Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa ( http://www.metropolitana.pt/ )
01 dezembro 2013
01 novembro 2013
"Minha pátria é a língua portuguesa."
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| Comunidade dos Países de Língua Portuguesa (http://www.cplp.org/) (imagem em http://formacao.universiablogs.net/2010/12/17/bolsas-criar-lusofonia-promovem-lingua-portuguesa/) |
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O pensamento pode ter elevação sem ter elegância, e, na proporção em que não tiver elegância, perderá a acção sobre os outros. A força sem a destreza é uma simples massa.
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O ter tocado nos pés de Cristo não é desculpa para defeitos de pontuação.
Se um homem escreve bem só quando está bêbado, dir-lhe-ei: embebede-se. E se ele me disser que o seu fígado sofre com isso, responderei: o que é o seu fígado? é uma coisa morta que vive enquanto você vive, e os poemas que escrever vivem sem enquanto.
Se um homem escreve bem só quando está bêbado, dir-lhe-ei: embebede-se. E se ele me disser que o seu fígado sofre com isso, responderei: o que é o seu fígado? é uma coisa morta que vive enquanto você vive, e os poemas que escrever vivem sem enquanto.
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Gosto de dizer. Direi melhor: gosto de palavrar. As palavras são para mim corpos tocáveis, sereias visíveis, sensualidades incorporadas. Talvez porque a sensualidade real não tem para mim interesse de nenhuma espécie — nem sequer mental ou de sonho —, transmudou-se-me o desejo para aquilo que em mim cria ritmos verbais, ou os escuta de outros. Estremeço se dizem bem. Tal página de Fialho, tal página de Chateaubriand, fazem formigar toda a minha vida em todas as veias, fazem-me raivar tremulamente quieto de um prazer inatingível que estou tendo. Tal página, até, de Vieira, na sua fria perfeição de engenharia sintáctica, me faz tremer como um ramo ao vento, num delírio passivo de coisa movida.
Como todos os grandes apaixonados, gosto da delícia da perda de mim, em que o gozo da entrega se sofre inteiramente. E, assim, muitas vezes, escrevo sem querer pensar, num devaneio externo, deixando que as palavras me façam festas, criança menina ao colo delas. São frases sem sentido, decorrendo mórbidas, numa fluidez de água sentida, esquecer-se de ribeiro em que as ondas se misturam e indefinem, tornando-se sempre outras, sucedendo a si mesmas. Assim as ideias, as imagens, trémulas de expressão, passam por mim em cortejos sonoros de sedas esbatidas, onde um luar de ideia bruxuleia, malhado e confuso.
Não choro por nada que a vida traga ou leve. Há porém páginas de prosa que me têm feito chorar. Lembro-me, como do que estou vendo, da noite em que, ainda criança, li pela primeira vez, numa selecta, o passo célebre de Vieira sobre o Rei Salomão. «Fabricou Salomão um palácio...» E fui lendo até ao fim, trémulo, confuso; depois rompi em lágrimas felizes, como nenhuma felicidade real me fará chorar, como nenhuma tristeza da vida me fará imitar. Aquele movimento hierático da nossa clara língua majestosa, aquele exprimir das ideias nas palavras inevitáveis, correr de água porque há declive, aquele assombro vocálico em que os sons são cores ideais — tudo isso me toldou de instinto como uma grande emoção política. E, disse, chorei; hoje, relembrando, ainda choro. Não é — não — a saudade da infância, de que não tenho saudades: é a saudade da emoção daquele momento, a mágoa de não poder já ler pela primeira vez aquela grande certeza sinfónica.
Não tenho sentimento nenhum político ou social. Tenho, porém, num sentido, um alto sentimento patriótico. Minha pátria é a língua portuguesa. Nada me pesaria que invadissem ou tomassem Portugal, desde que não me incomodassem pessoalmente. Mas odeio, com ódio verdadeiro, com o único ódio que sinto, não quem escreve mal português, não quem não sabe sintaxe, não quem escreve em ortografia simplificada, mas a página mal escrita, como pessoa própria, a sintaxe errada, como gente em que se bata, ortografia sem ípsilon, como o escarro directo que me enoja independentemente de quem o cuspisse.
Sim, porque a ortografia também é gente. A palavra é completa vista e ouvida. E a gala da transliteração greco-romana veste-ma do seu vero manto régio, pelo qual é senhora e rainha."
Como todos os grandes apaixonados, gosto da delícia da perda de mim, em que o gozo da entrega se sofre inteiramente. E, assim, muitas vezes, escrevo sem querer pensar, num devaneio externo, deixando que as palavras me façam festas, criança menina ao colo delas. São frases sem sentido, decorrendo mórbidas, numa fluidez de água sentida, esquecer-se de ribeiro em que as ondas se misturam e indefinem, tornando-se sempre outras, sucedendo a si mesmas. Assim as ideias, as imagens, trémulas de expressão, passam por mim em cortejos sonoros de sedas esbatidas, onde um luar de ideia bruxuleia, malhado e confuso.
Não choro por nada que a vida traga ou leve. Há porém páginas de prosa que me têm feito chorar. Lembro-me, como do que estou vendo, da noite em que, ainda criança, li pela primeira vez, numa selecta, o passo célebre de Vieira sobre o Rei Salomão. «Fabricou Salomão um palácio...» E fui lendo até ao fim, trémulo, confuso; depois rompi em lágrimas felizes, como nenhuma felicidade real me fará chorar, como nenhuma tristeza da vida me fará imitar. Aquele movimento hierático da nossa clara língua majestosa, aquele exprimir das ideias nas palavras inevitáveis, correr de água porque há declive, aquele assombro vocálico em que os sons são cores ideais — tudo isso me toldou de instinto como uma grande emoção política. E, disse, chorei; hoje, relembrando, ainda choro. Não é — não — a saudade da infância, de que não tenho saudades: é a saudade da emoção daquele momento, a mágoa de não poder já ler pela primeira vez aquela grande certeza sinfónica.
Não tenho sentimento nenhum político ou social. Tenho, porém, num sentido, um alto sentimento patriótico. Minha pátria é a língua portuguesa. Nada me pesaria que invadissem ou tomassem Portugal, desde que não me incomodassem pessoalmente. Mas odeio, com ódio verdadeiro, com o único ódio que sinto, não quem escreve mal português, não quem não sabe sintaxe, não quem escreve em ortografia simplificada, mas a página mal escrita, como pessoa própria, a sintaxe errada, como gente em que se bata, ortografia sem ípsilon, como o escarro directo que me enoja independentemente de quem o cuspisse.
Sim, porque a ortografia também é gente. A palavra é completa vista e ouvida. E a gala da transliteração greco-romana veste-ma do seu vero manto régio, pelo qual é senhora e rainha."
(Livro do Desassossego, excertos 257-259,
Bernardo Soares / Fernando Pessoa in http://casafernandopessoa.cm-lisboa.pt/index.php?id=5348)
01 outubro 2013
2013 Nobel Prize
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"The Nobel Prize in Physics 2013 was awarded jointly to François Englert and Peter W. Higgs "for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider"." (in http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2013/)
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"The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2013 was awarded jointly to Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel "for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems"." (in http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2013/)
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"The 2013 Nobel Prize honours three scientists who have solved the mystery of how the cell organizes its transport system. Each cell is a factory that produces and exports molecules. For instance, insulin is manufactured and released into the blood and signaling molecules called neurotransmitters are sent from one nerve cell to another. These molecules are transported around the cell in small packages called vesicles. The three Nobel Laureates have discovered the molecular principles that govern how this cargo is delivered to the right place at the right time in the cell." (in http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2013/press.html)
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"The Nobel Prize in Literature 2013 was awarded to Alice Munro "master of the contemporary short story"". (in http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2013/)
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"The Nobel Peace Prize 2013 was awarded to Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons "for its extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons". (in http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2013/)
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"There is no way to predict the price of stocks and bonds over the next few days or weeks. But it is quite possible to foresee the broad course of these prices over longer periods, such as the next three to five years. These findings, which might seem both surprising and contradictory, were made and analyzed by this year’s Laureates, Eugene Fama, Lars Peter Hansen and Robert Shiller. (for their empirical analysis of asset prices)" (in http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/laureates/2013/)
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01 setembro 2013
Ave Maria...
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| ..., gratia plena, Dominus tecum. Benedicta tu in mulieribus, et benedictus fructus ventris tui, Iesus. Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, ora pro nobis peccatoribus, nunc et in hora mortis nostrae. Amen
(Poema da Maternidade de Fernanda de Castro, dito por Maria Ivone Vairinho em 1968. Na assistência, Fernanda de Castro ouvia-te com o encantamento com que eu e o pai te continuamos a ouvir, sempre que a brisa nos traz a tua voz... nos espaços suaves dos dias...)
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01 agosto 2013
A Gaiola Dourada
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| A Gaiola Dourada (uma Mala de Cartão em formato refrescante), de Ruben Alves http://www.agaioladourada.pt/ e para quem ainda não conhece o... Pedro Henrique: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuZ9_9wvyt8 |
01 julho 2013
Rodrigo Leão
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| Rodrigo Leão ou, se preferirem, Rodrigo Costa Leão Muñoz Miguez, o tradutor de sonhos http://www.rodrigoleao.pt/ (fotografia em http://barreiroamac.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/rodrigoleao.jpg) |
01 junho 2013
La prima donna
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Elena Piscopia Cornaro (5 giugno, 1646 - 26 luglio, 1684), "è famosa per essere stata la prima donna a laurearsi nel mondo: conseguì la laurea in filosofia all’Università di Padova il 25 giugno, 1678."
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01 maio 2013
The Schuman Declaration, 9 May 1950
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| On 9 May 1950, French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman first publicly put forward the ideas that led to the European Union. So 9 May is celebrated as the EU's birthday. (in http://europa.eu/abc/12lessons/lesson_2/)
"World peace cannot be safeguarded without the making of creative efforts proportionate to the dangers which threaten it.
The contribution which an organized and living Europe can bring to civilization is indispensable to the maintenance of peaceful relations. In taking upon herself for more than 20 years the role of champion of a united Europe, France has always had as her essential aim the service of peace. A united Europe was not achieved and we had war.
Europe will not be made all at once, or according to a single plan. It will be built through concrete achievements which first create a de facto solidarity. The coming together of the nations of Europe requires the elimination of the age-old opposition of France and Germany. Any action taken must in the first place concern these two countries.
With this aim in view, the French Government proposes that action be taken immediately on one limited but decisive point.
It proposes that Franco-German production of coal and steel as a whole be placed under a common High Authority, within the framework of an organization open to the participation of the other countries of Europe. The pooling of coal and steel production should immediately provide for the setting up of common foundations for economic development as a first step in the federation of Europe, and will change the destinies of those regions which have long been devoted to the manufacture of munitions of war, of which they have been the most constant victims.
The solidarity in production thus established will make it plain that any war between France and Germany becomes not merely unthinkable, but materially impossible. The setting up of this powerful productive unit, open to all countries willing to take part and bound ultimately to provide all the member countries with the basic elements of industrial production on the same terms, will lay a true foundation for their economic unification.
This production will be offered to the world as a whole without distinction or exception, with the aim of contributing to raising living standards and to promoting peaceful achievements. With increased resources Europe will be able to pursue the achievement of one of its essential tasks, namely, the development of the African continent. In this way, there will be realised simply and speedily that fusion of interest which is indispensable to the establishment of a common economic system; it may be the leaven from which may grow a wider and deeper community between countries long opposed to one another by sanguinary divisions.
By pooling basic production and by instituting a new High Authority, whose decisions will bind France, Germany and other member countries, this proposal will lead to the realization of the first concrete foundation of a European federation indispensable to the preservation of peace.
To promote the realization of the objectives defined, the French Government is ready to open negotiations on the following bases.
The task with which this common High Authority will be charged will be that of securing in the shortest possible time the modernization of production and the improvement of its quality; the supply of coal and steel on identical terms to the French and German markets, as well as to the markets of other member countries; the development in common of exports to other countries; the equalization and improvement of the living conditions of workers in these industries.
To achieve these objectives, starting from the very different conditions in which the production of member countries is at present situated, it is proposed that certain transitional measures should be instituted, such as the application of a production and investment plan, the establishment of compensating machinery for equating prices, and the creation of a restructuring fund to facilitate the rationalization of production. The movement of coal and steel between member countries will immediately be freed from all customs duty, and will not be affected by differential transport rates. Conditions will gradually be created which will spontaneously provide for the more rational distribution of production at the highest level of productivity.
In contrast to international cartels, which tend to impose restrictive practices on distribution and the exploitation of national markets, and to maintain high profits, the organization will ensure the fusion of markets and the expansion of production.
The essential principles and undertakings defined above will be the subject of a treaty signed between the States and submitted for the ratification of their parliaments. The negotiations required to settle details of applications will be undertaken with the help of an arbitrator appointed by common agreement. He will be entrusted with the task of seeing that the agreements reached conform with the principles laid down, and, in the event of a deadlock, he will decide what solution is to be adopted.
The common High Authority entrusted with the management of the scheme will be composed of independent persons appointed by the governments, giving equal representation. A chairman will be chosen by common agreement between the governments. The Authority's decisions will be enforceable in France, Germany and other member countries. Appropriate measures will be provided for means of appeal against the decisions of the Authority.
A representative of the United Nations will be accredited to the Authority, and will be instructed to make a public report to the United Nations twice yearly, giving an account of the working of the new organization, particularly as concerns the safeguarding of its objectives.
The institution of the High Authority will in no way prejudge the methods of ownership of enterprises. In the exercise of its functions, the common High Authority will take into account the powers conferred upon the International Ruhr Authority and the obligations of all kinds imposed upon Germany, so long as these remain in force."
(in http://europa.eu/about-eu/basic-information/symbols/europe-day/schuman-declaration/index_en.htm)
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01 abril 2013
Le Sacre du Printemps, 1913...
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| Les Danseuses (photo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:RiteofSpringDancers.jpg Le Sacre du Printemps (compositeur Igor Stravinsky, chorégraphie de Vaslav Nijinski et de décors et costumes de Nicholas Roerich; premiére au Théâtre des Champs-Élysées le 29 mai 1913; ballet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGNbULNCiwQ) |
01 março 2013
John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946)
John Maynard Keynes and Lydia Lopokova by William Roberts, 1932, National Portrait Gallery, London (http://www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/britons/briton14.htm)
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money by John Maynard Keynes (http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/bios/Keynes.html), 1935: http://cas.umkc.edu/economics/people/facultyPages/kregel/courses/econ645/Winter2011/GeneralTheory.pdf
"This book is chiefly addressed to my fellow economists. I hope that it will be intelligible to others. But its main purpose is to deal with difficult questions of theory, and only in the second place with the applications of this theory to practice. For if orthodox economics is at fault, the error is to be found not in the superstructure, which has been erected with great care for logical consistency, but in a lack of clearness and of generality in the pre misses. Thus I cannot achieve my object of persuading economists to re-examine critically certain of their basic assumptions except by a highly abstract argument and also by much controversy. I wish there could have been less of the latter. But I have thought it important, not only to explain my own point of view, but also to show in what respects it departs from the prevailing theory. Those, who are strongly wedded to what I shall call 'the classical theory', will fluctuate, I expect, between a belief that I am quite wrong and a belief that I am saying nothing new. It is for others to determine if either of these or the third alternative is right. My controversial passages are aimed at providing some material for an answer; and I must ask forgiveness if, in the pursuit of sharp distinctions, my controversy is itself too keen. I myself held with conviction for many years the theories which I now attack, and I am not, I think, ignorant of their strong points.
The matters at issue are of an importance which cannot be exaggerated. But, if my explanations are right, it is my fellow economists, not the general public, whom I must first convince. At this stage of the argument the general public, though welcome at the debate, are only eavesdroppers at an attempt by an economist to bring to an issue the deep divergences of opinion between fellow economists which have for the time being almost destroyed the practical influence of economic theory, and will, until they are resolved, continue to do so."
John Maynard Keynes and Lydia Lopokova by William Roberts, 1932, National Portrait Gallery, London (http://www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/britons/briton14.htm)
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money by John Maynard Keynes (http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/bios/Keynes.html), 1935: http://cas.umkc.edu/economics/people/facultyPages/kregel/courses/econ645/Winter2011/GeneralTheory.pdf
"This book is chiefly addressed to my fellow economists. I hope that it will be intelligible to others. But its main purpose is to deal with difficult questions of theory, and only in the second place with the applications of this theory to practice. For if orthodox economics is at fault, the error is to be found not in the superstructure, which has been erected with great care for logical consistency, but in a lack of clearness and of generality in the pre misses. Thus I cannot achieve my object of persuading economists to re-examine critically certain of their basic assumptions except by a highly abstract argument and also by much controversy. I wish there could have been less of the latter. But I have thought it important, not only to explain my own point of view, but also to show in what respects it departs from the prevailing theory. Those, who are strongly wedded to what I shall call 'the classical theory', will fluctuate, I expect, between a belief that I am quite wrong and a belief that I am saying nothing new. It is for others to determine if either of these or the third alternative is right. My controversial passages are aimed at providing some material for an answer; and I must ask forgiveness if, in the pursuit of sharp distinctions, my controversy is itself too keen. I myself held with conviction for many years the theories which I now attack, and I am not, I think, ignorant of their strong points.
The matters at issue are of an importance which cannot be exaggerated. But, if my explanations are right, it is my fellow economists, not the general public, whom I must first convince. At this stage of the argument the general public, though welcome at the debate, are only eavesdroppers at an attempt by an economist to bring to an issue the deep divergences of opinion between fellow economists which have for the time being almost destroyed the practical influence of economic theory, and will, until they are resolved, continue to do so."
(John Maynard Keynes, 1935)
01 fevereiro 2013
Mãe Poeta
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| Nasceste a 20, o acaso registou como teu o dia 27 mas fevereiro será, eternamente, o teu mês! O mês que acolhe o dia que transforma os anos em anos bissextos, anos de que nunca gostaste... anos de que eu passei a não gostar... Mivone Linda! |
01 janeiro 2013
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