"(...)Cap ou pas Cap?(...)"

«Julien: Sophie was back in the game! Pure, raw, explosive pleasure! Better than drugs, better than smack! Better than a dope-coke-crack-fix-shit-shoot-sniff-ganja-marijuana-blotter-acid-ecstasy! Better than sex, head, 69, orgies, masturbation, tantrism, Kama Sutra or Thai doggy-style! Better than banana milkshakes! Better than George Lucas's trilogy, the muppets and 2001! Better than Emma Peel, Marilyn, Lara Croft and Cindy Crawford's beauty mark! Better than the B-side to Abbey Road, Jimmy Hendrix and the first man on the moon! Space Mountain, Santa Claus, Bill Gates' fortune, the Dalai Lama, Lazarus raised from the dead! Schwarzenegger's testosterone shots, Pam Anderson's lips! Woodstock, raves... Better than Sade, Rimbaud, Morrison and Castaneda! Better than freedom, better than life!»

Jeux d'enfant

A Taça de Chá

"O luar desmaiava mais ainda uma máscara caida nas esteiras bordadas. E os bambús ao vento e os crysanthemos nos jardins e as garças no tanque, gemiam com elle a advinharem-lhe o fim. Em róda tombávam-se adormecidos os idolos coloridos e os dragões alados. E a gueisha, procelana transparente como a casca de um ovo da Ibis, enrodilhou-se num labyrinto que nem os dragões dos deuses em dias de lagrymas. E os seus olhos rasgados, perolas de Nankim a desmaiar-se em agua, confundiam-se scintillantes no luzidio das procelanas. 

Elle, num gesto ultimo, fechou-lhe os labios co'as pontas dos dedos, e disse a finar-se:--Chorar não é remedio; só te peço que não me atraiçoes emquanto o meu corpo fôr quente. Deitou a cabeça nas esteiras e ficou. E Ella, num grito de garça, ergueu alto os braços a pedir o Ceu para Elle, e a saltitar foi pelos jardíns a sacudir as mãos, que todos os que passavam olharam para Ella. 

Pela manhã vinham os visinhos em bicos dos pés espreitar por entre os bambús, e todos viram acocorada a gueisha abanando o morto com um leque de marfim. 

A estampa do pires é igual."

Almada Negreiros, in 'Frisos - Revista Orpheu nº1'

"Dearest, I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and I can't concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness. You have been in every way all that anyone could be. I don't think two people could have been happier 'til this terrible disease came. I can't fight any longer. I know that I am spoiling your life, that without me you could work. And you will I know. You see I can't even write this properly. I can't read. What I want to say is I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good. I want to say that — everybody knows it. If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can't go on spoiling your life any longer. I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been. V."

Carta de suícidio de Virginia Wolf, 28 Março de1941 

Why can't you sleep? 'Cause life it's too exciting!