"Now that I'm dead I know everything. This is what I wished would happen, but like so many of my wishes it failed to come true. I know only a few factoids that I didn't know before. Death is much too high a price to pay for the satisfaction of curiosity, needless to say.
Since being dead - since achieving this state of bonelessness, liplessness, breastlessness - I've learned some things I would rather not know, as one does when listening at windows or opening other people's letters. You think you'd like to read minds? Think again.
Down here everyone arrives with a sack, like the sacks used to keep the winds in, but each of these sacks is full of words - words you've spoken, words you've heard, words that have been said about you."
The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus
Margaret Atwood
Amazon order ASAP. E não tem nada a ver, mas... muito fixe: http://thebuildup.blogspot.com/
Thursday, May 8, 2008
satisfaction of curiosity: thanks G.
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Houve alguém, especial, que num dia também especial, me disse que eram os “pequenos nadas” que nos confortam, nos preenchem e… muito mais…
E são.
Este é um deles.
“Put yourself in a different room, that's what the mind is for.” Margaret Atwood
Ando apaixonada pelo som de Tord Gustavsen Trio (Jazz norueguês). Tenho os três CDs, são sublimes. Deixo-te o link para ouvires os samples e um agradecimento muito especial.
http://www.tordg.no/trio/
Rooms, halls, closets and studies, my mind wanders. Obrigada de novo, quanto mais leio Margaret Atwood mais gosto. E hoje precisava mesmo dessa música. Vai voltando.
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