today's mood.

To do list - done! #1

Voltar ao planetário.


Fui com o vet, no ano passado, no verão. AMEI. Adorava ter uma sala-planetário só para mim em minha casa ou ter um passe livre para ir ao planetário quando quisesse. O bilhete não é caro, mas aquele é um lugar que dava um bom porto de abrigo para mim.

Quando fui vi um programa que penso chamar-se O Céu português. Mas não posso confirmar nem publicitar porque uns hackers armados e bons mandaram abaixo o site do planetário.

Ora vejam: http://planetario.online.pt/

frita.

Quando é que sabes que é tempo de tentar recuperar o sono a bem da tua sanidade linguística?
Quando alguém diz "fase um" e tu escreves "faz um".

Charlie Chaplin - The Great Dictator Speech

Schulz: Speak - it is our only hope.

The Jewish Barber: Hope... I'm sorry but I don't want to be an Emperor - that's not my business - I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible, Jew, gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another, human beings are like that.

We all want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone and the earth is rich and can provide for everyone.

The way of life can be free and beautiful.

But we have lost the way.

Greed has poisoned men's souls - has barricaded the world with hate; has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed.

We have developed speed but we have shut ourselves in: machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical, our cleverness hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little: More than machinery we need humanity; More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.
The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men, cries out for universal brotherhood for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing men, women and little children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people. To those who can hear me I say "Do not despair".

The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress: the hate of men will pass and dictators die and the power they took from the people, will return to the people and so long as men die [now] liberty will never perish...

Soldiers - don't give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you and enslave you - who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel, who drill you, diet you, treat you as cattle, as cannon fodder.

Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men, machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts. You are not machines. You are not cattle. You are men. You have the love of humanity in your hearts. You don't hate - only the unloved hate. Only the unloved and the unnatural. Soldiers - don't fight for slavery, fight for liberty.

In the seventeenth chapter of Saint Luke it is written " the kingdom of God is within man " - not one man, nor a group of men - but in all men - in you, the people.

You the people have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness. You the people have the power to make life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then in the name of democracy let's use that power - let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give you the future and old age and security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power, but they lie. They do not fulfil their promise, they never will. Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people. Now let us fight to fulfil that promise. Let us fight to free the world, to do away with national barriers, do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness.

Soldiers - in the name of democracy, let us all unite!

Look up! Look up! The clouds are lifting - the sun is breaking through. We are coming out of the darkness into the light. We are coming into a new world. A kind new world where men will rise above their hate and brutality.

The soul of man has been given wings - and at last he is beginning to fly. He is flying into the rainbow - into the light of hope - into the future, that glorious future that belongs to you, to me and to all of us. Look up. Look up."

Pretty little things.

Como ele escreve

"Como não escrevo. Não escrevo sem lavar os dentes, as palavras ganham sarro e devem sair frescas da boca para a ponta dos dedos. Não escrevo sem pensar que são quê, cinco da manhã, voltaste a acordar antes do sol e é bom que tenhas algo a dizer na confusão do mundo. Não escrevo de barriga cheia ou com vestígios de ressaca. Reduz o horário de escrita do ano, mas nada a fazer. Se começas a ficar tonto, come as palavras que estão a mais, há sempre muitas. Quando não aguentares o jejum, se a própria fome te engorda a frase, vai ao frigorífico e repõe o açúcar e o sal no sangue.

Não escrevo sem pensar nas possibilidades do ridículo de escrever, que nunca acabam. Não escrevo sem pensar que posso ser mais uma pessoa que devia fazer outra coisa na vida. Não escrevo sem perceber que então ia fazer o quê?

(...)

Escrevo porque as mulheres são bonitas e cheiram bem. E pelos vivos e pelos mortos, as pessoas vivem e de repente morrem-nos. E o mar tem peixes e os bosques pássaros e o esgotos ratos. Escrevo porque é uma profissão interessante, há de certeza melhores, mas não me calharam nem podia ser."

Rui Cardoso Martins  in Time Out

E eu como é que escrevo..?

texto completo aqui, mas eu li aqui.