Erasmus#31 Rushdie again (and still...) or [and plus] Reasoning Layers

"Abracadbra!
Hocus Pocus!
But where should he begin? - Well, then, the trouble with the English was their:
Their:
In a word, Gibreel Solemnly pronounced, their weather.
Gibreel Farishta floanting on his cloud foirmed the opinion that the moral fuzziness of the English was meteorigically induced. 'When the day is not warmer than the night' he reasoned, 'when the light is not brigther than the dark, when the land is not drier than the sea, then clearly a people will lose the power to make distinctions, and commence to see everything - from political parties to sexual partners to religious beliefs - as much-de-same, nothing-to-choose, give-or-take. What folly! For truth is extreme, it is so and not thus it is him and not her; a partisan matter, not a spectator sport. It is, in brief, heated. City,' he cried, and his voice rolled over the metropolis like a thunder, 'I am going to tropicalize you.'"

The Satanic Verses,

The Author (in an aside): Hope not to forget to post part II of this extract - just can't be ass now... If i forget, though, find the book, look for the quotation above in it and read until the end of the chapter. Enjoy it folks! I must go back to work - or at least the attempt of doing some - on that essay for Ines de Castro - The Construction of a Literary Myth.

My sentences are too long aren´t they?

Eramus#30 Stratford-upon-Avon

(Anne Hathaway's Cottage)

(in the gardens of Nash's house, where Shapira spent his last days with his daughter)

(Shakespeare's birthplace - John Shakespeare's house)

Os Passos em Volta

"Dona Inês tomou conta das nossas almas. Ela abandona a carne e torna-se uma fonte, um labareda. Entra devagar nos poemas e nas cidades. Nada é tão incorruptível como a sua morte. [...] Que ninguém tenha piedade. E Deus não é chamado para aqui"

Herberto Hélder, "Teorema"

Erasmus#28 Spectacular, impressive, amazing!

it was 13h30, my plans to go to Stonhenge were ruined because of the snow. A new message waited for me in my cell phone "do u guys wanna come to see the show? my mum and sister didn't manage to come so i've 2 spare tickets. text me back"
We had third ring tickets, the cheapest ones. Because there was so many people missing due to the wether conditions I suppose, we were asked if we wanted to change for the 120£ seats: "Well, why not?!"
One word: breathtaking!

(Cirque du Soleil, Quidam; Royal Albert Hall, 06.02.2009)