Pessoa - Tempo

O valor das coisas não está no tempo em que elas duram, mas na intensidade com que acontecem.

Por isso existem momentos inesquecíveis, coisas inexplicáveis e pessoas incomparáveis!

Fernando Pessoa

Mersault, o estrangeiro

"ele é estrangeiro à sociedade em que vive [...] ele se recusa a mentir. Mentir não é apenas dizer aquilo que não é. Também - e sobretudo - é dizer mais do que é e, no que concerne ao coração humano, dizer mais do que sente. Todos nós fazemos isso todos os dias, para simplificar a vida. Ele diz o que é, ele se recusa a mascarar seus sentidmentos, e a sociedade logo se sente ameaçada."
Albert Camus

O CANTO DA SEREIA E ADORNO & HORKHEIMER

"O escutado não tem conseqüências para ele que pode apenas acenar com a cabeça para que o soltem, porém tarde demais: os companheiros, que não podem escutar, sabem apenas do perigo do canto, não da sua beleza, e deixam-no atado ao mastro para salvar a ele e a si próprios. Eles reproduzem a vida do opressor ao mesmo tempo que a sua própria vida e ele não pode mais fugir a seu papel social. Os vínculos pelos quais ele é irrevogavelmente acorrentado à práxis ao mesmo tempo guardam as sereias à distância da práxis: sua tentação é neutralizada em puro objeto de contemplação, em arte. O acorrentado assiste a um concerto escutando imóvel, como fará o público de um concerto, e seu grito apaixonado pela liberação perde-se num aplauso. Assim o prazer artístico e o trabalho manual se separam na despedida do antemundo. A epopéia já contém a teoria correta. Os bens culturais estão em exata correlação com o trabalho comandado e os dois se fundamentam na inelutável coação à dominação social sobre a natureza (ADORNO & HORKHEIMER, 1997:45)."

Fonte:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odysseus#Journey_to_the_Underworld

A teia de Penélope [Penelope's thread]

Penelope is the wife of the main character, the king of Ithaca, Odysseus (Ulysses in Roman mythology), and daughter of Icarius and his wife Periboea. She only has one son by Odysseus, Telemachus, who was born just before Odysseus was called to fight in the Trojan War. She waits twenty years for the final return of her husband,[6] during which she has a hard time snubbing marriage proposals from 108[7] odious suitors (including Agelaus, Amphinomus, Ctessippus, Demoptolemus, Elatus, Euryades, Eurymachus and Peisandros, led by Antinous).
On Odysseus's return, disguised as an old beggar, he finds that Penelope has remained faithful. She has devised tricks to delay her suitors, one of which is to pretend to be weaving a burial shroud for Odysseus's elderly father Laertes and claiming that she will choose a suitor when she has finished. Every night for three years, she undoes part of the shroud, until some unfaithful maidens discover her chicanery and reveal it to the suitors.

Odysseus and Penelope by Francesco Primaticcio (1563).
Because of her efforts to put off remarriage, Penelope is often seen as a symbol of connubial fidelity. Although we are reminded several times of her fidelity, Penelope does begin to become restless (due in part to Athena's meddling) and longs to "display herself to her suitors, fan their hearts, inflame them more" (xviii.183-84).[8] She is ambivalent, variously calling out for Artemis to kill her and, apparently, considering marrying one of the suitors. When the disguised Odysseus returns, she announces in her long interview with the disguised hero that whoever can string Odysseus's rigid bow and shoot an arrow through twelve axe shafts may have her hand. "For the plot of the Odyssey, of course, her decision is the turning point, the move that makes possible the long-predicted triumph of the returning hero".[9]
There is debate over the extent to which she is aware that Odysseus is behind the disguise. To Penelope and the suitors' knowledge, Odysseus (were he in fact present) would easily surpass all in any test of masculine skill. Since Odysseus seems to be the only person (perhaps excepting Telemachus) who can actually use the bow, it could merely have been another delaying tactic of Penelope's.
When the contest of the bow begins, none of the suitors is able to string the bow, except of course Odysseus, who wins the contest. Having done so, he proceeds to slaughter the suitors- Antinous first who he finds drinking from Odysseus' cup - with help from Telemachus, Apollo and two servants, Eumaeus the swineherd and Philoetius the cowherd. Odysseus has now revealed himself in all his glory, (with a little makeover by Athena) and it is standard (in terms of a recognition scene) for all to recognize him and be happy. Penelope, however, cannot believe that her husband has really returned—she fears that it is perhaps some god in disguise as Odysseus, as was the case in the story of Alcmene—and tests him by ordering her servant Euryclea to move the bed in their wedding-chamber. Odysseus protests that this cannot be done since he made the bed himself and knows that one of its legs is a living olive tree. Penelope finally accepts that he truly is her husband, a moment that highlights their homophrosyne (like-mindedness).
In one story of the Epic Cycle, subsequent to Odysseus' death, Penelope marries his son by Circe, Telegonus, with whom she becomes the mother of Italus. Telemachus also marries Circe when Penelope and Telemachus bring Odysseus's body to Aeaea.

fonte:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penelope

o "Chapéu Panamá" é feito no Equador

http://www.ecuadormall.com/catalog/sombrero_historia.php

O Progresso e o Anjo da História (Benjamin)

"Onde aparece para nós uma cadeia de acontecimentos, ele vê uma única catástrofe que continua a amontoar destroços sobre destroços e os arroja a seus pés. O anjo gostaria de se deter, despertar os mortos e reunir o que foi despedaçado, mas está soprando uma tempestade no paraíso que o impele irresistivelmente para o futuro a que volta suas costas, enquanto à sua frente o monte de ruínas cresce em direção ao céu. O que chamamos de "Progresso" é justamente esta tempestade"

Walter Benjamin

Walter Benjamin, who owned the painting for many years, saw it as depicting "the angel of history. His face is turned towards the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage


The Angel of History. (Deutsche Version)

"There is a picture by Paul Klee called Angelus Novus. In it, an angel is depicted who appears as if trying to distance himself from something that he stares at. His eyes and mouth gape wide, his wings are stressed to their limit.
The Angel of History must look this way; he has turned to face the past. Where we see a constant chain of events, he sees only a single catastrophe incessantly piling ruin upon ruin and hurling them at his feet.
He would probably like to stop, waken the dead, and correct the devastation - but a storm is blowing hard from Paradise, and it is so strong he can no longer fold his wings.
While the debris piles toward the heavens before his eyes, the storm drives him incessantly into the Future that he has turned his back upon.
What we call Progress is this storm."

On tbe Concept of History IX Walter Benjamin