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Showing posts with label Tony Hillerman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tony Hillerman. Show all posts

Sunday, May 13, 2018

tales of a dying blog #4

"This is Wild River Expeditions out of Bluff. Pros. (...) Take great pride in cleaning after themselves. The drill now is they urinate right beside the river, so it dillutes fast. Everything else they carry out. Portable toilets. Build their camp fires in fireboxes so you don't get all that carbon in the sand. Even carry out the ashes. in The Thief of Time. Hillerman has carried me before and is still carrying me now. such an author. The Beauty Way.

Tuesday, November 18, 2014

meanderings



todos os livros também podem ser ridículos também, ou as suas histórias. por falar em imoralidade: um dos capítulos de The Great Taos Bank Robbery é sobre um político no poder que, quando vê que os seus dois opositores directos estão muito próximos de o derrubar - os três estão quase empatados por uns vinte votos, decide tomar o assunto nas suas mãos e o que faz: contrata 3 candidatos para irem a votos de acordo com os grupos socio-económicos dos seus opositores. Os candidatos recolherão poucos votos mas esses poucos são os suficientes para que a sua candidatura vença. assim aconteceu e o político subiu na carreira até lugares importantes no partido e no país. um tratado do que é a política, imoral. e do que pode ser a democracia, essa fonte de manobras.

Thursday, November 6, 2014

'female rain'

havasu falls no grande canyon, o cenário de Skeleton Man. here.

"We are standing, Alex Atcitty and I, on the slope under the great rampart of red rock which runs like a Chinese Wall along the south end of Navajo country. To the east, Mount Taylor rises snowcapped and serene above the blunt shape of Little Haystack Mountain. To the left, eroded sanstone, broken slate, and a half dead piñon whose branches collect tumbleweeds from the gusty wind. It is November of a year of a year of almost unbroken drought. The air smells of autumn, pine resin, dust, and empty places. (...)

what a chapter... ('The very heart of our country' in The Great Taos Bank Robbery and other Indian country affairs) and this is how it ends:

"In the Nightway ceremonial, the singer chants:

In the house made of dawn,
In the house made of sunset light
In the house made of raincloud
With beauty before me, I walk
With beauty behind me, I walk
With beauty all around me, I walk.

If the landmarks of Dinetah have helped form the Navajo religion, it seems equally certain that its beauty has helped form the Navajo character."


Tuesday, November 4, 2014

Cat

"This one was skinny and ragged, had shown up around his trailer one autumn, attracted by food scraps he  left out for squirrels. It wore a pretty collar - an animal raised as a pet, then abandoned with no survival skills and handicapped by pregnancy. He had put out food for the terrified beast and it quickly became a regular visitor. Then one of the neighborhood coyotes scented the cat and began hunting it. Chee cut a cat-sized entry in his door and lured the animal through with sardines. Soon the door flap became its emergency route to safety when a coyote prowled. Only when winter froze the San Juan and the snow began did it move in to spend the night, still keeping a cautious distance from Chee. Thus they lived together, Chee serving as food provider, Cat operating as feline watchdog, bolting in with a clatter when a coyote (or any other visitor) approched the trailer. Otherwise they ignored each other.
The relationshop perfectly fit Chee Navajo traditionalism. Natural harmony required all species, be they human, hamster, hummingbird, snake or scorpion, to respect each other's roles in the natural world. He saw no more justification in pretending to own a "pet" than he did in human slavery. Both violated the harmony of the system and thus were immoral."
Tony Hillerman in Skeleton Man.
(tinha já este livro, agora tenho dois, espero que por pouco tempo)

Monday, November 5, 2012

a precisar

disto: fugir daqui. Tony Hillerman para matar saudade, até porque julgo que já li este livro mas como diz alguém que todos desataram a citar no fb esta semana ( não gosto de quotes), a minha falta de memória é excelente em várias vertentes da vida e uma delas, talvez a mais importante, a de poder ler o mesmo livro como-se-fosse-a-primeira-vez várias vezes (fosse assim no amor mas não é). afinal existe em português, esgotado talvez, Coiote Espera de Tony Hillerman. uma pequeníssima edição falhada (quem quer ler sobre detectives navajo?) até aposto, que não teve continuação, apesar da obra do escritor-defensor (um Mia policial) ser bastante extensa.

apesar de ser um policial, foi através dos seus livros que entrei no universo Dineh, superficialmente tal como um policial pode ser superficial, o suficiente para ter uma relação (em monólogo) com aquela cultura. na verdade, e antes de Hillerman, o advocate dos Navajo e escritor de policiais best seller do NY Times, o que me prendeu foi a terra ocre e sagrada de Monument Valley, aquela que considero ser a minha catedral, onde um homem (neste caso menina) olha para si na sua verdadeira dimensão de passageiro privilegiado de um maravilhoso (palavra traiçoeira na boca de políticos) transporte. se há um local que gostaria de rever na vida, é aquele. assim se foge.

Talking God cresce em torno da cerimónia Night Chant (to be restored to harmony and beauty): aqui, aqui e em Hillerman:





Wednesday, October 28, 2009

statement

i love Tony Hillerman.

tirando isso, como é que diabo limito uma procura à última data dos registos
palavras novas: vice-postulador.

Friday, February 29, 2008

Bluff area



"The tableland of multicolored stone, carved into a gigantic labyrinth by canyons, all draining eventually into the narrow green belt of the San Juan bottom. Multiple hundreds of miles of sculptured stone, cut off in the north by the blue-green of the mountains. The slanting afternoon sun outlining it into a pattern of gaudy sandstone and deep shadows. "
Em Hunting Badger, de Tony Hillerman.


Viajar ao fim-de-semana, desta vez para a Bluff Area, pela mão de Tony Hillerman, o escritor de thrillers Navaho. A recordar uma pequena paixão, que nem sequer era literatura, era entertenimento.

"I always try to make the setting fit the story I have in mind. In Hunting Badger, for example, I needed an abandoned mine shaft on the margins of the Navajo-Southern Ute territories because I wanted to revive memories of the troubles between those two tribes and the legend of a Ute warrior who raided the Navajos and how he was finally disposed of. I got a lot of help from the U.S. Geological Survey on that one, and spent a lot of time driving over very bad roads on the Arizona-Utah borders. I have always felt that making the reader away of the vast emptiness of our high desert is important to making the story work." (Tony Hillerman)

A entrevista toda, aqui.

 
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