Virtudes e pecados, dor e prazer, temas banais. O seu e o seu contrário. Depois veremos melhor.
Wednesday, 17 June 2026
Sunday, 31 May 2026
Gavetas Cheias de Coisa Nenhuma (nunca estive tão perto de voltar a fumar)
I feel a despair
in the thought
of you —
above...
and beyond...
repair!
And still I polish the floor
where your shadow
used to lie,
then fold myself
into the small hours —
each one a drawer
with nothing left
to keep.
Thursday, 30 April 2026
Ligadura velha não remedeia males novos (dos Novos Provérbios)
Ninguém deve usar o mesmo curativo, a vida toda, apenas porque algum dia fez bem.
Monday, 20 April 2026
It's about time to downsize?
“Belief in progress is a relic of the Christian view of history as a universal narrative". Secular thinkers, “reject the idea of providence, but they continue to think humankind is moving towards a universal goal”, even though “the idea of progress in history is a myth created by the need for meaning”.
Whether faith in progress is an invention or an adaptation of the Enlightenment, the image of secular humanists naively believing humanity is on an irreversible, linear path of advancement seems a caricature of their more modest hope, based in history, that progress has occurred and that more is possible. Enlightenment ideas of progress “were usually tempered by a strong streak of pessimism, a sense of the dangers and challenges to which the human condition is subject”.
He dismisses the idea that “Enlightenment thinkers nurtured a naive belief in man’s perfectibility” as a “complete myth conjured up by early 20th-century scholars unsympathetic to its claims”.
John Gray's book Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia (2007)
Thursday, 16 April 2026
Tuesday, 16 September 2025
Monday, 21 July 2025
Wednesday, 2 July 2025
Agricultora biológica viola regras de segurança, saúde e higiene, no trabalho (silly season)
Tuesday, 1 July 2025
Tuesday, 24 June 2025
Friday, 6 June 2025
Ainda a propósito de livros
Em tempos recuados, este arremedo de blogue teve a honra, e o prazer, de ser frequentado por leitoras ávidas. Talvez este livro, agora que começam as feiras, seja do seu interesse:
Wednesday, 4 June 2025
A alcova do poeta e das coisas que eu não sabia sobre papagaios
«Unamo-nos a favor do minete e contra o ridículo: “O Herberto disse-me que gostava muito de fazer minetes e que, por causa disso, ficava com a língua dura como a de um papagaio” (pág. 873).»
António Cabrita, in Expresso, edição digital,04.Jun.2025












