está velha, coitadinha.
Faz 97 anos.
Felicitaciones!
Antes uma República velha
que uma nova monarquia!
"Andarei mais vinte dias ao frio, ao vento e à fome às escondidas da sorte um dia fraco, outro forte qu'o dia em que se não come é um dia a menos pr'á morte" (Sérgio Godinho - Romance de um Dia na Estrada)
A conversa foi em bom (mau) portunhol, que me abstenho de aqui reproduzir.
* Falo do amor romântico. Não do amor num sentido mais hum... universal?
**Apesar de ter dificuldade em gostar de pessoas... eu sou como aquele standard de jazz... I fall in love to easily, I fall in love to fast. E desapaixono-me exactamente com a mesma facilidade e rapidez. É uma limpeza, digamos.
***Não é que nos outros casos não fosse verdade no momento em que a palavra foi proferida. Mas era uma verdade frágil. Dessas que se desmoronam ao mínimo sopro. Os três ou quatro casos em que foi absolutamente verdade. É porque continua a ser absolutamente verdade o que eu senti em todos os momentos em que, nesses casos, proferi tal palavra.
(Capítulo 2 - Hammerfest)
(Capítulo 4 - Paris)
«The brochures [in the town of Spa] were all for places with non-nonsense names like The Professor Henrijean Hydrology Institute and The Spa Therm Institution's Department of Radiology and Gastro-Enterology. Between them they offered a bewildering array of treatments that ran from immersion in 'natural carbogazeous baths' and slathering in hot and gooey mudpacks, to being connected to a free-standing electrical sub-station and briskly electrocuted, or so it looked from the photograph. These treatments were guaranteed to do a number of things I didn't realize it was desirable to do - "dilate the dermal vessels", "further the repose of the thermoregulatory centres" and "ease periarticular contractures", to name but three.
I decided without hesistation that my thermoregulatory centres were reposed enough, if not actually deceased, and although I do have the occasional periarticular contracture and pitch forward into my spaghetti, I decided I could live with this after seeing what the muscular, white-coated ladies of the Spa institutes do to you if they detect so much as a twinge in your particulars or suspect any backsliding among the dermals. The photographs showed a frankly worried-looking female patient being variously covered in tar, blown around a shower stall with a high-pressure hose, forced to recline in bubbling copper vats and otherwise subjected to a regimen that in other circumstances would bring ineluctably to mind the expression "war crimes". [...]»
(Capítulo 6 - Bélgica)
«It should have been written into the armistice treaty at the end of the [second world] war that the Germans would be required to lay down their accordians along with their arms.»
(Capítulo 9 - Aachen e Colónia)
«I love the way Italians park. You turn any street corner in Rome and it looks as though you've just missed a parking competition for blind people. [...] Romans park their cars the way I would park if I had just spilled a beaker of hydrochloric acid on my lap. [...]
Italians will park anywhere. All over the city you will see them bullying their cars into spaces about the size of a sofa cushion, holding up traffic and prompting every driver within three miles to lean on his horn and give a passable imitation of a man in an electric chair. If the opening is too small for a car, Italians will decorate it with litter [...]
Italians are entirely without any commitment to order. They live their lives in a kind of pandemonium, which I find very attractive. They don't queue, they don't pay their taxes, they don't turn up for appointments on time, they don't undertake any sort of labour without a small bribe, they don't believe in rules at all. [...]»
(Capítulo 13 - Roma)
*Clicando no Azul podem ouvi-lo no Myspace a interpretar músicas como The Blues Walk; I Got My Mojo, Mercy, mercy, mercy e Blue Monk. Para ouvirem mais visitem os blogs dele: Registos Autónomos; Rui Azul Index e Jazz Workshop