De ovos e outras carências

Annie Hall (1977), de Woody Allen

I thought of that old joke, you know, this guy goes to a psychiatrist and says, "Doc, my brother' s crazy, he thinks he's a chicken." And the doctor says, "Well, why don't you turn him in?" The guy says, "I would , but I need the eggs." Well, I guess that's pretty much now how I feel about relashionships; you know, they're totally irrational, and crazy, and absurd... but I guess we keep goin' through it because most of us... need the eggs.

Ubíqua, ainda por cima

Do "lion" da vez

Quantas lacunas em toda a harmonia!

Oscar Wilde, O Crime de Lorde Artur Savile, em O Crime de Lorde Artur Savile e Outros Contos

All time is unredeemable

I

Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future,
And time future contained in time past.
If all time is eternally present
All time is unredeemable.
What might have been is an abstraction
Remaining a perpetual possibility
Only in a world of speculation.
What might have been and what has been
Point to one end, which is always present.
Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened
Into the rose-garden. My words echo
Thus, in your mind.

T. S. Eliot
Excerto de Burnt Norton, nº 1 de Four Quartets (1943)

In memoriam

Pormenor do Jardim dos Sentimentos, Festival Internacional de Jardins de Ponte de Lima

Pontos de interrogação

Gertrude Stein, on her deathbed, asked her lifelong companion, Alice B. Toklas, "What is the answer?" And when Alice could not bring herself to speak, Gertrude asked, "In that case, what is the question?"

Fontana & Frey (1994)

Ainda não cheguei a perua

Trabalhar ao Domingo é dureza.

Mas depois vi isto que o F. me enviou.

E sorri.

Tough science

We thrive in information-thick worlds because of our marvellous and everyday capacities to select, edit, single out, structure, highlight, group, pair, merge, harmonize, synthesize, focus, organize, condense, reduce, boil down, choose, categorize, catalog, classify, refine, abstract, scan, look into, idealize, isolate, discriminate, distinguish, screen, sort, pick over, group, pigeonhole, integrate, blend, average, filter, lump, skip, smooth, chunk, inspect, approximate, cluster, aggregate, outline, summarize, itemize, review, dip into, flip through, browse, glance into, leaf through, skim, list, glean, synopsize, winnow wheat from chaff, and separate the sheep from the goats.

Tufte, 1990, p. 50

E lá se vai o fim-de-semana prolongado.

Dúvida

Jean Seberg, em O Acossado (1959), de Jean-Luc Godard

Não sei se estou triste por não ser livre,

ou se não sou livre por estar triste.

Ressalvando as devidas distâncias...

Roko, por Victor Pulido, na XV Bienal de Cerveira

Vida canina, na aldeia de Padroso, Montalegre