26.6.11

on literature

to speak the same language /
to be on the same page



9.12.10

do depois

everything changed. unless all that stayed the same.

7.12.10

da última frase

"there's a plane leaving tomorrow"

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é o fim da peça q eu nunca comecei

do interlúdio

quando o diretor grita "corta"
e tudo fica preto.
e passaram-se seis meses
dois dias
quatro anos
uma vida.
tudo fica preto.
"corta"
é lá q estou
interlúdio
no que não interessa
corta
no que precisa passar rápido
esperando o filme continuar

10.6.10

do tour

place des voges
come. see. run. bus on the other side.

did you take a picture? yes, I've been there.
lovely.
I've seen the whole Paris.

5.4.10

do limite

como começar
o que está fadado a acabar
o que não é permitido
o que tem prazo de validade
?

e como não começar
?

2.4.10

da frase feita

teoria: qualquer assunto pode ser comentado com "talvez isso seja uma alegoria da condição humana"

demosntração prática:

- mas o que será q ele quis dizer com isso??
- talvez isso seja uma alegoria da condição humana

- esse juiz é um filho da puta!
- talvez isso seja uma alegoria da condição humana

- é dos carecas que elas gostam mais
- talvez isso seja uma alegoria da condição humana

- me add. bjmeliga.
- talvez isso seja uma alegoria da condição humana

- tá frio hj, né?
- talvez isso seja uma alegoria da condição humana

e tal...

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colaborou pedro moreira, futuro stand-up intelectual

30.1.10

do quarto de dormir

da minha janela eu vejo o tempo passando
o que tava dourado, agora tá branco
quando ficar verde, vai perder a graça
e tb vai ser o fim

10.12.09

do essay

problema:
- escrever a proposta final para o trabalho de mestrado para seguido o ano que vem inteiro.

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- 1000 palavras (ok, fácil, duas páginas)
- o meu caderno tem muitas anotações como essa. mtas idéias soltas. mtos tópicos.
- eu tenho um assunto que me interessa
- o assunto gera polêmica. eu quero ser polêmica? (querer eu não quero, mas tb não quero mudar de tema)
- o prazo é amanhã. há 24 horas para terminar ainda. (ainda?)
- muitas, muitas, muitas perguntas. devo responder todas? devo responder algumas? não devo fazer muitas, muitas perguntas?
- o assunto é amplo e tem muita coisa a ser dita.
- tenho mtas anotações que, de longe, são bem mais de mil palavras.
- assim como meu caderno, minha cabeça está cheia de perguntas e afirmações pra todos os lados e elas se recusam a fazer uma linha clara na minha mente.
- eu sou boa de escrever em tópicos
- também sou boa de escrever bobagem e arraso em conversas virtuais.

conclusão

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- posso fazer um texto em formato de chat, com tópicos cheios de perguntas?

3.11.09

da seriedade

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Here is a letter of friendly advice. "Be serious," it says. What it means, of course, is, "Be solemn." The distinction between being serious and being solemn seems to be vanishing among Americans, just as surely as the distinction between "now" and "presently" and the distinction between liberty and making a mess.

Being solemn is easy. Being serious is hard. You probably have to be born serious, or at least go through a very interesting childhood. Children almost always begin by being serious, which is what makes them so entertaining when compared to adults as a class.

Adults, on the whole, are solemn. The transition from seriousness to solemnity occurs in adolescence, a period in which Nature, for reasons of her own, plunges people into foolish frivolity. During this period the organism struggles to regain dignity by recovering childhood's genius for seriousness. It is usually a hopeless cause.

As a result, you have to settle for solemnity. Being solemn has almost nothing to do with being serious, but on the other hand, you can't go on being adolescent forever, unless you are in the performing arts, and anyhow most people can't tell the difference. In fact, though Americans talk a great deal about the virtue of being serious, they generally prefer people who are solemn over people who are serious.

In politics, the rare candidate who is serious, like Adlai Stevenson, is easily overwhelmed by one who is solemn, like General Eisenhower. This is probably because it is hard for most people to recognize seriousness, which is rare, especially in politics, but comfortable to endorse solemnity, which is as commonplace as jogging.

Jogging is solemn. Poker is serious. Once you grasp that distinction, you are on your way to enlightenment. To promote the cause, I submit the following list from which the vital distinction should emerge more clearly.

(1) Shakespeare is serious. David Suskind is solemn.
(2) Chicago is serious. California is solemn.
(3) Blow-dry hair stylings on anchor men for local television shows are solemn. Henry James is serious.
(4) Falling in love, getting married, having children, getting divorced and fighting over who gets the car and the Wedgewood are all serious. The new sexual freedom is solemn.
(5) Playboy is solemn. The New Yorker is serious.
(6) S.J. Perelman is serious. Norman Mailer is solemn.
(7) The Roman Empire was solemn. Periclean Athens was serious.
(8) Arguing about "structured programs" of anything is solemn. So are talking about "utilization," attending conferences on the future of anything, and group bathing when undertaken for the purpose of getting to know yourself better, or at the prescription of a swami. Taking a long walk by yourself during which you devise a foolproof scheme for robbing Cartiers is serious.
(9) Washington is solemn. New York is serious. So is Las Vegas, but Miami Beach is solemn.
(10) Humphrey Bogart movies about private eyes and Randolph Scott movies about gunslingers are serious. Modern movies that are sophisticated jokes about Humphrey Bogart movies and Randolph Scott movies are solemn.

Making lists, of course, is solemn, but this is permissible in newspaper columns, because newspaper columns are solemn. They strive, after all, to reach the mass audience, and the mass audience is solemn, which accounts for the absence of seriousness in television, paperback books found in airport bookracks, the public school systems of America, wholesale furniture outlets, shopping centers and American-made automobiles.

I make no apology for being solemn rather than serious. Nor should anyone else. It is the national attitude. It is perfectly understandable. It is hard to be Periclean Athens. It is hard to be Shakespeare. It is hard to be S.J. Perelman. It is hard to be serious.

And yet, one cannot go on toward eternity without some flimsy attempt at dignity. Adolescence will not do. One must at least make the effort to resume childhood's lost seriousness, and so, with the best of intentions, one tries his best, only to end up being vastly, uninterestingly solemn.

Writing sentences that use "One" as a pronoun is solemn. Making pronouncements on American society is solemn. Turning yourself off when pronouncements threaten to gush is not exactly serious, although it shows a shred of wisdom.

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Russel Baker (Sunday Observer, New York Times Magazine, 1978)

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eu descobri o texto nesta palestra, que tb vale a citação: