THE FALL OF THE EMPIRE

Got no tactics, got no time on hand

at contra gravius plus in se corporis esse
dedicat et multo vacui minus intus habere.
est igitur ni mirum id quod ratione sagaci
quaerimus, admixtum rebus, quod inane vocamus
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 That which we're seeking with sagacious quest
Exists, infallibly, commixed with things-
The void, the invisible inane.

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Titus Lucretius Carus

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The production of too many useful things 

results in too many useless people

Karl Marx

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Casino Boogie, The Rolling Stones

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δημοκρατία vs Τιμοκρατία

A Europa

é (?)

uma

Democracia

ou está a tornar-se 

uma

Timocracia

Pense-se bem.

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Das Sein und der TOD

O Ser E a Morte

ALLXTIMEXLEFTXBACKXMOUNTAINXGLASSWINDPASSING

OVERTHEROCKSXATLANTICXTEMPESTXABYSSALCOILING

ALLXALEPHXL'AUTREXNARCISSUSXΝΑΡΚΙΣΣΟΣΧΑΓΑΠΗΧ

μοναδικότηταΧBEINGXDASXSEINXUNDXDERXTOD.
BEINGXLIMITXOCURRENCEXOFDEATHXINSMALLSCALEX

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POINTXINTERSECTIONXNOMATTERXFLOW.
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Τὰ τῶν θεῶν προνοίας μεστά. τὰ τῆς τύχης οὐκ ἄνευ φύσεως ἢ

συγκλώσεως καὶ ἐπιπλοκῆς τῶν προνοίᾳ διοικουμένων. πάντα

ἐκεῖθεν ῥεῖ· πρόσεστι δὲ τὸ ἀναγκαῖον καὶ τὸ τῷ ὅλῳ κόσμῳ

συμφέρον, οǷ μέρος εἶ. παντὶ δὲ φύσεως μέρει ἀγαθόν, ὃ φέρει

ἡ τοῦ ὅλου φύσις καὶ ὃ ἐκείνης ἐστὶ σωστικόν. σῴζουσι δὲ

κόσμον, ὥσπερ αἱ τῶν στοιχείων, οὕτως καὶ αἱ τῶν συγκριμάτων

μεταβολαί. ταῦτά σοι ἀρκείτω· ἀεὶ δόγματα ἔστω. τὴν δὲ τῶν

βιβλίων δίψαν ῥῖψον, ἵνα μὴ γογγύζων ἀποθάνῃς, ἀλλὰ ἵλεως

ἀληθῶς καὶ ἀπὸ καρδίας εὐχάριστος τοῖς θεοῖς.
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As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is

to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.

Carl Jung
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BEING IN DISASTER FALL BECAUSE YOU ALMOST EXIST

IN A LINE DESTINY GOING GOING LIFE -LIFE IS NOT

DESTINY-IT- THE THING-IS NOT WHAT MAN THINK-

IT'S ALL BUT A DREAM-NONSENSE LIFE IN A NO SENSE

RISE OF A MULTITUDE OF POSSIBILITIES-ΨΔ2.4π8-AND IT

ALL GOES ON, HORIZON.... be mother

the lioness that ugly

teeth of death.

Well boys of blogs and nonsense

This is a dying 
me horse dying near Samarcanda
...
 people among gents
silk and female smile
human flesh
human
light
in the front line of the desert
(who is the me of I?)
  one day the i will be soft
as beer
(the end of my night)
 La belle femme
Thai Sirikiti
An array of sequences
the Void
(-The stupid line between this and there-,he said)
Entanglement
Qubit
death Live
Yorkshire blue 
kingdom
the ultimate Non Sense
the  i
the you
nothing
the shadow
of  us
electric humans
(i've been in two wars -this will kill me dead-a corpse a null thing; God knows, i know, this will be terminal-a lapse of time-a song in the distant wave coming  to shore-a draft of human think and thought-a kiss of the northern wind-a nothing) 
Being
in
aether
no more
Back there
Still in Here
waiting
a gun
my fool solitude
a dark shot
brains skull
nothing
i drink to my memoirs
death is alright
dying i can't get no
why
the blood, the minute final
the rotten burnt flesh
(no mama here, just this and god)
and
the infinite
being


of be
so near
ecce homo
naked
packed bones
a
thing
floating
in
the
future
(l'avenir?)
the horror
the horror
the horror
 the Light
nightmare
death

close my eyes

exílio

Is it like this
In death's other kingdom
Waking alone
At the hour when we are
Trembling with tenderness
Lips that would kiss
Form prayers to broken stone

T.S. Eliot

The Doctor

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End...Listen Loud

To Rui Cascais
Greek by Marcus Aurelius
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NEGATIVE BLUE

you have a problem

i do not

go 

walk your path to glory

i do not want to be misunderstood

but

it's OK

wait for my smile

then

fire

one

two

shots

they'll fall

from the tree

negative blue

the other way

the east

the 

end

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corto maltese

hey mister tambourine man

play a song for me

i am sleepy

and there is no place i'm going to

vanish from my hand

walkin' me mind in a blue light blue fog (dr. Fog here...we have a problemm)

Good for Glory

and the Words are OK for a Grave Stone

not mine

flat ground

grass

burnt in summer

humid in the winters (oh me oh my da'lin' the'will be many...you knowaaa this is the way the world rounds around, babe, well i kwud play guitar...ba...that's thee same sceena.I Shut my mouth!)

in the subway running to face her face

the dream of a dream

the water of the Sun

the Love

that feeling kleen close to the lips

The First Kiss

Moon there 

the cool tender eyes of aurora

it was my first kiss

i just wanna go

rest

play my guitar in heaven

The End of Blogs

No more blogs, please.

this is writing going

wordish feelings here over there

joy

alegria

but

i have to say that

i'm dying

like a horse or a cat

or a camel if i remember

sob

todo o Sol

todas as estrelas 

e daí

why not

as the deed is done

but there is still some life

so

i just do not care much

the road is back now

This is open field

grass thunder
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o nevoeiro vindo em voo de cagarros
um cigarro farol corto maltese
o livro
que se sabe não haver tempo para ler
this is death, my friends;
o tempo abranda
é uma aragem húmida
nada desagradável
mui antes pelo contrário....
(Quando decidi deixar de ser EU?)

εξορία

Is it like this
In death's other kingdom
Waking alone
At the hour when we are
Trembling with tenderness
Lips that would kiss
Form prayers to broken stone

T.S. Eliot

aí está

e há deus
cá dentro
uma fala em silêncio
(temos tudo, afinal)
só não sabemos da passagem
do bardo
do voo
da partida

é um sonho
ou?
luz
(foi maravilhoso sentir amar ver tocar ser)
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Acabem-se os blogs, escreva-se!
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Barnet Newman, a II estação..

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Ai Portugal, Portugal

The Spanish and Italian interest rate spreads — the difference between their borrowing costs and Germany’s — are widening again. So we’re drifting back toward the point at which these countries might enter vicious circles of falling confidence and rising debt burdens.

My guess is that this reflects both doubts about whether the ECB will backstop these economies in the face of growing opposition, especially in Germany, and the bad economic news for Europe generally, since paying debts will become much harder in the face of a recession. 
To make austerity in some European countries workable, you really needed stronger European economies not to be practicing austerity; 
austerity for all was and is a recipe for failure.

Paul Krugman

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À Governança de Portugal;

Pois daqui vai o meu espanto,

não sabia haver tanto neo-liberal

post-25-de-Abril!

E nunca se esqueçam que são os vossos erros

que a populaça tem de pagar

sempre

sempre.

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Lightly, lightly, very lightly,
A wind passes very lightly
And goes away, always very lightly.
And I don’t know what I think
And I don’t want to know.


Fernando Pessoa 
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Κύριε ἐλέησον

E quando Ele abriu o quarto selo,

ouvi a voz do quarto ser vivente que dizia: «Vem!».

Na visão apareceu um cavalo esverdeado.

O cavaleiro chamava-se «Morte»;

e o «Abismo» seguia atrás dele.

Foi-lhe dado poder sobre a quarta parte da terra,

para matar pela espada,

pela fome,

pela morte

e pelas feras da terra.

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Art used by Pat Marvenko Smith, copyright 1992

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Este blog aproxima-se do fim.

O título era um presságio.
Kýrie, eléison
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A Vitor Gaspar

If the Treasury were to fill old bottles with banknotes, 

bury them at suitable depths in disused coalmines which are then filled up to the surface with town rubbish, 

and leave it to private enterprise on well-tried principles of laissez-faire to dig the notes up again (the right to do so being obtained, of course, by tendering for leases of the note-bearing territory), 

there need be no more unemployment and, 

with the help of the repercussions, 

the real income of the community, 

and its capital wealth also, 

would probably become a good deal greater than it actually is.

 

It would, indeed, be more sensible to build houses and the like; 

but if there are political and practical difficulties in the way of this, 

the above would be better than nothing.

 

J. Maynard Keynes

 

(After reading in Paul Krugman Blog ...)

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E a Democracia?

Afinal o que é Democracia?;

 

Roubo

Tu Roubas a Bem ou a Bombardeio

Afinal é Tudo uma Bebedeira de Bandidos reunidos In Taberna?!

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Algo Tem de Mudar desde Já

Acabou-se o Vinho!

Entorpeceu-se o Grande Desejo.

Toca a Sair.

Rua!

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J. Maynard Keynes photo

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Ιθάκη

Κι αν πτωχική την βρεις, η Ιθάκη δεν σε γέλασε.
Έτσι σοφός που έγινες, με τόση πείρα,
ήδη θα το κατάλαβες η Ιθάκες τι σημαίνουν.

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And if you find her threadbare, Ithaca has not deceived you.

Wise as you have become, with so much experience,

you must already have understood what Ithacas mean.

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Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis
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Cantico di Frate Sole

ka la morte secunda no 'l farrà male

(open always the images!)

θάνατος; 

irei 
irei contigo

no meu último sonho

(teremos vivido íntimos alguma vez?)
somos irmãos
filhos
seres
?
Vou contigo
até
ser Luz

Laudato si', mi Signore, per quelli che perdonano per lo Tuo amore
et sostengono infrmitate et tribulatione.

Frater

Deus É Ser

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Oreana aparece-me nos sonhos, ri, brinca e diz, no recorte da janela, que será minha no meu Sempre.

Laudato s' mi Signore, per sora nostra Morte corporale,
da la quale nullu homo vivente pò skappare:
guai a quelli ke morrano ne le peccata mortali;
beati quelli ke trovarà ne le Tue sanctissime voluntati,
ka la morte secunda no 'l farrà male.
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E Oreana matar-me-á com um beijo de Água Viva
Ela não vê a minha morte como morte, não, é apenas até já....meu querido...e o tempo abre-se em TEMPO........Eterna Idade.......................
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Em Ásia se cumprirá a profecia

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Hurrah! More Free Oil!

Congratulations:

Sarkozy

Obama

Berlusconi

Merkel
Cameron

(even the small portuguese)

More Free Oil!

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Do Androids Dreams of Electric Sheep?

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