4/30/10
A self-made man
Colonel Cargill, General Peckem's troubleshooter, was a forceful, ruddy man. Before the war he had been an alert, hardhitting, aggressive marketing executive. He was a very bad marketing executive. Colonel Cargill was so awful a marketing executive that his services were much sought after by firms eager to establish losses for tax purposes. Throughout the civilized world, from Battery Park to Fulton Street, he was known as a dependable man for a fast tax write-off. His prices were high, for failure often did not come easily. He had to start at the top and work his way down, and with sympathetic friends in Washington, losing money was no simple matter. It took months of hard work and careful mis-planning. A person misplaced, disorganized, miscalculated, overlooked everything and opened every loophole, and just when he thought he had it made, the government gave him a lake or a forest or an oilfield and spoiled everything. Even with such handicaps, Colonel Cargill could be relied on to run the most prosperous enterprise into the ground. He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.
4/29/10
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Canguru
Quando os britânicos chegaram à Austrália
perguntaram a um aborígene
o que era aquilo que andava aos saltos
O nativo respondeu:
Canguru, eu não vos entendo
E o nome foi adoptado
Ah, não saber é melhor do que saber
Ko Un
- do trapézio, sem rede (poesia passada para português) -
via O Cheiro dos Livros
4/27/10
A cura para o mal superior português
"O princípio da cura está na consciência da doença, o da verdade no conhecimento do erro. Quando um doido sabe que está doido, já não está doido."
4/26/10
Malleus Maleficarum
"The Malleus Maleficarum (Latin for "The Hammer of Witches", or "Der Hexenhammer" in German) is a famous treatise on witches, written in 1486 by Heinrich Kramer, an Inquisitor of the Catholic Church, and was first published in Germany in 1487."
The former of these two abominations is the fact that certain witches, against the instinct of human nature, and indeed against the nature of all beasts, with the possible exception of wolves, are in the habit of devouring and eating infant children. And concerning this, the Inquisitor of Como, who has been mentioned before, has told us the following: that he was summoned by the inhabitants of the County of Barby to hold an inquisition, because a certain man had missed his child from its cradle, and finding a congress of women in the night-time, swore that he saw them kill his child and drink its blood and devour it.
Espelhos fantásticos
"Sinto-me múltiplo. Sou como um quarto com inúmeros espelhos fantásticos que torcem para reflexões falsas uma única anterior realidade que não está em nenhuma e está em todas."
Fernando Pessoa
Paisagens estrambóticas
"Nos novos modelos cosmológicos, os belicosos e caprichosos deuses criadores do Universo substituem-se por partículas, pontos, linhas, curvaturas, ilimitado, finito e infinito: instrumentos teóricos construtores de paisagens estrambóticas, inóspitas, sobretudo, invisíveis, contudo, habitadas por humanos."
Táxi Pluvioso
4/25/10
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4/23/10
4/22/10
Gregos
O caminho para as origens leva, em todo o lado, à barbárie, e quem se ocupa dos gregos deve lembrar-se sempre de que o desejo imoderado do saber é, em si e em todos os tempos, tão bárbaro como o ódio ao saber, e de que os Gregos domaram o seu instinto de conhecimento, em si insaciável, mediante a consideração pela vida e mediante uma necessidade de vida ideal - porque o que aprendiam logo o queriam viver.
Nietzsche - A Filosofia na Idade Trágica dos Gregos (edições 70)
4/21/10
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