André Nóbrega's Blog, page 14

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"It was so rarely that he could attain the peace of mind in which poetry, or prose for that matter, has got to be written. The times when he ‘could not’ work grew commoner and commoner. Of all types of human being, only the artist takes it upon him to say that he ‘cannot’ work. But it is quite true; there are times when one cannot work. Money again, always money! Lack of money means discomfort, means squalid worries, means shortage of tobacco, means ever-present consciousness of failure — abo...

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"‘Oh, leave me alone, for God’s sake!’ he said irritably, stepping out of Flaxman’s reach, and went up the stairs without looking back.Flaxman settled his hat on his head and made for the front door, mildly offended. Gordon reflected dully that it was always like this nowadays. He was for ever snubbing friendly advances. Of course it was money that was at the bottom of it, always money. You can’t be friendly, you can’t even be civil, when you have no money in your pocket. A spasm of self-pity...

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"Gordon watched them go. They were just by-products. The throw-outs of the money-god. All over London, by tens of thousands, draggled old beasts of that description; creeping like unclean beetles to the grave.He gazed out at the graceless street. At this moment it seemed to him that in a street like this, in a town like this, every life that is lived must be meaningless and intolerable. The sense of disintegration, of decay, that is endemic in our time, was strong upon him. Somehow it was mix...

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World Philosophy Day

Vale sempre a pena falar da filosofia, em especial por ser uma actividade ao mesmo tempo transversal a muito do que é ser humano e muito mal compreendida pelas pessoas. Hoje, em celebração do Dia Mundial da Filosofia, deixo aqui uma lista de ligações interessantes que me foram aparecendo:
4 minutos de Zizek a falar sobre o que é a filosofia;
todo um podcast - Philosophy Bites - em que se pergunta a vários filósofos o que é a filosofia;
página da UNESCO dedicada a esta celebração.

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Universal Children's Day

Porque vale sempre a pena lembrar, não só a data em que foram aprovados, mas também os Direitos da Criança propriamente ditos.




And because we should never forget that we still fail children far more than we should, considering these were declared exactly 24 years ago.

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Política portuguesa para totós (II)

toda a semelhança entre a realidade e o mundo dos pokémon é fruto do acaso, digo eu;imagens retiradas de Bulbapedia;Pokémon © 2002-2013 Pokémon. © 1995-2013 Nintendo/Creatures Inc./GAME FREAK inc.

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"It was queer, really. Even at the time it struck me as queer. I was a second-loot with hardly any Cockney accent left, I could already distinguish between Arnold Bennett and Elinor Glyn, and yet it was only four years since I’d been slicing cheese behind the counter in my white apron and looking forward to the days when I’d be a master-grocer. If I tot up the account, I suppose I must admit that the war did me good as well as harm. At any rate that year of reading novels was the only real ed...