Friday, January 29, 2010

O esplendor de Portugal - Antonio Lobo Antunes

"Compreendi que a casa estava morta quando os  mortos principiaram a morrer.
(...)
O autêntico coração da casa eram as ervas sobre as campas ao fim da tarde ou no princípio da noite, dizendo palavras que eu entendia mal por medo de entender, não o vento, nãs as folhas, vozes que contavam uma história sem sentido de gente e bichos e assassínios e guerra como se segredassem sem parar a nossa culpa, nos acusassem, repetindo mentiras, que a minha família e a família antes da minha tinham chegado como salteadores e destruído a África, o meu pai aconselhava
   - Não ouças"

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Decisão Judicial - 1833


De conxambramentos e chumbregâncias, no século dezenove.

Friday, January 15, 2010

Whatever Happened to Dulce Veiga - Caio Fernando Abreu




"The first time I saw Dulce Veiga, and there were only two times, she was sitting in a green velvet armchair. A bergère, although in those days I didn't even know that was what they were called. I knew so little of anything in those days that, later, when I tried to describe it in my mind and on paper, I said that it was one of those classic armchairs, with a high back and something like two wings jutting out at the height of the head of the person sitting. for some reason, even today, when I think of it, I also inevitably think of a black and white movie from the forties or early fifties."