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Sapiens - Uma Breve História da Humanidade

2025-06-07T14:41:00.001-03:00

O que possibilitou ao Homo sapiens subjugar as demais espécies? O que nos torna capazes das mais belas obras de arte, dos avanços científicos mais impensáveis e das mais horripilantes guerras? Nossa capacidade imaginativa. Somos a única espécie que acredita em coisas que não existem na natureza, como Estados, dinheiro e direitos humanos. Partindo dessa ideia, Yuval Noah Harari, doutor em história pela Universidade de Oxford, aborda em Sapiens a história da humanidade sob uma perspectiva inovadora. Explica que o capitalismo é a mais bem-sucedida religião, que o imperialismo é o sistema político mais lucrativo, que nós, humanos modernos, embora sejamos muito mais poderosos que nossos ancestrais, provavelmente não somos mais felizes. Um relato eletrizante sobre a aventura de nossa extraordinária espécie ? de primatas insignificantes a senhores do mundo.

Detalhes do produto

Editora ‏ : ‎ L&PM
Data da publicação ‏ : ‎ 1 janeiro 2015
Edição ‏ : ‎ 1ª
Idioma ‏ : ‎ Português
Número de páginas ‏ : ‎ 464 páginas
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 8525432180
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-8525432186
Peso do produto ‏ : ‎ 748 g
Dimensões ‏ : ‎ 22.6 x 15.6 x 3 cm

Cosa nostra no Brasil - por Leandro Demori

2023-08-14T12:07:00.005-03:00

Se nos dias de hoje a máfia italiana não parece contar com o mesmo tipo de poder que a tornou lendária em filmes e livros, durante praticamente todo o século XX essa entidade misteriosa comandou um império do crime. Um dos principais nomes da ascensão da máfia moderna foi também um dos homens que a derrubou. Tommaso Buscetta foi o delator mais infame da Cosa Nostra.

condenando centenas de mafiosos à prisão. Preso duas vezes no Brasil e torturado pela ditadura militar, ele foi também um dos responsáveis por incluir o Brasil na rota internacional do crime. Nesta reportagem explosiva de Leandro Demori, narrada em ritmo de thriller, documentos até agora inéditos revelam um dos capítulos mais tenebrosos da máfia e da história recente do Brasil.

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Detalhes do produto

Título: Cosa nostra no Brasil

Autor: Leandro Demori

Editora ‏ : ‎ Companhia das Letras; 1ª edição (11 novembro 2016)

Idioma ‏ : ‎ Português

Capa comum ‏ : ‎ 288 páginas

Ranking dos mais vendidos: Nº 41,815 em Livros na Amazon

Nº 100 em Livros de Literatura Europeia na Amazon

Quem é Leandro Demori:

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Leandro Demori é um jornalista e escritor brasileiro especializado em jornalismo investigativo com ênfase em sistemas mafiosos. Foi editor-executivo do site The Intercept Brasil de 2017 a 2022.

Em junho de 2019, liderou a cobertura do caso que ficou conhecido como Vaza Jato, vazamento de conversas travadas no aplicativo Telegram entre o ex-juiz Sérgio Moro e o promotor Deltan Dallagnol, além de outros integrantes da força-tarefa da Operação Lava Jato.

É autor do livro Cosa Nostra no Brasil, a história do mafioso que derrubou um império, que conta a vida do mafioso italiano Tommaso Buscetta.

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea: by Jules Verne

2023-08-11T06:19:00.001-03:00

Adventures in the Deep

The plot begins when a French professor named Pierre Aronnax, along with his servant Conseil and a Canadian harpooner named Ned Land, embark on an expedition aboard a ship named Abraham Lincoln. The expedition's mission is to hunt down a supposed sea monster that is attacking ships in various parts of the world.

During the monster hunt, the Abraham Lincoln is attacked and sunk. Aronnax, Conseil and Ned Land are rescued by the mysterious Captain Nemo, who unveils his innovative underwater vessel, the Nautilus. The group then embarks on an incredible underwater journey around the world.

Along the twenty thousand leagues (equivalent to about 80,000 kilometers) covered under water, Aronnax and his companions witness wonders of nature, such as coral reefs, exotic marine species and submerged volcanoes. They also face dangers such as storms, aggressive sea creatures and even an attack by a giant octopus.

However, the story goes beyond the underwater adventures. The book addresses themes such as the unknown, scientific advancement, loneliness, the conflict between nature and technology, morality and the quest for freedom. Captain Nemo is portrayed as a complex character, who rebelled against human society and seeks revenge against the oppression he suffered.

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is considered one of the great classics of science fiction literature and one of Jules Verne's best known works. He captivated readers with his vivid imagination, detailed descriptions, and futuristic vision, which anticipated many technological innovations of the 20th century.

What is the Monster from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea?

In the book Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, the “monster” that initially motivates the expedition of Professor Pierre Aronnax and his companions is, in fact, a mysterious creature that is attacking ships around the world. The initial description of the monster is vague and causes fear in people.

However, when Aronnax and his companions are rescued by Captain Nemo and board the Nautilus, they discover that the supposed monster is actually a highly advanced and technologically innovative submarine built by Captain Nemo himself.

The confusion regarding the "monster" is due to the appearance of the Nautilus and the aggressive tactics used by Captain Nemo to scare away the ships. The vessel's peculiar shape, with its fish-shaped hull, could easily be mistaken for an unknown sea creature.

So there really isn't a traditional "monster" in the sense of a fantastical or supernatural creature in the book. The idea of the monster serves as a starting point for the story, leading the characters to embark on an underwater adventure and explore the depths of the ocean aboard the Nautilus.

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea invites us to reflect on profound questions related to exploration, ethics, solitude and freedom, while taking us on an exciting journey through the mysteries of the undersea world.

Review by Sidney Matias

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Puffin Books; Abridged edition (1 July 1995)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 9 - 11 years old

Adele: The Biography and 5 facts about Adele that will make you love her even more

2023-08-06T06:29:00.001-03:00

The compelling life story of the Grammy–winning soul singer Adele's soulful voice, catchy hits, and vulnerable personality have won her critical acclaim and huge popularity. She has topped the charts in 18 countries—but who is she? What is the truth of the tempestuous life that has so influenced her heartbreaking tracks? How did she overcome the challenges that threatened to derail her career?

This compelling book traces her story from her childhood in London, where she began singing at the age of four. During her teenage years she wrote her own music and attended the BRIT school, alongside the likes of Leona Lewis. After posting demos on the MySpace website she earned a record deal and quickly captured hearts. Adele remains an unlikely icon. Her looks are unusual in a formulaic world of celebrity image, she suffers badly with pre-stage nerves, and she once canceled a crucial promotional trip to the U.S. because she felt too down to travel. This is a full, unflinching portrait of a genuine talent and inspiring, uncompromising woman—the curvy girl next door who conquered the world.

Product details

by Chas Newkey-Burden (Author)

Publisher ‏ : ‎ John Blake; Reprint edition (September 1, 2012)

Language ‏ : ‎ English

Paperback ‏ : ‎ 288 pages

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5 facts about Adele that will make you love her even more

1. When Adele performed on the American comedy show "Saturday Night Live" in 2008, she thought that conservative politician Sarah Palin was comedian Tina Fey (who imitated Palin on the show), and called her Tina.

2. Once, while recording a video, Adele was driving a golf cart when she saw P Diddy and almost ran over the rapper in her eagerness to meet him.

3. Adele was once banned from Twitter by her agent after drunkenly tweeting numerous times. At the time, your tweets had to be approved by two other people before being posted.

4. Adele is passionate about dance, but says: “I don't have rhythm”. The singer claims that if someone wants to make her dance, just give her a bottle of vodka and play some reggae music.

5. And finally, Adele started to dedicate her performance of the song “Make You Feel My Love” to Amy Winehouse in all her live shows after the singer's death, in 2011. Adele always asks the audience to turn on the lights of the cell phones, to turn the show into a starry sky that Amy can see.

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World Cup Women: Megan, Alex, and the Team USA Soccer Champs

2023-08-01T07:13:00.000-03:00

This is the illustrated story of 23 soccer players who worked together to become World Cup champions and heroes to millions of men, women, boys, and girls across America and around the world.

In July 2019, a record number of people all around the world tuned in to watch the Women's World Cup, which took place in France. Fifty-two games, twenty-four teams, four weeks . . . one winner.

Megan Rapinoe had waited for this day since she attended a World Cup game as a teenager, and Alex Morgan had set her sights on a World Cup victory of her own as she watched Mia Hamm, Brandi Chastain, and Team USA win in 1999. Years of hard work, determination, and practice put Megan, Alex, and their teammates in the perfect position, and they took full advantage.

Rose Lavelle, Tobin Heath, Alyssa Naeher, Crystal Dunn, Ali Krieger, Julie Ertz, Carli Lloyd, and the rest of the US Women's National Team returned home from France with the title, the trophy, and their nation's pride, becoming the first team in history to win four Women's World Cup titles! New York City threw a parade in their honor, and fans lined the streets, clapping and cheering and chanting their names. These women were on top of the world--they'd come so far. They'd achieved their dreams!

World Cup Women highlights Team USA's tournament experience and provides a glimpse into what shot them to the top . . . and what may keep them there a little longer.

Available for purchase on Amazon!

English Edition by Nikkolas Smith (Illustrator), Meg Walters (Author)

Product Details

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Sky Pony (19 November 2019)

Language ‏ : ‎ English

Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 32 pages

Dark Mission: The Secret History of NASA

2023-07-31T08:56:00.000-03:00

Surveys the history of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, describing the major space craft and missions launched.

For most Americans, the word NASA suggests a squeaky-clean image of technological infallibility.

Yet the truth is that NASA was born in a lie, and has concealed the truths about its occult origins. Dark Mission documents this seemingly wild assertion.

Why is the Bush administration intent on returning to the moon as quickly as possible? What are the reasons for the current “space race” with China, Russia, and India? Remarkable images reproduced within this book provided to author Richard C. Hoagland by disaffected NASA employees provide clues why, including information about suppressed lunar discoveries.

Mystical organizations quietly dominate NASA, carrying out their own secret agendas behind the scenes. This is the story of men at the very fringes of rational thought and conventional wisdom, operating at the highest levels of our country. Their policies are far more aligned with ancient religions and secret mystery schools than the facade of rational science NASA has successfully promoted to the world for almost fifty years.

Dark Mission is proof of the secret history of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the astonishing, seminal discoveries it has repeatedly suppressed for decades.

Richard C. Hoagland is the former science advisor to CBS News, author of The Monuments of Mars, and a frequent guest on the popular radio programs Coast To Coast and The Art Bell Show.

Mike Bara is a consulting engineer for Boeing aircraft. This is his first book

Product details

by Richard C. Hoagland (Author), Mike Bara (Author)

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Feral House; 1st edition (October 16, 2007)

Language ‏ : ‎ English

Paperback ‏ : ‎ 550 pages

On episteme and theories of knowledge - by Plato

2023-07-25T06:05:00.007-03:00

Introduction

Episteme has Greek origin; means knowledge. In the course of history, different ways of explaining how knowledge was given or constructed in human everyday life emerged. In our work, whose proposal is an overview of the theory of knowledge exposed in the dialogue between Socrates and Theaetetus, written by Plato, we will primarily consider Platonism and empiricism, two diametrically opposed epistemological forms. Nevertheless, we will proceed with a brief analysis of the philosophies present in that text.

knowledge theories

Knowledge, for the Greek philosopher, is contemplation; it is theory, not intended to change the nature or reality of anything. However, we noticed that, in the text we studied, there are three definitions of knowledge that are worked on in the dialogue between Socrates and the young Theaetetus. In the conversation, Socrates uses the technique of irony by reduction to absurdity to convince Theaetetus that only one of the three proposed theories is true. He uses the argument contrary to what he defends to prove it weak and unsustainable. During the conversation, Socrates passes himself off as a person who accepts Theaetetus' arguments; however, in the course of the dialogue, he begins to show the weaknesses of the young man's propositions, even placing them as absurd. With this method, Socrates inaugurates “negative knowledge”, that is, knowledge based on what it is not, as we will approach in our work.

The three definitions of knowledge are:

Knowledge is sensation: in this definition, we clearly see that knowledge is based on experience, as it is the human senses that provide information in the foreground. Socrates argues that people's senses are different and therefore subjective. Furthermore, people's perceptions can change with age and time, making this knowledge unreliable. Furthermore, the wind that hits people, in any weather, anyway, can be cold for some of them and hot for others, a conclusion that does not contribute to a universal knowledge about what wind is. In this way, the subjectivity defended by Protagoras and the mobilization defended by Heraclitus are denied by Plato, as we will better exemplify later on.

Knowledge is the decomposition of the object for analysis: this is, without a doubt, the main defense proposition of empiricism, because, for a better analysis of each structure, each scientist, from each area of knowledge, decomposes the object until looking for its particular. In this particular would reside the idea of what knowledge is. This is another definition contested by Plato, who seeks exactly the opposite: a universal, immutable and eternal knowledge.

Justified true belief: in this third definition of knowledge, defended by Plato, the idea is worked that knowledge must be accepted within the society where it exists. Beliefs are beliefs held by groups of people because they are based on values, customs, and habits of those groups. We then infer that knowledge, to be true, within this conception, must be believed in the light of some criterion that is accepted by all. In this way, yes, according to Plato, one can build knowledge capable of transcending the particular and time, capable, finally, of reaching the intelligible.

Proposal by Plato and his competitors

Knowledge in Plato is linked to the conception that the real world is the world of ideas, in which sensible experiences have no real importance because they are subjective. The ideal (universal) is in fact, in Plato, the real. In this real, knowledge would be valid for all entities. On the contrary, the empiricist sees the universal as a non-existent thing; flatus vocals. Their belief is based solely on the existence of particulars. For example: while Plato would point to the universal concept of a table, worrying about the general characteristics belonging to all tables, that is, tables with three legs, with four, with two, made of wood, glass or plastic..., empiricists would be specifically concerned with the particularities of each one of them. There is not, for those concerned with particulars (the empiricists and the nominalists), a common table concept. They are concerned with the characteristics that make each entity different – the tables with three legs, with four, with two, in wood, glass or plastic...

Plato's goal is the soul, as he believes that the world the body is in is a theater of leftovers. While we look at things and deceive ourselves, we can close our eyes and turn to ourselves, to the soul – where, for Plato, reality is. He points out that it is necessary to abandon, therefore, the sensitive, the experience. In Platonic philosophy, the soul is knowledge, as it is based on universal aspects, while the body would be the doxa (i) (what they talk about...).

For Plato, reason leads to knowledge of the intelligible. This statement demonstrates, above all, the need for man to be equipped to deal with his own wonders, wonders. Otherwise, the will never be able to leave the world of the sensible. In the painting, we perceive the intelligible as a point to be reached by the philosopher. Thus, reason would be in control, as emotions only concern what is lowest in man, farthest from the reflection and knowledge of the soul. We then realize that knowledge, for Plato, is knowledge of the soul; it is contemplation itself that denies experience.

Plato was an outspoken critic of empiricism. In Theaetetus, he frames Protagoras as an empiricist, as he states that “Man is the measure of all things” (Homo Mesura).

THEAETETUS - (...) It seems to me, then, that whoever knows something feels what he knows. So what seems to me at this point is that knowledge is nothing more than sensation.

Socrates – (...) Perhaps your definition of knowledge has some value; it is the definition of Protagoras; in other words, he said the same thing. He claimed that man is the measure of all things, of the existence of those that exist and those that do not (Plato, 1973, p. 32).

There is a big problem, as Socrates comments, in this proposition: do we speak of man as an individual or of man as a species? If we admit the first hypothesis, we fall into subjectivism, in which there is no universally valid truth. As a species, we would neglect the existence of everything else. Still, relativism, which is also present in this issue, would call into question the qualities present in statements and propositions. This relativism that we commented on can be divided into three forms: the cognitive, which concerns perception; the ethical, which points out what is correct in each social formation; and the cultural, in which an object changes importance according to custom (custom is king).

Plato cannot accept these propositions, since his search concerns, mainly, the search for a universal truth, present in all beings; therefore not subjective, not relative to something else. This universal is immutable, it cannot be in transformation or in movement, which makes Plato oppose subjectivism, relativism and mobilization, the latter considered a plague by him in Hellas: “‘If something is at a certain moment, it ceased to be so at another moment”. With that statement, Panta-Rei, who has an identity now, will not have it a few seconds later. With mobilization, everything is in an eternal flux, process, in progress towards something, in an eternal becoming, in an eternal movement. As these transformations are impossible in the world of ideas, as they cause transformations, different representations of the same event, doxa (i), different sensations, Platonic philosophy becomes impossible.

From the translation of things, from the movement and from the mixture of one thing with other things, everything that we say exists is formed, without using the correct expression, because strictly speaking nothing is or exists, everything becomes. On this, with the exception of Parmenides, all the sages, in chronological order, agree: Protagoras, Heraclitus and Empedocles, and, among poets, the highest points of the two genres of poetry: Epicarmus in comedy and Homer in tragedy. When he refers – to the father of all eternal gods, the Ocean, and to the mother, Tethys, he implies that all things originate from flux and movement (Plato, 1973, p. 33-34).

In subjectivism, the truth is present in each individual. Socrates, by claiming that he knows nothing, uses a fallibilist stance to refute arguments based on empathy, subjectivism and becoming. It points out that we cannot be absolutely sure of anything. Irony, a demonstrative method used to dismantle the arguments of those who presume to know, bringing up belief without reason and lack of foundation, appears in this excerpt from the conversation between Socrates and Theaetetus.

Socrates – So, tell me, once more, if you accept that nothing exists and that everything is in a perpetual becoming: the good, the beautiful and everything else that we have just listed (Plato, 1973, p. 42).

Socratic irony aims to overthrow baseless beliefs, as we have already pointed out. He builds his knowledge through the elimination of errors, that is, in a negative episteme that seeks to learn by eliminating errors. Thus, each and every theory is fallibilist, that is, it is neither eternal nor fixed, and may fall at any moment.

Furthermore, there are forms of knowledge that are more valid, legitimate and of better effect than others, even if we are not absolutely sure of them, even if the method to approach it is based on not knowing, on what we know it is not. He speaks of the universal, of the common to all. As we pointed out, the prepared philosopher must use reality with the perspective of facing pure, eternal forms.

Conclusion

We can compare the Platonic proposal of knowledge through the world of ideas with the philosophical proposal of episteme, in which the philosopher would dedicate himself to a vision of the truth of the whole. In this way, declarative, imperative, prescriptive, interrogative, exclamatory propositions, among others, created by philosophers would lead to the various isms created to explain the world in which we live. These are the philosophical schools, characterized by being all closed systems of ideas that aim to explain the world, such as existentialism, Marxism, Aristotelianism... and Platonism itself.

On the other hand, the connection between empiricism and modern sciences is also clear, in which experience is the last word in the construction of truths. Although all knowledge moves towards explanatory unification, science branches out into several areas of activity, pointing to different answers to the same questions.

It should be noted here that the definition of knowledge as articulated true belief or justified true belief is the most accepted, both by philosophers and by scientists today.

References

HESSEN, J. Theory of knowledge. Coimbra: Successor, 1973.

PLATO. Dialogues, volume IX – Theaetetus – Cratylus. Belém: Federal University of Pará, 1973. Amazon Collection.

OLIVA, Alberto. Theory of Knowledge I classes, in the 1st period of 2007. Rio de Janeiro: UFRJ/IFCS, 2007.

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The Epic of Gilgamesh: The Oldest Book in the World

2023-07-19T11:10:00.008-03:00

What if we told you that the oldest book in the world is around 4,000 years old? Of course you would say, well, stop your delusions the book is a late 15th century invention, just under six hundred years old. It's true, but come with me and I'll explain better.

The Epic of Gilgamesh (São Paulo: Autêntica, 2017) is a work whose origin is estimated to be 4,000 years old, since it was written around 2,000 years BC. The “document” that resulted in the book we know today has been buried since the fire, in 612 BC, that devastated the Library of Nineveh. This city, in the region of Ancient Mesopotamia, is located, today, near the city of Mosul, in Iraq.

In 1849, British archaeologists found the ruins of this ancient library and with it 30,000 tablets with cuneiform writing from which more than 1,200 different writings are found, among them the Epic of Gilgamesh.

Tablet V from the Epic of Gilgamesh from the Babylonian period, between 2003 and 1595 BC.

An interesting fact is that this narrative contains texts similar to those that would later appear in the Bible, dating from the 8th century BC. This is the case of the flood and a subject archetypically similar to Adam, described in what is called the Pentateuch of the Christian Old Testament or the Jewish Torah.

The great Hellenic works of Homer – Iliad and Odyssey – of the 8th and 9th centuries BC. also feature passages similar to the adventures of Gilgamesh. It is undoubtedly a very important book for antiquity.

What does the story of Gilgameshi tell?

There is a doubt that lasts until the present day, if Gilgamesh was just a literary character or if he actually existed? Just in case, Gilgamesh was one of the kings of the Uruk dynasty, whose reign would have taken place around 2659 BC.

In addition, he was one of the best known predecessors of the Sumerian kings, being venerated as a hero and not infrequently seen as a deity. The work begins, precisely, with an exaltation of Gigalmesh, emphasizing its virtues.

Invincible and self-centered, yet a capable king, Gilgamesh's subjects beseech the goddess Aruru to create a being equal to their monarch so that he will be able to challenge him. With a little clay (and perhaps the bible's similarity with this text is no coincidence) Aruru creates Enkidu, who starts to live in the forest.

At a certain point, Gilgamesh, upon learning of Enkidu's existence, asks a courtesan – and not just any courtesan, but the most irresistible in the kingdom – to go to the forest, seduce him and take him to the city. Right on the first date, both measure strength, fight bravely and, after recognizing the strength of the other, end up becoming friends.

After living in the city for a while, Enkidu and Gilgamesh decide to go on adventures when they find themselves with the need to face Humbada, a feared giant. Later, on their return to the palace, Gilgamseh's lack of correspondence with the love of the goddess Isthar causes her to send the celestial Bull, which is defeated by the duo. Furious, Isthar then curses and Enkidu falls ill with a fatal illness.

Later, Gilgamesh alone seeks out Utnapishtim, an old man who survived the great flood recounted in the work. He wants to know what the secret of immortality is and he sets out, then, in search of the answer to this great question. The outcome of the story has to do with this search and adventure carried out by Gilgamesh, who at the end returns to his kingdom.

Of course, the story is much more complex than this brief summary, presented full of jumps, but with care to offer the minimum of spoilers. It is a fascinating story that has impressively survived the time

Gilgamesh – Palacio de Sargao II

em Khorsabad. Escultura de 713-706-AC6 a.

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21 OF THE "35 SONNETS" BY FERNANDO PESSOA - English and Portuguese

2023-07-15T12:05:00.000-03:00

In the bilingual text presented below, each of the other 21 sonnets now published bears an indication of who wrote it.

translated: 16 translations belong to José Sena, 4 are by Casais Monteiro and mine, 1 is by José Blanc from Portugal.

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Wheter we write or speak or do but look

We are ever unapparent. What we are

Cannot be transfused into word or book.

Our soul from us is infinitely far .

However much we give our thoughts the wil l

To ber our soul ana gesture it abroad,

Our hearts are incommunicable still.

I n what we show ourselves we are ignored.

The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged

By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.

Unto our very selves we are abridged

When we would utter to our thought our being.

We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,

And each to each other dreams of others' dreams,

I could not think of thee as pieced rot,

Yet such thou wert, for thou hadst been long dead;

Yet thou liv'ast entire in my seeing thought

And what thou wer t in me had never fled.

Nay, I had fixed the moments of thy beauty

Thy ebbing smile, thy kiss's readiness,

And memory had taught my heart the duty

To know thee ever at that death!essness.

But when I came where thou wert laid, and saw

The natural flowers ignoring thee sans blame,

And the encroaching grass, with casual flaw,

Framing the stone to age where was thy name,

I knew not how to feel, nor what to be

Towards thy fate's material secrecy.

Seja falar, escrever, olhar sequer,

Sempre inaparentes somos. Nosso ente

Não pode, verbo ou livro, em si conter.

A alma nos fica longe infindamente.

Pensamentos que dermos ou quisermos

Ser alma nossa em gestos revelada

Coração cerrado fica o que tivermos,

De nós mesmos é sempre ignorada.

Abismos de alma a a'ma intransponíveis

Por bem pensar ou manha de o parecer.

Ao mais fundo de nós irredutíveis

Quando ao pensar o ser queremos dizer.

Sonhos de nós, as almas lueilantes,

E duns pr'a outros sonhos doutros antes.

Trad, de José Blanc de Portugal

Não sabia pensar-te como podridão,

E tal tu eras, pois morreste há muito;

Tanto viveste no meu idear vidente,

Que o que já fôste em mim nunca fugia.

Fixara instantes da beleza tua —

Sorriso fluido, a prontidão do beijo,

E o grato recordar bem m e ensinara

A conhecer-te assim sempre imortal.

Mas, ao chegar onde t u jazes, v i

As flores que, sem culpa, ali te ignoram,

E a relva tão casual que intrusa ajeita

Ao tempo a pedra onde o teu nome estava,

E que sentir não soube, nem que ser

Ante o segredo mat'rial do fado.

Trad, de Jorge de Sena

As a bad orator, badly o'er-book-skilled,

r>oth overflow his purpose with made heat,

And, like a clock, winds with withoutneae willed

What should have been an inner instinct's feat;

Or as a prose-wit, harshly poet turned,

Lacking the subtler music in his measure,,

With useless care labours but to be spurned,

Courting in alien speech the Muse's pleasure;

I study how to love or how to hate,

Estranged by consciousness from sentiment,

With a thought feeling forced to be sedate

Even when the feeling's nature is violent;

As who would learn to swin without the river,

When nearest to the trick, as far as ever.

VII

Thy words are torture to me, that scarce grieve thee —

That entire death shall null my entire thought;

And feel torture, not that I believe thee,

B ut that I cannot disbelieve thee not.

Shall that of me that now contains the stars

Be by the very contained etars survived?

Thus were Fate all unjust. Yet what truth bars

An all unjust Fate's truth from being believed?

Conjecture cannot fit to the seen world

A garment of its thought untorn or covering,

Or with its stuffed garb forge an otherworld

Without itself its dead deceit discovering;

So, all being possible, an idle thought may

Less idle thoughts, self-known no truer, dismay.

Como o mau orador, demais livresco,

De calor finto inunda o seu propósito,

E, qual relógio, só desdobra em corda

O que ser deveria do imo instinto;

Ou como o prosador feito poeta,

Sem ter no metro a música mais fina,

Inutilmente cuida em conquistar

Da Musa os seus favores em língua estranha;

Eu estudo como odiar e como amar,

Pela consciência alheio ao sentimento,

Com pensado sentir forçado a suave,

Quando, se natural, violento ele fôra.

Qual quem, treinando-se a nadar em seco,

Ao quase já saber, não sabe nunca.

Trad, de Jorge de Sena

VII

Teus ditos me torturam, que a t i mal te doem —

Que inteira morte anule minha inteira idéia;

E me torturo, não porque de t i não creia,

Mas porque me é impossível não descrer de ti .

Será isso de mim que ora contêm os astros

Pelos contidos astros, pois, sobrevivido?

Seria um Fado injusto. Mas qual a verdade

Que impede um vero Fado injusto de ser criado?

Nenhuma conjectura o visto mundo acerta

De cobrir com vestidos do seu pensamento

Ou de com estofos reforjar um outro mundo

Sem que ao seu morto engano ela mesma descubra;

Assim, possível tudo, uma ócia idéia perde,

Cientes de não mais verás, outras que o são menos.

Trad, de Jorge de Sena

VIII

How many masks wear we, and undermasks,

Upon our countenance of soul, and when,

I f for self-sport the soul itself unmasks,

Knows it the last mask off and the face plain?

The true mask feels no inside to the mask

But looks out of the mask by co-masked eyes.

Whatever consciousness begins the task

The task's accepted use to sleepness ties.

Like a child frighted by its mirrored faces,

Our souls, that children are, being thought-losing,

Foist otherness upon their seen grimaces

And get a whole world on their forgot causing;

And, when a thought wourld unmask our soul's masking,

Itself goes not unmasked to the unmasking.

Oh to be id'e loving idleness!

But I am idle all in hate of me;

Ever in action's dream, in the false stress

Of purposed action never act to be.

Like a fierce beast self-penned in a bait-lair,

My will to act binds with excess my action,

'Not-acting cols the thought with raged, despair,

And acting rage doth paint despair distraction.

Like someone sinking in a treacherous sand,

Each gesture to deliver sinks the more;

The struggle avails not, and to raise no hand,

Though but more slow'y useless, we've no power.

Hence live I the dead life each day doth bring,

Repurposed for next day's repurposing.

VIII

Ah quantas máscaras e submáscaras,

Usamos nós no rosto de alma, e quando,

Por jogo apenas, ela tira a máscara,

Sabe que a última tirou enfim?

De máscaras não sabe a vera máscara,

E lá de dentro fita mascarada.

Que consciência seja que se afirme,

O aceite uso de afirmar-se a ensona.

Como criança que ante o espelho teme,

As nossas almas, crianças, distraídas,

Julgam ver outras nas caretas vistas

E um mundo inteiro na esquecida causa;

E, quando um pensamento desmascara,

Desmascarar não vai desmascarado.

Trad, de Jorge de Sena

Oh ser ocioso amando a ociosidade!

Mas eu todo me odeio no meu ócio;

Sempre em sonhos de ação. ou no fingir

Intenta ação que nunca será ato.

Como uma fera no covil se enjaula,

Querer agir, de excesso, me a ação prende,

O não agir é desespero em raiva,

Raiva de agir perturba o desespero.

Como alguém que se afunde em treda areia,

Cada gesto de fuga mais o afunda;

Não vai' lutar, e de não estrebuchar,

Mais lento fim, não temos nós poder,

Por isso eu vivo, ao dia, a morte vida,

Sempre disposto a me dispor depois.

Trad, de Jorge de Sena

XII

As the lone, frighted user of a night-road

Suddenly turns roud, nothing to detect,

Yet on his fear's sense keepeth still the load

Of that brink-nothing he doth but suspect;

And the cold terror moves to him more near

Of something that from nothing casts a spell,

That, when he moves, to fright more is not there,

Arad's only visible when invisible:

So I upon the world turn round in thought.

And nothing viewing do no courage take,

But my more terror, from no seen cause got,

To that felt corporate emptiness forsake,

And draw my sense of mystery's horror from

Seeing no mystery's mystery alone.

XVI

We never joy enjoy to that full point

Regret doth wish joy had enjoyed been.

Nor have the strength regret to disappoint

Recaling not past joy's thought, but its mien.

Yet joy was joy when it enjoyed was

And after-enjoyed when as joy recalled,

I t must have been joy ere its joy did pass

And, recalled, joy still, since its being-past galled.

Alas! All this is useless, for joy's in

Enjoying, not in thinking of enjoying.

Its mere thought-mirroring gainst itself doth sin,

By mere reflecting solid life destroying.

Yet the more thought we take to thought to prove

It must not think, doth further from joy move.

XII

Qual quem vai só, com medo, por noturna estrada

De súbito se volta para nada ver,

Mas no senso do medo guarda o peso ainda

Desse nada abeirado que suspeita apenas;

E o terror frio o leva para bem mais perto

De algo que lá do nada lhe fascínio lança,

E que, quando el' se move, p'ra assustá-lo mais,

Não está, e apenas é visível, se invisível:

Assim em pensamento volto-me no mundo,

E nada nele vendo não ganho coragem,

Mas meu terror maior, por a não vista causa,

A tal corpóreo pressentido vácuo entrego,

E o senso meu do horror de haver mistério eu tiro

De, sozinho, não ver mistério de mistério.

Trad, de Jorge de Sena

XVI

Jamais o gozo goza àquele ponto extremo

Que a saudade requer gozado fosse o gozo,

Nem ela tem poder que fruste o recordar

Não do passado gozo a idéia, mas a imagem

Mas por ter sido gozo quando foi gozado

E ainda post-gozado como tal lembrado,

Gozo teve que ser antes de ser passado

E gozo ao recordar, pois ser passado dói.

A i ! De que vai' tudo isto, já que o gozo está

Não em pensar o gozo mas em só gozá-lo.

Seu refletir-se em idéia contra ei' próprio peca

Pois de só refletir destrói a vida solida.

Mas quanto mais pensamos em pensar provar

Não se dever pensar, do gozo mais fugimos.

Trad, de Adolfo Casais Monteiro e de Jorge de Sena

XVII

Indefinite space, which, by co-substance night,

I n one black mystery two void mysteries blends;

The stray stars, whose innumerable light

Repeats one mystery til l conjecture ends;

The stream of time, known by birth-bursting bubbles;

The gulf of silencie, empty even of nought;

Thought's high-walled maze, which the outed owner trouble*

Because the string's lost and the plan forgot:

When I think on this and that here I stand,

The thinker of these thoughts, emptily wise,

Holding up to my thinking my thing-hand

And looking at it with thought-alien eyes,

The prayer of my wonder looketh past

The universal darkness lone and vast.

XIX

Beauty and love let no one separate.

Whom exact Nature did to each other fit,

Giving to Beauty love as finishing fate

And to Love beauty as true colour of it.

Let he but friend be who the soul finds fair,

But te none love outside the body's thought,

So the seen couple's togetherness shall bear

Truth to the beauty each in the other sought.

I could but love thee out of mockery.

Of love and thee and mine own ugliness;

Therefore thy beauty I sing and wish not thee,

Thanking the Gods I long not out of place,

Lest, like a slave that for kings' robes doth longe,

Obtained, shall with mere wearing do them wrong.

XVIII

Indefinido espaço, que, por noite afim.

Vácuos enigmas dois num negro enigma junta;

Astros dispersos, cuja inumerável luz

Repete um enigma além das conjecturas findas;

Rio do tempo, havido em nascituras bolhas;

Abismo de silêncio, nem por nada enchido;

Labirinto de idéias de que o dono é expulso

Porque perdido é o fio e foi esquecido o p'ano:

Quando medito nisto e em como estou aqui,

Vazio pensador destas idéias sábias,

Erguendo ao pensamento a minha mão que é coisa,

Fitando-a com meus olhos 'de pensar alheado,

A oração do espanto fita para lá

Da treva universal tão solitária e vasta.

Trad, de Jorge de Sena

XIX

Que da beleza amor ninguém separe,

Que a exata Natureza um de outro os fêz,

Dando à Beleza amor como destino

E a Amor beleza como vera cor.

Amigo seja o que alma julga bela,

E ninguém ame para além do corpo,

Que o visto par unido assim dará

Verdade ao belo em cada qual buscado.

Só poderia amar-te por escárneo

De amor, de ti , de minha fealdade;

E sem desejo pois tua beleza

Eu canto, em meu lugar graças aos Deuses,

Não como o escravo que por reais trajos

Anseia, e só de usá-los os corrompe.

Trad, de Jorge de Sena

When in the widening circle of rebirth

To a new flesh my travelled soul sha'l come,

And try again the unremembered earth

With the old sadness for the immortal home,

Shall I revisit these same differing fields

And cull the old new flowers with the same sense,

That some small breath of foiled remembrance yields,

Of more age than my days in this pretence?

Shall I again regret strange faces lost

Of which the present memory is forgot

And but in unseen bulks of vagueness tossed

Out of the closed sea and black night of Thought?

Were thy face one, what sweetness wi'l't not be,

Though by blind feeling, to remember thee!

XXI

Thought was born blind, but Thought knows what is seeing.

Its careful touch, deciphering forms from shapes,

Still suggests form as aught whose proper being

Mere finding touch with erring darkness drapes.

Tet whence, except from guessed sight, does touch teach

That touch is but a close and empty sense?

How does mere touch, self-uncontented, reach

For some, truer sense's whole intelligence?

The thingonce touched, i f touch be now omitted,

Stands yet in memory real and outward known,

So the untouching memory of touch is fitted

With sense of a sense whereby far things are shown

So, by touch of untouching, wrongly aright,

Touch' thought of seeing sees not things but Sight.

Quando no ampliante círculo do renascer

A nova carne vier minha alma viajada,

E de novo tentar a deslembrada terra

Com a saudade antiga da pátria imortal,

Hei-de revisitar os mesmos prados vários,

Colher por novas flores as velhas com o sentido,

Que um hálito de fruste recordar detém,

De mais idade então do que serão meus dias?

Lamentarei de novo estranhos idos rostos

Dos quais a atual memória já está esquecida

E só em vaguidões invisas se projeta

Fora do mar fechado e noite do Pensar?

Fosse uma a tua face, e qual doçura fora,

Em cego sentimento embora, o recordar-te!

Trad, de Jorge de Sena

XXI

Pensar cego nasceu, mas sabe o que ver é.

Seu cauto toque, formas e contornos lendo,

Inda sugere a forma como algo que o ser

O mero tato veste em escuridade errante.

Se não da vista adivinhada, o tacto ensina

Que o tacto apenas é fechado e vácuo senso?

Como, de si incréu, mero tocar atinge

Da inteligência toda um mais vero sentido?

A coisa que é tocada, ora omitida ao toque,

Na memória é que fica, real e só exterior,

Assim o intocante recordar do toque

fi senso de um sentido que às distantes coisas

Mostra, tacto do intacto, tão erradi-certas,

Que o pensar-ver do tacto as não vê mais Visão.

Trad, de Jorge de Sena

XXII

My soul is a stiff pageant, man by man,

Of some Egyptian ar t than Egypt older,

Found in some tomb whose rite no guess can scan,

Where all things else to coloured dust did moulder.

Whate'er its sense may mean, its age is twin

To that of priesthoods whose feet stood near God,

When knowledge was so great that 'twas a sin

And man's mere soul too man for its abode.

But when I ask what means that pageant I

And would look at it suddenly, I lose

The sense I had of seeing it, nor can try

Again to look, nor hath my memory a use

That seems recalling, save that it recalls

An emptiness of having seen those walls.

XXIII

Even as upon a low and cloud-domed day,

When clouds are one cloud til l the horizon,

Our thinking senses deem the sun away

And sav "ti s sunless" and "there is no sun";

And yet the very day they wrong truth by

Is of the unseen sun's effluent essence,

The very words do give themselves the lie.

The very thought of absence comes from presence:

Even so deem we through Good of what is evil.

He speaks of light that speaks of absent light,

And absent god, becoming present devil,

Is still the absent god by essence' right.

The withdrawn cause by being withdrawn doth get

(Being thereby cause still) the denied effect.

XXII

Minh'alma são figuras que perpassam hirtas,

De alguma arte do Egito mais que Egito velha,

Achadas numa tumba de ignorado rito,

Onde em pó colorido o mais já se desfez.

Que quer me signifiquem, sua idade é gêmea

De padres cujos pés perto de Deus pisavam,

Quando o saber, de grande, era por si pecado

E homem demais, ao corpo, a simples alma humana.

Mas quando inquira o que é tal figurado eu,

E o fitasse de súbito, o sentido perco

Que tinha de o ter visto, nem já sei tentar

Olhá-lo uma vez mais, nem a memória tem

Um jeito como de invocar, salvo que invoca

Um vácuo de ter visto essas paredes antes.

XXIII

Como de um dia rente e de forrada curva,

E m que as nuvens são uma até ao horizonte,

Nosso pensante senso julga o sol perdido

E diz que "não há sol" ou que "sem sol estamos";

E todavia o dia que ei' falseia certo

15 desse inviso sol a própria efluxa essência,

Por veras, as palavras a si próprias mentem,

Da ausência a mesma idéia vem de estar presente:

Ainda que, além do Bem, do que é só mal supomos.

Fala da luz quem fala de uma ausente luz,

E deus ausente, que demônio atual se torna,

Ê sempre o deus ausente por de essência juz.

A retirada causa, ao sê-lo, mais consegue

(Sendo que é causa ainda) o denegado efeito.

Trad, de Jorge de Sena

XXIV

Something in me was born before the stars

And saw the sun begin from far away.

Our yellow, local day on its wont jars,

For it hath communed with an absolute day.

Through my Thought's night, as a worn rob's heard trail

That I have never seen, I drag this past

That saw the Possible like a dawn grow pale

On the lost night before it, mute and vast.

I t dates remoter than God's birth can reach,

That had no birth but the world's coming after.

So the world's to me as, after whispered speech,

The cause-ignored sudden echoing of laughter.

That't has a meaning my conjecture knows.

But that 't has meaning's all its meaning shows.

XXV

We are in Fate and Fate's and do but lack

Outness from soul to know ourselves its dwelling,

And do but compel Fate aside or back

By Fate's own immanences in the compelling.

We are too far in us from outward truth

To know how much we are not what we are,

And live but in the heat of error's youth,

Yet young enough its acting youth to ignore.

The doubleness of mind fails us, to g.ance

At our exterior presence amid things,

Sizing from otherness our countenance

And seeing our puppet will's act-acting strings.

An unknown language speaks in us, which we

Are at the words of, fronted from reality.

XXIV

Alguma coisa em mim nasceu antes dos astros

E viu, lá muito ao longe, começar o sol.

Fusco, local, e nosso, o dia range no hábito,

Por já ter comungado um dia absoluto.

Pela noite mental, como de vestes cauda

Ruge, que nunca vi, arrasto este passado

Que viu qual primo alvor o Possível dealbar

Sobre a noite anterior, perdida, muda e vasta.

Vêm de mais longe que o nascer de Deus alcança,

Cujo nascer é só ter vindo o mundo após.

O mundo é pois p'ra mim como, dito um murmúrio,

Súbito ecoar dum riso de ignorada causa.

Que isto tem um sentido, a conjectura sabe,

Mas ter sentido é quanto o seu sentido mostra.

Trad, de Adolfo Casais Monteiro e Jorge de Sena

XXV

Do Fado e nele somos e nos falta só,

Para lar seu nos vermos, um exterior à alma,

E o Fado compelimos a desviar-se apenas

Pela imanência del' no compelir fatal.

De extraverdade somos demais longe em nós

Para sabermos quanto o que somos não somos,

E vivemos no ardor da juventude do erro,

Porém jovens bastante p'ra ignorá-la atuante.

Duplicidade falta-nos, para atentarmos

Em nosso estar lá fora no meio das coisas,

Da alteridade aparte o nosso aspeto pondo,

Vendo os cordéis mexer do titerado arbítrio.

Uma ignota linguagem fala em nós, em cujas

Palavras inda estamos, contra o real voltados.

Trad, de Jorge de Sena

XXVI

The world is woven all of dream and error

And but one sureness in our truth may lie —

That when we hold to aught our thinking's mirror

We know it not by knowing it thereby.

For but one side of things the mirror knows,

And knows it colded from its -solidness.

A double lie its truth is; what it shows

By true show's false and nowhere by true place.

Thought clouds our life's day-sense with strangeness, yet

Never from strangeness more than that it's strange

Doth buy our perplexed thinking, for we get

But the words' sense from words — knowledge, truth, change

We know the world is false, not what is true.

Yet we think on, knowing we ne'er shall know.

XXX

I do not know what truth the false untruth

Of this sad sense of the seen world may own,

Or if this flowered plant bears also a fruit

Unto the true reality unknown.

But as the rainbow, neither earth's nor sky's,

Stands in the dripping freshness of lulled rain.

A hope, not real yet not fancy's, lies

Athwart the moment of our ceasing pain.

Somehow, since pain is felt yet felt as ill ,

Hope hath a better warrant than being hoped;

Sinc'e pain is felt as aught we should not feel

Man hath a Nature's reason for having groped,

Since Time was Time and age and grief his measures,

Towards a better shelter than Time's pleasures.

XXVI

O mundo é teia urdida só de sonho e de erro

E uma certeza apenas tem nossa verdade —

Que quando perscrutamos o mental espelho

Nada sabemos nele por saber dali.

Das coisas de um só lado é quanto o espelho sabe,

E o sabe congelado em solidez perdida.

Dupla mentira é pois sua verdade; o que

Seu mostrar mostra vero é falso e está nenhures.

Pensar enubla o momentâneo senso

Co'uma estranheza, e nunca que o ser estranho mais

O idear perplexo obtém: tiramos das palavras,

Vero, mutável, certo, só o sentido delas.

Sabemos falso o mundo, não o que é verdade.

Mas pensamos, sabendo que jamais sabemos.

Trad, de Adolfo Casais Monteiro e de Jorge de Sena

XXX

Deste, do visto mundo, triste senso ignoro

Que verdade terá sua inverdade falsa,

Ou se a florida planta dá também um fruto

Em na realidade verdadeira ignoto.

Mas como o arco-íris, nem da terra ou céu,

E no frescor gotejante na suspensa chuva,

Uma nem real esp'rança nem imaginária

Cruza o momento em que a nossa dor expira.

Mas visto à dor sentida como um mal sentirmos,

Melhor que ser esp'rada é o penhor da esp'ranca;

Pois sentimos a dor qual sentir não devêramos

Razão natural há de o homem ter buscado,

Desde que o Tempo é Tempo e idade e pena o medem.

Outro melhor abrigo que os prazeres do Tempo.

Trad, de Adolfo Casais Monteiro e de Jorge de Sena

XXXII

When I have sense of what to sense appears,

Sense is sense ere 'tis mine or mine in me is.

When I hear, Hearing, ere I do hear, hears.

When I see, before me abstract Seeing sees.

I am part Soul part I in all I touch —

Soul by that part I hold in common with all.

And I the spoiled part, that doth make sense such

As I can err by it and my sense mine call.

The rest is wondering what these thoughts may mean,

That come to explain and suddenly are gone,

Like messengers that mock the message' mien,

Explaining all but the explanation;

As if we a ciphered letter's cipher hit

And find it in an unknown language writ.

XXXIII

He that goes back does, since he goes, advance,

Though he doth not advance who goeth back,

And he that seeks, though he on nothing chance,

May still by words be said to find a lack.

This paradox of having, that is nought

I n the world's meaning of the things it screens,

Is yet true of the substance of pure thought

And there means something by the nought it means.

For thinking nought does on nought being confer,

As giving not is acting not to give,

And, to the same unbribed true thought, to err

Is to find truth, though by its negative.

So why call this world false, if false to be

Be to be aught, and being aught Being to be?

XXXII

Quando sentido eu tenho do que ao senso surge,

O senso é senso em mim já antes de ser meu.

Quando ouço o Ouvir, antes que mesmo eu ouça, ouve.

Se vejo, antes de mim o Ver abstrato vê.

Parte Alma eu sou, parte E u em tudo quanto toco —

Alma pelo que atinjo de comum com tudo,

E E u a caída parte que faz senso tal

Que posso errar por êle e senso meu chamar-lhe.

O resto é meditar em que significado

Terão explicações que súbitas se somem.

Quais mensageiros rindo da mensagem que

Tudo vem explicar menos a explicação,

Como se havida a cifra de uma cripto-carta,

Achamos que está escrita numa língua ignota.

Translated by José Sena

Stufen Gedicht von Hermann Hesse - Steps Poem by Hermann Hesse

2023-07-12T07:56:00.005-03:00

Wie jede Blüte welkt und jede Jugend

Dem Alter weicht, blüht jede Lebensstufe,

Blüht jede Weisheit auch und jede Tugend

Zu ihrer Zeit und darf nicht ewig dauern.

Es muß das Herz bei jedem Lebensrufe

Bereit zum Abschied sein und Neubeginne,

Um sich in Tapferkeit und ohne Trauern

In andre, neue Bindungen zu geben.

Und jedem Anfang wohnt ein Zauber inne,

Der uns beschützt und der uns hilft, zu leben.

Wir sollen heiter Raum um Raum durchschreiten,

An keinem wie an einer Heimat hängen,

Der Weltgeist will nicht fesseln uns und engen,

Er will uns Stuf' um Stufe heben, weiten.

Kaum sind wir heimisch einem Lebenskreise

Und traulich eingewohnt, so droht Erschlaffen,

Nur wer bereit zu Aufbruch ist und Reise,

Mag lähmender Gewöhnung sich entraffen.

Es wird vielleicht auch noch die Todesstunde

Uns neuen Räumen jung entgegen senden,

Des Lebens Ruf an uns wird niemals enden...

Wohlan denn, Herz, nimm Abschied und gesunde!

Hermann Hesse

Gedicht aus dem Buch „Das Glasperlenspiel“. Sämtliche Werke. Bd. 10. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2002. S. 366.

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Steps (Stufen)

Like every flower fades and like every youth

Yields to age, blooms every step of life,

All wisdom also flourishes and all virtue

In time, and it cannot last forever.

The heart must, in every calling of life,

Be ready for parting and for a new beginning,

To give oneself, in courage and without any

Mourning, to other new connections.

And in every beginning lies a charm of its own

Who protects us and helps us to live.

Let's calmly transpose space to space

And we don't attach ourselves to any like a homeland.

The spirit of the world does not want to bind or compress us,

He wants to elevate us step by step, spread us out.

We barely got used to being intimate

From an environment, it threatens to relax.

Only those who are ready to leave and travel

You can elude the paralyzing habit.

Does the hour of death still send us

In search of new spaces,

The cry of life for us will never cease...

Hey, then, heart, say goodbye and convalesce!

Steps Poem by Hermann Hesse

Poem from the book "The Game of Glass Beads" (Das Glasperlenspiel). Sämtliche Werke. Vol. 10. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2002. p. 366.

The History of the Titanic: A History Book for New Readers (The History Of: A Biography Series for New Readers)

2023-06-27T04:33:00.002-03:00

On April 10, 1912, the Titanic sailed away from Southampton, England, on its very first voyage. It was the biggest ship ever built, and many people believed it was unsinkable. Four days later they were proven wrong. The sinking of the Titanic is a tragedy that we still remember today. One of the most comprehensive Titanic books for kids available, this colorfully illustrated story takes you through the ship’s construction, its tragic voyage, and the legacy it left behind.

This standout among Titanic books for kids features:

A visual timeline—Easily understand important details of the Titanic’s construction and journey thanks to a timeline marking the major milestones.

Core curriculum—Learn the Who, What, Where, When, Why, and How of this fateful voyage, and take a quick quiz to test your knowledge after you finish this top choice in Titanic books for kids.

Lasting changes—Explore thought-provoking questions that help you better understand how the sinking of the Titanic affected the world you live in today.

Product details

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Rockridge Press (July 27, 2021)

by Kelly Milner Halls (Author)

Language ‏ : ‎ English

Paperback ‏ : ‎ 62 pages

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Review

Rose, an upper class girl falls in love with a commoner who manages to get on the ship and does everything to get closer to her. .He's called JACK.Besides being handsome, he's very charming and faces all sorts of embarrassing situations. I fought with all the family, friends and ROSE's fiancé. He faces the sinking of the TITANIC ship, which begins to sink after hitting a glacier, because the sailors looking out, were without special glasses and did not see what was in front of them. This story begins with some researchers interviewing an older ROSE, telling the tragedy that sank this ship. It shows the valuable blue diamond, which she posed naked for JACK who paints her portrait just like the women of her city. emotions and a wealth of content and very fine details of environments. The poor class was kept on the first floor of the ship and could not have contact with the first class. They were subject to dust, dirt and rats. .Even in the different situations of life.

Review By Sidney Matias

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She Walks in Beauty George Gordon Byron 1788 – 1824

2023-06-23T08:25:00.003-03:00

She Walks in Beauty

She walks in beauty, like the night

Of cloudless climes and starry skies;

And all that's best of dark and bright

Meet in her aspect and her eyes:

Thus mellowed to that tender light

Which heaven to gaudy day denies.

II.

One shade the more, one ray the less,

Had half impaired the nameless grace

Which waves in every raven tress,

Or softly lightens o'er her face;

Where thoughts serenely sweet express

How pure, how dear their dwelling place.

III.

And on that cheek, and o'er that brow,

So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,

The smiles that win, the tints that glow,

But tell of days in goodness spent,

A mind at peace with all below,

A heart whose love is innocent!

George Gordon Byron

Written June 12, 1814. This poem is in the public domain

Puedo escribir los versos más tristes esta noche - Pablo Neruda - Poema em Espanhol

2023-05-25T21:37:00.003-03:00

Puedo escribir los versos más tristes esta noche.

Escribir, por ejemplo: “La noche está estrellada,

y tiritan, azules, los astros, a lo lejos.”

El viento de la noche gira en el cielo y canta.

Puedo escribir los versos más tristes esta noche.

Yo la quise, y a veces ella también me quiso.

En las noches como esta la tuve entre mis brazos.

La besé tantas veces bajo el cielo infinito.

Ella me quiso, a veces yo también la quería.

Cómo no haber amado sus grandes ojos fijos.

Puedo escribir los versos más tristes esta noche.

Pensar que no la tengo. Sentir que la he perdido.

Oir la noche inmensa, más inmensa sin ella.

Y el verso cae al alma como al pasto el rocío.

Qué importa que mi amor no pudiera guardarla.

La noche esta estrellada y ella no está conmigo.

Eso es todo. A lo lejos alguien canta. A lo lejos.

Mi alma no se contenta con haberla perdido.

Como para acercarla mi mirada la busca.

Mi corazón la busca, y ella no está conmigo.

La misma noche que hace blanquear los mismos árboles.

Nosotros, los de entonces, ya no somos los mismos.

Ya no la quiero, es cierto, pero cuánto la quise.

Mi voz buscaba el viento para tocar su oído.

De otro. Será de otro. Como antes de mis besos.

Su voz, su cuerpo claro. Sus ojos infinitos.

Ya no la quiero, es cierto, pero tal vez la quiero.

Es tan corto el amor, y es tan largo el olvido.

Porque en noches como esta la tuve entre mis brazos,

mi alma no se contenta con haberla perdido.

Aunque este sea el ultimo dolor que ella me causa,

y estos sean los ultimos versos que yo le escribo.

Pablo Neruda

Tina Turner - Eternal Queen of Rock - short biography

2023-05-24T17:45:00.000-03:00

One of the greatest singers of all time was undoubtedly Anna Mae Bullock or simply Tina Turner.

One of the greatest singers of all time was undoubtedly Anna Mae Bullock or simply Tina Turner. The singer, songwriter, dancer and producer is North American and was born in Nutbush, Tennesse on November 26, 1939, daughter of the couple Zelma Priscilla Currie and Floyd Richard Bullock.

Tina Turner's first steps in music occurred when she sang in a Baptist church that she attended with her family. The singer went to live with her mother when she was 11 years old after she separated from Tina Turner's father due to the many physical attacks she suffered over the years she was married to the singer's father.

Although Tina Turner dreamed of becoming a singer, she initially worked as a maid in the homes of wealthy families. The singer got married very early with her first boyfriend and soon had a son and continued as a maid. In this environment, Tina Turner was already starting to sing at some events, but without success and enough money to change her life.

After graduating and investing in technical courses, the singer gets a job as a nurse in a hospital. It didn't take long and Tina Turner was already being known for her musicality and starting to become famous, which made her leave work and dedicate herself only to music.

It was at the club where Tina Turner's sister was a waitress that she first saw Raymond Hill and Ike Turner perform and was impressed with the performers. However, they were more impressed than her when they saw her sing. It didn't take long and Tina was invited to be a backing vocalist for both artists' band.

Soon, with tips from friends in the band, she expanded her repertoire and learned to develop stage presence, which guaranteed her becoming the band's lead singer. After a while playing only in that region, the band was discovered by producers and managers who provided the recording of the first album in 1958.

The band was beginning to be successful when a romantic relationship between Tina and Ike Turner made them separate from each of their spouses and assume a relationship, but that cost the band's survival. Next to Ik, the singer decides to form a duo. From then on Tina Turner would receive such a stage name and would be a resounding success with her first single “Fool in Love” which was among the most played on the Billboard Hot 100.

Tina Turner continued to be successful and even made films starring in “Tommy”. However, by the mid-70s Ike had become a compulsive drug user and constantly assaulted and humiliated the singer. It was with these aggressive actions that Tina Turner wanted to put an end and in 1978 she separated from Ike Turner.

Tina Turner followed a solo career with a few albums without being able to chart until, in 1983, she recorded Private Dancer and had an extraordinary success worldwide. There were 5 million albums in the United States alone and 11 million worldwide. In 1985, she continued, in parallel, with her acting career and made a special participation in the successful film “Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome”. Until the year 2000, Tina Turner's success was unquestionable and the singer continued with her musical legacy.

At the beginning of the year 2000, he said that he needed to rest from music, take care of his family and his life. After eight years without being in the spotlight and without doing a show, the singer performed just one more time in celebration of her 50-year career. Since then Tina Turne has moved to Switzerland and is involved in philanthropy there.

The singer was first married to musician Raymond Hill with whom she had a son named Raymond Craig Bullock Hill and later had a second son with Ike Turner named Ronnie Bullock Turner. The singer is married to German music producer Erwin Bach.

health

Tina revealed in her 2018 memoir My Love Story that she suffered life-threatening illnesses. In 2013, three weeks after her marriage to Erwin Bach, she suffered a stroke and had to learn to walk again. In 2016, she was diagnosed with bowel cancer. Tina opted for homeopathic remedies to treat her high blood pressure which resulted in kidney damage and eventual kidney failure. Her chances of receiving a kidney were low and she was urged to start dialysis. She considered assisted suicide and applied to be a member of Exit, but Bach offered to donate a kidney for her transplant. Turner underwent kidney transplant surgery on April 7, 2017.

Death

Tina Turner died at the age of 83 at her home in Switzerland. The death was confirmed by an aide to her, but the cause was not disclosed. It was only said that she died "after a long illness".

Tina Turner Biography Summary

Name: Anna Mae Bullock

Occupation: Singer, songwriter, dancer and actress

Nationality: North American; Switzerland.

Date of birth: 11/26/1939

Died May 24, 2023 (age 83)

Kusnacht, Switzerland

Buda: La historia que cambiará tu vida (Spanish Edition)

2023-05-23T20:46:00.003-03:00

Deepak Chopra nos narra la vida de un personaje fuera de serie quien, tras abandonar sus privilegios, encuentra la paz consigo mismo y dedica su vida a difundir el secreto de esta iluminación interior.

Buda es una figura sin igual en el mundo. En este libro, Deepak Chopra nos narra la vida de este personaje absolutamente fuera de lo común que, siendo heredero de un gran reino y acostumbrado a vivir entre lujos y caprichos, decide abandonar su hogar cuando es todavía muy joven paraexplorar el mundo. Después de consagrarse al rezo y a la meditación, y de ayudar a los pobres y enfermos, descubre un día que su cuerpo y su mente se han liberado de las pasiones terrenales para convertirse en Buda, el iluminado. Ha alcanzado el nirvana, un estado superior de la mente que le permite estar en paz consigo mismo y con el mundo exterior.A partir de este momento Buda dedicará su vida a difundir su doctrina y enseñar el budismo, religión que no deja de sumar adeptos en todo el mundo.

La crítica ha opinado:

"Chopra retrata con sencillez el conflicto interno natural que sufre todo aquel que va en busca de la sabiduría espiritual y la transformación"

-Publishers Weekly-

"Deepak Chopra ofrece a sus lectores la inspiradora novela que recrea la vida de Buda, un joven heredero que lo abandona todo para seguir el camino de la iluminación. "

-The New York Times Bestseller.

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Resumen

Deepak Chopra proyecta la vida de Buda desde la perspectiva de la ficción y la realidad, en un relato detallado de las tres grandes fases de la vida del hombre santo: “Siddartha, el príncipe”, “Gautama, el monje” y “Buda, el compasivo”, recogiendo magníficamente la esencia de un ser iluminado. La vida de Buda comienza en el Reino de Sakia, 563 a. donde su padre, el rey Suddhodana, un obstinado guerrero indio, se cree un dios, no teme a los enemigos y desea ardientemente tener un hijo. La reina Maya, su esposa, da a luz a Siddhartha el Príncipe. El rey ordena a los sirvientes del reino que sean extremadamente cuidadosos con su protección, y los amos profetizan que el niño será el “amo del mundo”. La sombra de la muerte rodea el palacio y se lleva la vida de la reina, también quiere llevarse al príncipe, pero este tiene el poder de huir de ella. Suddhodana consulta a los brahmanes sobre cómo criar a Siddhartha y lo mantiene prisionero dentro de los muros del castillo, controlando su mente. Siddhartha, ajeno a todo lo exterior, vive en la comodidad y el lujo, con todos los honores que le otorga su padre. Va en contra del deseo del rey: matar en las guerras y batallas como una forma de poder y fuerza, ya que no aprecia la idea de la muerte o la violencia. Mientras vive con su prima, Siddhartha comienza a tener los primeros sentimientos de miedo, ya que esto corresponde mejor a las expectativas del rey. Siddhartha necesita un guía espiritual que le haga comprender sus dones, aparece Azita, una ermitaña que vive en el bosque, cuyo conocimiento le otorga poderes especiales para adentrarse en el mundo sutil. Aprende a meditar, aquietar la mente, los pensamientos y estar en silencio.

Al cumplir los 18 años de edad, Siddhartha es presentado al pueblo de Sakya en una espléndida ceremonia pública, un acto político de la mayor magnitud, donde el rey transfiere a su hijo toda la fuerza de su historia real. Siddhartha intenta disuadir a su padre de enviarlo a luchar, pero el rey considera que esta petición es un insulto. En ese evento, Siddhartha conoce a Sujata, una joven de origen humilde que lo encanta. Ante las demandas del rey, piensa en huir del palacio para siempre. En este intento, se enfrenta al demonio de Mara, que lo persigue, provocando que visiones y terror penetren en su mente. Siddhartha utiliza una sabia receta: "no cedas, pero no te opongas, porque los demonios entran en la mente de las personas cuando intentan resistir". Busca la respuesta a sus dudas en los brahmanes y estos le revelan que es un príncipe poderoso, privilegiado por los dioses. Entonces Siddhartha cumple el deseo de su padre y va al campo de batalla, realiza hazañas heroicas y brillantes, domina a los caballos salvajes, gana combates simulados. Cambia la ilusión por la verdad, y siente que ya no tienes miedo. Tal demostración de fuerza infunde envidia en Devadatta, quien lo traiciona violando a Sujata, la favorita del Príncipe. Pensando que la había matado, intenta deshacerse del cuerpo de la joven en las aguas heladas del río. Sin Sujata, el Príncipe queda atónito y abandona el castillo. En el camino, conoce el lado triste del mundo: los miserables y pobres de las afueras de la ciudad muestran el rostro del hambre, la enfermedad y la vejez. A partir de entonces, Siddhartha se convierte en Gautama, el monje que vive en el bosque porque quiere ser santo. Sus únicas posesiones son una túnica color azafrán, un bastón, un collar de rosarios y un cuenco para mendigar; se resigna al clima del camino, y al otro lado del palacio, comienza a vivir la vida de un mendigo, quema su ropa y se corta el cabello. Busca a su amo, y se encuentra con Ganaka, quien le aconseja ser cauteloso, no confiar en todo, no esperar el amor de las personas, que el verdadero amo es el mundo.

El anciano rey se da cuenta de que su hijo no regresará al palacio y organiza un reemplazo. Devadatta engaña al rey llevándose el cuerpo de un moribundo sin cabeza al palacio en lugar de Siddhartha. Mientras tanto, Gautama, un refugiado del mundo exterior, escucha la voz interior que le dice que se rinda y sea libre. Empieza a tener visiones impresionantes, viendo a las personas en sus almas y conociendo su dolor con una simple mirada contemplativa, expande su santidad y todos empiezan a querer disfrutar de su compañía. Se convierte en un santo, en completo control de sus emociones a la edad de 33 años. Aprende que el alma es una chispa divina y que la verdadera libertad sucede cuando el discípulo deja de luchar. Busca la iluminación, desafía la muerte, el hambre, la sed, la soledad y todo deseo mundano. Se retira a una cueva y permanece allí sentado frente a una pared durante meses, hasta que Sujata lo rescata y se convierte en el nuevo Buda, el compasivo. Se siente parte de la naturaleza, sin dolor ni sufrimiento, vence a los demonios y se vuelve inmune a todo mal. Adquiere poder sobre su destino, se convierte en una no persona, puede estar en cualquier lugar, tocar a las personas y borrar sus problemas. "Sus poderes fluyen desde el otro lado del silencio, donde la mente puede hacer que suceda cualquier cosa: tirar del sol por el cielo como un carro de juguete, hacer torbellinos en los polos o derramar lluvia sobre desiertos áridos". Buda regresa al castillo, no para quedarse, sino para enseñarle a su padre y a todos en la guerra que la violencia no tiene sentido. Su serenidad hace que los guerreros depongan las armas. Buda demuestra otra forma de vencer al mundo y lo transforma en un reino de paz.

Detalles del producto

Deepak Chopra (Autor)

Editorial ‏ : ‎ DEBOLSILO (19 febrero 2016)

Idioma ‏ : ‎ Español

Número de páginas ‏ : ‎ 376 páginas

23 de mayo de 2023.

Lectura feliz, blog de la Casa del Libro

Resumen de Sidney Matías

I Sit Beside the Fire - J. R. R. Tolkien

2023-05-18T07:25:00.000-03:00

This poem-song is found in the first book of The Lord of the Rings, by J. R. R. Tolkien. It is composed and sung by the hobbit Bilbo Baggins, when he and Frodo are reunited at Elrond's abode in Rivendell.

I Sit Beside the Fire

I sit beside the fire and think

of all that I have seen,

of meadow-flowers and butterflies

In summers that have been;

Of yellow leaves and gossamer

in autumns that there were,

with morning mist and silver sun

and wind upon my hair.

I sit beside the fire and think

of how the world will be

when winter comes without a spring

that I shall ever see.

For still there are so many things

that I have never seen:

in every wood in every spring

there is a different green.

I sit beside the fire and think

of people long ago,

and people who will see a world

that I shall never know.

But all the while I sit and think

of times there were before,

I listen for returning feet

and voices at the door.

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Agora Só Falta Você Rita Lee

2023-05-09T22:03:00.003-03:00

Rita Lee (1947-2023):
“O meu céu seria cheio de bichos, plantas e uma deliciosa biblioteca

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Agora Só Falta Você Rita Lee

Um belo dia resolvi mudar

E fazer tudo o que eu queria fazer

Me libertei daquela vida vulgar

Que eu levava estando junto a você

E em tudo que eu faço

Existe um porquê

Eu sei que eu nasci

Sei que eu nasci pra saber

E fui andando sem pensar em voltar

E sem ligar pro que me aconteceu

Um belo dia vou lhe telefonar

Pra lhe dizer que aquele sonho cresceu

No ar que eu respiro

Eu sinto prazer

De ser quem eu sou, de estar onde estou

Agora só falta você, yeah, yeah

Agora só falta você

Agora só falta você, yeah, yeah

Agora só falta você

E fui andando sem pensar em voltar

E sem ligar pro que me aconteceu

Um belo dia vou lhe telefonar

Pra lhe dizer que aquele sonho cresceu

No ar que eu respiro

Eu sinto prazer

De ser quem eu sou, de estar onde estou

Agora só falta você, yeah, yeah

Agora só falta você

Agora só falta você, yeah, yeah

Agora só falta você

É você, é você, é você

Agora só falta você, yeah, yeah

Agora só falta você

Agora só falta você, yeah, yeah

Agora só falta você

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Poème le plus long du monde

2023-05-04T10:42:00.001-03:00

Un écrivain français de 30 ans, Patrick Huet, a annoncé vendredi avoir créé le poème le plus long du monde, mesurant 994,10 mètres. Intitulé "Plots of Hope in the Eco of this World", le poème a été emmené dans une exposition à l'aide d'un tracteur. Sa longueur a été mesurée le long d'une piste.

Quel est le poème le plus court du monde ?

Lignes sur l'Antiquité des Microbes

Sur le site « le plus petit poème du monde » (worldsshortestpoem.com), on peut trouver un texte identifié comme le plus petit poème documenté de l'histoire. Le titre est "Lignes sur l'Antiquité des Microbes" (la traduction libre peut être quelque chose comme "Lignes sur l'Antiquité des Microbes") et il n'y a pas de consensus sur sa paternité.

Quel est le premier poème du monde ?

l'"épopée de Gilgamesh

Le titre du premier poème du monde est en discussion. Certaines sources disent que "l'épopée de Gilgamesh" est le plus ancien texte littéraire. Ce poème épique de l'ancienne Mésopotamie, composé en douze chants d'environ 300 vers chacun, et datant d'environ 2100 av.

Quel est le meilleur poème brésilien ?

"A Máquina do Mundo", de Carlos Drummond de Andrade (1902-1987), a été élu meilleur poème brésilien de tous les temps. L'élection a été faite par un jury de dix critiques et écrivains invités par Folha. "O Inferno de Wall Street", de Sousândrade (1833-1902), du Maranhão, occupe la deuxième place.

Quelle est la différence entre poésie et poème ?

En ce qui concerne les différences entre poème et poésie, le poème fait référence à une structure textuelle, tandis que la poésie est liée au contenu du texte.

Quelle est la poésie acoustique la plus longue ?

Les plus gros temps forts de la Poésie Acoustique sont les éditions « #6 – Era Uma Vez » qui cumule 560 millions de vues, « #2 About Us » qui en compte 550 millions, « #3 Capricorniana » avec 336M et l’édition « #9 Best Shape ", qui cumule actuellement 303 millions de vues sur la chaîne Pineapple.

Quel est le plus grand poème en langue portugaise ?

Camões - Poésie épique : Os lusíadas, le plus grand poème épique en langue portugaise.

Quel est le poème d'amour?

L'amour est un feu qui brûle sans être vu, c'est une blessure qui fait mal et qui ne se fait pas sentir ; c'est un contentement insatisfait, c'est une douleur qui se déroule sans blesser.

Combien de poèmes avez-vous dans le message ?

Message est un livre composé de 44 poèmes, divisé en trois parties et publié en 1934.

Quel est le plus beau poème d'amour du monde ?

Mon âme, rêvant de toi, est perdue. Mes yeux sont aveugles pour te voir. Parce que tu es déjà toute ma vie ! D'une bouche divine parle en moi !

Qui a été le premier poète brésilien ?

Gregório de Matos Guerra, poète bahianais du XIXe siècle, est considéré comme le premier poète authentiquement brésilien de notre littérature.

Quel est le poète le plus célèbre du Brésil ?

Carlos Drummond de Andrade (1902-1987)

Avec des vers empreints d'ironie, aux formes différentes et originales, Drummond prend le titre de poète brésilien le plus influent du XXe siècle.

Qui a inventé la poésie ?

L'histoire de la poésie est antérieure à l'histoire de l'écriture, apparaissant dans les premières archives de la plupart des cultures alphabétisées. Cette forme d'expression était utilisée dans des œuvres anciennes telles que les Vedas indiens (1700-1200) et les Gathas de Zoroastrien (1200-900 avant JC).

A quoi sert un poème ?

Le poème est un genre textuel (forme d'écriture) généralement écrit en vers et en strophes. Son but est d'exprimer un sentiment, une émotion ou une pensée. Le mot "poème" dérive du verbe grec "poiéo", qui signifie "faire, créer, composer".

Comment appelle-t-on un petit poème ?

Cette forme poétique a été créée au XVIe siècle et a fini par devenir populaire dans le monde entier. En dépit d'être des poèmes concis et objectifs, les haïku ont une grande charge poétique.

Qui lit de la poésie au Brésil ?

Cecília Meireles et Carlos Drummond de Andrade sont parmi les plus lus et, parmi les régionaux, Helena Kolody et José Paulo Paes sont au premier plan.

Comment savoir si un poème est bon ?

Le processus d'analyse de la poésie se résume à l'examen des éléments suivants : la forme, le mètre, le thème, le cadre et le personnage. Vous devriez également envisager d'analyser le langage, l'imagerie, le style et le contexte de la poésie pour mieux la comprendre.

Qu'est-ce qu'un poème de 5ème ?

La poésie est un texte poétique, généralement en vers, qui fait partie du genre littéraire dit « lyrique ». Il combine des mots, des significations et des qualités esthétiques. L'esthétique de la langue y prévaut sur le contenu, si bien qu'elle utilise différents dispositifs phonétiques, syntaxiques et sémantiques.

Bonne lecture, Blog de la maison du livre

Sidney Matias

04 mai 2023

EMILIA CURRÁS - POESIA ESPANHOLA

2023-04-21T11:39:00.003-03:00

Emilia Currás es una científica y un alma sensible, que va de la filosofía a las teorías de la informática pero, al mismo tiempo, levita en las capas más profundas de su sensibilidad. Inquieta, creativa, abierta a la especulación y la fantasía, desde su química (de formación) hasta las abstracciones y conceptos. Es una de las figuras humanas más extraordinarias que conozco, en su capacidad de vivir en un estado permanente de creación. ANTONIO MIRANDA

“Una poetisa está atenta a recuperar el momento de su emoción, no dejarlo pasar ni caer en el olvido. Sus versos, la mayoría breves, están impregnados de sus vivencias más inmediatas y de sus sentimientos, la flor de la pluma, la flor del alma. FINA DE CALDERÓN Fallecida el 31/03/2020 por COVID19, en Madrid

TEXTOS EN ESPAÑOL / TEXTOS EN PORTUGUÉS

CURRÁS, Emilia. Fugitiva del tempo. 2ª. edición. De la autora... de Fina Calderón. Prefácio de Malik Najajar. Traducción de Rifaat Atfé. Madrid: Editorial Betania, 2010.. (Colección BETANIA de Poesia) Texto bilíngue: Español y árabe.

(Traduções ao Português de Antonio Miranda)

**Tú tienes alas de plata**

Tú tienes alas de plata,

alas de ensueño,

de ilusión.

¿Me darás alas de bronce?

Calla. Calla.

Tú tienes alas de bronce,

alas de pasión,

de amor sin freno.

¿Me darás alas de bronce?

Cala, cala.

Tú tienes alas de hierro,

alas flertes y seguras,

alas de grandes realidades.

¿Me darás alas de bronce?

Cala, cala.

Tú tienes alas de estaño,

alas de engano,

alas falsas y amargas.

Calla, calla.

No me preguntes tanto.

**Tens asas de prata**

Tens asas de prata,

asas de sonho.

de ilusão.

Vais me dar asas de prata?

Cala, cala.

Tens asas de bronze,

asas de paixão,

de amor sem freio.

Vais me dar asas de bronze?

Cala, cala.

Tens asas de ferro,

asas fortes e seguras,

asas de grandes realidades.

Vais me dar asas de bronze?

Cala, cala.

Tens asas de estanho,

asas de engano

asas falsas e amargas.

Vais me dar asas de estanho?

Cala, cala.

Não me perguntes tanto.

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Sin estar vivo, vivendo

Mis manos están vacías,

mis labios están helados,

mis pechos están dormidos,

que ya no hay cariño en mí,

que ya mi alma se seca..

Ya no siento.

Soy como piedra de molinho,

que gira sin darse al viento.

Soy como campo de trigo

segado antes del tiempo.

Ya no siento.

¡Qué triste quedarse así,

sin estar vivo, vivendo!

Sem estar vivo vivendo

Minhas mãos estão vazias,

meus lábios estão gelados,

meus seios estão dormidos,

que já não há carinho em mim,

que já minha alma seca...

Já não sinto mais.

Sou como pedra de moinho,

que gira sem dar-se ao vento.

Sou como campo de trigo

ceifado antes do tempo.

Já não sinto.

Que triste ficar assim,

sem estar vivo, vivendo!

CURRÁS, Emilia.

El Rincón de mis pensamentos.

Poemário de Emília Currás.

Madrid: Visión Libros; Lord Byron Edicones, 2011. 71 p.

TRISTEZA Y SOLEDAD

Cuando miro en la ventana

la noche oscura y densa

y sus luces en mí fijas,

me siento tan triste y sola,

que apenas puedo pensar.

No estoy en mí, ya no existo.

Sólo queda una ilusión,

marchita de llanto y años,

en mi corazón perdido,

que no ve su caminar,

que mira sin ver en mí

mi tristeza y soledad.

TRISTEZA E SOLIDÃO

Quando olho pela janela

a noite escura e densa

e suas luzes fixas em mim,

me sinto tão triste e só

que apenas consigo pensar.

Não estou em mim, já não existo.

Apenas resta uma ilusão,

murcha de pranto e de anos,

em meu coração perdido,

que não vê seu caminhar,

que mira sem ver em mim

minha tristeza e solidão.

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Silence Of The Lambs: (Hannibal Lecter)

2023-04-14T06:52:00.000-03:00

A courageous FBI agent risks her life in an attempt to solve a mysterious crime. But for that, she needs the help of Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brutal serial killer. Book that inspired the cinema classic The Silence of the Lambs, Oscar winner for Best Film and Best Adapted Screenplay.

Five women are brutally murdered in different locations across the United States by the serial killer nicknamed Buffalo Bill. Young FBI agent Clarice Starling is surprised to be called by Jack Crawford, head of the Behavioral Science Division. Their mission: interrogate the elusive psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter, held at the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Mentally Disordered, whose psychopathic mind is dangerously criminally bent but could prove useful to the case, even though he has never cooperated with law enforcement. of law.

However, Clarice piques Lecter's interest and he decides to help her. However, in return, he asks her to give him personal information about himself. By following the clues pointed out by Dr. Lecter, Clarice moves forward on the case, tangled in a deadly web, surprising and frightening, hunting a murderer on the loose while getting closer and closer to a murderer behind bars.

A masterfully crafted and ingenious novel, The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris is a classic of suspense and horror that will leave readers fully engaged.

Adapted for film with Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster in the lead roles, The Silence of the Lambs won five Oscars. Alongside Red Dragon, Hannibal and Hannibal: The Origin of Evil, he completes the series of books starring Dr. Lecter which gave rise to the television series Hannibal.

Title: Silence Of The Lambs: (Hannibal Lecter)

by Thomas Harris (Author),

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Arrow Books Ltd; 1st edition (7 May 2009)

Language ‏ : ‎ English

Paperback ‏ : ‎ 432 pages

Available for purchase on Amazonm

Happy Reading, Casa de Livro Blog

Mendeleev's dream

2023-04-11T09:29:00.001-03:00

On February 17, 1869, Russian scientist Dimitri Mendeleev faced a problem; he had been working on his work for months: "organic chemistry", then one night he fell asleep in his laboratory, something that happened regularly, that night he dreamed of seeing a table in which all the elements fit together, when he woke up from this dream. He wrote all this down on paper after three days of trying to sort the elements into families according to their chemical properties.

Fundamentally, what he formed was to group the elements in horizontal lines according to their increasing atomic number (the number of protons in the nucleus), starting with hydrogen, then Mendeleev, was to unite them by families in vertical columns considering the number of electrons . The dream he had made him immortal in the history of science.

Who was Dimitri Ivánovich Mendeléiev?

Mendeléiev was born in Russia Tobolsk of Saint Petersburg, (1834 _1907) was a Russian chemist, recognized for discovering the periodic table of elements, is considered one of the fathers of modern chemistry.

Article By Casa de Livro.
Matias

Assassina Inconsciente - Graziella Moraes

2023-04-03T17:00:00.001-03:00

Boa tarde leitores!

Assassina Inconsciente agora está em livro físico no Brasil.

Em Pré-venda com Menor Preço Garantido na Amazon do Brasil!

Verdade! O livro físico Assassina Inconsciente, de Graziela Moraes, chega agora ao Brasil todo.

O link na amazon é>> https://shre.ink/kNmM

Lembrando que neste domingo, 02 de abril 2023 às 17h, acontece Sessão de Autógrafos no Rio de Janeiro. No Botequim Restaurante , Rua Visconde de Caravelas, 22, Botafogo. E tem Roda de Samba!

Assassina Inconsciente está com o selo Prime.

Descrição:

O enredo em poucas palavras: descobrir se é uma assassina e porque deseja tanto voltar para a comunidade pobre. Estas são as sementes do florescer dos poderes de Camile.

Entrando no livro: ]Quem abre mão da possibilidade de ficar livre por causa da iminência de morrer numa queda? Não quem aprendeu a voar no pensamento.

Essa filosofia é da protagonista deste romance policial e de realismo mágico. A jovem, sobrinha do Dono do Morro, Bambu, tem o insight expresso acima quando está presa numa unidade socioeducativa. Está lá por ter, ainda que não lembre bem, matado seu namorado, de codinome Príncipe.

A motivação para o homicídio está numa fala de Camile: ]Tudo é melhor do que ser odiado!] A explicação é que Príncipe confessou ter sido ele quem tirou a vida da melhor amiga da heroína, de nome artístico Carmem, exclusivamente por ela ser gay e Drag Queen.

por Graziella Moraes (Autor)

Detalhes do produto

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0BXMTGV33

Editora ‏ : ‎ Independently Published (6 março 2023)

Idioma ‏ : ‎ Português

Capa comum ‏ : ‎ 142 páginas

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Sobre o GRAZIELLA MORAES

GRAZIELLA MORAES é portuguesa habitante do Rio de Janeiro. Carioca de coração e mente. Jornalista, mas descobriu seu dom na ficção. Cinematográfica. Televisiva. Literária. Roteirista dos curta metragens ¨Os Super Moleques¨, com direção de Walter Lima Junior, e ¨Estado de Alerta¨, com direção de André Mattos. Trabalhou na Tevê Globo nos seriados ¨Você Decide¨, ¨Mulher¨ e no jornalístico policial ¨Linha Direta¨. Autora dos romances ¨O Escambau¨, ¨Tutatis¨, ¨O Bem Cruel¨ e este romance policial e de realismo mágico ¨Assassina Inconsciente¨.

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The Very Best of Monty Python

2023-04-02T08:42:00.001-03:00

In October 1969, the BBC broadcast the first program in a new series: Monty Python's Flying Circus, written and conceived by Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin.

Through the years the six of them followed this with another 44 extremely silly programs, a German TV special, five full-length feature films, seven books, nine long-playing records, and live stage shows that toured the UK, Canada, and America. This pocket series features the very best of Monty Python: a collection of favorite sketches, gags, words, and lyrics, chosen by the members of Monty Python who have picked some of their prized bits from across the whole range of Python books, scripts, and films. Included are such memorable moments as "The French Taunt King Arthur," "The Lumberjack Song," "What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?," "The Court Martial of Sapper Walters," "Every Sperm is Sacred," "The Man Who Talks Entirely in Anagrams," and other priceless pieces of Python humor. Accompanying these words are some two hundred images that have become synonymous with Python through three decades.

Available for purchase on Amazon

English Edition by Monty Python (Author)

Publishing company ‏ : ‎ Methuen Publishing (1 outubro 2006)

Language‏ : ‎ Inglês

What is Ghost Writer?

2023-03-31T23:01:00.005-03:00

The ghost writer, as he is also called, is a professional paid to write texts officially signed by other people.

Photo By Hannah O, Unsplash

Most of the time Ghost Writer is not credited for authoring the text as part of a copyright assignment agreement. The professional delivers the material that was requested, sells his rights and receives for it.In addition to biographies, the Ghost Writer collaborate with blogs, with texts for websites, participate in series and film scripts, write newspaper and magazine columns, chronicles, opinion articles, among other materials. There is a field full of opportunities for this professional to act.

A permanent caution: Ghost Writer needs to be responsible for not disclosing that content as its own.

But now you must be thinking that the services of this professional will not impact your business. Big mistake.

It can help a lot. Now we are going to highlight 4 benefits for your business when relying on the services of a Ghost Writer in a communication strategy or B2B content marketing.

Time saving

“I don't have time to write. What do I do?"

You may have heard that phrase from a co-worker of yours, haven't you?

Or rather, you yourself must be one of the thousands of professionals who claim more time in their work routine. Claim more than fair!

Not having space in your schedule to dedicate yourself to writing content is, for many, an effect of a stressful routine and overloaded with other tasks.

There are numerous meetings, emails, videoconferences, visits to clients, among other activities. All require a lot of attention and take a lot of time.

Most people present in offices, or now, in the home office, adopted en masse by companies as a measure of social isolation, are unable to fit into their schedule a space to produce texts that require a lot of verification work.

Therefore, consider that in addition to not having time to devote to content marketing, there are few who know the techniques of writing, and even less, who do not master methods such as SEO, keywords, mental triggers and much more, which in fact require a specialized professional.

Not having enough time to write and a lack of technical expertise play a huge part in the quality of content marketing. These are basic premises and insisting on doing without them is a very serious mistake.

To make the text interesting for the reader and, of course, for him to perform the action of reading and interacting, it is necessary to take all these requirements into account.

Therefore, it is recommended to leave this activity to the Ghost Writer, who will have the time and skills to create and deliver the necessary content.

It is also a form of prospecting

Having someone technical to do this content marketing work will help you gain more time to prospect clients, study new areas of activity and create intelligent processes.

And the more you rely on the service of a Ghost Writer, the more chances your business will experience growth.

The ghost writer's work itself is a form of prospecting. Because it is an extremely strategic activity, it allows an article or ebook to end up being a channel to generate conversions and leads for your company.

brand recognition

The ghost writer also helps companies in the development and brand recognition, more efficiently and quickly.

If before you could find space in your schedule to create relevant content once a quarter, or once a month, when you were really lucky, with a ghost writer you can speed up the process of spreading your brand story.

Increasing the frequency of disclosures increases awareness in front of your target audience and can help create engagement with this audience.

While leaders need time to manage the business, the Ghost Writer needs time to write.

Made by a "ghost", but it's authentic

It's time to talk about the myth that permeates common sense and that many insist on reproducing: the Ghost Writer's work is not authentic.

This debate always comes up again. And it is not so difficult to understand the reasons that lead to such distrust.

Imagine a screenwriter who built up a solid fan base, and when passing on the task of writing to someone else, the public will realize that it is not their favorite writer and this will generate discomfort in these people, who have stopped following their author in the sequence. The same happens with soap opera authors and so on.

It is natural for managers to think alike. But this is the time for you to reassure yourself!

Ghost Writers! This codename may scare a lot of people away, but don't be put off by the nickname.

A good professional Ghost Writer works closely with their clients, identifying tone of voice and other peculiar speech characteristics and unifying them in all writings.

Those who work with the Ghost Writer service understand that this is an authentic way of doing their job and there is no other way to go.

I hope you are less worried from now on!

Finally, many professionals simply cannot translate their ideas into words.

The art of writing needs to be in the hands of a good professional.

Managers should only be concerned with their strengths, whether it's leading their company in emerging markets, developing products, or even mentoring their team.

Most people don't realize it, but hiring a ghost writer has many benefits for your business. Leave the writing in the hands of these professionals.

Good Reading,

Sidney Matias

Casa de Livro

What are the rarest books in the world?

2023-03-31T20:27:00.002-03:00

Check out the 5 rarest books in the world

The rarest books in the world are considered valuable examples, but they can also be extremely expensive because of this special character.

1) Codex Leicester

The most expensive book in the world is Leonardo da Vinci's Codex Leicester. In November 1994, the work was sold to billionaire Bill Gates for the current value of R$ 30 million, thus becoming the most valuable work in the entire world.

In summary, this work consists of a collection of da Vinci's collections and scientific writings. However, it ranges from the inventor's observations in relation to astronomy to analyzes of the properties of water, air and celestial light.

Therefore, it brings together much of the scientific knowledge and notes of the Renaissance genius. Interestingly, it was written in the opposite direction, with the help of a mirror, so that it would not be easily decoded and the ideas would not be stolen.

2) Magna Carta

The copy of Magna Carta Libertatum was bought at auction for more than 20 million euros. In this sense, it is a letter written by the Archbishop of Canterbury defending peace between King John of England and the rebel barons who opposed the government of that monarchical representative.

3) Gospel of Henry the Lion

This book was specially planned by the Duke of Saxony, also known as Henry the Lion. In this sense, it was created to be placed on the altar of the Virgin Mary, being a true masterpiece of romantic illustrations from the 12th century, as it contains numerous pages decorated by hand.

The original example is estimated to have sold at auction for over £8.1 million. The work is currently being preserved in Germany.

4) Book of Psalms of the Bay

Another of the rarest books in the world is the Book of Psalms of Bahia. In summary, it is the first book printed in American territory, more specifically in the year 1640. Interestingly, there are 11 copies of this book known, one of which was sold for R$ 26.4 million about 3 years ago.

5) Gospel of Saint Cuthbert

Also known as “Saint John's Gospel”, the copy with Latin words is original from the 7th century. In this sense, it is one of the 7 rarest books in the world because it is the oldest intact manuscript in the history of Europe. It is estimated that it sold in 2012 for over $14.2 million to the British Library.

Also known as the Gospel of St. Cuthbert, this work has a special hand-decorated leather binding. Specifically, it consists of 94 handwritten sheets on vellum, a type of satin parchment with high value since antiquity.

Would you have the courage to disburse these figures to obtain these books?

What was the most expensive book you ever bought?

We, here at the Blog, prefer promotions and the good old used book SEBO.

Good reading,

March 31, 2023

Article by, Sidney Matias