que desfruta, Bento editou relativamente pouco. Paulo  Arantes, num artigo que já tem anos, comentava a freqüência com que Bento  presenteava algum aluno com um artigo inédito, após uma longa conversa. Deve  haver inéditos dessa ordem. Mas também há notas de aula, lembranças de conversas  e, embora possa parecer um pouco arcaizante a sugestão de que para o acesso às  idéias de Bento seja preciso passarmos pelos depoimentos, como os que Diógenes  Laércio coletou sobre os grandes pensadores antigos, é fato que muito da  intervenção de Bento foi oral. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Era um grande conversador, que com  facilidade imaginava idéias. Freqüentava não só a literatura, mas também o  cinema e até o romance policial. Com ele, os gêneros se misturavam. Retirava  conceitos e filosofia de quase qualquer matéria. Num ambiente em que os  conceitos se prendem muito aos autores, em que a filosofia se tornou refém da  história da filosofia (é assim que eu e alguns colegas vemos os impasses da  filosofia no Brasil), Bento Prado era exemplar, porque, conhecedor profundo dos  pensadores passados, circulava em meio a eles e a outros criadores como se todos  fossem vivos.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Sua própria produção publicada o atesta. Tive a honra de  editar seu Bergson pela Edusp, há uns vinte anos. Dirigia a comissão de  publicações da Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas e nos  empenhamos em fazer que teses notáveis, ainda inéditas, viessem a lume. Acabamos  convencendo a Editora da USP, que até a época só atuava em co-edição, isto é,  não tomava a iniciativa de editar mas ia a reboque de editoras comerciais, a  criar uma série de teses das áreas de Humanas, que na verdade durou pouco. Cada  faculdade escolheu um livro e a FFLCH, por seu tamanho maior, teve direito a um  quinhão mais amplo, onde por sinal também figurou Antonio Candido. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Digo  isso porque Bergson foi um dos filósofos mais afeitos à literatura, às artes,  que houve. Pensador algo esquecido ao longo do século 20, foi contudo alguém  que, 100 anos atrás, ajudou a estabelecer ou reforçar os laços entre o filosofar  e o criar artístico. Também é significativo que Bento, a par dessa tese de  livre-docência defendida nos anos 60, dedicasse especial carinho a dois outros  tipos de escritos.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;O primeiro são os escritos em torno da literatura, que  aparecem em Alguns Ensaios, que publicou nos anos 80, e são complementados em  edição posterior, na qual surgem novos artigos, tendo como eixo a ligação da  filosofia com a literatura - por exemplo, de Guimarães Rosa com Heidegger. O  segundo são os ensaios que dialogam com questões candentes de nosso tempo. Aqui,  destaco duas vertentes. Uma é a do senso comum. Trata-se de um debate lançado  entre nós especialmente por seu amigo e colega Porchat, que ao se tornar cético  passou a celebrar as qualidades do senso comum sobre as da pretensão filosófica.  Como muitos sabem, o diálogo aqui é difícil, não pelas personalidades (eram  amigos), mas pela dificuldade de alguém de tradição européia continental, isto  é, alemã até meados do século 20 e francesa desde inícios do mesmo século,  fazer-se entender de (ou entender) alguém de tradição anglo-saxônica.  &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Porchat, formado embora na escola francesa (de Goldschmidt), fez-se  próximo da visão mais prática dos anglo-saxões (um exemplo notável dessa  diferença de posições saiu neste jornal há duas décadas, quando Gérard Lebrun  resenhou o livro de Olivier Todd - jornalista francês de simpatia inglesa -  sobre a filosofia de seu quase-pai adotivo, nada menos do que Jean-Paul Sartre,  a quem Todd respeitava como pessoa mas cujas idéias não lhe pareciam  simplesmente fazer sentido). Bento tinha escuta. O livro de ambos é um dos mais  empolgantes da filosofia brasileira nos anos 90, debatendo eles com alguns  colegas sobre a visão filosófica e a do senso comum sobre o mundo.  &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Falando em escuta, outra vertente que empenhou Bento foi a da  psicanálise. Não só porque seu departamento em S. Carlos a trabalha em relação  com a filosofia, e pelo conhecimento que sua esposa, Lucia Prado, tem do  assunto, mas talvez porque esse movimento de idéias tão decisivo do século 20  apontasse bem os limites do diálogo. Em suma, tivemos em Bento alguém da boa  tradição socrática (do diálogo, da conversa, da intervenção tanto mais forte  porque oral), mas também com a suspeita que Freud deita sobre o diálogo, ao  criar formas de escuta mais carregadas de dúvida.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Um comentário final e  inevitável é: como Bento se dava num mundo em que cada vez mais se preza a  publicação, a produção? Feita a ressalva de que a filosofia praticamente nasce  com um grande mestre hiper-oral, Sócrates, é preciso também lembrar que Bento  foi assessor do CNPq (onde deixou a lembrança de um "homem único,  extraordinário, de fineza rara, inteligência aguda e espantosa simplicidade") e  presidente da associação de pós-graduações em filosofia. Transitou no oral e no  informal, mas também na instituição. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Mas creio sobretudo que há um  grande erro em pensar que nosso tempo se divide entre o "publish or perish" de  exigências que não levam em conta a qualidade e uma criação inefável,  imensurável, de quem nunca presta contas em público. Primeiro, publicar  trabalhos ruins não é valorizado por nenhum grupo científico. Segundo,  personalidades como Bento são raras e não servem para justificar a  improdutividade de quem nada faz. Mas termino, com o risco de me repetir: é hora  de coletar as memórias, aulas, presenças de Bento Prado. Isso não é repetir  Diógenes Laércio. Afinal, temos livros tanto de Hegel quanto de Heidegger,  escritos a partir de notas de alunos. Se não me engano, a certa altura um  estudante presenteou Bento com um livro pronto, do próprio Bento, que reunia  aulas dele. É disso que, agora, precisamos. &lt;!-- ### fim_texto --&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;&lt;!-- ### inicio_pe --&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Renato Janine Ribeiro é professor de Ética e  Filosofia Política na USP e diretor de Avaliação da  Capes&lt;!-- ### fim_pe --&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt; &lt;P&gt; &lt;HR&gt;  &lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;No virus found in this incoming message.&lt;BR&gt;Checked by AVG Free  Edition.&lt;BR&gt;Version: 7.1.410 / Virus Database: 268.16.14/636 - Release Date:  18/01/2007&lt;BR&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1618973231083522412-4939748077949477735?l=bancadetexto.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/feeds/4939748077949477735/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1618973231083522412&amp;postID=4939748077949477735' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/4939748077949477735'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/4939748077949477735'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/2010/01/hora-de-unir-obra-de-bento-prado.html' title='Hora de unir a obra de Bento Prado'/><author><name>STARK!</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nYG86XB013I/TnZCEdj4lBI/AAAAAAAAGQo/AkfC5-uNvJE/s220/papilon%2B%25285%252928.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618973231083522412.post-7802678191396929946</id><published>2010-01-25T17:27:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-25T17:27:37.758-08:00</updated><title type='text'>i carry your heart with me  - E E Cummings</title><content type='html'>&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial size=2&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial size=2&gt;i carry your heart with me (i carry it in&lt;BR&gt;my  heart) i am never without it (anywhere&lt;BR&gt;i go you go, my dear; and whatever is  done&lt;BR&gt;by only me is your doing, my  darling)&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;  i fear&lt;BR&gt;no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) i want&lt;BR&gt;no world (for  beautiful you are my world, my true)&lt;BR&gt;and it's you are whatever a moon has  always meant&lt;BR&gt;and whatever a sun will always sing is you&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial size=2&gt;here is the deepest secret nobody knows&lt;BR&gt;(here is  the root of the root and the bud of the bud&lt;BR&gt;and the sky of the sky of a tree  called life; which grows&lt;BR&gt;higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)&lt;BR&gt;and  this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial size=2&gt;i carry your heart (i carry it in my  heart)&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1618973231083522412-7802678191396929946?l=bancadetexto.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/feeds/7802678191396929946/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1618973231083522412&amp;postID=7802678191396929946' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/7802678191396929946'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/7802678191396929946'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/2010/01/i-carry-your-heart-with-me-e-e-cummings.html' title='i carry your heart with me  - E E Cummings'/><author><name>STARK!</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nYG86XB013I/TnZCEdj4lBI/AAAAAAAAGQo/AkfC5-uNvJE/s220/papilon%2B%25285%252928.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618973231083522412.post-3564899370784112401</id><published>2010-01-25T17:26:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-25T17:26:49.853-08:00</updated><title type='text'>"Não sou profeta, mas Portugal acabará por integrar-se na Espanha"</title><content type='html'>&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial size=2&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt; 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    &lt;TD vAlign=top height=10&gt;&lt;IMG        src="http://imgs.sapo.pt/images/c2/dn.sapo.pt/layout/spacer.gif"&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;/TBODY&gt;&lt;/TABLE&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV align=justify&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV align=justify&gt; &lt;TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=430 align=center border=0&gt;   &lt;TBODY&gt;   &lt;TR bgColor=#f1f1f1&gt;     &lt;TD class=arial_10_encarnado vAlign=top width="100%" bgColor=#f1f1f1&gt;       &lt;P&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;FONT size=2&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial&gt;&lt;SPAN        class=arial_azul_escuro&gt;&lt;FONT color=#052850&gt;"Não sou profeta, mas Portugal        acabará por integrar-se na Espanha"&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;        &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;SPAN class=arial_8_cinzaclaro&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;FONT        face=Arial color=#787878 size=2&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;JOÃO CÉU E SILVA (texto e        foto)&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial size=2&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;        &lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;     &lt;TD width=10 bgColor=#f1f1f1&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial        size=2&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;     &lt;TD align=right width=285&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial size=2&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;IMG        src="http://dn.sapo.pt/2007/07/15/707612.jpg"&gt;    &lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;/TBODY&gt;&lt;/TABLE&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;!-- END: caixa_titulo --&gt;&lt;!-- START: caixa_texto --&gt; &lt;DIV&gt; &lt;TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=430 align=center border=0&gt;   &lt;TBODY&gt;   &lt;TR&gt;     &lt;TD&gt;       &lt;DIV align=justify&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial size=2&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;IMG        src="http://imgs.sapo.pt/images/c2/dn.sapo.pt/layout/10px.gif"&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;   &lt;TR&gt;     &lt;TD class=arial_noticias_artigo vAlign=top&gt;       &lt;DIV align=justify&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial size=2&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Este foi o regresso        mais longo de José Saramago a Portugal desde que a polémica que envolveu a        candidatura do seu livro &lt;I&gt;O&lt;/I&gt; &lt;I&gt;Evangelho segundo Jesus Cristo &lt;/I&gt;ao        Prémio Literário Europeu o levou para um "exílio" na ilha espanhola de        Lanzarote. A atribuição do Prémio Nobel parece tê-lo feito esquecer essas        mágoas, mas não amoleceu a sua visão da sociedade e da História, que        continua a ser polémica. Como se pode ver nesta entrevista.        &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Durante dois dias, o Nobel da Literatura português sentou-se no        sofá e analisou o estado do mundo. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Na única entrevista que        concedeu durante a temporada passada na sua casa de Lisboa, falou muito de        política, mais de literatura e também da vida e da morte. Pelo meio ficou        o anúncio da criação da fundação com o seu nome e a revelação de que está        a escrever um novo livro.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;A união ibérica&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Este regresso a        Portugal é um perdão?&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;O país não me fez mal algum, não confundamos,        nem há nenhuma reconciliação porque não houve nenhum corte. O que        aconteceu foi com um governo de um partido que já não é governo, com um        senhor chamado Sousa Lara e outro de nome Santana Lopes. Claro que as        responsabilidades estendem-se ao governo, a quem eu pedi o favor de fazer        qualquer coisa mas não fez nada, e resolvi ir embora. Quando foi do Prémio        Nobel, dei uma volta pelo país porque toda a gente me queria ver, até        pessoas que não lêem apareceram! E desde então tenho vindo com muita        frequência a Lisboa.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Vive num país que pouco a pouco toma conta da        economia portuguesa. Não o incomoda?&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Acho que é uma situação        natural.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Qual é o futuro de Portugal nesta península?&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Não        vale a pena armar -me em profeta, mas acho que acabaremos por        integrar-nos.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Política, económica ou        culturalmente?&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Culturalmente, não, a Catalunha tem a sua própria        cultura, que é ao mesmo tempo comum ao resto da Espanha, tal como a dos        bascos e a galega, nós não nos converteríamos em espanhóis. Quando olhamos        para a Península Ibérica o que é que vemos? Observamos um conjunto, que        não está partida em bocados e que é um todo que está composto de        nacionalidades, e em alguns casos de línguas diferentes, mas que tem        vivido mais ou menos em paz. Integrados o que é que aconteceria? Não        deixaríamos de falar português, não deixaríamos de escrever na nossa        língua e certamente com dez milhões de habitantes teríamos tudo a ganhar        em desenvolvimento nesse tipo de aproximação e de integração territorial,        administrativa e estrutural. Quanto à queixa que tantas vezes ouço sobre a        economia espanhola estar a ocupar Portugal, não me lembro de alguma vez        termos reclamado de outras economias como as dos Estados Unidos ou da        Inglaterra, que também ocuparam o país. Ninguém se queixou, mas como desta        vez é o castelhano que vencemos em Aljubarrota que vem por aí com empresas        em vez de armas...&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Seria, então, mais uma província de        Espanha?&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Seria isso. Já temos a Andaluzia, a Catalunha, o País        Basco, a Galiza, Castilla la Mancha e tínhamos Portugal. Provavelmente        [Espanha] teria de mudar de nome e passar a chamar-se Ibéria. Se Espanha        ofende os nossos brios, era uma questão a negociar. O Ceilão não se chama        agora Sri Lanka, muitos países da Ásia mudaram de nome e a União Soviética        não passou a Federação Russa?&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Mas algumas das províncias espanholas        também querem ser independentes!&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;A única independência real que se        pede é a do País Basco e mesmo assim ninguém acredita. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;E os        portugueses aceitariam a integração?&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Acho que sim, desde que isso        fosse explicado, não é uma cedência nem acabar com um país, continuaria de        outra maneira. Repito que não se deixaria de falar, de pensar e sentir em        português. Seríamos aqui aquilo que os catalães querem ser e estão a ser        na Catalunha.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;E como é que seria esse governo da Ibéria?&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Não        iríamos ser governados por espanhóis, haveria representantes dos partidos        de ambos os países, que teriam representação num parlamento único com        todas as forças políticas da Ibéria, e tal como em Espanha, onde cada        autonomia tem o seu parlamento próprio, nós também o teríamos.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Há        duas Espanhas &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Os espanhóis olham-no como um deles?&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Há duas        Espanhas neste caso. Evidentemente, tratam-me como se fosse um deles, mas        com as finanças espanholas ando numa guerra há, pelo menos, quatro anos        porque querem que pague lá os impostos e consideram que lhes devo uma        grande quantidade de dinheiro. Eu recusei-me a pagar e o meu argumento é        extremamente simples, não pago duas vezes o que já paguei uma. Se há        duplicação de impostos, então que o governo espanhol se entenda com o        português e decidam. Eu tenho cá a minha casa e a minha residência fiscal        sempre foi em Lisboa, ou seja, não há dúvidas de que estou numa situação        de plena legalidade. Quanto aos impostos, e é por aí que também se vê o        patriotismo, pago-os pontualmente em Portugal. Nunca pus o meu dinheiro        num paraíso fiscal e repugna-me pensar que há quem o faça. O meu dinheiro        é para aquilo que o Governo entender que serve.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Mas não pode negar        que o olham como um deus...&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Não diria tanto... &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Mesmo sendo        a crítica espanhola tão positiva em relação à sua obra?&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Também já        foi uma ou outra vez um pouco negativa - talvez devido às minhas posições        políticas e ideológicas - mas de um modo geral tenho uma excelente crítica        em toda a parte, como é o caso dos EUA, onde é quase unânime na apreciação        da minha  obra.&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;/TBODY&gt;&lt;/TABLE&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1618973231083522412-3564899370784112401?l=bancadetexto.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/feeds/3564899370784112401/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1618973231083522412&amp;postID=3564899370784112401' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/3564899370784112401'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/3564899370784112401'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/2010/01/nao-sou-profeta-mas-portugal-acabara.html' title='&quot;Não sou profeta, mas Portugal acabará por integrar-se na Espanha&quot;'/><author><name>STARK!</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nYG86XB013I/TnZCEdj4lBI/AAAAAAAAGQo/AkfC5-uNvJE/s220/papilon%2B%25285%252928.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618973231083522412.post-6947844426278873901</id><published>2010-01-25T17:22:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-25T17:22:30.783-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The democracy of Don Quixote</title><content type='html'>&lt;!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"&gt; &lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt; &lt;META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"&gt; &lt;META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.5512" name=GENERATOR&gt; &lt;STYLE&gt;&lt;/STYLE&gt; &lt;/HEAD&gt; &lt;BODY bgColor=#ffffff&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial size=2&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial  size=2&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial size=2&gt; &lt;DIV style="MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 5px; POSITION: relative"  align=center&gt; &lt;DIV  style="MARGIN-LEFT: auto; WIDTH: 240px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; TEXT-ALIGN: left"&gt;&lt;IMG  height=96 src="http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/images/prospect-logo.jpg"  width=240&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV style="MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 5px; POSITION: relative"  align=center&gt; &lt;DIV class=issue_head  style="MARGIN-LEFT: auto; WIDTH: 233px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; TEXT-ALIGN: left"&gt;Issue&amp;nbsp;135&amp;nbsp;,&amp;nbsp;June  2007&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV class=articletitle  style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 5px; POSITION: relative"  align=center&gt;&lt;FONT size=4&gt;The democracy of Don Quixote&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV class=author  style="MARGIN-TOP: 5px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 20px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 5px; POSITION: relative"  align=center&gt;&lt;FONT size=3&gt;by Jonathan Rée&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV class=leadtext  style="MARGIN-TOP: 15px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 5px; POSITION: relative"  align=center&gt;Novelists have always turned their hands to essays, and the  essay-writing novelist remains a literary force to be reckoned with. The two  forms share an inherent pluralism and scepticism that makes them natural allies  of democracy&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV class=author  style="BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; MARGIN-TOP: 10px; FONT-SIZE: 16px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-TOP: 5px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1px solid; FONT-STYLE: italic; POSITION: relative; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"  align=justify&gt;Jonathan Rée is a freelance historian and philosopher&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;P class=articlecontent  style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 5px; POSITION: relative; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"  align=left&gt;In or around 1605, European literature changed. No one realised it at  the time, but when Don Quixote set off to save the world, a new kind of writing  was born. The old forms of storytellingthe epic, the romance, the oral  talewould from now on be pitted against a boisterous young rival. Before long  it would be universally acknowledged that a reader hoping to enjoy a good story  must be in search of a novel.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;The novelty of the novel is of course  connected with the rise of printing, and the growth of a literate public with  time and money to spare. Beyond that, the sheer scale of the form allows  storylines to be extended and multiplied as never before, crossing and  re-crossing each other with ample scope for coincidence, surprise and  contingency, and hence for the depiction of characters with whom, as William  Hazlitt put it, the reader can "identify." But the most momentous way in which  novels distinguish themselves from other kinds of storytelling is that they give  a central role to a supernumerary characterthe narratorwhose task is to  transmit the story to us. All kinds of stories invite us to imagine the  characters they portray, and involve ourselves in their fortunes and their  follies; but to engage with novels we need to go one step further and imagine  the people telling the story, or even identify with them. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;The art of  reading a novel involves a dash of experiment, conjecture, even risk. It  requires readers to try out different narrative perspectives, styles, even  personalities, and so to explore the inherent variousness of experience, and to  recognise the vein of arbitrariness that runs through any possible version of  events. Novels, in short, are implicitly pluralistic. In this respect they  resemble essays, which, as it happens, came into existence at more or less the  same time (Montaigne launched the form in 1580, with Bacon following in 1597).  Essays tend to be classier, more learned and more demandingthere is no  essayistic equivalent of the "popular novel"and even when written in a  perfectly casual style, they are likely to be strewn with half-concealed  quotations or allusions to flatter or perhaps annoy the smarter class of reader.  As exercises in hesitation, exploration and experimental self-multiplication,  they are like novels, only more so. You might even say that the novel aspires to  the condition of the essay, and there is certainly no shortage of novelists who  have aspired to be essayists too. Think of Eliot or Henry James, Woolf, Forster  or Orwell, or Mann, Sartre, De Beauvoir, Camus and Mary McCarthy. And as the  four recently published books now lying open on my kitchen table demonstrate,  the essay-writing novelist is still a literary force to be reckoned with.  &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;IMG style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 15px; MARGIN-LEFT: 15px" alt=""  src="http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/usr/Essay_Ree.gif" align=right  border=0&gt;In his luminous new collection, The Curtain (Faber &amp;amp; Faber), Milan  Kundera argues that the special virtue of the novel lies in its ability to part  the "magic curtain, woven of legends" that hangs between us and the ordinary  world. The curtain has been put there to cover up the trivia of our lives, the  forgotten old boxes and bags where "an enigma remains an enigma" while ugliness  flirts with beauty, and reason courts the absurd. These neglected spaces were  redeemed for literature, according to Kundera, at the moment when Cervantes got  his readers to imagine Don Quixote as he lay dying while his niece went on  eating, the housekeeper went on drinking and Sancho Panza went on being "of good  cheer." By inventing a narrator through whose consciousness such dumb events  could be worked up into an affecting "scene," Cervantes created a form of  literature that could do justice to "modest sentiments"; and so a new kind of  beautyKundera calls it "prosaic beauty"was born. Henry Fielding took the  technique further when he created a narrator who could charm his readers with  benign loquacity, and Laurence Sterne completed the development by blithely  allowing the story of Tristram Shandy to be ruined by the character trying to  recount it.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;If Cervantes rent the curtain that separates us from the  prose of ordinary life, Kafka tore it down completely. After Kafka, according to  Kundera, the novel entered a realm where reality could never "correspond to  people's idea of it"; from now on the novel would be a constant witness to the  "unavoidable relativism of human truths."&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Kundera suggests that no one  can become a novelist who has not passed through a long night of lyrical  self-absorption to emerge on the other side in a state of bewildered, uncertain  enlightenment. Novelists are specialists in the kind of moral wisdom which knows  "that nobody is the person he thinks he is, that this misapprehension is  universal, elementary, and that it casts on people the soft gleam of the  comical." And this gentle scepticism has political implications too, as Kundera  notes when he recalls the "Manicheism" that deformed his native Czechoslovakia  when he was a student in Prague after the second world war. Politics at that  time was not a forum where perplexed citizens could engage in a collective  search for freedom and happiness, or truth and reconciliation, but a battlefield  where militant partisans would try to vindicate their correct views about  everything and punish anyone who saw things differently. Kundera joined the  Communist party, where he was taught that art must take sides in a historic  "battle between good and evil," but he was never quite convinced. (In 1950 he  was expelled from the party for his obtuseness, but eventually gained  readmission, only to be expelled a second time in 1970, after which he escaped  to France and set about rebuilding his literary life in a second language.) "Art  is not a village band marching dutifully at History's heels," Kundera now says,  and politics itself will suffocate without access to the forgiving fluidity of  the novel. "The novel alone," as he puts it, "could reveal the immense,  mysterious power of the pointless."&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Jm Coetzee approaches politics with a  similar combination of irony, seriousness and principled reticence. His  political attitudes may be connected with the difficulties of being a liberal  white South African, but they have their intellectual origins in his prodigious  work as a novelist. His latest collection of essays, Inner Workings (Harvill  Secker), keeps returning to the question of "the novel form," and how Cervantes  created it in order to demonstrate the power of the imagination. One of the  great virtues of the novel, according to Coetzee, is to teach us that there is  no perfect way of carving up the world or recounting its stories. This is a  lesson that bears on politics as well, counting against any political aspiration  that arises from nationality, identity or tribal loyalty. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;But Coetzee  does not confine his attention to novelists, and an outstanding essay on Walt  Whitman allows him to explore a conception of democracy that he himself would  evidently endorse: democratic politics, he suggests, is "not one of the  superficial inventions of human reason but an aspect of the ever-developing  human spirit, rooted in eros." Those who make a fetish out of politics, he  implies, are in danger of foreclosing on democracy. Take Walter Benjamin, for  example. Coetzee, refusing to treat him with the awed indulgence that has become  customary, contends that when Benjamin decided to become a good communist, it  was not through an imaginative appraisal of political options, but was simply  "an act of choosing sides, morally and historically, against the bourgeoisie and  his own bourgeois origins." And if there was something silly and unconvincing  about Benjamin's Marxism"something forced about it, something merely  reactive"it could perhaps be attributed to a certain literary narcissism. "As a  writer, Benjamin had no gift for evoking other people," Coetzee says; he had "no  talent as a storyteller," and no capacity for the kind of compassionate  intelligence implicit in the art of the novel. In a perverse attempt to opt for  political realism rather than literary imagination, Benjamin managed to cut  himself off from both. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Susan Sontag would have agreed with Coetzee about  the political significance of literature. The novel, as she remarks in her last,  posthumous collection At the Same Time (Hamish Hamilton), exists to recall us to  a sense of the interminable diversity that is the basis of what she calls  "politics, the politics of democracy." In a substantial essay on Victor Serge,  she praises him for having combined political militancy with a serious  engagement with the art of writing. As a mature novelist, she says, Serge was  able to deploy "several different conceptions of how to narrate," elaborating a  capacious "I" as a device for "giving voice to others." It was through his  narratorial doubles that he liberated himself from what he called the "former  beautiful simplicity" of the fight between capitalism and socialism, so as to  produce books that were "better, wiser, more important than the person who wrote  them." &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Sontag herself never found it easy to reconcile the languorous  pleasures of imaginative writing with her impulse to political plain speaking.  "The wisdom of literature is quite antithetical to having opinions," she said,  and "a writer ought not to be an opinion-machine." But she remained an  irrepressible opinionator, and in At the Same Timewhich contains much that she  might have revised if death had not intervenedshe sometimes lurches into  monologues, adopting an unappealing tone of dogmatism, petulance, hyperbole and  egocentricity. She finds it hard to talk about writers without telling us who is  or is not "great" or "supremely great," as if world literature were a  competitive sport, and she the ultimate umpire. And her fury at the condition of  the USshe speaks of a "culture of shamelessness," marked by an "increasing  acceptance of brutality" in which politics has been obliterated and "replaced by  psychotherapy"seems to have made her forget her own better self, and her neat  summation of the wisdom of the novel: the generous knowledge that whatever may  be happening, "something else is always going on."&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Kundera, Coetzee and  Sontag are, one feels, the kind of writers who might have steered clear of  politics if they had not had it thrust upon them; but Mario Vargas Llosa has, on  at least one occasion, gone out of his way to achieve political power. He won  literary fame in the early 1960s and pursued a charmed career as a writer not  only in his native Peru, but also in Britain, Spain and the US. But in 1990 he  took a vacation from literature in order to campaign for the presidency of Peru.  He came quite close to winningsome say he would have done if his work as a  novelist had not been held against himand if he had done, Peru might have  enjoyed an experiment in pluralistic centre-right liberalism instead of the  disastrous ten-year kleptocracy of Alberto Fujimori. After his defeat, Vargas  Llosa returned with relief to his old preoccupations, and in Touchstones (Faber  &amp;amp; Faber), his new collection of miscellaneous writings, he elaborates on the  case for the political relevance of the novel.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;The longest item in  Touchstones is a piece of reportage rather than an essay: an account by Vargas  Llosa of an extended visit to Iraq in 2003, chronicling his reluctant conversion  from visceral opposition to the western invasion to firm if wary support. He was  well aware that thousands of Iraqis were dying, and many coalition soldiers as  well, and that the deaths were bound to continue for years; but politics is  about comparisons, and he is persuaded that the death rate under the occupation  is considerably lower than under the old regime. Beyond that, apart from a scary  encounter with an enraged imam, he kept encountering an elated sense of freedom  that was more than merely political. "As novelists know very well," he says,  "fantasies generate realities," and in Iraq he sensed a gradual awakening from  the paranoid fictions that flourish under a dictatorship. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Vargas Llosa's  optimism about Iraq may seem excessive, but it is bound up with a subtle  understanding of the political responsibility of the novelist. He writes  admiringly, for example, about Isak Dinesen; she claimed that she had no  interest at all in "social questions," but Vargas Llosa finds more political  vitality on every page of her Gothic Tales than in any old-fashioned "literature  of commitment," which, as he puts it, "revolved maniacally around realist  descriptions." He traces the same kind of practical fertility in a vast range of  20th-century novelists, from Conrad, Mann, Woolf, Orwell and Hemingway to Henry  Miller, Camus, Grass, Nabokov and Borges. A society that ignores imaginative  literature, he argues, is liable to succumb to the bovine complacencies and  populist idiocies of nationalism, and so to degenerate into "something like a  sectarian cult."&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Vargas Llosa's prose is sometimes slow-paced, but it  speeds up when he reflects on the "collectivist ideology" of nationality. "There  are no nations," he says, at least not in a way that could "define individuals  through their belonging to a human conglomerate marked out as different from  others by certain characteristics such as race, language and religion." For  Vargas Llosa, nationalism is always "a lie," but its rebuttal is to be found not  so much in high-toned internationalist universalism as in the dissociative  particularities of literature, and especially in a well-narrated novel. The  novel, he thinks, articulates a basic human desirethe desire to be "many  people, as many as it would take to assuage the burning desires that possess  us." Alternatively, it stands for a basic human rightthe right not to be the  same as oneself, let alone the same as other people. And the defiant history of  democracy began not in politics but in literature, when Cervantes first tackled  "the problem of the narrator," or the question of who gets to tell the story. 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The journey in search of rubbish had taken the  whole winter long and now I was here with the bins. The evening it was all over  I emptied the latest rubbish onto some newspapers spread out on the kitchen  floor  a cornflakes packet and old razor blades, apple cores and cotton buds.  Looking through the stuff I felt how secret the story had been. I'd gone looking  for the end but had always been brought back to this, the rubbish on the floor  appearing grave and autobiographical. The seasons are like that and so is our  trash: you examine their habits of repetition for long enough and you begin to  think of lost time.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;It began one night in Camberwell when the orange of  the streetlamps was fighting to show through the fog. Alf started up his van and  weaved past some roadworks, dodging the cones but not the sleet that flew to the  windscreen and vanished. 'My goodness,' he said, 'if this is life I don't want  it.' He was talking about the way he felt when he worked as an account executive  in a marketing design company. 'I finally found out that it was only worth  living for love, not money.'&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;'What do you mean, living for love?' I said. He ran a  hand through his hair and stroked his cheek.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;'Putting other people's needs before my own,' he said.  'When I left that hideous job I got a sense we were all interconnected.  Freeganism tries to connect with people's needs  putting community first. In  2002, I decided to devote my life to getting the message out and living as  sincerely as possible. Instead of using money and all that I wanted to tread  more lightly on the earth. I took everything to extremes in my old life.' Alf is  33 years old. His friend Martin, a fellow Freegan, popped his head through from  the back of the van and pushed his glasses up his nose. Martin is 36 and comes  from Sydney. He said he was disillusioned as a teenager by the way everyone was  obsessed with money and ownership. 'You've got to take everything to a logical  conclusion,' he said. 'We've given up all our possessions, because, like Mill  said, if you want to bring down a corrupt system then you might want to stop  buying its products.'&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;'Yeah,' said Alf. 'You've got to fight the greed in  the world by fighting the greed in yourself. Look. Forty per cent of all food in  the UK is wasted. Studies say we're the biggest wasters in the world. And the  religion of economics has waste as an important component in it.'&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;'Yes,' said Martin. 'True spirituality overcomes the  greed. What we want to do is relinquish power. Lay down your life. Share what  you have.'&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;We passed Peckham Rye and could see blue rooms,  television pictures flashing in each flat. Alf and Martin were saying that the  way to live properly was to resist commerce. Their philosophy, like that of many  Freegans, is a sweet-sounding blend of Karl Marx and Jesus Christ, with quite a  bit of Tolstoy and Gandhi thrown in. Not using money means that they pick up  food from bins: they have regular haunts, up and down the country, and they  visit them when travelling around to give out leaflets. 'We feel joy at all this  free food,' Alf said. 'And you also feel disgusted to see all this rubbish in  the world.'&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;'We choose our ignorance, bro,' said Martin as Alf  stopped the van in a car park behind Somerfield.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;'Do you have a relationship with this store?' I  asked.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;'Not one they know about,' said Alf.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;We sat in the van for an hour or more talking about  the ethics of waste. I must have got a little tired of Martin saying that  everyone should share and that we should all love one another because I asked  him how he intended to deal with people who are without virtue. 'I don't believe  that anyone is without virtue,' he said.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;'In the spiritual realm,' added Alf. 'The greatest  leader is the greatest servant.'&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;'Yes,' I said. 'That's all right. But Jesus had a  slave's mentality.'&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;'We just want to save resources,' said Martin, with a  sigh. 'It's more of a Robin Hood model  we're stealing from the corporations.  We found a bin today with fifty or sixty cartons of milk inside.'&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;Everything Alf and Martin own is in the van. They  sleep in the back and they don't have sex with anyone. I asked Alf if there  wasn't a lot of anxiety involved in living like this. He told me that the word  'mortgage' means 'death grip'. Rain was coming down heavily on the roof of the  van and we sat thinking amid the smell of diesel and socks. 'Suddenly, everybody  in the world needs a dishwasher,' said Martin.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;We pulled up our collars and walked over to the  wasteland behind Somerfield. The housing estate wasn't far away  the flashing  blue light was still evident  but there was something very remote about the  supermarket at that hour of the night. Alf put a flashlight on a band round his  head. He looked like a miner as we turned to where the bins stood, then I saw  other lights, and a large group of strangers. 'Bin raiders,' said Alf. 'They all  come out at night.' Some of them were immigrants from Eastern Europe, who had  come to London to live the dream. A man from Poland had laid out five plump  grapefruit on top of a wooden palette. 'Are very good,' he said. 'Not  rubbish.'&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;Alf and Martin dived into the bins  the Americans  don't call it bin raiding: they call it dumpster diving  and pulled out bread,  vegetables, ready meals, packs of mince. They offered much of it to the Polish  guys, but they said they already had enough and had a long way to walk home. An  old black lady in a claret hat came round and picked up items here and there.  'Very good here,' she said. 'Terrible to waste things just like this.'&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;'This is England now,' I said to Alf, his face lighted  somewhat ghoulishly under the lamp on his head.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;'No,' he said. 'This is the world, bro.'&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;The old lady had a large family of grandchildren and  lived not far away in Camberwell. She said this was a way to get along.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;The men took large clear bags of rubbish back to the  van and spread some of the contents on the floor. Alf wiped the items down with  a cloth dipped in bleach water and showed me them. 'Look,' he said. 'Sell-by  date is two days away. This one, today. Perfectly good to eat.' Packets of  biscuits were lying there and a giant heap of broccoli. Martin read out some of  the labels: 'Chicken and stuffing. Yorkshire pudding. Cashew nuts. Bananas.  Three chicken pies. Yesterday.' The lady in the claret hat came up to the door  of the van to ask if we had any butter or bread.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;'Mince?' asked Alf.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;'Yes,' said the old lady. 'Yes. Now, what nice boys  you are.'&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;'And how about broccoli?'&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;'Ah, yes,' she said. 'Just enough for tomorrow. That's  great. Are you boys all right for rice?'&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;'Very much so,' said Martin, sheltering from the rain.  'We've got everything we need. Every last thing we need.'&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;The British government's review of its waste strategy  is due from Defra at the end of this month, but the matter is as much  philosophical. The question of what it means to live a good life has become the  occasion for personal accounts of what one does with one's rubbish. This is the  way we manage news on the subject, with a growing and often panicked sense of  what our personal habits might say about our harmfulness. There are other  pressing topics of course, but the environment  and the very local matter of  rubbish  is the pamphleteering issue of our time. Yet none of us feels safe  with it, none of us knows exactly what to think; intimate disquiet about waste  is liable to spring a trap in our minds. 'Rural England is where urban England  now dumps its rubbish,' Richard Girling writes. 'Here it tips everything from  garbage in landfills to fridges in ponds, broken cars and surplus people.'&lt;A  href="http://www.lrb.co.uk/v29/n10/print/ohag01_.html#footnotes"&gt;&lt;FONT  color=#cc0000&gt;[1]&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt; The &lt;EM&gt;Daily Mail&lt;/EM&gt; says there is a plague of  rats in Britain as a result of the lack of care taken in refuse collection. The  government has revealed that urban waste is growing by 3.2 per cent a year   faster than GDP. 'Despite dramatic improvement in recent years, the UK still has  the worst recycling record in Europe: 27 per cent of domestic waste, as opposed  to Germany's 57 per cent and Holland's 64 per cent,' according to a draft policy  document shown to me by the Community Recycling Network. 'The average person in  the UK throws out their body weight in rubbish every three months,' says Friends  of the Earth. 'Most of this could be reprocessed but instead it is sent to  incinerators or landfill.'&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;We used to stub a cigarette out in an ashtray and  never think of it again. Now we think, where will the stub end up, the ash and  the foam and the paper? We grew up imagining that rubbish was taken away, only  to find there is no such place as 'away'. The by-products of our desires are  hidden in the earth or burned to make a toxic canopy over our heads: we are  aware of that now, and that awareness has grown to feed a spirit of personal  regeneration. At some level we recycle not to save the planet, but to free the  part of ourselves that is enslaved to the world's goods and the body's  functions.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;Some people simply choose to be more sensible about  separating what they throw out. Nothing more complicated, and I salute them  while continuing to believe that the pressing morality of rubbish  the summits,  the sea-change, the plains of discourse, and the brave new worlds of anxiety   represents a powerful turn in our collective mind. At its simplest, we are now  putting the Sunday papers in the recycling bin, but at its less simple we may be  seeking what Emerson called, in &lt;EM&gt;Nature&lt;/EM&gt;, 'an original relation to the  universe'. The times may have become ripe for turning self-control into a form  of evangelism, sensing that our wish to be the planet's saviours is also a bid  for immortality. We discern a new mastery to be enjoyed over the life of  everyday stuff and we consider ourselves responsible for stewardship of the  ecosystem, or the egosystem.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;High above the Brent Reservoir a fringe of red,  trailing light was spread across the sky at half past five in the morning. It  was still dark on the road and the houses slept as the lorries pulled into the  depot. In the artificial brightness of the 'office'  a huddle of Portakabins   the binmen were gathered around a newspaper. 'Here,' said one of them. 'Have you  seen the new lottery?'&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;'Na,' said another.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;'Breast reduction, mate. Tummy tucks. That's what you  win if you win the lottery: cosmetic surgery.'&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;Les said he liked the early start and the afternoons  off. He has worked in Harrow for more than a dozen years, up early every day and  out clearing the bins before anybody is awake. He now drives the truck and  considers that a significant upgrade. 'I'm the gaffer,' he said, 'but not  really.' Les and I tried to make jokes but tiredness got to us and the laughter  came slower as we progressed along the route. Every few hundred yards I jumped  down and joined the lifters as they rolled the bins from people's yards. That  morning the crew were only responsible for collecting organic rubbish. 'It's a  nightmare,' said Joshi, whose parents were born in Bangladesh. 'No matter how  many times you give them information, or mark their card, they still contaminate  the bloody recycling bins. They hide all sorts of stuff at the bottom of the  organic bins  like machine parts. There's no telling them.' He showed me one of  the bins outside a large house; it had grass on the top and Tesco bags full of  paper underneath. Harrow has a system of compulsory recycling: green bins for  paper, cans, bottles, and brown bins for organic waste, which includes garden  waste and leftover food. People in Harrow who mix the stuff up, or  'contaminate', have their rubbish left uncollected, and must pay £20 to get it  picked up, after they've sorted it; persistent offenders can be prosecuted and  fined up to £1000.&lt;A  href="http://www.lrb.co.uk/v29/n10/print/ohag01_.html#footnotes"&gt;&lt;FONT  color=#cc0000&gt;[2]&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;Les keeps a chart of the offenders and notes down  their addresses. Next to the Rayners Lane Conservative Association, he tried to  reverse the bin lorry up a dark lane and Joshi came up to his window shaking his  head. 'Number 9,' he said. 'Contaminated.' Les put on his handbrake and lifted  his pen, turning to me at the same time.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;'That's a bad one, Number 9,' he said. 'Number 63 is  the same.'&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;There was a camera in the cabin and I could see Joshi  and Sam lifting the bins of the better citizens onto a lifting device and then  the stuff being tipped into the compactor. Les started telling me he drove both  a BMW and a Renault and that he used to be a bodyguard for the 1970s rock groups  Slade and Mud. It was clear he felt he had led a progressive life, and he seemed  very composed as he pulled and hauled at the steering wheel. By then the sky had  become bluer and people were beginning to queue at the bus stops, heading for  Pinner. 'A lot of the old people,' Les said, 'they get worried because of  recycling. They don't understand the new ways and are afraid of the fines.' As  he said this I noticed an elderly lady sweeping open the curtains of a  mock-Tudor house with a two-car driveway. 'But we've gone too far, too fast on  the recycling,' he said.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;Next to the Jewish Free School, Les beeped his horn  when he spotted another veteran of the Harrow refuse system, Fred, who was  driving his truck on the other side of the road. 'Spent years in rubbish,' Les  said. 'He's about to retire.'&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;'Lucky bastard,' said Joshi.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;It took the best part of six hours for the team to do  their round, emptying the bins and marking the contaminators, and the morning  was in full flow as Les pointed and laughed at an England flag waving over a  house in Hereford Gardens. Half an hour later, we were beyond the suburban rim  of Harrow and into the Middlesex countryside, heading at speed for the  composting site at the extremity of north-west London.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;The place smelled powerfully of rotting Christmas  trees. There was smoke rising from the composting area; the process takes ten  weeks from the delivery of vegetable matter to the maturation of compost, and  not only is it a fulfilment of local councils' commitment to go greener, it also  costs a great deal less than sending the rubbish to landfill sites. West London  Composting is licensed by Defra and is the biggest facility of its kind in  London, processing 50,000 tons of organic waste a year. When we arrived on the  site Les's vehicle was weighed on a weighbridge; this determined the price that  Harrow would receive for the load. I stood at the side of the tipping shed as  other trucks arrived and dropped their material into a large hangar, where it  was scooped up for shredding. Already steaming, the shredded material is then  taken to the composting sheds, where its temperature and oxygen levels are  controlled. At the end of the ten weeks it will be bagged and sold for  agricultural and commercial use.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;Les was shaking his head. The inspector who examines  the material in the back of the bin lorries before it is offloaded was not  happy. 'No,' said the man with the clipboard. 'Contaminated,' and then he signed  a sheet and handed it to Les. Despite their efforts the gang had allowed too  much non-organic rubbish to be tipped into the back of the lorry.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;'The people who are serious about it are very  serious,' said Les.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;'And what about this load?' I asked.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;'It's not good enough,' he said. 'We'll take it to  Ruislip tip and Harrow will have to pay to dump it there.'&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;'That's a pity,' I said. 'A long morning too.'&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;'Never mind,' Les said, turning the wheel and  smoothing his hair in the rear-view mirror. 'We won't be saving the world  today.'&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;Whoever you speak to, in whichever corner of the waste  industry, you are liable to come away with the impression that soft utopianism  has taken the place of militant politics in contemporary Britain. Many of these  people were born in the 1960s, which means they are not children of the 1960s   dreaming of toppling governments or teaching their uptight professors a lesson   so much as children of the 1980s, a generation all too aware of the limits of  idealism. Even the Freegans, for all their hatred of corporations, take it for  granted that greed is seen to be good, and their ambition is not to gather  political forces but to replenish the spiritual motives of their generation. And  those who have joined the establishment  the politicians, the civil servants,  the lawyers  speak with energy about ethical improvements in the absence of any  notion of revolution. They speak of potential and of broader choices. They speak  of personhood and of lifestyle.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;Among these people the question of what to do with  rubbish is not about ripping up the system, much more about fulfilling your  personal goals, increasing the peace, opting for harmony. They don't curse the  world, they compliment it with kind acts, and their attitude to a non-recycler  is rather like General William Booth's attitude to drunks. The hardcore waste  community does not hate its enemies, but feels sorry for them, and in every  other thing it says appears to believe a new day is dawning.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;Though much slower and much less ambitious than the  lobbyists would like, the government  which speaks of increasing recycling  rates to 40 per cent by 2010, when Friends of the Earth wants 75 per cent by  2015  has not dodged the bullet when it comes to enforcing penalties on big  business to encourage better habits in the way it handles its rubbish. Defra  recently commissioned a report from the AEA Energy and Environment Group, a  private consultancy, that addresses the question of landfill and how to increase  the tax on it. No British person giving an account of their life would think to  mention landfill sites, but that is where most of the stuff in the average life  ends up. All the bins in all our lives have gone to landfills or incinerators.  We have never thought about it, and now that we are thinking about it, say the  evangelists, we can never be the same.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;'Final disposal to landfill is considered the least  attractive option in the waste hierarchy,' says the report for Defra:&lt;/P&gt; &lt;BLOCKQUOTE class=BT&gt;   &lt;P align=justify&gt;The largely organic content of food industry wastes can    contribute significantly towards the detrimental aspects of landfill (for    example, as a source of methane emissions from anaerobic decomposition within    the landfill). The EC Landfill Directive sets targets to reduce the amounts of    biodegradable wastes (biodegradable municipal wastes) consigned to landfill     the first target has to be achieved by 2010 (for the UK).&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;Where the amounts are not reduced, waste producers  will be taxed to hell. The government recently announced the scale of this  taxation, and it is good and punitive, with a medium to long-term rate of £35  per tonne. 'This provides a very strong driver,' says the report,&lt;/P&gt; &lt;BLOCKQUOTE class=BT&gt;   &lt;P align=justify&gt;to encourage businesses to take action to reduce their waste    sent for landfill disposal. Most noticeably, the landfill tax escalator    appears to have brought about an approximately 10 per cent reduction in the    tonnages of standard rate waste landfilled in the two years between 2003-4 and    2005-6. This shows that a key policy, closely linked to reduction of waste    disposal, is working.&lt;A    href="http://www.lrb.co.uk/v29/n10/print/ohag01_.html#footnotes"&gt;&lt;FONT    color=#cc0000&gt;[3]&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;Calvert Landfill site lies in the most beautiful part  of Buckinghamshire, snug against a former brickworks. They say that there have  been quarries here since the 15th century, when Londoners passed their rubbish  to rakers, who dumped it in the Essex Marshes. In later centuries people burned  most of their combustible waste in domestic fires, and the dust was taken in  carts to be sieved for use in brickmaking. Bottles were reused and plastic was a  science fiction. The 19th century was the age of salvage, and Victorian Britain  was a recycling nation by necessity: wood was redeployed and bone was ground  down; ash was spread on the land, and the only things buried were bodies and  vegetable matter. But by 1875, and the Public Health Act, the regulation of  household waste had become a priority, dealt with by local authorities. The act  stipulated that households maintain a 'moveable receptacle' for rubbish  the  birth of the bin  and a charge was made for its removal.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;The 1930s saw the rise of non-biodegradable rubbish  and warnings were issued against dumping. Yet rubbish tips surrounded most urban  areas and were constantly on fire. After 1956, and the Clean Air Act, domestic  bins began to fill up with paper and packaging (tied to the rise of marketing),  and in the 1970s chemical and electrical waste became part of the picture.  Overall, the move in domestic trashcans from dust and cinders to paper and  plastics has taken a little over a hundred years and has changed the air we  breathe.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;Calvert has been one of the country's biggest landfill  sites since it opened in the 1980s. April Jennings is a tough, science-educated  woman in a man's world, and nothing appears to bother her, not even the four  inches of mud on her boots the day I went to see her. 'It used to be a bit of a  black art, the landfill site in the 1980s,' she said, 'but the science of it has  improved and we know much more about it. We can recontour the old landfill sites  and extend our years.' She reckons the Calvert site may have about twenty-five  years left. The great buzz-phrase in April's world is 'renewable energies'   Tony Blair loved to hear himself say it  and the people at Calvert feel good  about the electricity they are able to produce by harvesting the methane gas  created by the buried rubbish on their site. 'We have the capacity to produce 17  megawatts,' April said. 'We can extract the last bit of value from what people  throw away.' She seems to shrug at the view (even the government's view) that  landfill is at the bottom of the hierarchy when it comes to ways of dealing with  Britain's rubbish. 'Everything is checked,' she says.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;Her colleague Peter Robinson chips in. 'The whole area  of waste handling and management is so much more technically sound in the UK  than it ever was before.' He smiles. 'This country's history of landfill has  actually been quite safe; it has served us well.' On the walls of the management  offices at Calvert, there are pictures of green fields and of tractors moving  rubbish. 'It's all changing,' Robinson said. 'We're moving from a "throw  everything away" culture to one of preservation and recycling. In order to make  it work there has to be a shift in how we manage our own waste and in how we  handle the costs.' I asked him if there was something alien to the British mind  in the idea of making a fuss about what we throw away. 'Yes,' he said. 'People  don't have that understanding  but it's coming in a big way. The UK is trying  to do something in a handful of years that other member states in Europe have  been doing for a long time.'&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;Most of the waste at Calvert comes in overnight.  There's a railway beside the landfill and the large cranes and the ghost trains  arrived in the dark with their loads of domestic rubbish from London and  Bristol. Every day, five days a week, at least four trains a day, each train  consisting on average of fifty containers, each holding 15 tons of rubbish.  'That's a lot of rubbish,' I said.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;'It is,' April said. 'We have two power stations  running off this site. A third of the country's renewable energy is coming from  landfill.' (The trouble is that only 3 per cent of the UK's electricity comes  from renewable energy sources.) We walked into the heart of the landfill area  and April pointed to the trees on the horizon. 'All the way to there,' she said.  The ground in between was landscaped and looked pretty much like any English  scrubland, except that beneath the covering of vegetation there were hundreds of  thousands of tons of suppurating English garbage. 'It's like an apple pie,' she  said, 'with the clay as the base and the grass as the sugar.' I wasn't sure if  this was the right image, conjuring a hot, sticky, unstable filling and a thin  crust, but April said it was the best she had. Peter Robinson spoke of the  'leachate', the brown liquid that is drawn from the centre of all that old  plastic and paper and general rubbish, the liquid being purified onsite and  running out clear in a ditch at the end. I could also see pipes  there are 450  of them  drawing off gas that would be harnessed for electricity.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;We climbed a ridge of brown sludge to reach the  summit. Looking down from there was like staring into a crater of the moon,  except that the colossal indentation was filled with rubbish. The sky was very  blue above the ridge of sludge and the carrier bags strewn in the mud. The  crater was 60 metres deep and a murder of crows swooped above us, followed by  seagulls. At the near edge it seemed there were Tesco bags as far as the  horizon; I looked down and saw a bottle of children's bubble mixture, a squashed  box of Typhoo tea, a tin of Dulux paint, a Capri Sun fruit drink carton: the  recent detritus of an average life, and in the distance there were more plastic  bags trapped in the branches of a copse of trees and blowing in and out like  struggling lungs. Something in the scale of the rubbish and the size of the  canyon dizzied one's nervous system: a metaphysical smack came with the sight of  the layers of used-up stuff, like the feeling that comes when sixty thousand  people shout at a football match or a when a million supplicants crowd into  Mecca. April walked off and I stood on the ridge of the landfill surveying the  scene. A dumped bath, a heap of carpet, a thousand empty bottles of orange  squash, a hundred thousand legs of lamb, a million bottles of shampoo: it was  all the stuff of life and it was all evidence of death.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;'There are four thousand landfills in the UK,' April  said, as we walked through the mud and the crows dived. 'This will fill up  eventually: landfill is a finite source of waste management.' For a second I  wondered if April had noticed the shock and awe on my face. 'Look,' she said.  'The best thing of all would be for us to stop making waste.'&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;'Then you'll be out of a job,' I said.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;'I'll just fall back on my chemistry.' We both laughed  and I saw a seagull (or an albatross) out of the corner of my eye diving to  darkness on extended wings. A plastic radio was crushed in the mud against a box  of unused Oxo cubes, and I fancied the bird had spotted the shiny paper and was  seizing its opportunity. 'We have a lot of pest control here at Calvert,' April  said. 'You have to. We keep falcons. These seagulls are notoriously bad for  carrying litter and dropping it out there.' I looked over the trees to the place  she called 'out there', the villages and commuter towns of Buckinghamshire, and  beyond them the cities where people sleep soundly while a train carries away the  stock cubes that they forgot to use and then just simply forgot.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;We have to believe that the litter of commodities  melts into air, just as we do, or else we would have to live very differently in  the world, much more consciously in company with the choices we make and the  mess we create. Life without rubbish would mean living in a state of ethical  awareness that might threaten pleasure  threaten commerce  while never  releasing individuals from the facts of the past and the realities of death. We  don't admit it, but the idea of absence is a comfort to the present, for if  nothing is away then everything is a deposit. If nothing is away, we are  suddenly not dots on a linear track of time but in some sense are constituent  with all that has been, or will be. That is not convenient, and it might explain  why a real engagement with recycling can come to seem transcendental. It might  leave people with the impression that there is more to one's life than one's  life, and that impression is powering the mood of a generation. Throwing things  away has been so essential to our sense of how to live that we forget we  invented the process just to increase our pleasures.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;Like everything else  like health, like famine  relief, like national security  the ethical impulse to minimise our waste must  be rendered sensible in business terms before it can be understood to be  practical in any other way. The liveliest new thinking in relation to rubbish is  therefore about the great financial benefit recycling brings  there are profits  to be had, and this is understood to be a motor of change. The concept was  essentially invented by the Japanese, by companies such as Toshiba, who invented  a system of 'total quality management' whereby the manufacturing process would  build in the possibility of zero defects. Many Japanese companies are now  working on an understanding that their processes will suffer only one defect per  million. 'Transferred to the arena of municipal waste,' said Stephen Tindale of  Greenpeace,&lt;/P&gt; &lt;BLOCKQUOTE class=BT&gt;   &lt;P align=justify&gt;Zero Waste forces attention onto the whole life cycle of    products. Zero Waste encompasses producer responsibility, ecodesign, waste    reduction, reuse and recycling, all within a single framework. It breaks away    from the inflexibility of incinerator-centred systems and offers a new policy    framework capable of transforming current linear production and disposal    processes into "smart" systems that utilise the resources in municipal waste    and generate jobs and wealth for local economies.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;At its most basic, this means that a company that aims  to produce spoons will have made a plan, before they produce a single spoon,  about how to source the metal ethically, how to transport it in vehicles with  low carbon emissions, what to do with the metal shavings, how the water that  cools the metal will be rerouted back into the system, and how the packaging  will be reusable. Zero defects. Zero waste.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;Zero Waste may turn out to be one of the key concepts  of the post-industrial era. It will change everything: it will change what you  are doing now and will do in five minutes. Robin Murray of the London School of  Economics has put the matter more purposefully than most. In &lt;EM&gt;Zero  Waste&lt;/EM&gt;, his 2002 report for Greenpeace, he peels our habits in relation to  rubbish to the core. 'Waste has been seen as the dark side,' he writes,&lt;/P&gt; &lt;BLOCKQUOTE class=BT&gt;   &lt;P align=justify&gt;as that against which we define the good. It has been the    untouchable in the caste system of commodities. The idea that waste could be    useful, that it should come in from the cold and take its place at the table    of the living, is one that goes far beyond the technical question of what    possible use could be made of this or that. It challenges the whole way we    think of things and their uses, about how we define ourselves and our status    through commodities, by what we cast out as much as by what we keep  in.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;If the notion of Zero Waste wasn't so life-altering  and revolutionary it would appear simply sensible. It relies on absolutely no  discharge of toxic waste and no atmospheric damage, but it also means a new  intolerance of material rubbish. From the Zero Waste point of view, a society in  which a person drops a sandwich wrapper in the street would be as unthinkable as  one where a person in the street pulled down their pants and shat. Everything  would be understood to have an ongoing life. At its best, it amounts to a  wholesale reconceptualising of our economic and moral worlds, bringing the idea  of 'away' into the social sphere of 'here'. Forgetting to do the right thing  with an ice-lolly stick might come to be like forgetting not to kick a dog.  (Street cleaners in this country presently clear away half a million tons of  rubbish every year.) You would do it automatically because that is what you do,  sensing, as a form of knowledge, as a categorical imperative as opposed to a  species of choice, that nothing in the world is rubbish. Our focus, then, Murray  argues, would be on the material life cycle, in which it should become natural  for materials to live and transform and live again. 'From cradle to cradle,' he  writes, 'rather than from cradle to grave.'&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;A recent issue of &lt;EM&gt;Resource&lt;/EM&gt; magazine ran a  list of the 'Hot 100 Agents of Change' in the waste debate. Standing at number  28  one above new entrant David Miliband, the environment secretary  is a man  called Andy Moore, who is head of the Community Recycling Network. The first  time I met him, in the bar at Paddington Station, he seemed weary but  refreshingly non-morose when it came to talking about rubbish. He gives the  impression of having spoken to everybody and thought of everything: he gave me a  head start on some of the trends, and then, several weeks later, I travelled to  Bristol to see him in his element.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;At the Prince of Wales pub on Gloucester Road,  everybody was drinking either Weston's organic cider or organic real ale. Andy  had the latter and he spares no ire on the waste companies. I asked him what his  first memory of rubbish was and he spoke about an incinerator that used to exist  in Chapman Street in Hull. 'I was eight,' he said, 'but what I remember was a  big warehouse with a concrete floor. In the middle was the most massive hole and  I knew there was a fire burning underneath. It was a horrible place, owned by  the Cleansing Department.' He also remembers the rag and bone man, who went  through the streets shouting two syllables: 'ra' bo'.' He took a sip from his  pint and smiled over the glass. 'Where there's muck there's brass,' he said.  'That's an old Yorkshire expression. We're all Gypsies when it comes to it,  looking after the bins. It's how we used to think. "Sovereignty," Georges  Bataille wrote, "is the freedom to waste." At festivals, at Christmas, and every  day, we waste, we give things away, that is what seemed normal to us.'&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;The area around the waterway in Bristol has been  reinvented. The architects have had a field day, and you detect, thereabouts,  the flurry of design competitions and the late-night glow of Anglepoise lamps.  People have worked hard to make the place modern, to overcome a possible  downturn in West Country parts and labour, but you couldn't say the results made  it the most soulful place on earth. There's plenty of life around, though, and  later that night Andy Moore gathered a few of his waste-industry honchos at a  restaurant sited in a former Bristol fire station. Mal Williams is great  company, a round, avuncular man who lives in Wales, and Iain Gulland is Scottish  and quieter, though not for long. He studied ecology at the University of St  Andrews. Each of the men likes a drink and is bound by a sense of social justice  tailored to new realities.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;'Are they going to do it?' I asked. 'Is the public  going to get into the business of changing its character?'&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;'Of course,' said Andy. 'And business is the right  word.'&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;Mal looked through the candles and the organic wine.  'The old paradigm was "out of sight, out of mind," but the new message is more  like "you create this waste, you can stop it." We are all defining a new kind of  industry now.' He made it clear  they all did  that they don't believe it will  be the waste companies who lead the way. The waste companies, they say, have  changed for the better but they still have an old-fashioned view of how to  profit from rubbish. Bury or burn is the philosophy, and that won't do any  longer because the rest of the world isn't having it.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;'In Denmark in the 1970s they stuck it into  education,' said Iain. 'They said, "We'll invest in the young," and out of that  they developed high standards of environmental protection. And those people are  now voting. Next thing we knew they want 10p on plastic bags. But we have not  done environmental stewardship before now, that's why people think the whole  thing is tough and punitive. But it's happening.'&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;The main point of the Community Recycling Network is  to get away from the kind of shoddy recycling practice I saw at work in Harrow.  'There's too much contamination,' Andy said, 'as there would be because the  methods are way too coarse and are propelled by the profit instincts of the  waste companies. We are talking about much finer kinds of separation: not just  paper in one bin, but different kinds of paper and no comingling of different  materials.'&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;'But the main thing,' said Mal, 'is you must put value  on these things as a resource. And you've got to give the people a shove. You've  got to give them the stuff to do it with.'&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;'That's us,' said Andy. 'Most of our people do  kerbside collections, and we have composters, furniture collectors. Some of them  are motivated by the environment and some are motivated by social concerns and  for others it's just something really, really personal.'&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;'Like what?'&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;'Well, value systems. Empowering people in life. Your  waste stream is really the most visible way that you impact on the world. You  can see the stuff in the waste bin and you know what you're generating. The  thing that makes me angry is the way waste companies have been able to con local  authorities  the con-ability of local authorities itself angers me. At the  moment we're trying to achieve a better system: not just minimising the waste  stream but realising value from it. Do you see the difference? The government's  problem is that its attitude is too much 'end of pipe'; it waits until the  rubbish is there before it thinks of what it's going to do with it. The real  task is to design society so that you're not stuck with rubbish.'&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;Into the night, the group talked about the  transformation of personal values in Britain and the state-sponsored murder of  old habits and stuffed bins. Unlike the Freegans, they didn't look to God for  guidance in the wasteland, but to Europe, where a great many communities already  view past mindlessness with a sort of bafflement. The men at the table had  mortgages and they believed in eco-business: they foresee a future in which the  profit motive will transform rubbish into dollars, which they assume is the only  way the world will listen. In the end, it may be that the Freegans go the same  way as the incinerators, made redundant by the smart redeploying instincts of  big business, those forces that once kept each of them burning through the  dark.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;You know where it all ends. But how very slowly the  sense of an ending is transmogrifying into a new beginning. I was reminded of  the distance to go the first time I spoke to the public relations representative  at the Edmonton Incinerator, or, as they prefer, the London Waste EcoPark  Recycling and Energy Centre. Edmonton is responding to some of the realities  I've been trying to describe  they speak of treating rubbish as a resource   but still they feel tarred with the old brush. And it would be hard not to feel  that way: the plant is burning household rubbish at an absolutely colossal rate  and the world doesn't like it.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;'I'm just having trouble working out what it is you  would like to do,' said Wendy Lord, head of corporate communications.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;'I want to see what you do at Edmonton.'&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;'But we're quite an old facility. I could arrange for  you to visit one of the newer ones.'&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;'I'd prefer to come to Edmonton,' I said. 'Just to see  how you're coping with some of the new demands.'&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;'I don't know, Andrew. Whatever.'&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;'If you need to know more about me, that's fine,' I  said.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;'And how would I do that, Andrew?'&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;I don't know if they say so at public relations  school, but extreme reluctance can be understood as a form of aggression. (As  can over-deployment of one's name.) It can also signal a feeling of paranoia or  shame, but none of that was in evidence when eventually I met Wendy Lord. She  came striding up to me in the reception area at Edmonton wearing knee-high boots  and a frighteningly professional smile, part tolerance, part indulgence. I felt  that Wendy might have trained herself to spot an eco-nutter at 500 yards, but  she seemed to give me the benefit of the doubt and led me up the stairs where I  was invited to sit and watch a video. The fact that she starred in the video did  not contribute largely to my sense of ease, but in no time I was learning about  London Waste's flagship efforts to clean up and renew. The PR job was happening  on an industrial scale, but that notwithstanding, many people believe  incinerators are merely landfill sites in the sky. 'The problem has not been  with organic waste,' Murray writes, 'but with materials which give off toxic  emissions when burned.' Early tracking 'of dioxins and furans identified  incinerators as the prime source and even in the mid-1990s, when other sources  were uncovered, municipal incinerators still accounted for over a third of all  estimated emissions'.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;The Edmonton centre is owned equally by the North  London Waste Authority and the private waste management company SITA UK. Far  from admitting to being a blight, Edmonton sees itself as a model of regulation,  boasting that 'the official fireworks display on Millennium Night was equivalent  to over a century of dioxin emissions from our plant.' In 1996, the plant  invested £15 million in gas cleaning equipment that it claims has contributed  towards the reduction of emissions to the point where they are 'negligible' and  'insignificant'. When Wendy Lord came back to find me scribbling, she started to  speak like something of an eco-warrior herself. 'Nimbyism is rife in the UK,'  she said. 'And we need more joined-up thinking. In Japan, they'll think about  waste management before they build the town. We follow a holistic approach,  where electricity is produced from residual waste, and it all requires a new way  of thinking. The organic waste produced by a town can be used to "green" that  town.'&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;If we hadn't been sitting to the side of a monstrous  furnace that day, I would have sworn Wendy Lord was one of the new evangelists.  'It's about the three Rs,' she said: 'reduce waste, reuse as much as you can,  and recover value from what's left.' She counted them out on her fingers. 'It's  a choice you  Andrew  make,' she added. 'Be informed. Think. No one wants to  talk about rubbish. It's not sexy. We're interested in shiny. You know, I have  nothing in my attic but a Christmas tree. And the profile of waste management is  now being raised.'&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;Or erased. It cannot have escaped Lord's notice that  the company she represents so effectively will be put out of business when Zero  Waste becomes a reality. That is the irony that lies dormant inside the volcano:  Edmonton talks eco-friendly  and is, indeed, as eco-friendly as an incinerator  could be  but it remains a factory for the mass immolation of rubbish and that  concept is antithetical to progressive thinking in the waste management sphere.  The logical end to Lord's words is in fact the closure of her own firm, as human  virtue would have rendered it obsolete, though there might always be a greatly  downsized role for the plant in burning clinical waste. As she spoke of the  electricity that is produced by the furnaces at Edmonton, it occurred to me that  perhaps the future use of incinerators would be to burn other incinerators,  keeping a few lights running to lead us out of the dark.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;We walked through the building, stopping on a concrete  platform like the bridge of a giant destroyer (&lt;EM&gt;In Which We Serve&lt;/EM&gt;, with  me as Noel Coward) to watch the procession of bin lorries that swept into the  bays to drop off their rubbish. Outside, I could see two huge ash-heaps, the  latest cinders of the 24-hour fires, and beyond them the high flats of Enfield,  and I wondered whether an examination of the breast-milk of the mothers who  lived there might not settle a silent argument between Wendy and the world. But  that's not fair: Wendy was being reasonable and professional, and much of what  she said expressed a truth about London Waste's progress. The heat rose as we  climbed the stairs. It rose with a notion of tension, and the scale of the fires  below began to occupy my mind. The whole place seemed to thrum, as if we were  standing on a great and natural instability, a faultline, a volcano, whose  threatening energy was powering an industrial process.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;At this point we entered an immense hangar that looked  like a missile silo out of James Bond; it looked Soviet and outmoded, it looked  built for massive destruction, capable of unleashing violence and deadly force  on an old-fashioned scale. The air smelled sulphurous and I looked down into a  number of unspeakably deep concrete canyons, with grabbing equipment hanging  above them and the litter of our lives heaped at the bottom. The grabbers were  truly huge; each one looked as if it could easily lift a house and a family and  all their desires and all their trash too and drop the lot into the flames. 'The  rubbish comes down to nothing with burning,' said Wendy. 'It's magical.' The  grabber puts 15 tons of refuse an hour into the boilers. The colossus seemed  hungry for black bags and boxes. It roared and I almost toppled into the yawning  canyon when thinking of the countless miles of rubbish that had passed through  there since 1969. All burned. Living somewhere still. Gone but not gone. A  single plastic bag fell from the edge of the canyon, and glided down, all the  way down. It felt very primitive, with the smell of burning trash and the grind  of titanic engines a suddenly vertigo-inducing denouement to the mad logic of  commodification.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;We went behind the boilers and looked at the  complicated system by which the rubbish is burned, and the even more complicated  system by which the resulting gases are cleaned and made to produce electricity.  It would be too boring to describe, but it works. I stood behind the bank of  screens in the control room and watched through thick glass as the fires were  filmed by a camera. The fire is 850ºC. A large screen shows the chemical make-up  of the burning rubbish  substances can be added to the boiler to counterbalance  some of the toxins. The electricity-creation is all basic physics, but as the  control room manager explained it to me my face took on the look it used to have  when I was doing physics at school, and I imagined there were bigger things  going on in the world. I was still dizzy from the death-in-life experience of  the canyons next door, and feeling too that I had visited a scene that one day  will have joined the blacking factory in our memories. 'Local people just think  the dustcart throws the rubbish in and it's burned,' said one of the workers in  the control room. 'But it's much more complicated than that. People see the  chimney and they panic.'&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=BT align=justify&gt;I turned on the kitchen light at home and examined the  rubbish lying on the newspapers. Perhaps Bataille is right and a loss of  disposability will mean a loss of sovereignty, but it didn't feel like it as I  picked through the things and remembered the fire. The bulb in the light  overhead might have an afterlife and so might the fridge that hummed in the  quiet of the small hours. The tiles under my feet might stock the foundation of  a new road one day; the kettle and the clock would never die. After putting the  stuff back inside the bag and closing the lid I went online to see about organ  and tissue donation.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=footnotes align=justify&gt;&lt;A name=footnotes&gt;&lt;B&gt;Footnotes&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=footnotes&gt;[1] &lt;EM&gt;Rubbish!&lt;/EM&gt; (Eden Project Books, 414 pp., £7.99,  June 2005, 978 1 903 91944 6).&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=footnotes&gt;[2] According to BBC news reports, some boroughs are now set  to employ 'recycling police', whose job will be to capture and fine people who  contaminate bins or fly-tip.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=footnotes&gt;[3] For this and other reports, see the Defra website:  www.defra.gov.uk.&lt;/P&gt; &lt;DIV class=contrib&gt; &lt;P&gt;&lt;A class=noshow  href="http://www.lrb.co.uk/contribhome.php?get=ohag01"&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT  color=#000000&gt;Andrew O'Hagan&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/A&gt; is a contributing editor at the  &lt;EM&gt;London Review&lt;/EM&gt; and an envoy for Unicef. His new novel &lt;EM&gt;Be Near  Me&lt;/EM&gt; will be published by Faber in  August.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1618973231083522412-1808553649023416871?l=bancadetexto.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/feeds/1808553649023416871/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1618973231083522412&amp;postID=1808553649023416871' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/1808553649023416871'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1618973231083522412/posts/default/1808553649023416871'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bancadetexto.blogspot.com/2010/01/things-we-throw-away.html' title='The Things We Throw Away'/><author><name>STARK!</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nYG86XB013I/TnZCEdj4lBI/AAAAAAAAGQo/AkfC5-uNvJE/s220/papilon%2B%25285%252928.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618973231083522412.post-5347828224900283442</id><published>2010-01-25T17:20:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-25T17:20:23.372-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Divine comedy</title><content type='html'>&lt;!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"&gt; &lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt; &lt;META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"&gt; &lt;META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.5512" name=GENERATOR&gt; &lt;STYLE&gt;&lt;/STYLE&gt; &lt;/HEAD&gt; &lt;BODY bgColor=#ffffff&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial size=2&gt; &lt;DIV&gt; &lt;DIV  style="MARGIN-LEFT: auto; WIDTH: 240px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; TEXT-ALIGN: left"&gt;&lt;IMG  height=96 src="http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/images/prospect-logo.jpg"  width=240&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt; &lt;DIV class=issue_head  style="MARGIN-LEFT: auto; WIDTH: 233px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; TEXT-ALIGN: left"&gt;Issue&amp;nbsp;134&amp;nbsp;,&amp;nbsp;May  2007&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV class=articletitle style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px"&gt;Divine comedy&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV class=author style="MARGIN-TOP: 5px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 20px"&gt;by  Julian Gough&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV class=leadtext style="MARGIN-TOP: 15px" align=center&gt;The Greeks understood  that comedy (the gods' view of life) is superior to tragedy (the merely human).  But since the middle ages, western culture has overvalued the tragic and  undervalued the comic. This is why fiction today is so full of anxiety and  suffering. It's time writers got back to the serious business of making us laugh  &lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV class=author  style="BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; MARGIN-TOP: 10px; FONT-SIZE: 16px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 5px; PADDING-TOP: 5px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1px solid; FONT-STYLE: italic; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"  align=center&gt;Julian Gough's comic short story "The orphan and the mob"  (published in Prospect, March 2006) has won the 2007 National Short Story  prize&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;P class=articlecontent style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"  align=left&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P class=articlecontent style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"  align=left&gt;What is wrong with the modern literary novel? Why is it so worthy and  dull? Why is it so anxious? Why is it so bloody boring?&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Well, let's go  back a bit first. Two and a half thousand years ago, at the time of  Aristophanes, the Greeks believed that comedy was superior to tragedy: tragedy  was the merely human view of life (we sicken, we die). But comedy was the gods'  view, from on high: our endless and repetitive cycle of suffering, our horror of  it, our inability to escape it. The big, drunk, flawed, horny Greek gods watched  us for entertainment, like a dirty, funny, violent, repetitive cartoon. And the  best of the old Greek comedy tried to give us that relaxed, amused perspective  on our flawed selves. We became as gods, laughing at our own  follies.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Many of the finest novelsand certainly the novels I love  mostare in the Greek comic tradition, rather than the tragic: Rabelais,  Cervantes, Swift, Voltaire, and on through to Joseph Heller's Catch-22 and the  late Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse 5. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Yet western culture since the  middle ages has overvalued the tragic and undervalued the comic. We think of  tragedy as major, and comedy as minor. Brilliant comedies never win the best  film Oscar. The Booker prize leans toward the tragic. In 1984, Martin Amis  reinvented Rabelais in his comic masterpiece Money. The best English novel of  the 1980s, it didn't even make the shortlist. Anita Brookner won that year, for  Hotel du Lac, written, as the Observer put it, "with a beautiful grave  formality."&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;IMG style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 20px; MARGIN-LEFT: 20px" alt=""  src="http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/usr/Essay_Gough_1.gif" align=right  border=0&gt; The fault is in the culture. But it is also internalised in the  writers, who self-limit and self-censor. If the subject is big, difficult and  serious, the writer tends to believe the treatment must be in the tragic mode.  When Amis addressed the Holocaust in his minor novel Time's Arrow (1991), he  switched off the jokes, and the energy, and was rewarded with his only Booker  shortlisting.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;But why this pressure, from within and without? There are  two good reasons. The first is the west's unexamined cultural cringe before the  Greeks. For most of the last 500 years, Homer and Sophocles have been held to be  the supreme exponents of their arts. (Even Homer's constant repetition of stock  phrases like "rosy-fingered dawn" and "wine-dark sea" are praised, rather than  recognised as tiresome clichés.)&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;The second reason is that our classical  inheritance is lop-sided. We have a rich range of tragediesSophocles, Aeschylus  and Euripides (18 by Euripides alone). Of the comic writers, only Aristophanes  survived. In an age of kings, time is a filter that works against comedy. Plays  that say, "Boy, it's a tough job, leading a nation" tend to survive; plays that  say, "Our leaders are dumb arseholes, just like us" tend not to.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;More  importantly, Aristotle's work on tragedy survived; his work on comedy did not.  We have the classical rules for the one but not the other, and this has biased  the development of all western literature. We've been off-centre ever  since.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;But of course Europe in the middle ages was peculiarly primed to  rediscover tragedy: the one church spoke in one voice, drawn from one book, and  that book was at heart tragic. All of human history, from the creation, was a  story that climaxed with the sadistic murder of a man by those he was trying to  save, whose fatal flaw was that he was perfect in an imperfect world. The nicest  man ever, he is murdered by everybody. Not only is this tragedy; it is kitsch  tragedy, overegged, a joke. It cannot survive laughter, it is too vulnerable to  it. And the Bible, from apple to Armageddon, does not contain a single  joke.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;The church spoke with one voice because it was on such shaky  foundations. The largest and richest property empire of all time had somehow  been built on the gospel of the poor. All other voices had to be suppressed,  even dissenting gospels. Only once a year, in carnival, on the feast of fools,  could the unsayable be said. A fool was crowned king, and gave a fool's sermon  from the altar that reversed the usual pieties. But these speeches could not be  written down or circulated. They existed in the air, for a day, and were gone.  By the late middle ages, the paralysis was almost total. If you change one word  of the old Vulgate Bible, the whole thing comes under suspicion. All you could  hear was a single voice reading a single book, the Vulgate, a Latin translation  from a Greek original. When Erasmus finally retranslated the Bible, threw it  open to interpretation, he caused a crisis that ultimately tore the church  apart.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;The problem is not specific to Christianity. Islam has always had  a problem with comedy at its expense, as Salman Rushdie showed in The Satanic  Verses. In Medina, in year two of the Hijra migration, with Mecca not yet  fallen, the Prophet asked the faithful to kill the Jewish-Arab poet Ka'b ibn  al-Ashraf for reciting his poems satirising the Prophet (and joking about Muslim  women). The faithful obliged. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;It is interesting, but unsurprising, that  all the satirists murdered and allegedly murdered on Muhammad's orders were,  among other things, Jewish. With its vigorous tradition of Talmudic debate, and  with no Jewish state to stifle or control that debate, Judaism never fell into  the paralysis of the younger monotheisms. It was, to put it mildly, never  state-approved. Judaism, excluded from the establishment in so many Christian  and Muslim nations, has consequently produced a high proportion of the world's  great satirists, comedians and novelists. And, in Yiddish, it produced perhaps  the world's first compulsively comic, anti-authoritarian language, with its  structural mockery of high German.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;In Christian Europe, the Renaissance  rediscovery of the classical texts occurred when the habit of submission to  authority was at its most extreme. When pri
