Estrada dos Capuchos

Estrada dos Capuchos, upload feito originalmente por catarina clemente.

El Hacedor

Mirar el río hecho de tiempo y agua
y recordar que el tiempo es otro río,
saber que nos perdemos como el río
y que los rostros pasan como el agua.

Sentir que la vigilia es otro sueño
que sueña no soñar y que la muerte
que teme nuestra carne es esa muerte
de cada noche, que se llama sueño.

Ver en el día o en el año un símbolo
de los días del hombre y de sus años,
convertir el ultraje de los años
en una música, un rumor y un símbolo,

ver en la muerte el sueño, en el ocaso
un triste oro, tal es la poesía
que es inmortal y pobre. La poesía
vuelve como la aurora y el ocaso.

A veces en las tardes una cara
nos mira desde el fondo de un espejo;
el arte debe ser como ese espejo
que nos revela nuestra propia cara.

Cuentan que Ulises, harto de prodigios,
lloró de amor al divisar su Itaca
verde y humilde. El arte es esa Itaca
de verde eternidad, no de prodigios.

También es como el río interminable
que pasa y queda y es cristal de un mismo
Heráclito inconstante, que es el mismo
y es otro, como el río interminable.

Jorge Luis Borges, 1960

EL OTRO TIGRE

Tigre, Capuchos, upload feito originalmente por catarina clemente.

Pienso en un tigre. La penumbra exalta
La vasta Biblioteca laboriosa
Y parece alejar los anaqueles;
Fuerte, inocente, ensangrentado y nuevo,
él irá por su selva y su mañana
Y marcará su rastro en la limosa
Margen de un río cuyo nombre ignora
(En su mundo no hay nombres ni pasado
Ni porvenir, sólo un instante cierto.)
Y salvará las bárbaras distancias
Y husmeará en el trenzado laberinto
De los olores el olor del alba
Y el olor deleitable del venado;
Entre las rayas del bambú descifro,
Sus rayas y presiento la osatura
Baja la piel espléndida que vibra.
En vano se interponen los convexos
Mares y los desiertos del planeta;
Desde esta casa de un remoto puerto
De América del Sur, te sigo y sueño,
Oh tigre de las márgenes del Ganges.

Cunde la tarde en mi alma y reflexiono
Que el tigre vocativo de mi verso
Es un tigre de símbolos y sombras,
Una serie de tropos literarios
Y de memorias de la enciclopedia
Y no el tigre fatal, la aciaga joya
Que, bajo el sol o la diversa luna,
Va cumpliendo en Sumatra o en Bengala
Su rutina de amor, de ocio y de muerte.
Al tigre de los simbolos he opuesto
El verdadero, el de caliente sangre,
El que diezma la tribu de los búfalos
Y hoy, 3 de agosto del 59,
Alarga en la pradera una pausada
Sombra, pero ya el hecho de nombrarlo
Y de conjeturar su circunstancia
Lo hace ficción del arte y no criatura
Viviente de las que andan por la tierra.


Un tercer tigre buscaremos. Éste
Será como los otros una forma
De mi sueño, un sistema de palabras
Humanas y no el tigre vertebrado
Que, más allá de las mitologías,
Pisa la tierra. Bien lo sé, pero algo
Me impone esta aventura indefinida,
Insensata y antigua, y persevero
En buscar por el tiempo de la tarde
El otro tigre, el que no está en el verso.

Jorge Luis Borges, 1960

Alegria

Criado com Harmony

XVI FEIRA LAICA

Organização: Associação Chili com Carne

26 e 27 de Junho
Bedeteca de Lisboa | Olivais

Além de segunda-mão e, claro, editores independentes e artistas gráficos, no programa deste ano constará o seguinte:
 

workshops

Escrita Criativa
Tipografia
Inscrições através do site da Bedeteca


Mural 
“A ciência é minha mãe” (resposta gráfica à recente criação de vida em laboratório) nas paredes da sala de exposições da Bedeteca, por vários artistas.

Concertos
Sábado
Nos jardins da Bedeteca de Lisboa, durante a tarde:Filipe Felizardo apresenta-se como Ovoo + Rudolfo
 
Na loja Trem Azul às 22h.
Nevada Hill (violino + electrónica) com Pedro Sousa (saxofone), Nuno Moita (electrónicas) e Gabriel Ferrandini (bateria + percussão) 

Domingo
Nos jardins da Bedeteca, durante a tarde:
Filho da Mãe + Nevada Hill (violino + electrónica) com R- (electrónicas), TravassosManuel Gião (guitarra) 

  

Unesco celebra Dia da Língua Portuguesa

A língua portuguesa vai ser celebrada na sede da Organização das Nações Unidas para a Educação, Ciência e Cultura (Unesco), em Paris, na próxima quarta-feira.
A sessão terá início às 17h30 e contará com a presença do Secretário Executivo da CPLP, Domingos Simões Pereira e com intervenções do Embaixador Manuel Maria Carrilho, Representante Permanente de Portugal junto da UNESCO, do Presidente da Conferência Geral da UNESCO, Davidson Hepburn (ainda por confirmar) e da Directora-Geral da UNESCO Irina Bokova.
Estará também presente o Embaixador João Carlos de Souza Gomes, Representante Permanente do Brasil junto da UNESCO.
Na cerimónia irão actuar os artistas Maria de Medeiros (portuguesa), Celínia Pereira (cabo-verdiana) e Lulendo (angolano).

The Comfort of Saturdays

This story takes place in Edinbourgh. It's about life as a chance path. What I realized from the plot is how our daily life decisions are also conditioned by chance. As we look closer, we see further and we confront ourselves with several dilemmas. Though each of our decisions have it's own implications, chance can be quite determinant factor.

Isabel Dalhousie is the owner and editor of the Review of Applied Ethics. She believes that chance determines much of what happens to us. The irony, as this character says, is that we flatter ourselves into thinking that it just plays a small role in our lives.

I ask you to imagine this situation:

You are the owner and editor of the Review of Applied Ethics. You are a conscientious person.
A highly regarded infectious diseases specialist doctor had led a clinical trial on a new antibiotic, monitoring it's use in patients.
When two patients develop serious side effects, such as heart palpitations, the health authorities asked the same doctor to look into these cases. The doctor's conclusion is published in a medical journal and he declares that the drug is perfectly safe, justifying the side effects with the fact of one of the patients being an addict and the other patient being a victim of a nursing error.
However, a few weeks after this, a man that takes the drug at the hospital, dies. And therefore, the hospital authorities investigated the case and took special attention over the doctor report. What they come to know is that the report has false informations about the level of dosage.
As consequence of this, obviously, the doctor is accused for his procedure.

This leads us to Isabel's dilemma: imagining that you were in Isabel's position and the doctor's wife would come to you and ask you to prove his innocence, would you accept her request?


When Isabel is invited to a dinner party, she is drown into this case of Marcus Moncrieff. After that dinner party, she receives a phone call from Stella Moncrieff, the wife of a doctor that had been accused of being responsible for a number of deaths due to a clinical trial on a new antibiotic. Stella, the wife of the doctor, tells her how he is paralysed with guilt and self-reproach and with shame, too. Though Isabel believes that "without shame, guilt became a toothless thing, a prosecutor with no penalties up his sleeve", she promises to solve the case, proving Marcus Moncrieff innocence. For her, ethics are not theoretical at all, but an everyday matter of life and death. Her decision is, therefore, to take the challenge of solving this case.

Throughout this episode, there are a few situations that involve her boyfriend Jamie. Jamie is much younger than Isabel and they have a baby child, Charlie. They live apart from each other. Because Jamie has to give classes not very near, he has his own house. Jamie makes acquaintance with Nick Smart. He is a musician and Nick Smart is an American composer, also young, like him. Though Jamie says, at first, that he doesn't like Nick's play, after the public performance, they get along and agree to go for a drink. Jamie asks for Isabel acceptance, but she is not included. After a few other incidents, she starts to feel resentment and doubt.


One day, while she is walking along Merchiston Crescent,

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as she is thinking about all the jealousy that might be operating. Isabel thinks that she is being excluded from an accomplice friendship.

These daydreams of hers (convincingly described by the author) do not, however, move her focus, just distract her a bit.
Isabel's niece, Cat, tells her on one occasion that she is going to travel to Sri Lanka. Isabel immediately offers herself to look after Cat's small business, a delicatessen.
Not even this change to her routine moves her away from her purposes. So she continues to dedicate part of her time to the baby and to unravel the truth of the mystery.

Jamie does not approve her interference in the doctor's situation and Jamie does mean a lot to Isabel. She feels that she is blessed with his presence.

On one occasion, she was with a couple of friends near one of Edinburgh's most astonishing architectural details: a house built into the rock of Dean Bridge.

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Her friends invited them both and Charlie, to diner, and she didn't want to include Jamie.

While Cat, her niece, goes to Sri Lanka and Isabel looks after her small business, she becomes closer to Cat's employee, Eddie. She decides to offer him help, by lending him some money. But he betrays her confidence and she is victim of her own gullibility.

To listen to Dr. Moncrieff's version of the facts, she goes on foot to the Mondrieff's flat, at Ramsay Garden.

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In Edinburgh, the annual arts festival was being prepared and near the Ramsay Garden, at the Castle Esplanade, pipe bands would play along with spectacular fireworks, all night long.

He tells her that one of the patients who had suffered from heart palpitations due to the antibiotic, was an addict and that "everything they say must be distrusted". For some reason, the nurse that had given him the medicine assured that the dose had followed the prescription. Isabel just couldn't imagine the patient as real and what happened to him remains as a story.
After that, the doctor reported to the chief medical officer, ensuring that the drug was reliable. When a man that had taken the antibiotic died and it was discovered that the doctor had received a research grant from the company that made the drug, all the suspicious were evident.
Isabel and Jamie are really intimate and they share everything. While they take a walk in Biggar Road

Jamie does not approve Isabel's interference in the doctor's story and he strongly doubts the reliability of the doctor's position in the case.

When Cat comes back, she announces that she is moving to Sri Lanka for good. She is, once more, in love. She once also had an affair with Jamie and some others after him. This sudden passion is, in brief, the reason for her decision.

Closer to the end, and after several conversations with Stella and other persons related to the case, the doctor ends up admitting his guilt.
It is, though, curious that Isabel keeps till the major evidence (the confession, that is), her benefit of doubt. But at some point of the novel, she points out a very interesting issue:

Since guilt is a feeling of responsibility for having done something wrong , is it possible that one feels guilty about a wrong that one did not do?

The Eight Irresistible Principles of Fun

The Eight Irresistible Principles of Fun

Abbey Road descalator

http://www.mofahaimages.com

$9.99

De Tatia Rosenthal, com (vozes) Tom Budge, Joel Edgerton, Leon Ford, Samuel Jackson.
Animação
Duração: 78m
Data: Austrália/IRL, 2008

É a primeira longa-metragem da realizadora. São 78 minutos de uma história inspirada em diversos contos de Etgar Keret. Os personagens são comuns mortais, cada um com as suas experiências de vida. Os bonecos de plasticina não são assim tão realistas que a sua magia se atribua a efeito especiais. São retratos tão verosímeis da imperfeição humana, que se tornam mágicos e falam pelos actores que lhes emprestam as vozes (um dos quais é Samuel Jackson). Gostei mesmo muito. É mais um filme sobre a vida, tal qual ela é: apenas definível em livros que revelam a sua verdade suprema "apenas por $9.99": "existe não um, mas seis sentidos para a vida". Algumas lições não têm preço.

A não perder: HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR de Alain Resnais

19 Janeiro - 19h00 - IFP
Descritivo:

HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR de Alain Resnais

1959 - Ficção - 91’

Agosto 1957 em Hiroshima. Na penumbra de um quarto, um casal nu, abraçado.
Ela, uma jovem actriz francesa, na casa dos trinta, veio rodar um filme sobre a paz.
Ele, um arquitecto japonês.
É a história de um amor impossível…

Entrada livre.
Lugar: Institut Franco-Portugais
Morada: Avenida Luís Bívar, 91 / 1050-143 Lisboa
Tel: (+351) 21 311 14 00
Email: infos@ifp-lisboa.com
Site: http://www.ifp-lisboa.com