As an orphan one learns to be self-sufficient and one learns the tricks of the trades which go with that. One becomes a freelance. (...) I propose a conspiracy of orphans. We exchange winks. We reject hierarchies. All hierarchies. We take the shit of the world for granted and we exchange stories about how we … Continue reading Orphans
De Divinatione
Therefore, as we have done many other things better than the Greeks, so, most especially have we excelled them in giving a name to this most admirable endowment, since our nation derives the name which it gives to it, Divination, from the Gods (Divis), while the Greeks derived the title which they gave it, namely … Continue reading De Divinatione
ao telefone:
Já não me punham em espera desde que tentei ligar ao meu pai ontem.
gifts & curses
Storytellers are always suspect. They are exotic strangers, swallows who stay only for the heady days of sunshine. Where they go after that is a mystery. They're welcomed for the tales that will be told again through dark winter evenings. They have an honoured place by the fire, but like any guest who knows his … Continue reading gifts & curses
crenças
There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn't because the book is not there and worth being written—it is only because the right form of the story does not present itself. There is only one right form for a story … Continue reading crenças
pure
Like everyone else in the house, she suffers from dreams. Pure, Andrew Miller
quando em crise de fé…
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. Anaïs Nin
