tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-343709812024-03-15T22:11:51.293-03:00ESTÚDIO REALIDADE"Storm the Reality Studio, and retake the universe"
("Assaltem o Estúdio Realidade, e retomem o universo")
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSRodrigo garcia Lopeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02971138033280007948noreply@blogger.comBlogger1032125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34370981.post-32650219902520483062023-11-30T15:25:00.008-03:002023-11-30T15:25:58.912-03:00Fragments from the novel "The Troubadour" (In German)<p> <span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></p><div class="WordSection1">
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0cm 39.6pt 0.0001pt 0cm; text-align: center;"><span lang="DE"> </span><span style="text-align: center;">Aus</span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.05pt; text-align: center;"> </span><span style="text-align: center;">dem </span>DER<span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;"> </span>TROUBADOUR (Record<span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"> </span>Verlag,<span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt;"> </span>2014)</p><h1 style="margin-right: 39.6pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="DE"><span style="font-size: small;">Auszug aus dem historischen Kriminal Roman<span style="letter-spacing: 3.5pt;"> </span><b>DER TROUBADOUR</b>,<span style="letter-spacing: 0.05pt;"> </span>von Rodrigo Garcia Lopes (2014, 406 Seiten), von <b>Hieronymus W. Parth<span style="letter-spacing: 0.05pt;"> </span></b>aus<span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;"> </span>dem<span style="letter-spacing: -0.25pt;"> </span>portugisischen<span style="letter-spacing: 0.05pt;"> </span>ins Deutsche<span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt;"> </span>übersetzt. </span></span></h1><h1 style="margin-right: 39.6pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="DE"> </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></h1></div><div class="WordSection2"><h1 style="margin-right: 39.6pt; text-align: justify;"><div class="WordSection1">
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 0cm;"><span lang="DE"><span style="font-size: small;">
[...]<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: .35pt;"><span lang="DE"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 111.2pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;"><b><span lang="DE"><span style="font-size: large;">IMM<span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"> </span>HERZ<span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt;"> </span>DES URWALDS</span><span style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 0cm;"><b><span lang="DE"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 0cm;"><b><span lang="DE"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 0cm;"><b><span lang="DE"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: .5pt;"><b><span lang="DE"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 115%; margin-right: 25.4pt; text-indent: 17.95pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="letter-spacing: -0.05pt; line-height: 115%;">Ü</span><span lang="DE">ber<span style="letter-spacing: .45pt;"> </span>dem<span style="letter-spacing: .3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">r</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">t</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">e</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: .45pt;"> </span>H<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">o</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">z</span>ont<span style="letter-spacing: .35pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">tü</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">m</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">t</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: .4pt;"> </span>d<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: .4pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">S</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">n</span>ne<span style="letter-spacing: .3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">W</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>k<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">e</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: .45pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">a</span>us<span style="letter-spacing: .45pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">pu</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">e</span>m<span style="letter-spacing: .3pt;"> </span>Go<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>d<span style="letter-spacing: .45pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">a</span>u<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">f</span>. Dreieinhalb Stunden vorher sind die
Schotten in São Paulo vom Campo de<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Marte
gestartet und flogen über die dunkelgrüne Decke des subtropischen<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Urwalds im Norden von Paraná. Das Flugzeug
durchdringt den Winterhimmel<span style="letter-spacing: -3.25pt;"> </span>in der
höhe von wenig über tausend Metern. Erscheint der opake Mond über<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>dem<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>dichten<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>unendlichen<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Busch<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>schwebend.<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Mit<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>der<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>einschläfernden<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Monotonie des Motors hat Lovat dem Schlaf nachgegeben; nach
dreizehn<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Tagen<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Überfahrt auf dem<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Dampfer<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Southern<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>Prince und<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>dann<span style="letter-spacing: 3.35pt;"> </span>die<span style="letter-spacing: 3.4pt;"> </span>Zugfahrt<span style="letter-spacing: -3.25pt;"> </span>von Santos nach São Paulo. Nachdem er
den Hals massiert und die Beine<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>gestreckt
hatte lehnte er<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>seine Stirn und<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Nase wieder<span style="letter-spacing: 3.35pt;"> </span>an das rechte Fenster.<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Am
anderen Fenster halb übel vom Schwanken des Flugzeugs machte Blake<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Fostos abwechselnd mit schlücken Whisky
den er in einer kleinen Flasche<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>mitgebracht
hatte. In 40 Minuten würden sie in der Stadt sein wo das Zentrum<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>der<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>Paraná<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>Plantations<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>liegt.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 10pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 20.15pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Der<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Pilot<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>war<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>der<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>erfahrene<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>Pilot<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Komandant<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Anton<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Boliek<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>ein<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>alter<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Angestellter der Kompanie. Blake gähnte
und deutede mit dam Kopf auf die<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Landschaft<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>unter ihnen:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 44.45pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 10.1pt; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo8; tab-stops: 44.5pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE">—<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE">Das<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>ist<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>ein<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>grüner<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>abgrund.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 12.15pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 23.5pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">—<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">Stell
dir vor mein Lieber, wie es wäre an so einem Ort abzustürzen —<span style="letter-spacing: -3.25pt;"> </span>komentierte<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>Lovat.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 23.05pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 9.85pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Blake<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>schaute<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;">
</span>de<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>Lord<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>erstaunt<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>an stöhnte<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>und sagte:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: 115%; margin-right: 25.4pt; text-indent: 20.15pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">—<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">Und
im brasilianischen Urwald verschwinden, wie Fawcett? </span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">—<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span></span><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">Blake<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>referierte<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>sich<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>auf<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>das<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>misteriöse<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Verschwinden<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>des<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>britischen<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Forscher<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>Percival Fawcett, 1925 im Staat von Mato Grosso. Sagen sie sowas nicht
Sir,<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>nichtmal<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>im<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>Spiel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
</div>
<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;"><br clear="all" style="mso-break-type: section-break; page-break-before: always;" />
</span>
</span><div class="WordSection2">
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 18.5pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 3.65pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lovat<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>lachte.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: 115%; margin-right: 25.4pt; text-indent: 20.15pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">—<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">Ermuntern
sie sich mein junger Freund, nur noch zwanzig Minuten und<span style="letter-spacing: -3.25pt;"> </span>wir kommen an. Du wirst sehen wie ich
Recht hatte mit der Entscheigung dich<span style="letter-spacing: -3.3pt;"> </span>mitzunehmen.<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>Die<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>luft<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>des<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>Urwaldes
wird<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>dir gut<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>tun.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 44.45pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 9.95pt; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo7; tab-stops: 44.5pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE">Wie<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>viele<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>Sprachen<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span>werden<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>hier<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>in<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>der<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>Stadt<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>gesprochen?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 44.45pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 2.35pt; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo7; tab-stops: 44.5pt; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">Hier<span style="letter-spacing: .85pt;"> </span>giebt<span style="letter-spacing: .85pt;"> </span>es<span style="letter-spacing: .8pt;"> </span>33<span style="letter-spacing: 1.0pt;"> </span>Etinien.<span style="letter-spacing: .8pt;"> </span>Aber<span style="letter-spacing: .95pt;"> </span>sorg<span style="letter-spacing: .85pt;"> </span>dich<span style="letter-spacing: .85pt;"> </span>nicht.<span style="letter-spacing: .95pt;"> </span>Du<span style="letter-spacing: .85pt;"> </span>wirst<span style="letter-spacing: .9pt;"> </span>genug<span style="letter-spacing: .85pt;"> </span>Arbeit<span style="letter-spacing: -3.2pt;"> </span>haben.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 25.25pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 9.85pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Blake<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>hustete<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">
</span>ein<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>bisschen und<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>machte<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">
</span>es<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>sich<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>auf<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>dem<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>Polster<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
</span>bequem.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 12.2pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 20.15pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">— Das hat bestimmt viel Arbeit gemacht
so viele Leute a das Ende der<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Welt<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>zu<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>bringen.<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>Ich fange<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>an zu<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>verstehen<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>warum<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>sie<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>so<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>viel<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>gereist<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
</span>sind.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 25.25pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 9.8pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lovat<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>schaute<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">
</span>aus<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>dem<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>Flugzeugfenster.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 12.2pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 21.35pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">— </span><span lang="DE">Dieses
Unternehmen hat in den letzten Jahren den grössten Teil meiner<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Energien<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>verschlungen<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Leute<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>zu<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>überzeugen<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>das<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Land<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>der<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Kompanie<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>zu<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>kolonieren.<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Alles<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>ist<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>leichter<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>geworden<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>in<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>1928,<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>als<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>die<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Kompanie<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>die<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Eisenbahn<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>kaufte.<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>In<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Wahrheit<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>sind<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>die<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Kompanie<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>das<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Land<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>und<span style="letter-spacing: 3.35pt;"> </span>die<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Eisenbahn eins. Das ist der Unterschied
zwischen diesem Unternehmen und<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>den<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>vorherigen<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Versuchen.<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Ein<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Bahnnetz<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>kombiniert<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>mit<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>einer<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>rationalen<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>geplanten Kolonisierung.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 10.05pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 16.75pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">—<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">Sie<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>haben<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>mir<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>etwas<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>über<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Brasilien<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>erzählt,<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>aber<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>nie<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>warum<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>die<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Kompanie<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>sich entschlossen hat<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>hier ihr<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">
</span>Kapital<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>anzulegen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 25.25pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 10.05pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Langsam<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>ging ein<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span>Lächeln über<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>Lovat´s<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>Lippen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 12.35pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 16.75pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">—<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">Das
erste mal bin ich 1923 gekommen in der Mission Montagu. Der<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Zweck dieser Mission war die Möglichkeit
in Brasilien zu investieren als Teil<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>der
Verhandlungen der brasilianischen Schulden mit dem Haus Rotschild.<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Danach bin noch ein paarmal nach Paraná
zurückgekommen. Ich war immer<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>noch<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Direktor<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>der<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Sudan<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Plantations<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>als<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>ich<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>eine<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Fazenda<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>besuchte<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>und<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>beeindrukt<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>war<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>von<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>der<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Möglichkeit<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>eines<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>solchen<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Unternehmens.<span style="letter-spacing: 3.35pt;"> </span>Der<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Koronel<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Barbosa<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>Ferraz<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>wollte<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>seine<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Fazenda<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>nichteinmal<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>für<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>15<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>tausend<span style="letter-spacing: -3.25pt;">
</span>Contos<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>de<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>Reis verkaufen!<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 21.9pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 10.05pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Blake<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>hob<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>die<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>Schultern.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 44.45pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 12.2pt; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo5; tab-stops: 44.5pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE">Und<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>wieviel<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>ist<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>das?</span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 2.35pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 21.35pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">Sagen
wir damit könnte man fünftausend Fords kaufen – Nach dem er<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>nochmal<span style="letter-spacing: 1.25pt;">
</span>aus<span style="letter-spacing: 1.4pt;"> </span>dem<span style="letter-spacing: 1.25pt;"> </span>Fenster<span style="letter-spacing: 1.4pt;"> </span>schaut<span style="letter-spacing: 1.35pt;"> </span>fährt<span style="letter-spacing: 1.3pt;"> </span>der<span style="letter-spacing: 1.4pt;"> </span>schottische<span style="letter-spacing: 1.3pt;"> </span>Lord<span style="letter-spacing: 1.45pt;"> </span>fort:<span style="letter-spacing: 1.7pt;"> </span></span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">—<span style="letter-spacing: 1.55pt;"> </span></span><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">Das<span style="letter-spacing: 1.35pt;"> </span>war</span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><br clear="all" style="mso-break-type: section-break; page-break-before: always;" />
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<p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 3.5pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">auch besser so, denn danach kauften wir Land von der
Regierung von Paraná<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>zu<span style="letter-spacing: 1.45pt;"> </span>einem<span style="letter-spacing: 1.3pt;"> </span>sehr<span style="letter-spacing: 1.45pt;"> </span>sehr<span style="letter-spacing: 1.35pt;"> </span>niedrigen<span style="letter-spacing: 1.45pt;"> </span>Preis.<span style="letter-spacing: 1.3pt;">
</span>Als<span style="letter-spacing: 1.45pt;"> </span>ich<span style="letter-spacing: 1.35pt;"> </span>nach<span style="letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span>London<span style="letter-spacing: 1.45pt;"> </span>zurückkerhte<span style="letter-spacing: 1.45pt;"> </span>habe<span style="letter-spacing: -3.25pt;"> </span>ich einige
Teilhaber zusammengerufen und wir gründeten die Kompanie. Im<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>gleichen Jahr kauften wir dieses wilde
Land. Weisst du was es bedeuted 13<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>tausend<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Quadratkilometer<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>wildes<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Land<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>für<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>die<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Bagatele<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>von<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>700<span style="letter-spacing: 3.35pt;"> </span>tausend<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Libras<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>Esterlinas<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>zu<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>kaufen?<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>Fast<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>20<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Prozent<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">
</span>vom<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>ganzen<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Staat<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>von
Paraná?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 25.25pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 10.15pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Blake<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>pfiff<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>durch<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>die<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>Zähne<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>und<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>sagte:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 44.45pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 12.2pt; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo5; tab-stops: 44.5pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE">Ein<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>wirkliches<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span>Bombengeschäft!</span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 44.45pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 2.4pt; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo5; tab-stops: 44.5pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE">Ohne<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>zu<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>sagen dass<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>die<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>Konditionen<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>hier<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>viel<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>besser<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;">
</span>sind als<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>im<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>Sudan.</span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 44.45pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 2.45pt; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo5; tab-stops: 44.5pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE">Zum<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>Beispiel?</span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 12.3pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 25.9pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">— </span><span lang="DE">Die rote Erde hier ist sehr reich an Nährstoffen. Die Baumwolle würde<span style="letter-spacing: -3.25pt;"> </span>sich hier sehr gut anpassen. </span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">—<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span></span><span lang="DE">Lovat macht eine Pause und fährt fort: </span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">— </span><span lang="DE">Im<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Moment<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>konzentrieren<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>wir<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>unsere<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Aktionen<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>auf<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>den<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Verkauf<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>von<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Grundstücken,<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>auf<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>die<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>Kolonisierung<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>und<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>die<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>Ausweitung<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>des<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>Bahnnetzes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 41.3pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 10.0pt; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo5; tab-stops: 41.35pt; text-indent: -14.9pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE">Und<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>dieser<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>Name<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>Londrina?<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>Klein<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>London?</span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 12.45pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 22.65pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">“Geboren in London” währe eine
bessere Übersetzung, nichtwahr? Das<span style="letter-spacing: -3.25pt;"> </span>war
die erste Stadt die die Paraná Plantations gegründet hatte. Stell dir vor,<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>dass es eine Stadt gibt die den Namen von
Lovat trägt!<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>– sagte der Lord<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>lachend. – Es ist fantastisch wenn man
sehen kann wie sich die Ziviliziation<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>mitten<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>im Urwald bildet. Wir sprechen von einem
Unternehmen das für alle<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Möglichkeiten<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>bietet.<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>Grundstdücke<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>zu<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>populären<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>Preisen,<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>mit<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Strassen,<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>Eisenbahn und Wasser<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>im
Überfluss.<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Um nicht<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>zu<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>sagen
was das<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>für<span style="letter-spacing: 3.35pt;"> </span>die<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Krone<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>bedeuted<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>in<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>der jetzigen Kriese.</span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 28.6pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 9.8pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lovat<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>schaute<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;">
</span>nocheinmal<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>den<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>Wolken nach,<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>atmete<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>tief<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>ein<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>und
fuhr<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>fort:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 0cm;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0.05pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 22.65pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE">Seit die Brücke fertig war ist die Stadt mit São
Paulo, Santos und Rio<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>de<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Janeiro<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>direkt<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>verbunden.<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Bald<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>werden<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>wir<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>den<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Weg<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>nach<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Paraguai<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>aufmachen.<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>Sie<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>haben<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>dort<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>Ölreserven entdeckt.<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>Weisst<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;">
</span>du<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>was<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>das<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>bedeuted?</span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: 15.5pt; margin: 0.05pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 44.45pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE">Der<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span>Verkehr<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>wird<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>sehr<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>zunehmen<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
</span>und<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>der<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>Gewinn<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>auch.</span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-right: 25.4pt; text-indent: 29.15pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">— </span><span lang="DE">Exakt, Blake. Und wir leisten
einen grossen Beitrag zum Vortschrit<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>in
einem unausgebeutedten Gebiet. Die<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>brasilianische
Regierung wird uns<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>eines<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>Tages<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>dafür
dankbar sein.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0cm 25.4pt 0.0001pt 44.45pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE">Ich<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>bin<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>beeindrukt.<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Ein<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>grosses<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Unternehmen.<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Ein<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>exelentes<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Abkommen.</span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: .5pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 25.25pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 0cm;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lovat<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>nickte<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span>zustimmend.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 3.5pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 22.65pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE">Nur in Canada habe ich so grosse Möglichkeiten
gesehen, mein junger<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Freund.<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>Das<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>hier<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>ist<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>das<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>neue<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>Kalifornien.<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>Das<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>Neue<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>Eldorado!</span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: .1pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 25.25pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 0cm;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Blake<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>schaute<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">
</span>zinikamente<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>zu ihm<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>und sagte:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 0cm;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 44.45pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 0cm; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo5; tab-stops: 44.5pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE">Immer<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>Optimist,<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>nicht<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;">
</span>wahr<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>Sir?</span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: .5pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 21.9pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 0cm;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lovat<span style="letter-spacing: 1.0pt;"> </span>beobachtede<span style="letter-spacing: 4.5pt;"> </span>Blake,<span style="letter-spacing: 4.4pt;"> </span>der<span style="letter-spacing: 4.55pt;"> </span>seine<span style="letter-spacing: 4.55pt;">
</span>leere<span style="letter-spacing: 4.4pt;"> </span>Whiskyflasche<span style="letter-spacing: 4.3pt;"> </span>examinierte.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 5.1pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: .1pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Deutede<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>auf<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>die<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>silberne<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span>Flashe<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>und<span style="letter-spacing: 3.25pt;"> </span>sagte<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>in<span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;"> </span>einem<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>lustigen<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>Ton:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: .5pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0cm 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 16.15pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE">Da haben wir
organisiert, dass kein Scotch für die Leute in der Stadt<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>fehlt. Die Kompanie versorgt die Kneipen mit Whisky, der hier
mit den Teilen<span style="letter-spacing: -3.25pt;"> </span>der<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>Eisenbahn<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>ankommt.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 0cm;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 21.9pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: .05pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Blake<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>lachte,<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span>was<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>sich<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>mehr<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>als<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>ein<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>Knurren<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>anhörte.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 0cm;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 44.45pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 0cm; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-list: l1 level2 lfo4; tab-stops: 44.5pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE">Direkt<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>aus<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>Schottland<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>in<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>die<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span>grüne<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>Hölle.</span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: 15.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 44.45pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 0cm; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-list: l1 level2 lfo4; tab-stops: 44.5pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE">Wer<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>weiss<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>ob
ihr<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>nicht<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>eine<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>Zeit<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>hier<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>in<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>der Stadt<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>verbringt?</span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: .05pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 25.25pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 0cm;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Blake<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>antwortede<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>in<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>gallischem<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>Schottisch:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: .05pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 44.45pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 0cm; mso-list: l1 level2 lfo4; tab-stops: 44.5pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE">Keine<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>schlechte<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>Idee.<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;">
</span>Ich<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>werde<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>darüber<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">
</span>nachdenken.</span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: .5pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-right: 25.4pt; text-indent: 20.15pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Die Zwei blieben eine Weile in Stille<span style="letter-spacing: 3.35pt;"> </span>und beobachten das unendliche<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Grün. Als er es sich bequem machte, stiess
Blakes rechter Fuß an ein Stück<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Erde,
so groß wie ein Wollknäuel, von wo aus eine kleine Pflanze spross.<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Blake nahm den Klumpen, der zerbrach und
roten Staub in seier Handfläche<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>hinterließ.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: .4pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 44.45pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 0cm; mso-list: l1 level2 lfo4; tab-stops: 44.5pt 344.5pt 361.65pt; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">Jetzt<span style="letter-spacing: 1.6pt;"> </span>hast<span style="letter-spacing: 1.65pt;"> </span>du<span style="letter-spacing: 1.65pt;"> </span>Kaffee<span style="letter-spacing: 1.65pt;">
</span>in<span style="letter-spacing: 1.75pt;"> </span>deinem<span style="letter-spacing: 1.55pt;"> </span>Flugzeug<span style="letter-spacing: 1.75pt;">
</span>gepflanzt? – Lovat<span style="letter-spacing: .95pt;"> </span>schrie<span style="letter-spacing: -3.25pt;"> </span>Boliek<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
</span>an.</span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 9.75pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 20.15pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Der Pilot drehte sich um, sah Blakes
Hand überrascht an und antwortete<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>mit<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>einem<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>Lachen,<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>in schlechtem<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>Englisch:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 9.85pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 19.4pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">Woher ist denn das gekommen? Wenn
wir ankommen muss ich das<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Flugzeug so<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>schnell<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
</span>wie<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>möglich reinigen.</span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 9.85pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 16.75pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Eine diffuse Mischung aus Blau, Rot und
Weiß am Horizont. Aus dem<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>vorderen
Fenster do Piper gab es durch die Sonne eine großartige Formation<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>von goldenen Wolken zu sehen, die wie in
den dunklen Bauch des Urwalds<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>stürtzten.
An einigen Stellen konnte man in der Weite Rauch aufsteigen sehen.<span style="letter-spacing: -3.25pt;"> </span>Boliek kommentierte, dass wer auch immer
in der Gegend flog, sich über den<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Rauch<span style="letter-spacing: 3.15pt;"> </span>beschwerte,<span style="letter-spacing: 2.95pt;"> </span>der<span style="letter-spacing: 3.0pt;"> </span>die<span style="letter-spacing: 3.1pt;"> </span>Sichtbarkeit<span style="letter-spacing: 2.95pt;"> </span>störte<span style="letter-spacing: 3.1pt;"> </span>und<span style="letter-spacing: 3.15pt;"> </span>sogar<span style="letter-spacing: 3.15pt;">
</span>Turbulenzen<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 3.5pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">provozierte. In den Tiefen des Himmels trafen Blitze den
Horizont. Direkt<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>unter dem Flugzeug
kreuzte ein Vogelschwarm das Blau. Minuten später war<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>es<span style="letter-spacing: 1.3pt;"> </span>immer<span style="letter-spacing: 1.3pt;"> </span>noch<span style="letter-spacing: 1.25pt;"> </span>klar<span style="letter-spacing: 1.2pt;"> </span>genug,<span style="letter-spacing: 1.2pt;"> </span>dass<span style="letter-spacing: 1.3pt;"> </span>sie<span style="letter-spacing: 1.3pt;"> </span>eine<span style="letter-spacing: 1.15pt;"> </span>schöne<span style="letter-spacing: 1.2pt;">
</span>und<span style="letter-spacing: 1.35pt;"> </span>seltsame<span style="letter-spacing: 1.3pt;"> </span>Vision<span style="letter-spacing: 1.25pt;">
</span>hatten:<span style="letter-spacing: -3.25pt;"> </span>die<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Kaffeeplantagen,<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Tausende von<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>dunkelgrünen<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Punkten<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>die gewundene<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Muster auf der
roten Haut der Erde formten. Sie flogen über den erdigen<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Tibagi-Fluss und die Brücke darüber. Im Westen branntedie Sonne
wie ein<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>wildes<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>Feuer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 44.45pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 10.2pt; mso-list: l1 level2 lfo4; tab-stops: 44.5pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE">Londrina,<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>meine<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>Herren<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span></span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">—<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span></span><span lang="DE">sagte<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>der<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>Pilot.</span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 12.3pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 23.5pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Die Schotten rückten sich auf ihren
Plätzen zurecht. Der Teppich des<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Urwaldes
wurde allmählich von geradlinigen Flecken ersetzt von besiedelten<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Gebieten, Bauernhöfe, Straßen und
Pflanzungen. Kleine Flüsse, flossen in<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Serpentinen
und reflektierten die Sonnenstrahlen, als ob sie aus Quecksilber<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>gemacht wären.<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Blake warf seinem Chef einen Blick zu<span style="letter-spacing: 3.35pt;"> </span>und presste die<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Lippen
zusammen. Er machte den Mund auf, um etwas zu sagen, als der Wind<span style="letter-spacing: -3.25pt;"> </span>das Flugzeug etwa fünfzig Meter ins
Vakuum stürzte, und das Flugzeug und<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>die<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>Körper der Besatzung schüttelte.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 44.45pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 10.05pt; mso-list: l1 level2 lfo4; tab-stops: 44.5pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE">Halted<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>euch<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>fest! </span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">—<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>r</span><span lang="DE">ief<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>Boliek.</span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 12.15pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 20.15pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Blakes Augen weiteten sich. Lovat
starrte ihn an und schrie inmitten des<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Motorgeräusches:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 44.45pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 9.85pt; mso-list: l1 level2 lfo4; tab-stops: 44.5pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE">Warst<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>das<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>nicht<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>du,<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>der<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>den<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>wilden Westen<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>kennenlernen<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>wollte?</span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 12.2pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 20.15pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Das Flugzeug flog über die kleine
Stadt, die wie eine riesige bevölkerte<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Lichtung<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>aussah,<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>in<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>den<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Wald<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>geschnitten<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>und<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Hunderte<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>von<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Dächern<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>enthüllte. Die Punkte der Häuser hatten
einen zentralen Kreis und Straßen im<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Schachbrettformat<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>mit<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>einer<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>langen<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Hauptstraße<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>die<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>den<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Kreis<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>wie<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>ein<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>S<span style="letter-spacing: -3.25pt;"> </span>durchschneidet.<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Im<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Herzen<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>der<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Stadt<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>stand<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>eine<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>hölzerne<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>Kirche,<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>die<span style="letter-spacing: 3.35pt;"> </span>die<span style="letter-spacing: -3.25pt;"> </span>Spitze
eines Hügels besetzte und mit Perobas gekrönt war. Während die Piper<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>mit einem tiefen brummen in Richtung des
Flughafens im Süden der Stadt<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>flog.<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Suchte<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Lovat<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Blakes<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Aufmerksamkeit.<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Der<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Hauptplatz,<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>von<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>oben<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>gesehen, war wie das Design der englischen
Flagge. Er beobachtete auch die<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Eisenbahnlinie,
die die Stadt von Osten nach Westen durchquerte, flankiert<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>von<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Dutzenden<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>von<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Schuppen,<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Höfe<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>und<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Kasernen.<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>Augenblicke<span style="letter-spacing: 3.35pt;"> </span>später<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>landete der Einmotor sicher auf der
Startbahn mit einer großen Staubwolke<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>erhebend.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 12.2pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 20.15pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 12.2pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 20.15pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 111.2pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 2.75pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="DE"><span style="font-size: large;">DIE<span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"> </span>ROTE<span style="letter-spacing: -0.05pt;"> </span>STADT</span><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 0cm;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 0cm;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: .25pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 115%; margin-right: 25.4pt; text-indent: 17.95pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="letter-spacing: -0.05pt; line-height: 115%;">D</span><span lang="DE">er <span style="letter-spacing: -1.6pt;"> </span>Pi<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>ot
<span style="letter-spacing: -1.65pt;"> </span>g<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">i</span>ng <span style="letter-spacing: -1.7pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">r</span>un<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">t</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">e</span>r,
<span style="letter-spacing: -1.65pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">b</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">n</span>d
<span style="letter-spacing: -1.7pt;"> </span>d<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>e <span style="letter-spacing: -1.65pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">T</span>ür
<span style="letter-spacing: -1.6pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">a</span>m<span style="letter-spacing: 1.65pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">R</span>u<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">m</span>pf
<span style="letter-spacing: -1.7pt;"> </span>des
<span style="letter-spacing: -1.65pt;"> </span>F<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">l</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">u</span>gz<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">e</span>u<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">g</span>s
<span style="letter-spacing: -1.6pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">f</span>est <span style="letter-spacing: -1.7pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">un</span>d
winkte in den Innenraum des Flugzeugs. Blake verließ die Kabine, gefolgt<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>vom Lord, beide schirmten ihr Gesicht von
dem roten Staub ab, der die Piste<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>bedeckte.<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>Eine<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>kleine<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>Delegation erwartete<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>sie.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 10pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 20.15pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lovat wurde zuerst von Nilson Garden
begrüsst, einem Mann von kurzer,<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>stämmiger<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Statur,<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>kleine<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>mandelförmige<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Augen,<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>rundes<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Gesicht,<span style="letter-spacing: 3.35pt;">
</span>bürsten<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Haare und Schnurrbart
im Stil von Chaplin. Hatte um die 50 Jahre mit Safari-<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Kleidung und Hut. Die Hose war in den hohen Stiefeln verstaut.
Ehemaliger<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Direktor<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>von<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>den<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Sudan<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Plantations,<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Sohn<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>von<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>englischem<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Vater<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>und<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>brasilianischer<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Mutter,<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Kolonisator
von<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Städten und<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>seit<span style="letter-spacing: 3.35pt;"> </span>Januar
war Garden<span style="letter-spacing: -3.25pt;"> </span>für<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>eine<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Doppelfunktion<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>verantwortlich:<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Direktor<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>der<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Filiale<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>der<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Paraná<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Plantagen und Bürgermeister. Er gab das
Willkommen und nahm den Hut mit<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>einer<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>ernsten<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">
</span>Geste<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>ab:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 10.25pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 25.9pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">Ich bin froh, dass Sie angekommen
sind, meine Herren, </span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">— </span><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">sagte er
und<span style="letter-spacing: -3.25pt;"> </span>drückte<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>Lovats<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>Hand<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>kräftig.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 26.45pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 9.95pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lovat<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>begrüßte<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span>den<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>Bürgermeister<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>mit<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>einem<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>Lächeln.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 44.45pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 12.2pt; mso-list: l1 level2 lfo4; tab-stops: 44.5pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE">Wie<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>geht<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>es<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>dir,<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>Garten?<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
</span>Es<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>ist<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>schön,<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>dich<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>wiederzusehen.</span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 44.45pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 2.35pt; mso-list: l1 level2 lfo4; tab-stops: 44.5pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE">Wie<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>geht<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>es<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>dir<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>und<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>den<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>Kindern?</span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 44.45pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 2.5pt; mso-list: l1 level2 lfo4; tab-stops: 44.5pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE">Großartig.</span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 12.2pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 20.15pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ein<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Windstoß<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>wirbelte<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>mehr<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Staub<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>auf.<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Geruch<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>und<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Feuchtigkeit<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>des<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Dschungels<span style="letter-spacing: 1.65pt;"> </span>umgab<span style="letter-spacing: 1.6pt;"> </span>die<span style="letter-spacing: 1.6pt;"> </span>Gruppe.<span style="letter-spacing: 1.65pt;">
</span>Blake<span style="letter-spacing: 1.65pt;"> </span>nieste<span style="letter-spacing: 1.65pt;"> </span>und<span style="letter-spacing: 1.65pt;"> </span>holte<span style="letter-spacing: 1.65pt;"> </span>ein<span style="letter-spacing: 1.65pt;"> </span>Taschentuch<span style="letter-spacing: 1.7pt;"> </span>aus<span style="letter-spacing: -3.25pt;"> </span>der<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>Jackentasche.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 10.05pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 16.15pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">Scheint es nicht unglaublich, dass
seit meinem letzten Besuch fünf Jahre<span style="letter-spacing: -3.25pt;"> </span>vergangen
sind? </span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">— k</span><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">ommentierte
Lovat. </span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">— </span><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">Nun, so
weit ich sehen konnte war<span style="letter-spacing: -3.25pt;"> </span>der<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>Fortschritt<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>großartig.<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>Die<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>Brücke<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">
</span>war erstaunlich.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 10.1pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 16.15pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">Wir haben hart gearbeitet, Sir.
Ihre Anwesenheit ist eine angenehme<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Überraschung.
Erst gestern wurde mir gesagt, dass sie kommen.<span style="letter-spacing: 3.35pt;"> </span>Haben sie<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>eine<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>gute<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>Reise<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>gehabt?<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span></span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">— f</span><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">ragte<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>Garden.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE">Ja,<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>danke.</span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 41.3pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 12.4pt; mso-list: l1 level2 lfo4; tab-stops: 41.35pt; text-indent: -14.9pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE">Lassen<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>sie<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>mich<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>sagen,<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>dass<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>sie<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>sich<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>nicht<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>geändert<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">
</span>haben.</span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 12.25pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 22.65pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">Oh, Garden, ohne Übertreibungen.
Ich bin alt geworden. Es ist an der<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Zeit,
mich zu pensionieren. Es ist Shimi, der sich um alles kümmert, wenn ich<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>zurück komme. Bevor ich es vergesse: Die
Jungs vom White's Club<sup>5</sup> sagten<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>mir,<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>dass sie<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
</span>dich<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>vermissen.</span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 9.95pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 23.5pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Neben<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>Garden<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>war<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Ernest<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Günther,<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Farmer<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>und<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Direktor<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>von<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>der<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Südamerikanischen Kolonisationsgesellschaft. Groß und korpulent,
Günther<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>trug einen weißen Leinenanzug
und eine kanariengelbe Krawatte. Brachte<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>einen
Stock mit einem Griff aus Perlmutt, der ihm für das linke Bein, mit dem<span style="letter-spacing: -3.25pt;"> </span>er ein wenig humpelte, als Stütze
diente. Das blonde Haar war mit Brilliantine<span style="letter-spacing: -3.25pt;">
</span>zurückgekämmt.<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>Neben ihm<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>war eine<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">
</span>junge<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>Frau.<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>Lovat<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span>grüßte<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>ihn:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 44.45pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 10.15pt; mso-list: l1 level2 lfo4; tab-stops: 44.5pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE">Wie<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>geht<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>es<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>dir,<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>Ernest?</span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: 115%; margin-right: 25.4pt; mso-list: l1 level3 lfo4; tab-stops: 56.8pt 56.85pt; text-indent: 26.85pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">Mit<span style="letter-spacing: 3.0pt;"> </span>deiner<span style="letter-spacing: 2.95pt;"> </span>Ankunft,<span style="letter-spacing: 3.05pt;"> </span>noch<span style="letter-spacing: 3.05pt;"> </span>besser<span style="letter-spacing: 3.2pt;"> </span></span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">—<span style="letter-spacing: 3.1pt;"> </span></span><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">antwortete<span style="letter-spacing: 3.05pt;"> </span>der<span style="letter-spacing: 3.15pt;"> </span>Farmer,<span style="letter-spacing: 2.95pt;"> </span>breit<span style="letter-spacing: -3.25pt;">
</span>lächelnd.<span style="letter-spacing: 3.2pt;"> </span></span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">—</span><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">Willkommen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: 178%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 28.6pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 10.1pt; mso-list: l1 level2 lfo4; tab-stops: 44.5pt; text-indent: -2.2pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 178%;">Meine
Herren, das ist Mr. Adam Blake. </span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 178%;">— </span><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 178%;">sagte
Lovat.<span style="letter-spacing: -3.25pt;"> </span>Blake<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>begrüßte<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>die<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>Männer<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>kurz<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>und<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>schüttelte<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>die<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>Hände.</span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 44.45pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 0cm; mso-list: l1 level2 lfo4; tab-stops: 44.5pt; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">Oh,<span style="letter-spacing: 2.2pt;"> </span>welch<span style="letter-spacing: 2.4pt;"> </span>ein<span style="letter-spacing: 2.3pt;"> </span>Vergnügen,<span style="letter-spacing: 2.3pt;"> </span>dich<span style="letter-spacing: 2.4pt;"> </span>wieder<span style="letter-spacing: 2.35pt;"> </span>zu<span style="letter-spacing: 2.25pt;"> </span>treffen<span style="letter-spacing: 2.4pt;"> </span>...<span style="letter-spacing: 2.35pt;"> </span>Meine<span style="letter-spacing: 2.3pt;"> </span>Tochter<span style="letter-spacing: -3.25pt;">
</span>Angelika<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span></span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">—</span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 9.6pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">sagte<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>er.<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Günther,<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>umarmte<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>das<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Mädchen.<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>Angelika<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>hatte<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>blonde<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Haare,<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>aggressive blaue Augen mit gut
gezeichneten Augenbrauen und eine Haut so<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>weiß
wie ihr Kleid. Sie sah ungefähr 20 Jahre alt aus. Trat lächelnd vor und<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>reichte<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">
</span>Lovat<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>einen Strauß aus<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>blauen,<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">
</span>weißen<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>und roten Blumen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">Bitte nehmen Sie unser herzliches
Willkommen an, Herr Lovat </span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">—<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span></span><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">sagte das Mädchen auf
Englisch mit starkem deutschen Akzent. </span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">—
</span><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">Es ist für<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>uns<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>alle<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>eine<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>Ehre,<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
</span>sie<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>hier<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>zu<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>begrüßen.</span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 9.85pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 20.15pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Als er die Farben der englischen Flagge
sah, dankte Lovat mit rauher<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Stimme
und beugte sich vor, um die junge Frau auf die Stirn zu küssen. Dann<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>wandte<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>er
sich an<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>Günther:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 9.7pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 20.15pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">Ich kann gar nicht glauben, dass
der kleine Engel, den ich kannte, sich<span style="letter-spacing: -3.25pt;"> </span>in
so eine<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
</span>schöne<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>junge<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>Frau<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>verwandelte.</span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><br clear="all" style="mso-break-type: section-break; page-break-before: always;" />
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<p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 3.5pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 16.75pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Blake<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>schlug<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>sich<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>auf<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>den<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Hals.<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Danach<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>inspektionierte<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>er<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>mit<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>schmerzverzerrtem Gesicht das tote Insekt
in der Handfläche. Bremsen und<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Mücken
hatte bereits die Anwesenheit von neuem Blut registriert. Angelika<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>bedeckte<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>ihren<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Mund mit<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>der<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Hand
und unterdrückte<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>ein<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Lachen.<span style="letter-spacing: 3.35pt;">
</span>Günther<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>ging<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>zum<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Ford<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>und<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>holte<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>eine<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Feldflasche<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>und<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>zwei<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>kleine<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Aluminiumbecherund
versorgte die Neuankömmlinge mit Wasser. Sie tranken<span style="letter-spacing: -3.25pt;"> </span>bereitwillig. Angelika hat das Kleid zurechtgerückt und in den
Arm ihres<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Vaters<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>eingehängt<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>wandte<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>sie<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>sich mit<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">
</span>einer<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>sanften<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>Stimme<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>an<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>den Herrn:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 10.25pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 19.4pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">Herr Eckstein sagte, dass Sie in
einem Schloss leben ... Ist es ein echtes<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Schloss?<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>Ich<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>bin<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>fasziniert<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>von<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>der
mittelalterlichen Geschichte.</span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 9.85pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 16.75pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Günther sah Lovat und dann die Tochter
an und klopfte leicht seine Finger<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>auf<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>ihrer Schulter.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 40.25pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 9.8pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo4; tab-stops: 40.3pt; text-indent: -18.4pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE">Angelika<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>...<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 25.25pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 12.3pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lovat<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>wedelte<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
</span>mit<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>seinem<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>Hut<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>frische<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>Luft<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>zu.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 12.45pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 22.65pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">Ah, meine Liebe ... Ich lebe in
einem Schloss, und es ist kein Problem<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>das
zu sagen. Beaufort stammt aus dem XIII. Jahrhundert, aus der Zeit von<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Alexander I, König von Schottland. Es ist
sehr schön. Du bist willkommen<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>mich<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>mit<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>deinem<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>Vater<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>zu<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>besuchen,<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>wann<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>immer<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>du<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>willst.</span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 9.8pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 20.15pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Angelika dankte der Einladung und
drückte den Arm ihres Vaters, der mit<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>einem<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>warmen<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Lächeln<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>erwiderte.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 9.8pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 22.65pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">Die Gelegenheit erfordert ein
Bankett in Ihrer Ehre </span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">— </span><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">verkündete
der<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Bürgermeister<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>Garden.<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
</span></span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">—<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span></span><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">Wir<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>brauchen
nur<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>Zeit,<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>um<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>alles<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>fertig zu machen.</span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 21.9pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 10.1pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Günther<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>stimmte<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">
</span>zu<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>und<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>fragte:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE">Wie<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>lange<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>wirst<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>du<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>uns<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>die<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>Freude<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;">
</span>deiner<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>Anwesenheit<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>geben?</span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 12.35pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 25.9pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">Was nötig ist, um den Fortschritt
der Geschäfte zu sehen, </span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">— </span><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">sagte<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Lovat,<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>Lächeln<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>auf<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>seinem<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>Gesicht.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 55.25pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 9.95pt; mso-list: l1 level3 lfo4; tab-stops: 55.3pt; text-indent: -21.05pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE">Nun,<span style="letter-spacing: 1.15pt;"> </span>wir<span style="letter-spacing: 1.1pt;"> </span>wünschen<span style="letter-spacing: 1.2pt;"> </span>Ihnen<span style="letter-spacing: 1.25pt;"> </span>einen<span style="letter-spacing: 1.2pt;"> </span>schönen<span style="letter-spacing: 1.25pt;">
</span>Aufenthalt<span style="letter-spacing: 1.1pt;"> </span>in<span style="letter-spacing: 1.25pt;"> </span>der<span style="letter-spacing: 1.2pt;"> </span>Stadt<span style="letter-spacing: 1.65pt;"> </span></span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">—<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 5.1pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 2.35pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">fügte<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>Günther<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;">
</span>hinzu.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 12.2pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 24.2pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Eine Wolke aus rotem Staub schwebte
entlang dem Zugang zur Start-und<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Landebahn.
Lovats Gesicht hellte sich auf, als er den Topografen Alexandre<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Razgulaeff erkannte der aus einem marine
blauen DeSoto ausstieg und eilig<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>auf<span style="letter-spacing: .5pt;"> </span>die<span style="letter-spacing: .45pt;"> </span>Gruppe<span style="letter-spacing: .4pt;"> </span>zuging.<span style="letter-spacing: .55pt;"> </span>Mit<span style="letter-spacing: .45pt;"> </span>einer<span style="letter-spacing: .45pt;"> </span>breiten<span style="letter-spacing: .45pt;"> </span>Stirne<span style="letter-spacing: .55pt;"> </span>teilweise<span style="letter-spacing: .5pt;"> </span>mit<span style="letter-spacing: .5pt;"> </span>Haaren<span style="letter-spacing: .5pt;"> </span>bedeckt,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 3.5pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">die<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>mehr<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>und<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>mehr<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>dünner<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>wurden,<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>dicker<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>rothaariger<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Schnurrbart,<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>mandelförmige<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>und<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>aufmerksame<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Augen,<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Razgulaeff<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>trug<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>einen<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>braunen<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>Leinenanzug und trug einen Panama Hut. Abschluss in Geodäsie in
Russland,<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>42 Jahre alt, fanatischer
Zarist, Mitglied der Pionierkarawane der Kolonisation<span style="letter-spacing: -3.25pt;"> </span>und seit August war er für das operative Management des
Unternehmens<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>verantwortlich.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 10.15pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 16.15pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">Oh, wenn das es nicht der Lord
Lovat ist! </span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">—<span style="letter-spacing: 3.3pt;"> </span></span><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">rief der Russe aus. </span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">—<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span></span><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">Meine
Verzögerung ist unentschuldbar. Ich bitte dich um Vergeben für mein<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Versagen,<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">
</span>my<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Lord.<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span></span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">—<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span></span><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">Er<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
</span>fuhr fort<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>und<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>verbeugte<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
</span>sich.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 10.1pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 19.4pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">Razgulaeff,<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>nichtmal<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>im<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Dschungel<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>kann<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>der<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Herr<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>entspannen!<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Sie<span style="letter-spacing: -3.25pt;"> </span>haben
uns verrückt gemacht mit ihren fantastischen Plänen für die Stadt </span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">—<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span></span><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">antwortet<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>Lovat,<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
</span>lächelt<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>und grüßt<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>den<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>Neuankömmling.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 9.85pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 20.15pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Der Russe lachte und zeigte seine Zähne
gelb wie Maiskörner. Er grüßte<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>die
Gruppe und wischte sich mit einemTaschentuch über die Stirn, um sich<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>von dem braunen Staub zu befreien. Er
wedelt Hand dicht an sein Gesicht um<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>eine<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>Wolke<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>von<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Moskitos zu<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>vertreiben.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 10.1pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 40.6pt; text-indent: -16.15pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE">Glauben<span style="letter-spacing: 1.0pt;"> </span>Sie<span style="letter-spacing: 1.05pt;"> </span>nicht,<span style="letter-spacing: 1.05pt;"> </span>dass<span style="letter-spacing: 1.1pt;"> </span>ich<span style="letter-spacing: 1.15pt;"> </span>diesen<span style="letter-spacing: 1.0pt;">
</span>Plan<span style="letter-spacing: 1.2pt;"> </span>für<span style="letter-spacing: 1.0pt;"> </span>die<span style="letter-spacing: 1.1pt;"> </span>Stadt<span style="letter-spacing: 1.05pt;"> </span>aufgegeben<span style="letter-spacing: 1.0pt;"> </span>habe<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 2.3pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 0cm;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">sagte<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>der<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Landvermesser.<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span></span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">—<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span></span><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">Londrina<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>wird<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>schneller<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>wachsen<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>als<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>wir<span style="letter-spacing: -3.25pt;"> </span>dachten. Übrigens ist Ihre Anwesenheit hier eine
ausgezeichnete Gelegenheit,<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>noch<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>einmal<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">
</span>darüber<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>zu<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>diskutieren.<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>Ist<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>das<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>richtig,<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">
</span>Garden?</span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 21.9pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 10.0pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Der<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>Bürgermeister<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>räusperte<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>sich:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 12.45pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 0cm;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">Dafür ist jetzt keine Zeit,
Alexandre. </span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">— </span><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">Knurrte er
und wandte sich an<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Lovat.<span style="letter-spacing: 3.25pt;"> </span></span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">—<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>—<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span></span><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">Razgulaeff<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>besteht<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">
</span>darauf<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>die<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>Straßen<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>zu vergrössern.</span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 9.85pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 20.15pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lovat<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>antwortete<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>mit<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>einem<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>stillen<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>"Ah",<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>während<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>der<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Russe<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Blake<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>neugierig anschaute. Blake lächelte
höflich und begrüsste ihn mit seinem Hut.<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Razgulaeff
drehte sich um. Günther stützte das Gewicht seines Körpers auf<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>dem<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>Stock<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>und<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>sagte<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>mit<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>metallischer
Stimme:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 10.05pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 22.65pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">Mein Herr, ich möchte Ihnen für all
die Arbeit danken, die Sie für die<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Siedler<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>und<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>unserer<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Kolonisationsgesellschaft<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>geleistet<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>haben.<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Die<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Organisation von Paraná Plantations ist
ein Beispiel für uns alle. Ich muss<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>sagen
es ist<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>ein<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Modell<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>von regionaler<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>Raumplanung.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 10.05pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 22.65pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">Ja, aber es gibt immer noch viel zu
tun </span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">— </span><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">korrigierte
ihn Lovat. </span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">— </span><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">Es<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>war nicht einfach, die Städte auf
nationaler Ebene zu verwalten. Die Lösung<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>ist,<span style="letter-spacing: 2.9pt;"> </span>unsere<span style="letter-spacing: 2.95pt;">
</span>Bemühungen<span style="letter-spacing: 3.05pt;"> </span>zu<span style="letter-spacing: 2.9pt;"> </span>vereinen.<span style="letter-spacing: 3.1pt;">
</span></span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">—<span style="letter-spacing: 2.85pt;"> </span></span><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">Lovat<span style="letter-spacing: 2.95pt;"> </span>wandte<span style="letter-spacing: 2.95pt;"> </span>sich<span style="letter-spacing: 3.05pt;"> </span>an<span style="letter-spacing: 3.05pt;"> </span>Blake<span style="letter-spacing: 2.85pt;">
</span>und<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 3.65pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE">zurück zur Gruppe. </span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">— I</span><span lang="DE">ch habe fast vergessen Mr. Adam Blake
gebührend zu<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>apräsentieren. Er ist
der neue Übersetzer und Dolmetscher unserer Firma. Ich<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>denke,<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>er<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>wird<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>von<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>großem<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Wert<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>für<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>unser<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Geschäft<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>sein,<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>da<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>wir<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>eine<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>zunehmende Anzahl von ausländischen
Siedlern haben. Er spricht mehr als<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>zehn
Sprachen.<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>Und<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>jetzt erfand<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>er<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>Afrikaans<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>zu lernen!<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 9.95pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 16.75pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Alle sahen den Übersetzer an. Blake
winkte der Gruppe zu und steckte die<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Hände<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>in<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>den<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Taschen<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
</span>der<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Jacke.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 42.75pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 9.8pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: 42.8pt; text-indent: -18.3pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE">Nun,<span style="letter-spacing: 3.25pt;"> </span>es<span style="letter-spacing: 3.3pt;"> </span>sind<span style="letter-spacing: 3.25pt;"> </span>nicht<span style="letter-spacing: 3.2pt;"> </span>ganz<span style="letter-spacing: 3.25pt;"> </span>so<span style="letter-spacing: 3.25pt;"> </span>viele,<span style="letter-spacing: 3.3pt;">
</span>Lord<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>Lovat<span style="letter-spacing: 3.25pt;"> </span>trägt<span style="letter-spacing: 3.3pt;"> </span>etwas<span style="letter-spacing: 3.25pt;"> </span>auf...<span style="letter-spacing: 3.3pt;">
</span></span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">—<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 2.35pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">erwiederte<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>er<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>und<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>lächelte<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span>matt.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 12.2pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 20.15pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Garden<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>und<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Günther<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>sahen<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>sich<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>kurz an<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>und<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>lächelten. Das<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Gespräch<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>zwischen Lovat, Günther und Garden ging über Getreide und die
Frostgefahr<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>für die neuen
Kaffeeplantagen. Razgulaeff näherte
sich Blake, schaute auf<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>den<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Sonnenuntergang<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>und<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>holte<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>ein<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Feuerzeug,<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>das<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>die<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Miniatur<span style="letter-spacing: 3.35pt;">
</span>eines<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Zeppelin<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>war, aus<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span>der<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>Tasche.<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>Er<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>bot<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>Blake<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
</span>eine<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>Zigarette<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>an.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: 178%; margin: 10.1pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 28.6pt; text-indent: -2.2pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 178%;">Zum ersten Mal in Brasilien?<span style="letter-spacing: -3.25pt;"> </span>Blake nickte.</span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 115%; margin-right: 25.4pt; text-indent: 23.5pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Der Russe stieß ein wissendes Gemurmel
aus und zündete sich seine<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Zigarette<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>an.<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>Er
zog<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>den Rauch tief<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>ein:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 5.1pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 9.85pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: 45.2pt; text-indent: 19.4pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">Ich<span style="letter-spacing: 2.35pt;"> </span>glaube<span style="letter-spacing: 2.3pt;"> </span>dass<span style="letter-spacing: 2.3pt;"> </span>unsere<span style="letter-spacing: 2.3pt;"> </span>Stadt<span style="letter-spacing: 2.25pt;"> </span>ihnen<span style="letter-spacing: 2.35pt;">
</span>gefallen<span style="letter-spacing: 2.35pt;"> </span>wird.<span style="letter-spacing: 2.15pt;"> </span>Sie<span style="letter-spacing: 2.25pt;"> </span>ist<span style="letter-spacing: 2.25pt;"> </span>sehr<span style="letter-spacing: -3.25pt;">
</span>merkwürdig<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span></span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">—<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span></span><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">sagte<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>er<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>mit<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>einer<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
</span>rauhen<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Stimme.</span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 34.1pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 10.05pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: 34.15pt; text-indent: -14.9pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE">Ich<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>glaube<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span>schon.<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>Ich<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>liebe<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>es<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>neue<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>Orte<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>zu<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>treffen,<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>Herr<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>Razgulaeff.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 12.15pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 16.75pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Der<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Russe<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>stimmte<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>zu.<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Die<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>beiden<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Männer<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>blasen<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>den<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Rauch<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>fast<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>gleichzeitig in<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>die<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>Luft.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 9.85pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 19.4pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">Ich bin Neugierig auf dein
Feuerzeug, </span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">— </span><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">sagte Blake
und gab es dem<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Russen zurück.</span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 5.1pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 9.95pt; mso-list: l3 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: 43.3pt; text-indent: 22.65pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">Ein<span style="letter-spacing: .5pt;"> </span>Andenken<span style="letter-spacing: .4pt;"> </span>an<span style="letter-spacing: .55pt;"> </span>eine<span style="letter-spacing: .5pt;"> </span>Reise<span style="letter-spacing: .45pt;"> </span>im<span style="letter-spacing: .4pt;"> </span>Graf<span style="letter-spacing: .4pt;"> </span>Zeppelin.<span style="letter-spacing: .45pt;">
</span>Schade,<span style="letter-spacing: .3pt;"> </span>dass<span style="letter-spacing: .45pt;"> </span>ich<span style="letter-spacing: .55pt;"> </span>schon<span style="letter-spacing: -3.2pt;"> </span>alle,<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>die<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>ich mitgebracht<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>habe,<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>vergegeben<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>habe.</span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 10pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Blake<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>machte<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span>eine<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>vage<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>Geste<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span>und fragte:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 12.45pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 46.95pt; text-indent: -15.05pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE">Graf<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>Zeppelin?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: 113%; margin-right: 25.4pt; mso-list: l3 level3 lfo1; tab-stops: 47.25pt; text-indent: 26.85pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 113%;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 113%;">Ja,<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>hast<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>du<span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;"> </span>nie davon<span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;">
</span>gehört?<span style="letter-spacing: .25pt;"> </span>Letztes<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>Jahr<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>bin<span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span>ich<span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;"> </span>mit<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>meiner<span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;"> </span>Frau<span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;"> </span>von<span style="letter-spacing: -3.2pt;"> </span>Recife<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 113%;"><br clear="all" style="mso-break-type: section-break; page-break-before: always;" />
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<p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 5.1pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 3.5pt; tab-stops: 184.45pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">nach<span style="letter-spacing: 1.95pt;"> </span>Rio<span style="letter-spacing: 1.9pt;"> </span>de<span style="letter-spacing: 1.85pt;"> </span>Janeiro<span style="letter-spacing: 1.8pt;"> </span>geflogen. Es<span style="letter-spacing: 1.85pt;"> </span>ist<span style="letter-spacing: 1.8pt;"> </span>eine<span style="letter-spacing: 1.7pt;"> </span>tolle<span style="letter-spacing: 1.9pt;"> </span>Erfahrung.<span style="letter-spacing: 1.85pt;"> </span>Jede<span style="letter-spacing: 1.75pt;"> </span>traumhafte<span style="letter-spacing: -3.25pt;"> </span>Landschaft!<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 50.3pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 9.85pt; mso-list: l3 level3 lfo1; tab-stops: 50.35pt; text-indent: -18.4pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE">Gefällt<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>dir<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>Brasilien?<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span></span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">—<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>f</span><span lang="DE">ragte<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>Blake.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 12.4pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 29.15pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">Natürlich! Es war das Land, das
mich willkommen hieß. Lieber hier<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>sein<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>als<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>zu<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>sehen,<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>wie<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>mein<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Land<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>von<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>den<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>verfluchten<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Kommunisten<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>beherrscht
wird. </span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">— </span><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">Er
räusperte sich und fuhr fort: </span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">— </span><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">Wie
ich schon sagte, der<span style="letter-spacing: -3.25pt;"> </span>erste<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>Opfer<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span>der<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>Revolution<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>war<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>nicht
der<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>Zar.<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>Es war<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>die<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>Wahrheit.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 31.95pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 10.0pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Der<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>Manager<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">
</span>richtete<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>seinen<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Hut<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>auf<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>und<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>richtete<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>ihn auf<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">
</span>Blakes<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>Brust:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 12.35pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 25.9pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">Vielleicht nutzen sie diese
Goldchance, kaufen ein Stück Land und<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>beginnen<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>mit<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>dem<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Kaffeeanbau.<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Ich<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>garantiere<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>ihnen<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>dass<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>sie<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>das<span style="letter-spacing: 3.35pt;"> </span>nicht<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>bereuen<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>werden.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 44.45pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 10.0pt; mso-list: l3 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: 44.5pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE">Ich<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>werde<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>nicht<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>lange<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>hier<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>bleiben.<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>Ich<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>bin<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>halb<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Nomade.</span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: 115%; margin-right: 25.4pt; text-indent: 25.9pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">Das kannst du sagen. Ich habe an so
vielen Orten gelebt. Ich habe<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>angefangen
Bananen auf dem Platz der Republik in São Paulo zu verkaufen.<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Ich habe Malaria fünf mal bekommen diesen
Wald zu vermessen. Ich war<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>letztes
Jahr im Sudan. Sie gingen auch durch die Sudan Plantations, nicht<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>wahr?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 9.85pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 23.5pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Blake verkneifte die Augen im Rauch und
sah Lovat an, dersc hien mit<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Garden
zu streiten. Razgulaeff schien einen Komentar von Blake zu erwarten.<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Als<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>dieser<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>nicht kam,<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>fuhr<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>der Russe fort:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 44.45pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 9.55pt; mso-list: l3 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: 44.5pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE">Nun,<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>wenn<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>Sie<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>etwas<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>brauchen,<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>stehen<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>wir<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>Ihnen<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>zur<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>Verfügung.</span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 44.45pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 2.5pt; mso-list: l3 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: 44.5pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE">Danke<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>für<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span>die<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>Höflichkeit,<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>Herr<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>Razgulaeff.</span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 5.1pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 12.2pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ein<span style="letter-spacing: 1.0pt;"> </span>kalter<span style="letter-spacing: .9pt;"> </span>Atem<span style="letter-spacing: .9pt;"> </span>wehte<span style="letter-spacing: .95pt;"> </span>aus<span style="letter-spacing: 1.05pt;"> </span>dem<span style="letter-spacing: .85pt;"> </span>Wald<span style="letter-spacing: 1.0pt;"> </span>neben<span style="letter-spacing: 1.05pt;"> </span>der<span style="letter-spacing: 1.0pt;"> </span>Gasse.<span style="letter-spacing: 1.0pt;"> </span>Ein<span style="letter-spacing: .9pt;"> </span>Donner<span style="letter-spacing: .95pt;"> </span>hallte<span style="letter-spacing: .95pt;"> </span>in<span style="letter-spacing: -3.25pt;"> </span>den
Tiefen des<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>Himmels wider.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 44.45pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 9.85pt; mso-list: l3 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: 44.5pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE">Es<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>scheint,<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>als ob ein<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>Sturm<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>kommt<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span></span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">—<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span></span><span lang="DE">sagte<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>der<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Russe.</span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 12.15pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 20.15pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lovat<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>betrachtete<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>die<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>kobaltblaue<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Linie<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>am<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Horizont.<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>Dann<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>nickte<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>er<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Garden
zu und führte ihn am Unterarm hinter eines der Autos. Als er sich dem<span style="letter-spacing: -3.25pt;"> </span>runden<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>Gesicht<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>des<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Bürgermeisters<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>näherte,<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>verschwand<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>sein<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>lächelnder<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Ausdruck.<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">
</span>Seine<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>Stimme<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>wurde<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
</span>ernster:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 44.45pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 10.1pt; mso-list: l3 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: 44.5pt; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">Was<span style="letter-spacing: 2.05pt;"> </span>zum<span style="letter-spacing: 2.0pt;"> </span>Teufel<span style="letter-spacing: 2.0pt;"> </span>ist<span style="letter-spacing: 2.15pt;"> </span>hier<span style="letter-spacing: 2.1pt;"> </span>passiert?<span style="letter-spacing: 2.1pt;">
</span>Wo<span style="letter-spacing: 2.1pt;"> </span>sind<span style="letter-spacing: 2.1pt;"> </span>Nussbaum<span style="letter-spacing: 1.95pt;"> </span>und<span style="letter-spacing: 2.0pt;"> </span>das<span style="letter-spacing: 1.95pt;"> </span>Paar<span style="letter-spacing: -3.25pt;"> </span>Müller?</span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 28.6pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 10.15pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Garden<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>zuckte<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span>mit<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>den<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>Schultern.<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>Er<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>richtete<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>seine<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span>Krawatte<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>zurecht.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br clear="all" style="mso-break-type: section-break; page-break-before: always;" />
</span>
</span><div class="WordSection12">
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 44.45pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 3.65pt; mso-list: l3 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: 44.5pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE">Ich<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>versichere<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>Ihnen,<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>dass<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>alles<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>erklärt<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>wird.</span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 12.45pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 22.65pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">Das hoffe ich, Nilson, denn das hat
mich in einer ziemlich ungünstigen<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Zeit<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>aus London gerufen. Ich bin dabei, zu
einem sehr wichtigen Posten in<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Kanada<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>ernannt<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
</span>zu<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>werden.</span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 9.85pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 22.65pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">Mach dir keine Sorgen, Sir. Ich
denke du wirst es gerne hören, dass ich<span style="letter-spacing: -3.25pt;"> </span>unsere<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>drei<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Mitarbeiter<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>erstezt<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>habe.<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Ich<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>garantiere<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>dir<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>es<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>ist<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>alles<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>unter<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Kontrolle.</span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 9.95pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 20.15pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lovat unterdrückte einen Fluch und
schaute auf die Gruppe. Dreht<span style="letter-spacing: 3.35pt;"> </span>sich<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>mit<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>einem<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>forschenden<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Blick<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>nach<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>Garten<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>um.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 9.8pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 25.9pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">Sie<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>werden<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>sehen,<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>trotz<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>allem,<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>was<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>passiert<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>ist,<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span></span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">—<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span></span><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">fuhr<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>der<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Bürgermeister
fort. Gibt es keinen Anlass zur Sorge. Das Geschäft war noch<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>nie<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>so<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>gut. Ich muss<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>dir<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>die<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>Zahlen<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
</span>zeigen.<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>Sie<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>sind ermutigend.</span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 10pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 25.9pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">Bei Gott, Nilson. Der
Chefbuchhalter und zwei unserer besten Ärzte<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>sind verschwunden und Sie kommen, um über Zahlen zu sprechen! Morgen<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>früh<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>werden<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>sie<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>mir<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>diese<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Geschichte<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>genau<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>erklären.<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Ich<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>will<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>die<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Buchhaltungsbücher
sehen und den Schlüssel zu Nussbaums Büro. </span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">— </span><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">flüsterte<span style="letter-spacing: -3.25pt;"> </span>Lovat,
als er aus dem Auto stieg und zeigte gleichzeitig ein Lächeln für die<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Gruppe,<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">
</span>die<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>aufgeregt<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>redete.<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">
</span>Garden folgte<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>mit<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>gesenktem<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>Kopf.</span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 23.05pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 10.05pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Günther<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>wandte<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
</span>sich<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>Lovat<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>zu,<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>als<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>er<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>sich<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>näherte:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 12.35pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 22.65pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">Die berüchtigte Stunde der Moskitos
... Ich glaube, was unsere Freunde<span style="letter-spacing: -3.25pt;"> </span>nach<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>einer<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>so<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>langen<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Reise<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>am<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>meisten<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>wollen,<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>ist<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>ein<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>guter<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Platz,<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>ein<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Abendessen<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>und<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>eine<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>gute<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Nachtruhe.<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span></span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">—<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span></span><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">Der<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Präsident<span style="letter-spacing: 3.4pt;"> </span>der<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Südamerikanischen<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Kolonisationsgesellschaft<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>zeigte<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>mit<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>dem<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Kinn<span style="letter-spacing: 3.4pt;"> </span>in<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Richtung des Fahrers, einem grossen
blonden mit eckigen Kinn, der im selben<span style="letter-spacing: -3.25pt;"> </span>Moment<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>den<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>Automotor
startete.</span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 9.95pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 23.5pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ein weiterer Donner hallte über dem Wald
und ließ die Fenster des Autos<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>zittern.<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>Die<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>ersten
Tropfen fiehlen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 44.3pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 10.0pt; mso-list: l3 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: 44.35pt 415.3pt; text-indent: -16.6pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE">Lass<span style="letter-spacing: 1.45pt;"> </span>uns<span style="letter-spacing: 1.45pt;"> </span>gehen<span style="letter-spacing: 1.6pt;"> </span></span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">—<span style="letter-spacing: 1.65pt;"> </span></span><span lang="DE">sagte<span style="letter-spacing: 1.55pt;"> </span>Razgulaeff<span style="letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span>und<span style="letter-spacing: 1.55pt;"> </span>deutete<span style="letter-spacing: 1.6pt;"> </span>auf<span style="letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span>den<span style="letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span>DeSoto </span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">—,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 5.1pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 2.45pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">wenn<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>wir<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>nicht<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>auf<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>der<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>Straße<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">
</span>gestaut<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>werden<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>wollen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 12.2pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 23.5pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Die<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Gruppe<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>stieg<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>in<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>die<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Autos<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>und<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>die<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Scheinwerfer<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>brachen<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>die<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Dämmerung. Auf dem Weg strömte der Wald
wie eine gigantische Figur, die<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>sie
umgab eine drückende Feuchtigkeit aus. Der Wind peitschte die hohen<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Kronen der großen<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>Peroba<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>Bäumen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;"><br clear="all" style="mso-break-type: section-break; page-break-before: always;" />
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<p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 3.5pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 26.85pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Es<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>regnete<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>stark,<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>als<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>sie<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>das<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Hauptquartier<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>der<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Paraná-Plantagen<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>erreichten. Leer an diesem Sonntag. Sie
luden das Gepäck aus und traten ein.<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Lovat
fragte Garden nach dem Schlüssel vom Büro und ging dann begleitet<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>von<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Blake<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>zum<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Abendessen.<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Es<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>war<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>acht<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Uhr<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>abends,<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>als<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>der<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Lord<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>das<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Abendessen beendete, zog seinen<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Stuhl zurück, stand vom Tisch<span style="letter-spacing: 3.35pt;"> </span>auf und<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>nahm Abschied von dem jungen Schotten, der von einem Angestellten in
sein<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Zimmer,<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>im das Quartier<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>der
Firma<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>geführt<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>würde.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 10.05pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 16.75pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">In seinem Zimmer wartete Lovat ein paar
Minuten und verringerte die<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Intensität
des Lichts. Er richtete seine Aufmerksamkeit auf das Geräusch des<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Regens auf dem Dach. Ein Zug pfiff in der
Ferne. Gelegentlich sah Lovat auf<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>seine
Uhr. Dann stand er auf, nahm die Lampe, ging hinaus aus dem Zimmer,<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>überquerte<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>sie<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>einen<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>langen<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Korridor<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>und<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>steuerte<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>auf<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>das<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Büro<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>des<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Buchhalters<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>zu.<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>Er trat<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>ein.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 10.05pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 16.75pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Im Büro standen ein Bücherregal, ein
Tisch und drei Stühle. Neben dem<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Tisch
stand ein kleiner grüner Safe und eine Underwood Schreibmaschine. Er<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>öffnete<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">
</span>die<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>Schublade<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>des<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>Schreibtischs.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 9.6pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 16.75pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Die Schublade enthielt Firmenbroschüren
und Ausschnitte von englischen<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Zeitungen.
Es gab auch Postkarten mit Weiblichen Nacktfotos und Filmstars.<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Eine kleine Box, die Patronen und eine
Webley Pistole 38, in rotem Filz<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>gewickelt.
Lovat schaut auf einen Ordner mit dem Lovat Wappen und dem<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Parana Logo. Er öffnete das Siegel und
untersuchte einige Dokumente. Dann<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>zog
er den Brief, den er aus London mitgebracht hatte, aus der Tasche. Er<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>nahm ein leeres Blatt aus der Schublade,
spannte es auf der Schreibmaschine<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>ein
und tipte einige Worte. Er legte das Blatt auf den Tisch, nahm den Brief<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>aus seiner Tasche und verglich es eine
Weile<span style="letter-spacing: 3.35pt;"> </span>mit anderen typisierten
Seiten.<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Er<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>seufzte<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>er und<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>sagte<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>sich:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.15pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 10.15pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: 36.2pt; text-indent: -14.95pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE">Das<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>kam<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span>nicht
aus<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>der<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>Nussbaum-Maschine.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 12.15pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 20.15pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Er steckte den Brief zurück in die
Tasche und drückte mit seinen beiden<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Zeigefingern
auf zwei Holzzungen an der Unterseite der Schublade, die mit<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>einem<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>leichten<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>Klick nachgabten.<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>Sein<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Herz<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>pochte.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 44.45pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 9.7pt; mso-list: l3 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: 44.5pt; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">Der<span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span>Schlüssel<span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;">
</span>zum<span style="letter-spacing: 3.35pt;"> </span>Safe.<span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span>Wo<span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;"> </span>hat<span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;"> </span>er<span style="letter-spacing: .25pt;"> </span>ihn<span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span>hingelegt?<span style="letter-spacing: .65pt;">
</span></span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">—<span style="letter-spacing: .25pt;"> </span>e</span><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">r<span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;"> </span>flüsterte<span style="letter-spacing: -3.25pt;"> </span>stirnrunzelnd.</span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 9.85pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 23.5pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Er<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>reflektierte<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>eine<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Minute<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>kneifte<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>den<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Abstand<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>zwischen<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>den<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Augenbrauen mit dem
Zeigefinger und dem Daumen und fing an schwerer zu<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>atmen.<span style="letter-spacing: 2.7pt;"> </span>Als<span style="letter-spacing: 2.65pt;"> </span>es<span style="letter-spacing: 2.65pt;"> </span>ihm<span style="letter-spacing: 2.55pt;"> </span>gelang<span style="letter-spacing: 2.75pt;">
</span>sich<span style="letter-spacing: 2.7pt;"> </span>wieder<span style="letter-spacing: 2.7pt;"> </span>zu<span style="letter-spacing: 2.6pt;"> </span>fassen<span style="letter-spacing: 2.7pt;"> </span>legte<span style="letter-spacing: 2.65pt;"> </span>er<span style="letter-spacing: 2.7pt;"> </span>die<span style="letter-spacing: 2.55pt;"> </span>Gegenstände<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;"><br clear="all" style="mso-break-type: section-break; page-break-before: always;" />
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<p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 3.5pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">wieder in die Schublade zurück. Schliess sie ab und schaute
besorgt auf den<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Stahltresor. Er ging
zur Tür, sperrte das Büro ab und ging in sein Zimmer<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>zurück.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
</div>
<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;"><br clear="all" style="mso-break-type: section-break; page-break-before: always;" />
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<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 0cm;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 111.2pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 10.55pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="DE"><span style="font-size: large;">SCHÜSSE<span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt;"> </span>IN<span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"> </span>DER<span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt;"> </span>NACHT</span><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 0cm;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 0cm;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: .4pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 115%; margin-right: 25.4pt; text-indent: 17.95pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="letter-spacing: -0.05pt; line-height: 115%;">D</span><span lang="DE">er <span style="letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span>Ha<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">u</span>p<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">t</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">t</span>z <span style="letter-spacing: 1.45pt;"> </span>v<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">o</span>n
<span style="letter-spacing: 1.4pt;"> </span>der
<span style="letter-spacing: 1.4pt;"> </span>Par<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">a</span>ná <span style="letter-spacing: 1.45pt;"> </span>Pl<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">a</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">t</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">tio</span>ns
<span style="letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span>w<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">a</span>r <span style="letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">nu</span>r
<span style="letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>s <span style="letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span>"Das <span style="letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">La</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">n</span>d Unternehmen"
der Bevölkerung bekannt, besetzte ein großes Grundstück auf<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>der<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Allee<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Paraná,<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>der<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>wichtigsten<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>der<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Stadt.<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Es<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>war<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>ein<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>langer<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Bau<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>aus<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>ungestrichenem Holz und Tonziegeln. Das
Gebäude war als Hauptquartir für<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>die
britische Immobilienentwicklung und die Kolonisationsoperationen der<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Städte, die hier geboren wurden. Vor dem
Haupteingang, ein Schild mit der<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>stolzen<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Aufschrift:<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>DIE<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>GRÖSSTE<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>SÜDAMERIKANISCHE<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>KOLONISIERUNGS<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>GESELLSCHAFT.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 9.95pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 20.15pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Die Stadt wuchs stetig. Die Gemeinde
hatte bereits mehr als 30 Tausend<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Einwohner,
eine Tatsache, die man durch das Wachstum der hoteis, kleine<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Industrien, Geschäfte, Handelshäuser,
Eisdielen und Bars registrieren konnte.<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Und<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>trotz<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>der<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Schwierigkeiten<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>durch<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>die<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Krise<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>von<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>1929<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>begannen<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>die<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>diplomatischen
Bemühungen und Propaganda von Paraná Plantagen gut zu<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>funktionierten: ein jeweils grösseres menschliches Kontingent
wurde in die<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Region<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>angezogen.<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Die<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Werbung<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>des<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Unternehmens<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>zog<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>nicht<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>nur<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Einwanderer,<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>ehrliche<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>Arbeiter<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>und<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Berühmtheiten,<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>die<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>ein<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>neues<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Leben<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>beginnen<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>wollten.<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Betrüger,<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Gauner,<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>Diebe<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>und<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Menschen<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>mit<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>dunkler<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Vergangenheit suchten auch das Land, wo,
wie es gesagt wurde, "die Leute<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>über
Geld gingen". Es gab unzählige Schwierigkeiten in einer Stadt die in den<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Urwald gepflanzt wurde und weniger als
zehn Jahre zuvor nur eine primitive<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Sammlung
von Hütten war. Die sanitäre Grundversorgung war immer noch<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>prekär, und an heißen Tagen hing der
Gestank vom Schlachthof in der Luft.<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Die
jährliche Mordrate war von fünf im Jahr 1933 auf zwanzig im Jahr 1936<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>gesprungen. Männer trugen Waffen auf den
Straßen, als wären sie Kämme.<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Mit der
Wirtschaft und die Städte unter seiner Verantwortung die Tag für Tag<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>wuchs,<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>was<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>das<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Unternehmen<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>am<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>wenigsten<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>wünschte<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>war<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>negative<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>propaganda<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>die<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>potentielle<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>Käufer<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">
</span>vertreiben<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>könnte.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 10.1pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 23.5pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Vor den Casas Pernambucanas ging ein
Paar zögernd vor, durch den<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Schlamm
der Straße, stützten sich auf prekäre Zäune aus Holz und auf dem<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>seifenglatten<span style="letter-spacing: .6pt;"> </span>roten<span style="letter-spacing: .6pt;"> </span>Ton<span style="letter-spacing: .65pt;"> </span>ausrutschten,<span style="letter-spacing: .55pt;"> </span>zur<span style="letter-spacing: .65pt;"> </span>Freude<span style="letter-spacing: .55pt;"> </span>der<span style="letter-spacing: .65pt;"> </span>Kunden<span style="letter-spacing: .6pt;"> </span>der<span style="letter-spacing: .65pt;"> </span>kleinen<span style="letter-spacing: .6pt;"> </span>Bar,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 3.5pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">die sich darüber vergnügten. Die Umsichtigsten hatten sich
bereits an den<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>örtlichen Brauch
gehalten, "Hufeisen", kleine Ketten, die auf den Schuhen<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>getragen wurden und mit denen man durch
die Straßen gehen könnte die<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>teuflisch
rutschig an regnerischen Tagen waren. Der Klang von Sägewerken<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>und<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Männern,<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Brasilianer<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>und<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Ausländer,<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>die<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Häuser<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>bauen,<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>füllten<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>den<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Morgen
der jungen Stadt. In der Zentrum wird das letzte Land verkauft: <i>Datas<span style="letter-spacing: -3.25pt;"> </span></i>oder
<i>datchas, </i>wie sie der russische
Razgulaeff getauft hatte. An bestimmten<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Tagen<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>fiel<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>ein<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Regen<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>von<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Asche<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>auf<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>die<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>rote<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Stadt,<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>als<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Ergebnis<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>vom<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Buschbrand.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 10.15pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 23.5pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">In seinem Schlafzimmer knotete Lord
Lovat seine Krawatte, als er die<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Glocken<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>der<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>hölzernen<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Kirche<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>hörte.<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Er<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>schaute<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>auf<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>seine<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Uhr<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>über<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>der<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Kommode:<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>sieben<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Uhr.<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Das<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>verschlafene<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Mädchen<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>öffnete<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>das<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Schiebe-<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>Fenster. Er sah, als ein mit Holz beladener Lastwagen einen gewaltigen
Lärm<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>verursachte<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>und<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>in<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>der<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Mitte<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>der<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Straße<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>den<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Durchgang<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>einiger<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>Wagen<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>verhinderte. Der Mann,
der auf drei riesigen Peroba-rosa Stämmen saß, durch<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>dicke Ketten gesichert waren sprang herunter, um zu sehen, was
los war. Der<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>japanische<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Kaufmann,<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>der<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>jetzt<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>seinen<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Lastwagen<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>durch<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>den<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>anderen<span style="letter-spacing: -3.25pt;">
</span>Lastwagen blockiert sah, beschwerte sich laut mit dem Fahrer, der
wiederum<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>einen Hagel von japanischen
Schimpfworten losliess. Am Eingang kamen<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Leute
und gingen zum Ritual die Tonschicht von den Stiefeln zu schaben, auf<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>der Klinge die die Einheimischen am
Eingang von Häusern und Geschäften<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>"chora-paulista"
nannten. Der Name wurde gegeben, weil
der Schlamm so<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>viel<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>war, dass<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>er<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Tränen<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>der<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Pioniere
und<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Einwanderer<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>von<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>São<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Paul o<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>provozierte.<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Lovat<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>sah<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>auch<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Garden<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>mit<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>seinem<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Safari<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Hut<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>kommen<span style="letter-spacing: 3.35pt;">
</span>und<span style="letter-spacing: -3.25pt;"> </span>grüßte den Piloten
Boliek, der mit zwei Arbeitern der Eisenbahngesellschaft<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>sprach,<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>die<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>an einen ganz neuen<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Citroën angelehnt<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>waren.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 10pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 16.75pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Auf der anderen Seite der Allee, in der
engen Bushaltestelle, parkte ein<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>übefüllter<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Lieferwagen<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>mit<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Schwierigkeiten.<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Sein<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Dach<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>war<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>überfüllt<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>mit<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Koffern.
Es war ein Ford von 1929, dessen Karoserie für Passagiere angepasst<span style="letter-spacing: -3.25pt;"> </span>wurde.<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>Italiener,<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Japaner,<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>deutsche<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>Kolonisten,<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Brasilianer<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>und<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Spanier<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>begannen sich in einem caos zwischen
Hühnern, Käfigen mit Vögeln und<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>anderen
wilden Tieren anzuhäufen. Makler und Büroangestellte, bekleidet, für<span style="letter-spacing: -3.25pt;"> </span>einen neuen Tag Arbeit. Einige waren
dort, nur um die Neuankömmlinge zu<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>beobachten.<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>Es<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>war<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>die<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>Morgenroutine<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>im<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>neuen
Eldorado.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 10.1pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 20.15pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Nach dem Frühstück mit Speck,
Hühnereiern und Kuchen, serviert von<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Gloria,
der Köchin, eine dicke schwarze Frau mit einem großzügigen Lächeln,<span style="letter-spacing: -3.25pt;"> </span>gingen<span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;">
</span>die<span style="letter-spacing: .25pt;"> </span>Männer<span style="letter-spacing: .3pt;"> </span>in<span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span>den<span style="letter-spacing: .3pt;"> </span>Besprechungsraum.<span style="letter-spacing: .25pt;"> </span>Garden<span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span>stand<span style="letter-spacing: .3pt;"> </span>auf,<span style="letter-spacing: .25pt;"> </span>grüßte<span style="letter-spacing: .25pt;"> </span>Lovat<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 3.5pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">und<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>setzte sich<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>an den<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Tisch.
Blake<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>saß in<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>einer<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Ecke und<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>blätterte eine<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Ausgabe<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>der<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Lokalzeitung<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><i>Paraná-Norte<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span></i>durch,<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>die<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>vierseitige<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Boulevardzeitung war das Hauptstück der
Werbung des Unternehmens. Unter<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>dem<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Titel<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>PARANÁ<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>PLANTATIONS<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>–<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>DIE<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>LAND<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>KOMPANIE<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>IM<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>NORDEN<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>VON<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>PARANÁ<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>kamen<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>die<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>Worte<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>ÜBERALL
EIN<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>AGENT.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 10.1pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 23.5pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Die Köchin trat ein und ließ einen Krug
mit Wasser und drei Gläsern auf<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>einem
Tablett. Sie wechselte ein paar Worte mit Lovat, der sie freundlich<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>behandelte<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>und<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Fragen<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>über<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>ihren<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Ehemann<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>und<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>ihre<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Gesundheit<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>stellte.<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Danach bat
Gloria um Erlaubnis und schloss die Tür. Garden hielt den Safari-<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Hut<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>auf<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>dem<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>Schoss<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>und<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>untersuchte<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>einige<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>Dokumente.<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>Er<span style="letter-spacing: .25pt;"> </span>war<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>unruhig.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 43.6pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 10.15pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: 43.6pt 43.65pt; text-indent: -21.75pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE">Was<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>ist<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>passiert?<span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;"> </span></span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">—<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>f</span><span lang="DE">ragte<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>Lovat<span style="letter-spacing: -.35pt;"> </span>unverblümt.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: 115%; margin-right: 25.4pt; text-indent: 19.4pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">Wir versuchen immer noch das zu
verstehen. Es war ein harter Schlag<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>für
uns. Nussbaum und das Ehepaar Müller waren Menschen von höchstem<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Ansehen, exelente Angestellte </span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">— </span><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">Garden rückte sich auf dem Stuhl
zurecht. </span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">—<span style="letter-spacing: -3.15pt;"> </span></span><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">Den Nachforschungen des Komissars zu folge hätte am 1.
August Müller<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Nussbaum mit Magdalena
in seinem Bett erwischt. Nachbarn hörten Schüsse<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>und<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>Schreien in<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>dieser<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>Nacht<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>aus<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>diesem<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>Haus.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.15pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 10.05pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: 36.2pt; text-indent: -14.95pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE">Wo<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>haben sie<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">
</span>gewohnt?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.15pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 12.25pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: 36.2pt; text-indent: -14.95pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE">In<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>einem<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>kleinen<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>Bauernhof<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">
</span>in<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>der<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>Heimtal<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>Straße.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.15pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 12.4pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: 36.2pt; text-indent: -14.95pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE">Ich<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>denke,<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span>ich erinnere<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>mich<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>nicht<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>an<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>das<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>Ehepaar<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>Müller.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: 115%; margin-right: 25.4pt; text-indent: 16.15pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">Sie<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>waren<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>gute<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Ärzte.<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Das<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Paar<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>sprach<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>mehrere<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>Sprachen,<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>was<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>die<span style="letter-spacing: -3.25pt;"> </span>Teilnahme
erheblich erleichterte. Sie wissen, außer Malaria, gab es auch viele<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Unfälle in den Wäldern beim Fällen. Der
Arzt, seine Begleiterin und die<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Assistentin,<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>Dr.<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>Magdalene,<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>wurden<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>von
Eckstein<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>vorgeschlagen:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 44.45pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 10.05pt; mso-list: l3 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: 44.5pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE">Ja,<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>ich
erinnere<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>mich daran.</span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: 115%; margin-right: 25.4pt; text-indent: 22.65pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">Sie haben gute Arbeit geleistet,
weil wir grosse Mängel in der Stadt<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>haben.<span style="letter-spacing: 1.8pt;"> </span>Es<span style="letter-spacing: 1.8pt;"> </span>war<span style="letter-spacing: 1.95pt;"> </span>eine<span style="letter-spacing: 1.9pt;"> </span>Tragödie,<span style="letter-spacing: 1.75pt;"> </span>die<span style="letter-spacing: 1.9pt;"> </span>passierte.<span style="letter-spacing: 1.75pt;"> </span>Er<span style="letter-spacing: 1.85pt;"> </span>nahm<span style="letter-spacing: 1.8pt;"> </span>einen<span style="letter-spacing: 1.85pt;"> </span>Schluck<span style="letter-spacing: 1.85pt;"> </span>Wasser<span style="letter-spacing: -3.25pt;">
</span>und wischte sich dann den Schweiß von seinem Gesicht. </span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">— </span><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">Ich bedaure heute,<span style="letter-spacing: -3.25pt;"> </span>dass ich die Gerüchte, dass Nussbaum
eine Affäre mit Dr. Magdalene hatte,<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>nicht
ernst nahm. Eine Woche zuvor, auf einer Party, hatten wir miterlebt, wie<span style="letter-spacing: -3.25pt;"> </span>der Arzt drohte, ihn umzubringen, wenn
er nicht von seiner Frau fernbleiben<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>würde.
"Und wenn ich dich töte, wird dich niemand finden", sagte er.<span style="letter-spacing: 3.35pt;"> </span></span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">—<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span></span><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">Etwas<span style="letter-spacing: .8pt;"> </span>Ernsteres<span style="letter-spacing: .85pt;"> </span>passierte<span style="letter-spacing: .85pt;"> </span>einfach<span style="letter-spacing: .9pt;"> </span>nicht,<span style="letter-spacing: .8pt;"> </span>weil<span style="letter-spacing: .75pt;"> </span>Müller<span style="letter-spacing: .9pt;"> </span>besänftigt<span style="letter-spacing: .8pt;">
</span>wurde<span style="letter-spacing: .95pt;"> </span></span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">—<span style="letter-spacing: .9pt;"> </span></span><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">fuhr</span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><br clear="all" style="mso-break-type: section-break; page-break-before: always;" />
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<p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 5.1pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 3.65pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE">Garden<span style="letter-spacing: .25pt;"> </span>fort<span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span>und<span style="letter-spacing: .3pt;"> </span>blas<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>die<span style="letter-spacing: .25pt;"> </span>Luft<span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span>aus<span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;"> </span>den<span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;"> </span>Lungen.<span style="letter-spacing: .5pt;"> </span></span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">—<span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;"> </span></span><span lang="DE">Ich<span style="letter-spacing: .3pt;"> </span>hätte<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>Nussbaum<span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span>für<span style="letter-spacing: .3pt;"> </span>eine<span style="letter-spacing: -3.25pt;"> </span>Weile<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>nach<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Sao<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Paulo<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>bringen
sollen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 42.65pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 9.8pt; mso-list: l3 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: 42.7pt; text-indent: -14.95pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE">Wann<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>hast<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>du zuletzt<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>Nussbaum<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span>gesehen?<span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span></span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">—<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>f</span><span lang="DE">ragte<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>der<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>Lord.</span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 12.25pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 22.65pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">In der Nacht des Vorfalls, kurz
bevor ich nach Hause ging. Ich kam<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>gegen
neun Uhr aus dem Rathaus zurück, und beschloss, einige Dokumente in<span style="letter-spacing: -3.25pt;"> </span>der Firma zu holen. Ich sah Lichter an
und bemerkte, dass er immer noch<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>arbeitete.
Es war normal für ihn, bis spät im Büro zu bleiben. Wer ihn kannte<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>wusste, dass, wenn es eine Frist gab, die
erfüllt werden musste, sein Geist in<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>der<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Arbeit<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>gefangen<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>und<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>der<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Welt<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>entfremdet<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>war.<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Nussbaum<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>war<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>sehr<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>engagiert.</span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 5.1pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 10.05pt; mso-list: l3 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: 43.05pt; text-indent: 22.65pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">Ja,<span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span>sehr<span style="letter-spacing: .3pt;"> </span>engagiert<span style="letter-spacing: .25pt;"> </span></span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">—<span style="letter-spacing: .35pt;"> </span></span><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">sagte<span style="letter-spacing: .25pt;"> </span>Lovat.<span style="letter-spacing: .3pt;"> </span></span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">—<span style="letter-spacing: .3pt;"> </span></span><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">Hast<span style="letter-spacing: .25pt;"> </span>du<span style="letter-spacing: .3pt;"> </span>mit<span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span>ihm<span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span>gesprochen<span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;"> </span>bevor<span style="letter-spacing: -3.25pt;">
</span>du<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>weggingst?</span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 9.95pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 22.65pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">Nur ganz Schnell. Er hat mich nur
gebeten, die Türe abzuschließen,<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>weil<span style="letter-spacing: 1.8pt;"> </span>er<span style="letter-spacing: 1.95pt;"> </span>eine<span style="letter-spacing: 1.8pt;"> </span>Kopie<span style="letter-spacing: 1.75pt;"> </span>des<span style="letter-spacing: 1.85pt;"> </span>Schlüssels<span style="letter-spacing: 1.8pt;"> </span>hatte.<span style="letter-spacing: 1.85pt;"> </span>Ich<span style="letter-spacing: 1.85pt;"> </span>ging<span style="letter-spacing: 1.95pt;"> </span>zurück,<span style="letter-spacing: 1.85pt;"> </span>sperrte<span style="letter-spacing: 1.9pt;">
</span>es<span style="letter-spacing: 1.9pt;"> </span>zu<span style="letter-spacing: 1.7pt;"> </span>und<span style="letter-spacing: -3.25pt;"> </span>ging<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>nach<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>Hause.</span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 5.1pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 9.9pt; text-indent: 20.15pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Blake<span style="letter-spacing: .5pt;"> </span>sah<span style="letter-spacing: .4pt;"> </span>den<span style="letter-spacing: .6pt;"> </span>Bürgermeister<span style="letter-spacing: .55pt;"> </span>an.<span style="letter-spacing: .4pt;"> </span>Garden<span style="letter-spacing: .45pt;"> </span>war<span style="letter-spacing: .45pt;"> </span>starr<span style="letter-spacing: .55pt;"> </span>auf<span style="letter-spacing: .45pt;"> </span>seinem<span style="letter-spacing: .35pt;"> </span>Stuhl,<span style="letter-spacing: .45pt;"> </span>seine<span style="letter-spacing: -3.2pt;"> </span>Arme<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>dicht<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>an<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>seinem
Körper.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 5.1pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 9.85pt; mso-list: l3 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: 41.0pt; text-indent: 19.4pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">Wann<span style="letter-spacing: 1.2pt;"> </span>haben<span style="letter-spacing: 1.35pt;"> </span>Sie<span style="letter-spacing: 1.4pt;"> </span>den<span style="letter-spacing: 1.4pt;"> </span>Chefbuchhalter,<span style="letter-spacing: 1.3pt;"> </span>Mr.<span style="letter-spacing: 1.25pt;"> </span>Garden,<span style="letter-spacing: 1.25pt;"> </span>vermisst?<span style="letter-spacing: 1.85pt;"> </span></span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">—<span style="letter-spacing: 1.4pt;"> </span></span><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">Blake<span style="letter-spacing: -3.2pt;"> </span>mischte<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>sich in<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span>das<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>Gespräch<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>ein.</span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 21.9pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 9.95pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Garden<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>sah<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>ihn<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>an<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>und<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>Blake<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span>und<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>wandte<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>sie<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>an<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>den Lord<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
</span>zurück.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 12.35pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 22.65pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">Nun, zuerst haben wir die Ärzte
vermisst, die früher zur Arbeit gingen.<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Am
nächsten Morgen, acht Stunden später, klagten die Patienten, dass der<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Müller nicht ins Krankenhaus gekommen sei.
Kurz darauf wurde ihm klar,<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>dass<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>auch<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Nussbaum<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>nicht<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>zur<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Arbeit<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>gekommen<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>war.<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Wir<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>fanden<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>es<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>eigenartig,<span style="letter-spacing: 1.05pt;"> </span>denn<span style="letter-spacing: 1.2pt;"> </span>es<span style="letter-spacing: 1.1pt;"> </span>war<span style="letter-spacing: 1.15pt;"> </span>sehr<span style="letter-spacing: 1.15pt;"> </span>selten,<span style="letter-spacing: 1.1pt;">
</span>dass<span style="letter-spacing: 1.15pt;"> </span>er<span style="letter-spacing: 1.05pt;"> </span>fehlte,<span style="letter-spacing: 1.05pt;">
</span>es<span style="letter-spacing: 1.15pt;"> </span>war<span style="letter-spacing: 1.1pt;"> </span>nicht<span style="letter-spacing: 1.15pt;"> </span>seine<span style="letter-spacing: 1.15pt;"> </span>Art.<span style="letter-spacing: 1.05pt;"> </span>Er<span style="letter-spacing: -3.25pt;"> </span>bat immer jemanden, ihm zu sagen, wenn
er nicht kommen konnte. Ich bat,<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>nach
ihm zu Hause zu sehen, aber er war nicht dort. Wir waren sofort hinter<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>dem<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>Komissar<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>her,<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>der
bereits<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>aus<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>dem<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>Müllerhaus<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>zurückkam.</span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 21.9pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 10.05pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lovat<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>fragte:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.15pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 12.3pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: 36.2pt; text-indent: -14.95pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE">Der<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>Komissar<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
</span>kam<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>hier zuerst<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>an?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 12.4pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 16.15pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">Ja,<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>sehr<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>früh<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>am<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Morgen<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>wurde<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>er<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>von<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>einem<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>der<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Nachbarn<span style="letter-spacing: -3.25pt;"> </span>angesprochen. Sobald sie das Geschrei
und die Schüsse hörten, sahen die zwei<span style="letter-spacing: -3.25pt;"> </span>Nachbarn
wie<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>das<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>Paar das<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>Haus<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>in<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>einem<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>Auto<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>verließ.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
</div>
<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;"><br clear="all" style="mso-break-type: section-break; page-break-before: always;" />
</span>
</span><div class="WordSection19">
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.15pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 3.65pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: 36.2pt; text-indent: -14.95pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE">Um<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>wieviel<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">
</span>Uhr war<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>das?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.15pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 12.4pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: 36.2pt; text-indent: -14.95pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE">Gegen<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>elf<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>Uhr<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>dreißig am<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>Abend.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 5.1pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 12.15pt; text-indent: 16.75pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Garden<span style="letter-spacing: .55pt;"> </span>trank<span style="letter-spacing: .55pt;"> </span>einen<span style="letter-spacing: .45pt;"> </span>Schluck<span style="letter-spacing: .6pt;"> </span>Wasser.<span style="letter-spacing: .45pt;"> </span>Lovat<span style="letter-spacing: .5pt;"> </span>bedeutete<span style="letter-spacing: .5pt;">
</span>dem<span style="letter-spacing: .35pt;"> </span>Firmenchef<span style="letter-spacing: .45pt;"> </span>und<span style="letter-spacing: -3.25pt;"> </span>dem<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>Bürgermeister, fortzufahren.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 9.8pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 16.15pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">Es war niemand im Haus. Die Tür
wies nicht darauf hin, dass sie mit<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Gewalt
aufgebrochen worden war. Das Auto des Buchhalters war da, aber<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Müllers nicht. Es gab viel Blut und<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>spuren von Gewehrfeuer<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>auf der<span style="letter-spacing: 3.35pt;">
</span>Szene.<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Ich<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>habe<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>das<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>sogar<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>selbst<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>gesehen.<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>Der<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Komissar<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>kann<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>dir<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>alle<span style="letter-spacing: 3.35pt;"> </span>Details<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>erzählen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 21.9pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 10.1pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lovat<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>strich seinen<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>Schnurrbart<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>glatt<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>und<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>fragte<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>dann:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: 178%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 21.9pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 12.35pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: 36.2pt; text-indent: -.6pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 178%;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 178%;">Hast du eine Theorie über das, was
passiert ist?<span style="letter-spacing: -3.25pt;"> </span>Garden<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>blinzelte<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">
</span>ein wenig<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>und fuhr<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>dann<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>fort:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0.05pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 0cm;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">Ehrlich<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>gesagt,<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Sir,<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>leidenschaftliche<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Verbrechen<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>sind<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>hier<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>an<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>der<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Tagesordnung.<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Sagen<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>wir,<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>es<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>gibt<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>kein<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Gleichgewicht<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>zwischen<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>den<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Geschlechtern. Es gibt
einen Mangel an Frauen in der Stadt. Müller hatte<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Grund, auf die Frau eifersüchtig zu sein. Gewalt war konstant.
Für mich hat er<span style="letter-spacing: -3.25pt;"> </span>das Verbrechen
begangen, um seine Ehre zu waschen. Er kehrte früher als<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>erwartet von einer Farm zurück und überraschte er seine Frau mit
Nussbaum.<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Er<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>tötete<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>ihn<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>und<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>flüchtete<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>mit<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>seiner
Frau.</span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 5.1pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 9.9pt; text-indent: 16.75pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lovat<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>machte<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>einen<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>kurzen<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Spaziergang<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>durch<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Garden,<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>ohne<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>etwas<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>zu<span style="letter-spacing: -3.25pt;"> </span>sagen.<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>Garden<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span>bewegte<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>die<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>Mundmuskulatur,<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>und<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>versuchte<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>zu<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>lächeln.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 9.85pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 16.15pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">Ich weiss, dass du besorgt bist,
aber ich kann dir sagen wir haben die<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>drei
Angestellen schon ersetzt. Ich garantiere dir das dieser Vorfall den Gang<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>der Geschäfte nicht beeinflusst hat. Der
Landverkauft hat nicht nachgelassen<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>und
...<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 21.9pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 10.0pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Der<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>Lord schlug mit<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>der Faust<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>auf<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span>den<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>Tisch,<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>dass<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>Blake
erschrak.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 12.35pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 16.15pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">Du<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>sagst<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>mir<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>dass<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>in<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>der<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Firma<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>ein<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Verbrechen<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>stattgefunden<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>hat,<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>wichtige<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Angestellte<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>verwickelt<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>waren<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>und<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>dass<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>alles<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>in<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Ordnung<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>ist?<span style="letter-spacing: 3.35pt;"> </span></span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">—<span style="letter-spacing: -3.15pt;"> </span>g</span><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">rollte<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>Lovat. </span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">—<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span></span><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">Warum<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>hat<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>mich
niemand<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>davon<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>informiert?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 21.9pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 9.95pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Garden<span style="letter-spacing: 2.9pt;"> </span>wischte<span style="letter-spacing: 2.85pt;">
</span>sich<span style="letter-spacing: 3.05pt;"> </span>mit<span style="letter-spacing: 2.95pt;"> </span>dem<span style="letter-spacing: 2.85pt;"> </span>Taschentuch<span style="letter-spacing: 2.9pt;"> </span>den<span style="letter-spacing: 2.9pt;"> </span>Schweiss<span style="letter-spacing: 2.75pt;"> </span>vom<span style="letter-spacing: 2.9pt;"> </span>Gesicht.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 5.1pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 2.35pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Erbiss<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>sich<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>auf<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>die<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>Zähne.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
</div>
<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br clear="all" style="mso-break-type: section-break; page-break-before: always;" />
</span>
</span><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 3.65pt 25.4pt 0.0001pt 5.1pt; text-indent: 16.15pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">—<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 115%;">Das war nicht unsere Schuld,
sondern von der Filiale in São Paulo, es<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>war
ihre Arbeit die Nachrichten zum Büro in London weiterzuleiten. Es ist<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>eigenartig,<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>das<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>Mr.<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>Eckstein<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>ihnen<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>nichts<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>gesagt<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
</span>hat.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 0cm;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: .45pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 205.65pt; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">[…]<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: 0cm;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 25.4pt; margin-top: .2pt;"><span lang="DE" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p>
</h1><h1 style="margin-right: 25.4pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="DE"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Auszug aus dem
historischen Kriminal Roman<span style="letter-spacing: 3.5pt;"> </span>DER TROUBADOUR,<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>von Rodrigo Garcia Lopes (2014, 406 Seiten), von</span><span style="font-size: small;"> Hieronymus W. Parth<span style="letter-spacing: 0.05pt;"> </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">aus</span><span style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: -0.2pt;"> </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">dem</span><span style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: -0.25pt;"> </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">portugisischen</span><span style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0.05pt;"> </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">ins Deutsche</span><span style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: -0.15pt;"> </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">übersetzt.</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></h1></div>Rodrigo garcia Lopeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02971138033280007948noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34370981.post-89828488891844401022023-11-30T14:42:00.003-03:002023-11-30T14:46:41.695-03:00Fragments from "The Troubadour" (2013, In English)<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> THE
TROUBADOUR</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 155.95pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">a historical detective novel by</span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 155.95pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">RODRIGO GARCIA LOPES</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 25.15pt; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrON92UsD27Nr9C9WYaIgDrugwrATygPcn0B5vI0g-pgx-q9bRMzYX69MBzqaXfIYJfmXWZXFwXxvpKlgkZOEyCbhSdQRXVQhmdZZhoNpHOSyzE3xocodDivvoMxtbt9R8GIK-osr6yoshpEFqjFokrdnMYi2SU7RwUoQVFF5fOM5_n68VlhTWxQ/s1412/Capa%20O%20Trovador%20final.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1412" data-original-width="930" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrON92UsD27Nr9C9WYaIgDrugwrATygPcn0B5vI0g-pgx-q9bRMzYX69MBzqaXfIYJfmXWZXFwXxvpKlgkZOEyCbhSdQRXVQhmdZZhoNpHOSyzE3xocodDivvoMxtbt9R8GIK-osr6yoshpEFqjFokrdnMYi2SU7RwUoQVFF5fOM5_n68VlhTWxQ/s320/Capa%20O%20Trovador%20final.jpg" width="211" /></a></b></div><b><br /></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 25.15pt; margin-top: 0cm;"><i style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> An enigmatic
Provençal word is at the center of this brilliant debut novel by Brazilian
writer Rodrigo Garcia Lopes. Found in the mouth of one of the victims of a
series of murders in southern Brazil, the word scrawled on a piece of paper
also appears in a strange poem sent to Edward VIII, King of England. The task
of investigating the connection between poem and crime is up to Adam Blake, a
translator and interpreter sent to the origin of the clue: a British land
company that operates in northern Paraná.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> Led to
Londrina by the hands of Lord Lovat, Her Majesty’s associate in the lands held
by the Parana Plantations Limited, under the auspices of the Inspector Hugh
Sinclair and Sir Winston Churchill in person, diligent Mr. Blake faces a city
where immigrants (Germans, Japanese, Russians, Spaniards and Brits) fight for
survival.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> Besides the
mix of Babel, Eldorado and Western represented by Londrina at the beginning of
its timber and coffee exploration in 1936 — a setting as crucial to the plot as
its characters — Blake also finds a solvable puzzle only by an amateur
philologist.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">
Initially revealing a murder appearing to have stemmed from a love triangle
between German company employees, the investigation advances to unveil the
identity of the ruthless killer called The Troubadour. Who was he and why would
a person with talent for language appeal to murder as one of the fine arts?</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> Everything is
surprising in this novel, from the accuracy in applying the rules of American
and English detective novels of the 1930s, to his rigorous historical research.
However, nothing beats the aptness of the author in creating his detective:
just like Adam Blake, Rodrigo Garcia Lopes is an accomplished poet and
translator. Subverting the famous motto "translator, traitor", this
narrative delivers to the reader everything but treason. Adam Blake came to
Brazil to stay.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">JOCA REINERS TERRON, Brazilian critic and writer</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Excerpt from the historical crime novel
'The Troubadour' (Record, 2013). Set in 1936, the story follows two Scots: the
famous Lord Lovat, leader of the Lovat clan, a forest engineer, and president
of Paraná Plantations, and Adam Blake, a translator-interpreter. They journey
from London to remote Londrina in the Brazilian southern forest to unravel the
mysterious disappearance of four German employees, notably the accountant Eric
Nussbaum. King Edward VIII is a silent partner in the enterprise, which plays a
crucial role in the plot. Upon awakening and catching their first glimpse of
the city, they initiate their investigation by interviewing Nilson Garden, the
mayor of Londrina.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">NIGHT SHOTS</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">
The headquarters of Paraná Plantations, known simply as the 'land company' to
the locals, occupied a large plot on Paraná Avenue, the main street of the
city. It was a long, unpainted wooden structure with clay tiles. Originally
designed as the British real estate venture's headquarters and center for
colonization operations in the burgeoning towns, a sign proudly proclaimed it
to be THE LARGEST COLONIZATION COMPANY IN SOUTH AMERICA. The city was growing
visibly. With over 30,000 inhabitants, there was an influx of pensions, small
industries, shops, commercial houses, dry goods and grocery stores, ice cream
parlors, and bars. Despite the setbacks caused by the crisis that began in
1929, the diplomatic efforts and advertising of Paraná Plantations were proving
effective: a growing human contingent was moving to the region. The company's
compelling propaganda attracted not only honest workers and distinguished
immigrants seeking a fresh start, but also swindlers, thugs, charlatans, and
those with dubious pasts. They all sought the land where, as the saying went,
“money grew on trees.” Natural challenges abounded for a city set in the
forest, a place that just a decade earlier was a primitive collection of huts.
Basic sanitation remained rudimentary, and on hot days, the scent of the city
slaughterhouse lingered in the air. The annual homicide rate had jumped from
five in 1933 to twenty in 1936. Furthermore, people carried guns in the streets
like combs. As business and the cities under its purview grew by the day, the
last thing the company wanted was negative publicity affecting its venture and
driving away potential buyers.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> In front
of Casas Pernambucanas, a hesitant couple navigated the muddy street, relying
on flimsy wooden fences and slipping in the red mud, much to the amusement of
patrons at nearby bars. The more cautious had embraced the local custom of
wearing horseshoes — small chains affixed to their shoes that allowed for
surefootedness on the devilishly slippery streets during and after rain. The
sounds of sawmills and men, Brazilians and foreigners, constructing houses
filled the young city's mornings. In the center, the last plots were being
bought: 'datas' or 'datchas,' as the Russian Razgulaeff had named them. On
certain days, an ash</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">rain fell over the red city, a
consequence of controlled burnings. In his room, Lord Lovat tied his tie as he
heard the church bell chime. He glanced at the clock on the dresser: seven
o'clock. Still groggy, he opened the guillotine window. He watched as a truck
laden with logs made a loud noise and stopped in the middle</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">of the street, blocking a few
horse-drawn carriages behind it. The man sitting on three massive peroba-rosa
logs secured with thick chains agilely leapt down to see what was happening.
The Japanese peddler, now blocked by the truck's cargo bed, was loudly
protesting to the driver, who was responding with a barrage of curses. People
arrived at the entrance, engaging in the ritual of scraping the mud from their
boots on the “cry-Paulista,” as the locals had dubbed the rake placed at the
entry of houses and shops. This nickname had emerged because the mud was so
thick it brought tears to the eyes of pioneers and immigrants coming from São
Paulo. Lovat also saw Garden arriving, wearing his safari hat and greeting
Ukrainian pilot Boliek, who was chatting with two railway workers leaning
against a brand-new Citroën.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> On the
other side of the avenue, in the cramped bus station, an overcrowded
‘jardineira” bus struggled to park. Its roof was laden with suitcases. It was a
1929 Ford truck whose bed had been converted to accommodate passengers.
Italian, Japanese, German, Brazilian, and Spanish settlers began to gather in a
chaotic crowd amid chickens, cages with birds, and other wild animals. Brokers
and office workers, wearing ties, were arriving for another day of work. Some
were more distracted, others only to check out the newcomers. This was the
routine of mornings in the new Eldorado.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> After
finishing their breakfast of bacon, free-range eggs, and cake served by Glória,
the cook, a generous and corpulent black woman, the men entered the meeting
room. Garden stood, greeted Lovat, and sat beside the table. Blake sat in a
corner, perusing a local newspaper, the Paraná-Norte. The four-page tabloid was
the primary piece of promotion for the venture. Below the title PARANÁ
PLANTATIONS — NORTH PARANÁ LAND COMPANY were the words AGENTS EVERYWHERE.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> The cook left
a water pitcher and three glasses on a tray. She exchanged a few words with
Lovat, who treated her with courtesy, inquiring about her children, husband,
and health. Then Glória excused herself and closed the door. Garden secured his
safari hat on his lap and examined some documents. He appeared uneasy.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> — Well, what
happened? — Lovat asked, getting straight to the point.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> — We're still
trying to understand. It was a harsh blow for us. Nussbaum and the Müller
couple were highly regarded</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">individuals, excellent employees, —
Garden said, adjusting himself in his chair. — According to the police
investigation, on August 1st, Müller allegedly caught Nussbaum with Magdalene
in his bed. Neighbors heard gunshots and shouting coming from the house that
night.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> — Where did they live?</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> — In a small farmhouse on Heimtal
Street.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> — I don't recall the Müller
couple.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> — They were good doctors. The
couple spoke multiple languages, which greatly facilitated their medical
practice. You know, apart from malaria, we've had many accidents in the forest
during the clearings. The doctor and his companion, Assistant Dr. Magdalene,
were recommended by Eckstein.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> — Yes, I remember that.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> — They were doing good
work, as we have a shortage of doctors in the city. It was a tragedy what
happened, — Garden took a sip of water and wiped the sweat that was dripping
down his face. — Today, I regret not taking the rumors seriously that Nussbaum
was having an affair with Dr. Magdalene, right under her husband's nose. A week
earlier, at a party, employees witnessed the doctor threatening to kill
Nussbaum if he didn't stay away from his wife. 'If I kill you, no one will find
you,' he said. Something more serious didn't happen right there because Müller
was restrained, — Garden continued, exhaling air from his lungs. — I should've
transferred Nussbaum to São Paulo temporarily.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> — When did you last see Nussbaum?
— the lord asked.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> — On the night of the incident,
just before going home. I returned from the city hall around nine o'clock and
decided to pick up</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">some papers at the company. I saw the
lights on and noticed he was still working. It was common for him to stay late
at the office. You knew him; he would get engrossed in his work and be
oblivious to the world when he had a deadline to meet. Nussbaum was very
dedicated.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> — Yes, very dedicated, — Lovat
nodded. — Did you talk to him before leaving?</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> — Briefly. He only asked me to
lock the front door as he had a spare key. I locked it from the outside, then I
left for my house.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> Blake
looked up at the mayor. Garden was rigid in his chair, arms close to his body.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> — When did you realize the
chief accountant was missing, Mr. Garden? — Blake interjected into the
conversation.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> Garden briefly glanced at
Blake before turning his eyes back to the lord.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> — Well, first we noticed
the doctors were missing; they usually came to work together. The morning after
the incident, around eight o'clock, patients complained that the Müllers hadn't
shown up at the hospital. Shortly after, we learned that Nussbaum hadn't shown
up for work either. We found it strange since it was extremely rare for him to
be absent. He would always have someone notify us if he couldn't make it. I
asked them to go to his house, but he wasn't there. We immediately went to the
police chief, who was already returning from the Müllers' residence.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> — Was the police chief the first
to arrive at the scene? — Lovat inquired.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> — Yes. Early in the morning, one
neighbor reached out to him. Besides hearing the shouting and the gunshots, two
neighbors saw the couple inside the car, leaving the residence. [...]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">A fragment from the novel <i>The
Troubadour</i> (406 pages, Record publishing house, 2014) by Rodrigo
Garcia Lopes. Translated into English by Marco Alexandre Oliveira</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">SHOTS IN THE DARK</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">
After finishing breakfast with bacon, country eggs and cake, served by Gloria,
the cook, a corpulent black woman with a generous smile, the men went into the
meeting room. Garden stood up, greeted Lovat and took a seat next to the table.
Blake sat in a corner and started to leaf through an edition of the local
newspaper, the <i>Paraná-Norte</i>. The four-page tabloid was the
enterprise's main piece of propaganda. Underneath the title PARANÁ
PLANTATIONS — NORTH PARANÁ LAND COMPANY came the words AGENTS
EVERYWHERE. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">
The cook entered and left a jar of water and three glasses on a tray. She
exchanged a few words with Lovat, who treated her courteously, asking about her
children, her husband, and her health. Then Gloria excused herself and closed
the door. Garden held his safari hat over his lap and examined a few documents.
He was restless. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">
"So, what happened?" Lovat asked, without beating around the bush.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">
"We're still trying to understand. It was a huge blow for us. Nussbaum and
the Müllers were people of the highest order, excellent employees," Garden
said, shifting in his chair." According to the sheriff's report, on August
1 Müller caught Nussbaum and Magdalene in his bed. The neighbors heard gunshots
and screaming coming from the house that night." <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">
"Where did they live?"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">
"In a small house on Heimtal St."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">
"I believe I don't remember the Müllers."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">
"They were good doctors. They spoke several languages, which made the
house calls easier. You know, besides malaria, we've been having lots of
accidents in the forest, during the clearcutting. The doctor along with his
partner and assistant, Dr. Magdalene, were recommended by Eckstein."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">
"Yes, I remember that."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">
"They were doing a good job, since we don't have enough doctors in the
city. It was a tragedy what happened." Garden took a sip of water and then
wiped the sweat that ran in streams down his face. "Today I feel sorry for
not having taken seriously the rumors that Nussbaum was having an affair with
Dr. Magdalene, and right under his nose. A week before, at a party, employees
witnessed the doctor threaten to kill him if he didn't stay away from his wife.
'And if I kill you, nobody'll find you,' he said. Something more serious only
didn't happen right there and then because Müller was held back," Garden
continued, breathing the air out of his lungs. "We should've transferred
Nussbaum to São Paulo for a while."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">
"When did you last see Nussbaum?" the lord asked.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">
"On the night of the incident, right before going home. I had just
returned from city hall around nine o'clock and I decided to get some papers at
the company. I saw lights on and noticed that he was still working. It was
common for him to stay until late at the office. You knew him, you know that
when he had some deadline to meet, his spirit would become attached to work and
aloof from the world. Nussbaum was very dedicated."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">
"Yes, very dedicated", Lovat said. "Did you speak to him before
leaving?"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">
"Quickly. He only asked me to lock the front door, since he had a copy of
the key. I went back, locked it from the outside and went home."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">
Blake raised his eyes to the mayor. Garden sat rigid in his chair, arms by his
side.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">
"When did you notice the chief accountant was missing?", Blake wanted
to know, intruding on the conversation."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">
Garden glanced at Blake and then looked at the lord again.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">
"Well, first we missed the doctors, who usually came to work together. On
the morning following the incident, around eight o'clock, patients came to
complain that the Müllers hadn't shown up at the hospital. A little later we
found out that Nussbaum also hadn't come to work. We thought it was strange,
since it was extremely rare for him to miss work, it wasn't like him. He always
asked someone to tell us when he couldn't show up. I asked some men to go to
his house, but he wasn't there. I immediately went after the sheriff, who was
already coming back from the Müllers'
house." <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">
"The sheriff was the first to arrive at the scene?," Lovat asked.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">
"Yes. Early in the morning he had gone looking for one of the neighbors.
Besides hearing the screams and the shots, two neighbors saw the couple inside
the car, leaving the residence."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">
"What time was that?"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">
"Around eleven-thirty at night."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">
Garden took a sip of water. Lovat signaled for the company director and city
mayor to continue.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">
"There was nobody at the house. The door had no sign of being forced open.
The accountant's automobile was there, but not Müller's. There was a lot of
blood and bullet holes at the scene. I could see it for myself. He'll be able
to tell you all of the details.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">
Lovat stroked his moustache and then asked:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">
"Do you have any theory about what happened?"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">
Garden blinked his eyes a little and continued:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">
"To speak frankly, sir, crimes of passion are common around here. Let's
say that there is an imbalance between the sexes. There aren't enough women in
the city. Müller had reasons to be jealous of his wife. Beatings were constant.
For me, he committed the crime to save his honor. He returned from the house call
to a farm earlier than expected, so he caught his wife with Nussbaum. He killed
him and ran away with his wife."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">
Lovat stared at Garden for a moment, without saying anything. Garden flexed his
mouth muscles in an attempt to smile.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">
"I know you're worried, but I must say that we have already replaced the
three employees. I assure you that this incident has not affected business
operations at all. Our lot sales have not been compromised and..."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">
The lord slammed his fist on the table.
Blake was startled.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">
"Are you telling me that a crime happens at the company, involving
important employees, and everything is alright?," Lovat yelled. "Why
didn't anyone tell me about this?"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">
Garden dried the sweat on his face with a handkerchief. His jaw constricted.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">
"It wasn't our mistake, but that of the branch in São Paulo. They were the
ones who were responsible for breaking the news to the office in London. It's
strange that Mr. Eckstein didn't let you know."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">
Lovat shook his head, making an impatient face.
He looked out the window and saw the street, the rivers of mud stubbornly
refusing to dry. He turned to Garden and said:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">
"Nilson, you're in charge here. How did you let things get to this point?
We've got to set the example. This is terrible for business!"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">
He then stood up, crossed his hands behind his back and started walking around
the room, causing the floorboards to creak. Garden bit his lips under his
little moustache while he followed Lovat's silent pacing. The lord sat down
again, took a sip of water and asked, with his voice a little calmer:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">
"What else do you know about Nussbaum's last steps?"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">
"What I know is that on that night he stopped by the Eldorado bar. He was
drunk, it seems... He was distressed, and muttered incoherent things. They
reported that he stayed only a little while, said good-bye and mentioned that
he was going to solve a problem."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">
"A problem," Lovat murmured. "Did he say what it was?"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">
"No, he only said he wasn't feeling well. He said he needed medical care,
and left. I suggest you talk to Günther and Razgulaeff. They were at the bar
and were some of the last people to see him."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">
Lovat agreed and made a vague gesture. Blake finished jotting down the names in
his notebook and raised his head to Lovat.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">
"What was the Müllers' routine like?," the lord asked.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">
"They didn't go out much."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">
"And?"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">
"I believe the doctor didn't like to show off his wife outside the
workplace, except for, every once and a while, at company dances. They were
quite reserved. So much so that they didn't even have servants."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">
"Nothing relevant was found, not even a clue?"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">
"If so, the sheriff's got it. He's the one who did the investigation at
the scene. The Müllers' house has been abandoned since then, until his family
in Germany decides what to do with the property. Now in his office I assure you
nothing was touched," Garden said.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">
"And where is Nussbaum's house located?" Lovat asked, turning his
eyes again to Garden.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">
"He lived alone, on Higienópolis, a new avenue that Razgulaeff
planned, but since the incident a family has been living there. We've been
facing a serious housing problem for newly arrived buyers. The property
belonged to the company. Nussbaum intended to move soon to the house he was
building."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">
"What happened to the accountant's belongings, his personal objects?"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">
Garden gulped, and tightened his lips. After a few seconds, he said:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">
"After the incident, his bags, his clothes and the rest of his personal
objects were donated, his little furniture was auctioned and what was left,
burned."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">
Lovat and Blake looked at each other. The lord snorted and scratched his face.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">
"And may I know who had such an awful idea?"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">
"A negligent employee, sir."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">
"Where is he?"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">
Garden took his eyes off Lovat for a few seconds, then stared at him again.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">
"Mr. Francisco died last month, while he was helping our men cut down a
forest to clear new lots. Yeah, we've been seeing many accidents like
this."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">
Lovat breathed out through his nose. He shook his head for a moment, his face
stern. He glanced sidelong at the newspaper in the chair next to the translator
and turned to the mayor:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">
"What's the circulation of the <i>Paraná</i>-<i>Norte</i>?"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">
"Two thousand copies."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">
"Increase it to four thousand. Put an ad in the front, offering a generous
reward to whoever provides any clues that can take us to their whereabouts.
Make posters and spread them in all the train cars from Rolândia to Ourinhos.
Surely there are photographs of them on their contract forms."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">[...]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 25.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>Rodrigo garcia Lopeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02971138033280007948noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34370981.post-55454750079450307882023-11-30T14:22:00.003-03:002023-12-04T19:13:41.077-03:00Poems translated into English<p> <b style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 24pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Rodrigo Garcia Lopes<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 24pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 24pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Selected Poems<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><i><span lang="EN-US"> </span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><i><span lang="EN-US"> </span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Translated by Marco
Alexandre de Oliveira, Chris Daniels, Caryn Connelly and the author<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><i><span lang="EN-US"> </span></i></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><i><span lang="EN-US"> </span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><i><span lang="EN-US"> </span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><i><span lang="EN-US"> </span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><i><span lang="EN-US"> </span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><i><span lang="EN-US"> </span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US">THE DETECTIVE DOGS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">The detective dogs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">in their black capes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">never give up —<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">they sniff dunes, in pairs,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">take the beach by surprise <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">telepathic crabs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">the detective dogs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">bite the fog of the sea-breeze<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">investigate<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">suicidal seagulls <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">sinister fish hatcheries<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">forests that meditate<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">the sea and its mantra<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">the crash of the waves<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">always different<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">they elucidate my<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">footprints on the sand<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">terrorist waves<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">suspect surfers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">other dogs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">throughout the afternoon<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">in search of clues<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">the detective dogs spy on<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">the beige silex of the dunes <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">the vertical, kamikaze fall<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">and splash<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">and never let themselves be misled<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">they are tramp detective dogs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">they unleash clues that the waves
hide<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">when they explode<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">stray dogs, detectives,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">they make their rounds on the beach
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">and also know how to be sly<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">barking their enigmas<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">pressuring victims<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">hidden in the shoal<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">or disguised as humans<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">the detective dogs place themselves<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">in the skin of their prey<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">and don’t give up on the crabs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">they find their alibis <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">in the lips of the waves<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">the only evidence<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">the beach and its necklace of
pearls<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">the sea is a witness<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">they also have fun<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">with the southern wind<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">ears<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">between their paws<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">eyes wide shut <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">when by day they retrace the
footprints<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">the black dogs detect<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">the truth, rotten fish,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">get up and keep on<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">until the afternoon turns itself
in.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">(translated by Marco
Alexandre de Oliveira)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US">NEW YORK<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">the street serpent drags its booms, raps &
neon lights<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">devours a real that accumulates its dust<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">above us, layers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">of civilization without end and without exit<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">and the running over of all emotion<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">restricted<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">to a dog, eyeing, perplexed,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">sixth avenue<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">the artificial fog<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">of the clandestine Korean restaurants
underground<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">mixes with the traffic, transit, gasp – <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">escapes from the steam and embraces<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">the sign, red letters, where you read<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">DON'T WALK DON'T WALK DON'T WALK <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">that disappears in the stupid white of a grey
sky<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">no chance for Shelley, Keats,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">no haiku possible here – <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">except the inhuman screams, anonymous thoughts,
urban grunts<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">of a man who has just gone mad.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">(From<i> Solarium</i>, 1994. Translated by Marco
Alexandre de Oliveira)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-US">CITYSCAPE<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Cars advance in our direction; here lies the contemporary epic. Ithaca
on the corner, Odysseus the peddler reading an ad stuck on the ground. Breeze
of horns dazzling him, attracting him to the rush and the grind. From the
synagogue slogans in the multitude of anonymous faces. He is the
transubstantiated hero of other eras, or an ivy plugging the middle of things
with what its steel flora, voracity, reveals: there is no silence, lights trace
lines of flight, your fleeting face behind the glass, stain of detail,
discharge. Everything proceeds by flux and accumulation. Life proliferates,
neon-lights of convenience stores, you under eternal vigilance, and the images,
the images. Minutes beg to be consumed like one more commodity (impossibility)
so you’ve got to be quick, so that death has no way to deaden the interruptions
that scar it until it bleeds so that truth doesn’t have time to install its
lion of geraniums, its leaves of grass and vision. Think of Now and a whole
network installs itself in your brain. This perfume coming from the window
display recalls an idea, and shatters in the instant necessary for time to
stop.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">(Unpublished. Translated by Marco Alexandre de
Oliveira)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US">NAUTILUS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">A new beginning. Winter camera in the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">blade of morning, sphinxes on the coast, the
Sun,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">credential of the sky. The permanent<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">monologue of the wind. Day and night being<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">abstractions.
Time,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">glass bell jar, triumphant.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">The vegetation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Of dunes has resisted everything.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Sunset smile on the cream sand,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Two butterflies are thankful.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Simultaneous planes: nuance<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">of green and blue in high<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">definition. Gust of plants<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">thinking, near esperanto, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">and a mute sky of clouds.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">The digital blue converses<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">with the eloquent southern wind. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">But the white, by no means, illuminates itself<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">By some means,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Our Lady of the Dunes. You<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">don’t look indifferent at all this.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">On the contrary, you disappear<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Making room for the labyrinth desire, dull
flowers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Or distant ship.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">The veranda is a deck<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Where bamboo mobiles resonate.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Someone forgot to turn off<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">the sea machine.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">(Unpublished. Translated by Marco Alexandre de
Oliveira)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">LIVE<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Winter
releases a strange anthology<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Clovers of
darkness and lilacs of solitude
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Collision
of a satellite of metaphors<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Reports of
terrorist narcissists<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Provoke
high rates of clouds of space junk <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Breaks in
the copulation of bees of absinthe <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Imminent
war of broken kisses<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">And New
Year’s spent on the Nile.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The eye of
the hurricane bears its cross, across the Caribbean<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">And
connects memory-links of fallen stars<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Isolated
beings in entropy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Spell out
and play their heads <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">While
serial killer rhymes invade the open outcries<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">And words
rot in the newspapers,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">In the
corner of mouths, breathless,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">In the
crumpled and forgotten note<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Like
everything else.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">(From Nômada, 2004,
Translated by Marco Alexandre de Oliveira)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span lang="EN-US">loneliness always appears with
kisses and candies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span lang="EN-US">loneliness pays regular visits to
its closest friends<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span lang="EN-US">loneliness looks for winter in
mid-summer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span lang="EN-US">loneliness plays in the sea with
its sugar fingers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span lang="EN-US">loneliness is always smiling to
strangers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span lang="EN-US">loneliness is still thrilled with
old movies on TV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span lang="EN-US">loneliness has dark eyes,
loneliness has blue eyes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span lang="EN-US">loneliness has a fence with a white
rose and a bike<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span lang="EN-US">loneliness imagines geishas whose
eyes are glass butterflies <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span lang="EN-US">loneliness is crazy and grabs every
beauty contest<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span lang="EN-US">loneliness loves hide-and-seek and
hop-scotch<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span lang="EN-US">loneliness drinks in my body its
own despair<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span lang="EN-US">loneliness collects diaries and
Coltrane records<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span lang="EN-US">loneliness wears polka dot pajamas
and broken glasses<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span lang="EN-US">loneliness after sex still feels
lonely<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span lang="EN-US">loneliness and i are only good
friends<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span lang="EN-US">loneliness slits my wrist with a
salt razor<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> then goes out stoned through the
streets<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> with a lettuce leaf in its
lapel <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">(From <i>Solarium</i>, 1994, translated by Marco Alexandre de Oliveira)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US">IN OPEN MYSTERY<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“<i>Reality works
in open mystery</i>”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Macedonio Fernández</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">The Eye<br />
Behind<br />
What consumes its flame:<br />
These hours without a name<br />
Well beyond language<br />
And darkness.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">We are just<br />
A self-awareness<br />
That the eye lends to the ancient seeing,<br />
To the old world,<br />
An excuse for being.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">The things it sees<br />
Are more distant<br />
Than they may seem.<br />
Silence: language speaks.<br />
The landscape creaks<br />
Of reality.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Thoughtscape:<br />
In a flash of lightning<br />
The mind drinks a sunset – <br />
Such has been the old law.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">To not confide in mirrors,<br />
In spectacles,<br />
And in what the eye doesn’t see.<br />
To be is to perceive, said Berkeley.<br />
It wasn’t always this way:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">See, a palm’s length<br />
From paradise,<br />
The closed, precise eye<br />
Envisages the Eye.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Afterimages whinny<br />
Unknown designs,<br />
Its thirst for more:<br />
To rob the real<br />
Of two open eyes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">“The wind breathes<br />
My bodiless thoughts<br />
(The soul gets out of breath)<br />
(My silence sweats).”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">It sees itself, the eye, island of<br />
Pure movement now,<br />
Limited between the tongue<br />
And the time. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">The panel of the sunset traces<br />
With its hunger for the impossible<br />
Refuge, momentum,<br />
Ideograms of light.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">In the eye of the hurricane<br />
Where it<br />
Is calmer.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Double of itself,<br />
Condemned to seeing,<br />
But separate.<br />
Who observes?<br />
The pupil,<br />
Its servant?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">If what it sees<br />
Is the real<br />
Then what is this<br />
That moves<br />
At the speed of a wink?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">I am not that which it perceives<br />
Since the darkness would then kill me.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Between music and the world,<br />
In the silence of its curvature,<br />
Between the sound and this rain,<br />
Many answers without questions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">The eye, without a past,<br />
Electric flux<br />
Behind<br />
What seems to be,<br />
Anchors its shadows,<br />
Burns in an instant of air.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">But, unreachable,<br />
All of this advances,<br />
Escapes you, skin,<br />
Slow papyrus,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Vacuum of voice,<br />
A nothing that vociferates<br />
Between the self that dissolves <br />
– a slit in the silence –<br />
And the eye that luciferates.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">(Unpublished. Translated by Marco Alexandre de
Oliveira)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US">GOOGLE EARTH<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">This pain is very ancient.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">A Colossus of Rhodes, seen from above,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">The British Museum, the Taj Mahal,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Sugar Loaf, Atacama, a park in Peru<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Once it knew by heart the Bhagavad Gita,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">The midday prayer,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">The Torah, the Necronomicon,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">The inscriptions on Ikhnaton’s tomb.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">On the sands it suffered the Grail.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">It felt the remorse of the sea.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">It looks like Khephra, seen <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">from the front, and from the side like no one. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Yesterday it seemed more ancient. Today, not even<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">blue: it doesn’t look like anything.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">(Unpublished.
Translated by Marco Alexandre de
Oliveira) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US">FLEETING<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">Passage
through a landscape,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">a
place of where, yesterday, and when,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">how
many words are still missing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">in a
mouth full of images.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">The
other is the one left on the margin,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">on
the fright of a pronoun,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">on
the body of a slow wind,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">the
other is like a hunger,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">a
drifting feather, distant, or almost.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">Lost
in its own voyage,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">a
bottle with its message,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">a
stare enduring on a flower,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">nameless,
secreted, gone wild.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">Exile,
water one drank on a train,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">a
procrastinated party, a play over, vertigo,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">the
mind always on some one,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">I
other, I all, I none.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">(From <i>Visibilia</i>, 1996. Translated by Chris Daniels)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US">WRITTEN IN A HOTEL<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">What makes us write<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Even while time, the mind’s writing,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Denies that is there to entertain<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Until time closes, until light abridges.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">The first gesture that detonates it<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Is the echo of the word that devours it,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Bones and stuffing on exhibit as it<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Comes, of its own impulse the master.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">To confuse the registers,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">A light in a room announces itself.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">And, to become even more lucid,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">A distracted hand writes us. And stops.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">(From <i>Visibilia</i>, 1996. Translated by Chris
Daniels)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US">SOLARIUM<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">slow<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">disappearance<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">letters caught on the way<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">tracks, dry<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">leaves.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">the horizon’s invisible line —<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">this distance signifying nothing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">the air that is short<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">the untranslatable fever of silence<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">that breathes us in<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">and separates us.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">one day, they tried<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">a taste-without-knowing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">life saying yes without wanting to<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">marine breeze like a blues<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">noise of airplanes crossing time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">the limit of meaning<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">establishing itself, temporarily, there,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">where the poem’s pumice<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">shatters<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">waves abducting<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">only the steam from our mouths<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US">poluphilosboios<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">foam<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">impressed still<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">imprisioned in spray.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">words spread out along this beach </span><span lang="EN-US">—<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">they are nomads, drunkards </span><span lang="EN-US">—</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">until we know neither<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">which of them translates us<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">nor the mute light that floats upon the waters<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">and reproduces us<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">as if we were muses.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> (From <i>Solarium</i>,
1994. Translated by Chris Daniels) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">betrayed
by<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">a
winter wind<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">the
beautiful<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">butterfly<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">slowly
flo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">wing
like a <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">flying
Flower<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">fallen
over <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">a
frozen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">river<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">(bitter
is<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">to
fly <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">so
far<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">to
die<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">better
flying forever<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">(From <i>Solarium</i>, 1994. Originally written in
English)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white;">MEMORY AND REPETITION</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white;">Repetition is a form of
change. Change is a form of life. Life is a form of repetition. And the message becomes the vestige of
continuous change. The dance of the
same. A form of repetition. Every memory is anulled as it occurs, and
all we have are tracks, texts, that accumulate upon the waters </span><span lang="EN-US">—</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white;"> that do not stop. The idea of presence perseveres, but
suddenly is mere absence. The water,
river in reverse, in its transparency will not admit that ice has muted it
completely. Silent duel. In the winter, its waters keep flowing,
submerged, protected by it. By skin and
by ice. Under the transparent absence
of the waters where this ex-text writes itself, like snow, and forms a
presence, alien to myself, although invisible like voices </span><span lang="EN-US">— </span><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white;">on the surface. That transforms. That transcends. Like the waterfall, whose text is celebrated
and canceled at the same time. Its
writing is a form of disappearance. A
form of life, of change, of repetition.
As if written in lemon revealed only under sunlight. Information is equalized: there is the impression
that nothing happens there. All we
have, I repeat, are tracks, trails through the thicket, false leads. But thousands of eyes pass along that trail,
imperceptible gestures, at every instant.
They converse in an extinct language, the language of ice, of water, of
travelers. In silence they watch the
halo of the moon (another form of repetition). There is nothing new in all this: not as
much as in a poem unwritten. The
aesthetics of disappearance invites all forms of change, like the nomad thoughts
of Nietzsche, eternally repeating its return, which is nothing more than a form
of disappearance. A fiction. Ritual dance of the mind. A fleeting tattoo. A memory of memory. A new
form of repetition</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; font-size: 9pt;">.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br />
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> <br />
<span style="background: white;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; font-size: 8pt;">(From <i>Solarium</i>, 1994. Translated by Caryn C.
Connelly and Chris Daniels) </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US">ZEITGEIST<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 35.45pt; margin-right: -72.0pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm -72pt 0cm 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 35.45pt; margin-right: -72.0pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm -72pt 0cm 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 35.45pt; margin-right: -72.0pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm -72pt 0cm 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 35.45pt; margin-right: -72.0pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm -72pt 0cm 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 35.45pt; margin-right: -72.0pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm -72pt 0cm 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Knocking out celebrities disguised as penguins<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 35.45pt; margin-right: -72.0pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm -72pt 0cm 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Monitoring the hoard of transactions and the
tricks of climbers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 35.45pt; margin-right: -72.0pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm -72pt 0cm 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Snaking between stairways nailed with citations<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 35.45pt; margin-right: -72.0pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm -72pt 0cm 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Kicking twilight’s bucket with dawn’s baby
inside<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 35.45pt; margin-right: -72.0pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm -72pt 0cm 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Stepping up strong to a showdown with lies,
treading on calumny’s corns<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 35.45pt; margin-right: -72.0pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm -72pt 0cm 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Accruing stocks in patience and pederast
informers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 35.45pt; margin-right: -72.0pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm -72pt 0cm 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Pinching salon-tanned folk made of fiberglass and
ultra-high def pixels<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 35.45pt; margin-right: -72.0pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm -72pt 0cm 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Pulling marketers by the ear, taking the
millionaire bishop by the scruff of the neck<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 35.45pt; margin-right: -72.0pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm -72pt 0cm 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Showing his catalog of kung-fu moves to web
designers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 35.45pt; margin-right: -72.0pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm -72pt 0cm 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Terrifying fashion editors with crucifixes made
of shit<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 35.45pt; margin-right: -72.0pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm -72pt 0cm 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Heading for a knockdown brawl at the florist’s<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 35.45pt; margin-right: -72.0pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm -72pt 0cm 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Shivving the morning and good intentions with
her sharp dagger<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 35.45pt; margin-right: -72.0pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm -72pt 0cm 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Pulverizing manipulators of the genome and
chip-injected models<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 35.45pt; margin-right: -72.0pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm -72pt 0cm 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Giving the third degree to the corrupted files
of the justice department<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 35.45pt; margin-right: -72.0pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm -72pt 0cm 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Assaulting metaphysical popcorn vendors and weekend-artist
bankers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 35.45pt; margin-right: -72.0pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm -72pt 0cm 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Passing out acid lollipops to literary critics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 35.45pt; margin-right: -72.0pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm -72pt 0cm 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Blowing up the mouth of reason with
inconsequential denunciations<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 35.45pt; margin-right: -72.0pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm -72pt 0cm 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Sweetly choking the life out of the evening
charged with video cameras & trance music<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 35.45pt; margin-right: -72.0pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm -72pt 0cm 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Preaching fiscal irresponsibility and anthrax
for all<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 35.45pt; margin-right: -72.0pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm -72pt 0cm 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Rifling through the idées fixes-crammed mall
with a cry of jihad<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 35.45pt; margin-right: -72.0pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm -72pt 0cm 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">The human bomb walks into the poem.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> (From <i>Nômada</i>, 2004. Translated by the author /
Revised by Chris Daniels)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span lang="EN-US">AMERICA # 3<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span lang="EN-US">Deserts
respect time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span lang="EN-US">See how
stones meditate.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span lang="EN-US">The
sands are discreet disciples, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span lang="EN-US">Insolently
corroding<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span lang="EN-US">the
bones of their master.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span lang="EN-US">The
climax of the artifice is in the blue—<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span lang="EN-US">Total
landscape without vanishing points.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span lang="EN-US">A
wrinkle becomes an etching:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span lang="EN-US">Turn it
over and you have a desert. A Monet<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span lang="EN-US">canvas,
close-up, from behind— with<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span lang="EN-US">neither
color, water lilies, nor beginning.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span lang="EN-US">The wary
coyote watches us: let it lie down<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span lang="EN-US">among
the stones that never ask us anything,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span lang="EN-US">and maps
erase themselves, and be lost.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span lang="EN-US">We have
lost all sense of direction: roads are all.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span lang="EN-US">A
cactus’s only diversion: counting roadrunners.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span lang="EN-US">See its
dust crossing the landscape.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span lang="EN-US">The
echoes we release do not return.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 72.0pt; margin-right: 27.9pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 27.9pt 0cm 72pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">MYTHÓS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Barefoot,
the mind finds itself more ample, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">establishes
its fleeting empire.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">It doesn’t
lead you – narrative repeated<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">leaving
threads along the way – <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">but instead
giving birth to abrupt cuts<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">on the
porch:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The quickly
written note, spasm in the diaphragm, detail of logs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">To give
continuity is to deny chance – an example <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">of miracle
and synchronicity, when the dream<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">beguiles
the face and becomes vision.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The
immediate objective is: fusion.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The self
doesn’t take over things.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Let them
(your idle souls)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Call,
stall, until the end, fall.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The
simultaneous history of things<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">One day
will tell your fable.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">(From <i>Nômada</i>, translated by the author)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">PATRIOTIC GAMES<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Rain in the cup of Sha. Courtyards are empty, skies simulating their
blues etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Simile --- smile ----- simulacrum ----------
missile:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The paper sucks ink, drags its substance & dazes
insignificances in a stormy surface, sure-fire.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Black Island.
Signs pulse. Back to the future.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">We open envelopes with anxiety: find only blank
sheets.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Wave, syllable breaking there; lip’s edge.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Think of truth, chimera, while you finger the first
leaves of grass.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Exhaustion, suspended phones, off the hooks . .
. . . . .<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The ego erases itself, sous rature, sutures itself;
gazes at the mirror and sees only its back. Thalassa </span><span lang="EN-US">— ad infinitum.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">S.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Dry dream, sour rain, joints of
abyssinian/discontinuous prose. . .
. . . .<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">An abyss.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Language in zig-zag, cornered by a zugzwang, scuds
over a neutral zone.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">One zap, and the moon dissolves. A zoo from zen to zoom? Zeitgeist?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Polaroid logic.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Expectations & disappearances.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">You focus and suffocate, unnoticing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">the snake’s venom, the next sentence’s moment. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">(From <i>Solarium,</i> 1994, translated by Chris Daniels)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i> Tempe, Arizona, 1992<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
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ENDURING DUST: A DIARY<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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by Chris Daniels <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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desert raw. Space mimes blood in the caged thirst of the piggish smile. One
year after. GPS & bloodpuddle, barbarians, dry blood flits, as in the
beginning, before the storm of high-tech rhetorical corpses and daisy cutters.
The stepmother of all chimeras. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="style6" style="margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: -36.0pt; margin-right: -27.0pt; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt -27pt 5pt -36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">SOMEONE IS MANIPULATING THESE EVENTS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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_________________________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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celebrates<br />
MANIFEST DESTINY<br />
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barbera ping-pong<br />
he tries words on<br />
with a slight smile<br />
while unbeknownst<br />
to him a woman<br />
(faceless)<br />
carefully coifs<br />
the graying hair<br />
of Mr. War <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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lancers are free<br />
and all fire<br />
is friendly <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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says it all. Will the real president please stand up and sneer when he collects
his per annum? This is not a poem. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36pt; margin-right: -27pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span lang="EN-US">.
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</span></b><span lang="EN-US">.<b>
</b> .<b>
</b> . <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36pt; margin-right: -27pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US">(ack-ack) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext 1.5pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">the only thing visible this time of morning in the midst of storm filth
blood stench of meat delirious Baghdad my folks in Oklahoma and the decibels
madness we're going live when's this gonna end a mine ah-h-h <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36pt; margin-right: -27pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36pt; margin-right: -27pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US">Take that. Take more of that. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36pt; margin-right: -27pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US">Call it <i>preventive action </i>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36pt; margin-right: -27pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36pt; margin-right: -27pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US">no beauty<br />
where meat on<br />
exhibit<br />
— in open rot<br />
proof positive<br />
no beauty<br />
where evil so<br />
human <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext 1.5pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36pt; margin-right: -27pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36pt; margin-right: -27pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US">Splintered water, milk from a<br />
crushed brain, discharge<br />
of hours and the sordid broth<br />
overflowing the trough<br />
in the Bush wallow. Farewell, liberal individualism.<br />
Farewell, leaves of grass.<br />
Swordstorm.<br />
Surveillance systems. Cyberterrorism.<br />
Now it's your turn.<br />
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36pt; margin-right: -27pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36pt; margin-right: -27pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US">Lacquer moon: inscription on dark side: MADE IN
USA. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36pt; margin-right: -27pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US">The plane took off for Yesterday. No need to
wait. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36pt; margin-right: -27pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US">“. . . in a minute.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36pt; margin-right: -27pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US">“we believe he's disposed of his WMD's, but” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36pt; margin-right: -27pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US">A sound of waves exits a shop in Basra.
Explosions. An arm. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36pt; margin-right: -27pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US">The real yet another barb ripping through the
galactic epidermis. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36pt; margin-right: -27pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US">Black Hole God. Wind rattles the south.
Fallujah. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36pt; margin-right: -27pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US">What place paid, its price, its piece, each
false movement toward one more beyond? — or will we never leave the place? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36pt; margin-right: -27pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span lang="EN-US">In a single drop, quarks explode their effects
through cranial porcelain, a universe </span></i><span lang="EN-US">. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36pt; margin-right: -27pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36pt; margin-right: -27pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US">Our informants can't tell us where to find
Allah. <i>Helás.<br />
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36pt; margin-right: -27pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36pt; margin-right: -27pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US">FRIENDLY FIRE <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36pt; margin-right: -27pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US">he photographed<br />
while<br />
he killed <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36pt; margin-right: -27pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US">ground level<br />
like me<br />
this image <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36pt; margin-right: -27pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US">word<br />
bled<br />
like me that <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36pt; margin-right: -27pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US">rosy<br />
trigger-fingered<br />
dawn <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36pt; margin-right: -27pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US">like me this dead<br />
smile<br />
without a face <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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_________________________________________________ <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36pt; margin-right: -27pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US">Muezzins wound the pocked Bagdhad sky <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext 1.5pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">More beauty in this<br />
Or in a dreadful burning slum<br />
In a bullet lost<br />
at the seashore?<br />
Nobody is immune. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36pt; margin-right: -27pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36pt; margin-right: -27pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US">If poetry is war waged by other means,<br />
In a face-off with the word,<br />
Why are we not on the battlefield?<br />
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36pt; margin-right: -27pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36pt; margin-right: -27pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US">Death comes to you<br />
Live in the comfort<br />
Of your living death <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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_________________________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36pt; margin-right: -27pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36pt; margin-right: -27pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US">A surgical strike<br />
To the base of your spine<br />
And your land is gone—<br />
Preventive action. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36pt; margin-right: -27pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US">An attack on your<br />
Uncovered nape<br />
And thus, o secret,<br />
Your code deciphers me.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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_________________________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36pt; margin-right: -27pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US">An assault taken<br />
Troops in an advance which<br />
Through the desert of the false<br />
Coagulates in their super-<br />
Hero outfits,<br />
Blood gone hard and dry.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36pt; margin-right: -27pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US"><br />
_________________________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36pt; margin-right: -27pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US">“Time is a matter of victory.”<br />
Truth is a matter of embedding.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36pt; margin-right: -27pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US"><br />
_________________________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36pt; margin-right: -27pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span lang="EN-US">This </span></b><span lang="EN-US">is not being filmed. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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_________________________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36pt; margin-right: -27pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36pt; margin-right: -27pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span lang="EN-US">Dance and dance and dance, Saddam</span></i><span lang="EN-US">.<br />
_________________________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36pt; margin-right: -27pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36pt; margin-right: -27pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US">red cabbage<br />
asunder<br />
head with no face<br />
iraqi kid<br />
blood and silence<br />
in operation<br />
enduring<br />
dust <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36pt; margin-right: -27pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span lang="EN-US"> </span></i><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36pt; margin-right: -27pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span lang="EN-US">Translator's notes: </span></i><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36pt; margin-right: -27pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US">The term <i>embedding </i>has nothing to do
with Polanyi's notion of <i>embeddedness</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -36pt; margin-right: -27pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US">With this leash, I thee wed. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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peonies<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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dry<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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warming<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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remnant<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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sun<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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plant<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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to<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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the branch<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 127.6pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">ants
drag<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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bee<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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alive<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 127.6pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">winter<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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the flower<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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fruit’s color<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 127.6pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">(gestures
& waving<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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shadows<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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not console)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 127.6pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">the
evening goes by<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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and leaves<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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silver trail<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">(From<i> Solarium</i>, 1994, translated by Chris
Daniels)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">All
has sense<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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senses are<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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we sense<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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so dense<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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is senseless<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">To
settle here<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Misleading<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></b></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">(From<i> Solarium</i>, 1994, translated by Chris
Daniels)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">THOTH<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Storm Reality Studio, and retake the universe<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">William S. Burroughs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span lang="EN-US"> \<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">Noises have sex with the superior things of the
Immense, Sodium, silences reducing noises to their nexus, none. The Immense
turns itself around with its Kama Sutra, its Wittgenstein, its walkman that
knocks them dead at the festivals of Thoth. Nearly immense, ruined Angkor
blooming Vietnams, the sea sets traps for scars, and the skin is a pharaoh
ticket.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> \<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">The river trembled in membrane, in the brahmin’s
mind, in the scale of the shadow, in the soul’s pomp: icy cold; a prise reveals
dense valleys </span><span lang="EN-US">— smells of death: crystals... Life is exiled
here, liquid... And as for content, we might say it has to do with with an
alchemical process incessant as the sound that blows out of rivers or rain of
meteors on a lake, the shadow of Iago, and this animal night.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> \<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><i><span lang="EN-US"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><i><span lang="EN-US">The invisible’s scintillae, splinters of Osiris,
silence denuding the secret made of dry petals; rain’s paradox refining its
metals. All is made light when light liquefies into sound, rain out of season.
Signs. Serpents spiral in their skin, leaving there their double exposure, in
the transference of ruins the eye reunites, and ruins. Doped by the opium of
caring, with the tenuous distance of a doctor out of position, he razored the
precise, Egyptian thought of a total dream. Apotheosis of laughter, Osiran
rivers, sun: jewels in skulls and bones that go down the Nile. How does this
become that? They, the modern ones, that bite the bizarre flesh and snatch up
their modest ration, their Reality Studio.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></b></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">(From
<i>Polivox</i>, 2001, translated by Chris
Daniels)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">YAMA<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Your profile the green pregnancy of magic wood<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Through which soars the immense shadow of the sky<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">(Unpublished,
Translated by the author and Christopher Merrill<b>)<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">WINTERVERSES</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">oyster
coloured sky<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">and sun’s
clouded<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">pearl<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">(Unpublished,
translated by the author)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US">MINUTE<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Here you come<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Acting like the wind<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">As if nobody saw you<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Here you come dubbing thought<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Like a feeling beach<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Near laughter, hazard, onset<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Of the waves astonish’s dunes,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">There where muting speaks louder<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">And where a moment commemorates<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">With a minute of silence. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> (From <i>Visibilia</i>,
1996. Translated by Chris Daniels)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">c:\polivox.doc<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">For me everything disintegrated into parts, those parts again into parts;
no longer would anything let itself be encompassed by one idea. Single words
floated round me, they congealed into eyes which stared at me and into which I
was forced to stare back-whirlpools which gave me vertigo and, reeling
incessantly, led into the void</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Hugo von Hoffmannsthal<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">cut the word lines <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Williams S. Burroughs<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The bit of noise, the small random element, transforms one system of
order into another.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Michel Serres<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">On-line.
Shhh. “Epic is a poem<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">including
history.” Too much.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">“What if a
Health Plan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">Could
express<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">Your<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">Individuality?<br />
You’re not like everybody else.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">Your
individuality is something we like<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><i><span lang="EN-US">and</span></i><span lang="EN-US">
understand. Mean-<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">while, false<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><i><span lang="EN-US">flowers</span></i><span lang="EN-US">, carrion,
black<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">snow. “I
don’t look for what I find.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">Language
escapes:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">Since when
is ocean<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">Sky?
Access denied.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">FOR MANY,
STORMS BEYOND COMPREHENSION/ “they saw
tornados<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">threw
their cars around like toys and cows flying in the backyards ...” This, the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">American
Dream. Rainpetals, strange postcard<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">Ticket in
obscure<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">Esperanto </span><span lang="EN-US">—<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">From
Beyond: Cézanne: “The landscape thinks itself through me. I am its conscience.”
Mute<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">books, red
of trees spread in fake sentences, and the desert devours time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">Shift<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><i><span lang="EN-US">What makes
of Dell<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span lang="EN-US">The ideal choice? Dell<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span lang="EN-US">Always aim at
offering<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span lang="EN-US">The perfect
combination of power, performance<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span lang="EN-US">And price</span></i><span lang="EN-US">.<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">THe cLOser
We lOOk aT a <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">WoRd tHe
FUrThEr iT <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">fAcEs Us.
All rights reserved @<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">Leave your
message after the beep.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">Sour
cherries: once, flowers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">“If a lion
could talk<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">he
wouldn’t understand what we roar.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">Ideology
is language dressed up as transparency.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><i><span lang="EN-US">Egaugnal</span></i><span lang="EN-US">: slowly I
will tell you who you are. Medicine or poison.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">Man is not
contemporary with his origins.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">Let’s turn
up the volume of the language.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><i><span lang="EN-US">This page
is under construction</span></i><span lang="EN-US">. Zip! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">Nobody
hears thoughts like here. <i>Now<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><i><span lang="EN-US">you don’t
need me anymore, now form</span></i><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">is an
extension of content. <u>Bapel.</u><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">To swim<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">on this
foam, virgin verse, pampa snowed with<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">black
walls.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">“Poetry is
the supreme virtual reality, girlfriend.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">World.
Wordless. Into which we enter <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">stripped.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">This is
the way the world ends,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">not with a
shot,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">but
without a meaning.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><u><span lang="EN-US">Resistance
of Materials</span></u><span lang="EN-US">. “This is gonna<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">hurt me
more than it hurts you.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><i><span lang="EN-US">The
sentence is out of focus.</span></i><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">“When you
dissect it, you kill it.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">“Pain is
impossible to describe.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><i><span lang="EN-US">The dance
of the duende in the forest of signs.</span></i><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">“If we
always write only<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">that which
we already know<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">the field
of knowledge<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">would
never be extended.” The weather turned, this<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">page (from
<i>pangere</i>, to grasp, fix, join)-morning. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">Just
because,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">“a doubt
that doubted everything would no longer <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">be<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">a doubt.”
And<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">what
changes after everything. <i>Changes,</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">after
everything. <i>The dance of the duende <o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><i><span lang="EN-US">in the
forest of signs</span></i><span lang="EN-US">. Madame Yahoo,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">there’s
nothing epic in lightning a cigarette:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">or perhaps
there is, like the heroic act of<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">opening
the door and taking out the trash.” The difficult thing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">is being
able to jump over the wall.” This line of lies.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">The hymen
is testing the extended memory.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">A hot bath
is the conquest of Egypt.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">Who said
that? <i>I was<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><i><span lang="EN-US">your
amulet in the midst of the riot:<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><i><span lang="EN-US">I
protected you from war, goddess </span></i><span lang="EN-US">—<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><i><span lang="EN-US">I was the
whetted blade in Thoth’s hand<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><i><span lang="EN-US">in the
midst of the riot.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">The fall
of the pen on the carpet is an autumn dawn.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">Skies of
liquid crystal.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">Iron
filings form a magnetized rose.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">Remnants
of conversations are our prophecies.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">A kiss is
the conquest of Egypt.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">Each
morning you have to break the dead rubble afresh so as to reach the living warm
seed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">Vox, Vak,
vaccum. Who knows, man<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">is not
contemporary with its image.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">Let’s turn
up the volume of the language.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">In
American matinees they teach us to watch a film<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">in the old
style: in silence.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">With time,
we become<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">Invisible:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><i><span lang="EN-US">Sub
verborum tegmine vera laten</span></i><span lang="EN-US">, or<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">behind the
veil of words, the truth. Voices in the Mind’s room? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">“But we
awake at the same time to ourselves and to things”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">“Appearance’s
arduous path.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">THE EYE
OPENS. THE EYE OPENS AND DIVIDES.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><i><span lang="EN-US">Air</span></i><span lang="EN-US">, to
articulate,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">like an
animal leaving its nest.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">Cinema of
the Grotesque taught us<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">to
configure an action, <i>black instant</i>, not a reflection<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">of reality<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">An apple
floats in light: this its meaning.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">(“we accept
credit cards”)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">that moves
as one breaths, immediate,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">while it
lOOks at spirals Of time, rings Of smOke.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;">There’s no escaping it.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">(Tempe, Arizona, 1990. From <i>Polivox</i>, 2000. Translated by Chris
Daniels)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Everything in space<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Is past. Time,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">pure distance,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">deep slow blue.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Even the shortest<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">rain<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">falls on this world.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">(From <i>Visibilia</i>, 1996. Translated by Chris
Daniels)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span lang="EN-US">For years he’s been selling his rotten<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span lang="EN-US">fish<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span lang="EN-US">his souflée of entrails<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span lang="EN-US">to humorless vegetarians.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span lang="EN-US">For ages he lectures<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span lang="EN-US">On chaos’ dialect<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Sells orchids written with
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span lang="EN-US">his blood<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span lang="EN-US">to vampires who are afraid of red.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span lang="EN-US">For centuries he practices<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span lang="EN-US">the extinct art of pluviometry<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span lang="EN-US">fabricates useless ideas<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span lang="EN-US">counts the cars in the corner<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span lang="EN-US">composing a long and atrocious poem.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span lang="EN-US">For minutes he calls<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span lang="EN-US">To an answering machine<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span lang="EN-US">That repeats, strange, imagine,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span lang="EN-US">The recording of his own voice.</span><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 7.1pt; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 7.1pt; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 7.1pt; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">(Translated by Chris Daniels)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 7.1pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US">AMERICA
# 3<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Deserts
respect time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span lang="EN-US">See how
stones meditate.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span lang="EN-US">The
sands are discreet disciples, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Insolently
corroding<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span lang="EN-US">the
bones of their master.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span lang="EN-US">The
climax of the artifice is in the blue—<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Total
landscape without vanishing points.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span lang="EN-US">A
wrinkle becomes an etching:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Turn it
over and you have a desert. A Monet<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span lang="EN-US">canvas,
close-up, from behind— with<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span lang="EN-US">neither
color, water lilies, nor beginning.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span lang="EN-US">The wary
coyote watches us: let it lie down<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span lang="EN-US">among
the stones that never ask us anything,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span lang="EN-US">and maps
erase themselves, and be lost.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span lang="EN-US">We have
lost all sense of direction: roads are all.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span lang="EN-US">A
cactus’s only diversion: counting roadrunners.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span lang="EN-US">See its
dust crossing the landscape.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span lang="EN-US">The
echoes we release do not return.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 7.1pt; margin-right: 27.9pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 27.9pt 0cm 7.1pt; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 7.1pt; margin-right: 27.9pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 27.9pt 0cm 7.1pt; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 7.1pt; margin-right: 27.9pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 27.9pt 0cm 7.1pt; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 7.1pt; margin-right: 27.9pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 27.9pt 0cm 7.1pt; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 7.1pt; margin-right: 27.9pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 27.9pt 0cm 7.1pt; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">(translated by Chris Daniels and Caryn Connelly)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 7.1pt; margin-right: 27.9pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 27.9pt 0cm 7.1pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 7.1pt; margin-right: 27.9pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 27.9pt 0cm 7.1pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 7.1pt; margin-right: 27.9pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 27.9pt 0cm 7.1pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 7.1pt; margin-right: 27.9pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 27.9pt 0cm 7.1pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 7.1pt; margin-right: 27.9pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 27.9pt 0cm 7.1pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 7.1pt; margin-right: 27.9pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 27.9pt 0cm 7.1pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 7.1pt; margin-right: 27.9pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 27.9pt 0cm 7.1pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 27.9pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 7.1pt; margin-right: 27.9pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 27.9pt 0cm 7.1pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">OSTRANENIE, a road poem<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 7.1pt; margin-right: 27.9pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 27.9pt 0cm 7.1pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 7.1pt; margin-right: 27.9pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 27.9pt 0cm 7.1pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 7.1pt; margin-right: 27.9pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 27.9pt 0cm 7.1pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 7.1pt; margin-right: 27.9pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 27.9pt 0cm 7.1pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Taken by the strange logic of the age<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 7.1pt; margin-right: 27.9pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 27.9pt 0cm 7.1pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">I ask a lift from the family of hippies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 7.1pt; margin-right: 27.9pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 27.9pt 0cm 7.1pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">That has for as its strangest hobbies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 7.1pt; margin-right: 27.9pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 27.9pt 0cm 7.1pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">To not tell the hours, just the cuckoos,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 7.1pt; margin-right: 27.9pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 27.9pt 0cm 7.1pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">To exchange kisses as if exchanging blows,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 7.1pt; margin-right: 27.9pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 27.9pt 0cm 7.1pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">To curse like a band of sailors,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 7.1pt; margin-right: 27.9pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 27.9pt 0cm 7.1pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">To get hit in the face assuming it is a hiccup.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 7.1pt; margin-right: 27.9pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 27.9pt 0cm 7.1pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">They ask my nose if we are close,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 7.1pt; margin-right: 27.9pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 27.9pt 0cm 7.1pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Erase landscapes, eat sausages,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 7.1pt; margin-right: 27.9pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 27.9pt 0cm 7.1pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">And then talk talk talk as a mad sect<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 7.1pt; margin-right: 27.9pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 27.9pt 0cm 7.1pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">I get off, in an old Russian village.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;">(From <i>Nômada</i>,
2004, Translated by Chris Daniels)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US">POLIVOX<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">There is no voice to be mine<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">on this morning of being awakened by the washing
machine,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">birds in cages made of wind and Villa-Lobos.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">Other voices intersect with it and mix<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">In the cataract of sentences which I am writing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">and which slowly watch, and recognize me.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">And other breath of silence reanimates us. Tongues<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">collide in the toxin of islands<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">in the exile of all paths<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">(which, however, do not fork. They<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">hide </span><span lang="EN-US">— in the yesterday wherein they
drain —<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">In a riot of echoes, reflections in a grotto).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">Would poetry be the art of listening?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">(From <i>Polivox</i>, 2001. Translated by Chris Daniels)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US">IN THE HOUR OF THE WORLD<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">To rhyme is to
awaken sounds of syllables, words<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">as primordially, to
surprise them<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">In their secret den:
wherein none stands.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Freed from the
senses, neither sibyls,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">nor slaves, portable
instants,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">To impassion these
fruits of speeches, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">ramified in their
echoes, their inverted flight,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">nomads lost in an
uncertain desert<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">under this heat that
sweetens each color, washes <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">with strangeness
this severe passion,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">under the bass that
marks the melody<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US">of the first midday.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">(Unpublished.
Translated by the author)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US">UPON
AN OLD SAYING<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 212.65pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span lang="EN-US"> </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Be like sandalwood, that perfumes the wounding axe. </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 212.65pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">I will say again what once was said<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">So the mind will never forget<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">That one day our lips, leaves, were made<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">Grass, rapid sky, velvet and dense fog.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">This smoke in the void seems<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">the other, life, that<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">lasts as lightning bolts last, quartz<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">a pupil dilates and irradiates.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">Who would say, for instance,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">that under the flesh of incense,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">in the evening’s duramen,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US">the sandalwood inhales<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">and causes no
scandal.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> (From <i>Visibilia</i>,
1996. Translated by Chris Daniels)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -7.1pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -7.1pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -7.1pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -7.1pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -7.1pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -7.1pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -7.1pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -7.1pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -7.1pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -7.1pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -7.1pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -7.1pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">POLICE ROMANCE<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">The dead man bathed in the moon's
flashlight.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">For the detective, no insight<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Except the dark swamp, the fallen
corpse,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">The thick blood, and the report<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">By the mean faced policeman<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">That was now holding a lantern<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">While he interrogated the black
eyed blonde <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Who worked for a Greek restaurant<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">About the money and the strange
notes in the car,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">About the strange grimace of a
smile, the blood on her scarf.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">And before the song on the radio is
over<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">He says: "Only a miracle can
save her".<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">In his hands, the torn letter, a
bottle of whiskey.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">But a verdict is still a little too
risky.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Nothing was clear in the
statements, of how this broad<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Was found on a full moon by the
side of the road:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">"You gotta pay for what you
cannot say",<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">She said, right as he turned away<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">From a kiss that would have been
fatal.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">The moon enhanced her crystals.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">And then a moment of silence<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">As the crickets punctuated a sign.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">She said: "The clues are
everywhere<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">In your diary, on the sixteenth, in
red, on the calendar".<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">While the detective searched the
night<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">The blonde poured something white <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Into his bottle. "In this
profession, you need time<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">To solve this almost perfect
crime".<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">She said nothing, or almost
nothing, only heard<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">As the truth was revealed in every
word.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">At this point, everything seemed so
clear<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">As he said: “Have a drink, now, my
dear”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"> </span></b></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">(Unpublished, Translated by Marco
Alexandre de Oliveira)<b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="Body1" style="margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm; mso-outline-level: 1;"><b><span color="windowtext" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="Body1" style="margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm; mso-outline-level: 1;"><b><span color="windowtext" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="Body1" style="margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm; mso-outline-level: 1;"><b><span color="windowtext" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">THE LAST JOURNEY<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Body1" style="margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm; mso-outline-level: 1;"><span color="windowtext" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p>
<p class="Body1" style="margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm; mso-outline-level: 1;"><span color="windowtext" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p>
<p class="Body1"><span color="windowtext" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">He stepped on the beach<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body1"><span color="windowtext" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">for the first time<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body1"><span color="windowtext" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">in ages —<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body1"><span color="windowtext" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Seagulls watched him.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body1"><span color="windowtext" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Aroma of algae. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body1"><span color="windowtext" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The burning, saline Southern wind. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body1"><span color="windowtext" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Odysseus came down<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body1"><span color="windowtext" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">from the raft murmuring<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body1"><span color="windowtext" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">something to himself<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body1"><span color="windowtext" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">in an almost extinct dialect.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body1"><span color="windowtext" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">He put up the oars, a few fish,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body1"><span color="windowtext" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">to the music of a loudspeaker<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body1"><span color="windowtext" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">versus a salmon sunset. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body1"><span color="windowtext" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Afterwards, he saw the weak lights<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body1"><span color="windowtext" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">flickering in the town houses.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body1"><span color="windowtext" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">A sea-breeze of marijuana reached his
nostrils.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body1"><span color="windowtext" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Funk.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body1"><span color="windowtext" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Roaring laughter.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body1"><span color="windowtext" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">None of the fishermen recognized him.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body1"><span color="windowtext" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Penelope had never existed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body1"><span color="windowtext" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">That was not his legend.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body1"><span color="windowtext" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Ithaca had never existed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body1"><span color="windowtext" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Odysseus turned to the beach without
history<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body1"><span color="windowtext" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">and said nothing:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body1"><span color="windowtext" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">he lit a cigarette and
contemplated <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body1"><span color="windowtext" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">the absurd dark blue of the nocturnal
sea<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body1"><span color="windowtext" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">versus the untiring white lines<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body1"><span color="windowtext" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">of the breaking of the waves.</span><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="pt-BR"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US"> </span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">(Unpublished, translated by
Marco Alexandre de Oliveira)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt; text-align: right;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -7.1pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: right 446.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -7.1pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -7.1pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">You touch me<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">like someone changing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">clothes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">You provoke me <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">and tease me, this<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">sweet distraction<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">of mine<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Why hurry<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">
you<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">woman in the crowd?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 117pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 117pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 117pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 117pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 117pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">(From <i>Solarium</i>, 1994, translated by the author)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">DARK SEPTEMBER<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The
lightness and fleeting shade<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">That things
make when they fall<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Before we
can detain it all<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Things fall
so softly at this edge<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Or, when,
with our eyes closed,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">(a wall
where dark is white and murine sky)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The river’s
eyelids open: a landscape.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">They fall
over a river, among branches, tense<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Sprouts,
carcasses of nameless flowers, scraps of nets,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Whispers
into brute bush<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Between the
thump of mouths and foggy faces,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Flowerfly,
orchidea, thoughtulips. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">On the
outside it was reality.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">On the
inside a city<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Made of
gestures and movements,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Shade,
shock, strangeness, thoughts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">We followed
to its falls,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">But without
any hope of finding falls<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The dream
was a nightmare<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Of bloody
reefs, baroque walls<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Contesting
the sea, the star as we in struggle<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Against the
lights of the metropolis.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">There was a
mysterious parallel, a world<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Between the
simple fall of a paper leaf<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">And the
quick recollection which in a second<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Took us
somewhere, zoom, corner of sky.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The fall
left only shouts & blasts,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">A dense
cloud of flesh and dust in the sky, a screen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Not that
tenderness that inhabited your voice<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">(the
feeling that something has collapsed)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Solitude,
reef, star. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -7.1pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"> </span></b></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">(from
<i>Nômada</i>, 2004, translated by Chris Daniels)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">TRANCE
MUSIC<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Doesn’t miss the beat between these night riffs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">more distant than a DJ in trance<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">coarse voice follows bass lines, lower the ire,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">saunters between codes & grooves<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">amidst stars & champagnes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Bit by bit <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The heat catches you.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US">as taken<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 72pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US">by surprise, sounds,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">and the times it<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">corners us<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 72pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US">or suspend<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">whitenesses<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">with the charm of a scream.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Smiling cornfields, only <i>this</i> doesn’t seem to
become a commodity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Liquid ladies, maybe, or icons that dissolve by the
touch of<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US">The Delete Cartago key<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">for the dream is only fast<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">and the solo genuine only<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">if it arrives on the first<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">intuitive corner and if<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">by syntactical turns<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">the eccentric Mr. Meaning comes together,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">taxiing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">whatever life is, creek’s tension,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">and whatever it is not also,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">cherry tea under a moon blooming <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">in the four corners of this song.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 117pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 117pt; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 117pt; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 117pt; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">(From Nômada, 2004,
translated by the author RGL)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 117pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 117pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US">WHILE<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 117pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 117pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 117pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 117pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Tongue, strange trip<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 117pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 117pt;"><span lang="EN-US">through lost paradises, esperantos,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 117pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 117pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Footpaths, lullabies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 117pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 117pt;"><span lang="EN-US">of temples hidden<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 117pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 117pt;"><span lang="EN-US">by seacoast<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 117pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 117pt;"><span lang="EN-US">in dense wood, while<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 117pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 117pt;"><span lang="EN-US">in state of thought<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 117pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 117pt;"><span lang="EN-US">landscape evaporates<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 117pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 117pt;"><span lang="EN-US">into a self almost silence<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 117pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 117pt;"><span lang="EN-US">gap between what it was<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 117pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 117pt;"><span lang="EN-US">and what it will be<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 117pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 117pt;"><span lang="EN-US">time inside time<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 117pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 117pt;"><span lang="EN-US">clues of collapsed night<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 117pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 117pt;"><span lang="EN-US">giddiness over trails of light<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 117pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 117pt;"><span lang="EN-US">another autumn and your clear<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 117pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 117pt;"><span lang="EN-US">and secrete gestures<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 117pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 117pt;"><span lang="EN-US">while flowers of language<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 117pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 117pt;"><span lang="EN-US">fall on our feet.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 117pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 117pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 117pt; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">
(Unpublished, translated by the author)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; text-transform: uppercase;">I wish to dig<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The shadow of a thought.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">To see dew’s arrow<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Bloom<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The
candle relighting <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">With the wind<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">But with no reason of mine;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">With inner eyes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">To reach the season.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">And to wish this thought-state<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Rolling out from myself.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Seeing stars in tinted glass<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Agates in neon lights.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">(From<i> Nômada</i>, 2004, translated
by the author)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">IN
SUNUMBRA<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Shadow’s dribble, breeze’s discharge, face<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">echoing its roaring wave, petrified<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">in the sparkling night without<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">face, room’s rough landscape,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">desert’s void, second silences<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">mind forgotten in its thirst<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">while light does not decide if it<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">devours the fleeting representations<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">— language’s closed windows –<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">or shoots proverbs that find<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">their target only by falling far<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">from the mosques of the (besieged) city.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">(From<i> Nômada</i>, 2004, translated
by the author)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Gnawed by envy</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">the moth
destroys</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">the dry butterfly<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 117pt;"><span lang="EN-US">(trans RGL)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">MINDSCAPE<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Void’s
temples<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Receive the
rest<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Of seconds’
pregnancy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Nail and
flesh<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Sky and
tree<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The wind
crests.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Each
gesture<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Of silk
deciphers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The Hades
of Hate<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Where heavy
levitates.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Man
entranced<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Corners
nothingness<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The
bloodless night<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">In every
speech-scaffold.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Darkness
casting<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">From the
other margin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Of my
arteries —<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Image,
matter.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 117pt; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">(From <i>Nômada</i>, 2004, translated by the author)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 117pt; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 117pt; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 117pt; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 117pt; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 117pt; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 117pt; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">NEWFOUNDLAND<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Thought’s voice<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">(wind’s torturer)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Tongue’s sight<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">In every India<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Mood’s cuts <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Corners each fear in time<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">To make, discreetly,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">A little miracle. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">2<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Seagulls
return kamikaze<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">tsunami
skies and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">new
figure mute<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">from
gesture and its reflection,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">spray
of images<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">word
mutating into thought.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">3<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">UTOPIA VILLAGE its lines of far-off trees merging in
the twilight<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Free access to immense towers incapable of naming the
invisible<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">In the theater of your desire camped<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">scattered in gesture’s syntax<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">which escapes from the net in the limit of space<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Side by side times kisses and mixes here in this
non-place<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">to avail the grass<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> against
darkness<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">4<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">In vegetable pages<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h2><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">Day with minted lips<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Shoots its first gust<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">of thought.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">We survive, are<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Here, though<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The ball-point insists on failing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">To speak, astonished still,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">About blues<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Electrified by iceness.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">It sees itself <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On
the other side<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">In a foreign, unread tongue.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Transparent,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">It blinks to itself.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">5<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Combo, cobra, quick, aquarium, afternoon,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Air nirvanes the flesh, this, jets and stars,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Sleep of the grass, shadow cloud, cat all steps:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Language is our reality.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The real’s ash, renouncement’s rose, assault’s
presaging, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">gape’s
fencing, <i>vulgari eloquio</i>, fright’s
coloratura.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Dribble and blood in an agape shadow.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">This is my raw material. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">(From <i>Nômada</i>, 2004, translated by the author. Revised
by Chris Daniels)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b> </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">BHANG</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><br />
Without knowing it, you just traveled in time.
You weren’t here before, now you are, and in some manner already
participating in a crime. Click. And the telepathic future writes your
confession on the nude back of time, surface of Venus, white Sahara darkness,
footprints being erased, a name and a face without a face set loose on the
wind. The instantaneous vision that
makes us discover the unknown not in a distant hidden land, but in the heart of
the really immediate. Time as
Water. Mandalas of states, perceptions,
mirrorisms. A silence of shipwrecked
watches. </span>A silence of shipwrecked
watches. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">(From <i>Nômada</i>, 2004, translated by Marco
Alexandre de Oliveira)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b>AMERICA <o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 27.9pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;">Stranger, your name is solitude: the idiom<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 27.9pt; text-align: justify;">You speak is
from other neigborhood. You curse,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 27.9pt; text-align: justify;">But it
doesn’t spark, neither this dark<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 27.9pt; text-align: justify;">Water that
the moon, now a D, disperses.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 27.9pt; text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 27.9pt; text-align: justify;">Your silence
is a kind of exile:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 27.9pt; text-align: justify;">I know that
because I myself err<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 27.9pt; text-align: justify;">By
intransitive and subjetless streets<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 27.9pt; text-align: justify;">Of this land
where everything is perfect.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 27.9pt; text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 27.9pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;">But it is in this strangeness, a countryless<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 27.9pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;">desert in my mind,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 27.9pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;">Whitin’s exile, even outside,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 27.9pt; text-align: justify;">Where I most
feel nearby. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 27.9pt; text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 27.9pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;">Listen to how soft is this girl<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 27.9pt; text-align: justify;">Who whispers
a lie into your ear:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 27.9pt; text-align: justify;">Ire and
delirium, simultaneous, cristal clear.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 27.9pt; text-align: justify;">That is what
made this lyre.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b> </b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -7.1pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -7.1pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -7.1pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">(Unpublished,
translated by the author)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -7.1pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> at the Hermitage)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -7.1pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> </span></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -7.1pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -7.1pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -7.1pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> </span></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -7.1pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -7.1pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> </span></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -7.1pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -7.1pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 17pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">KHADJIBEY<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">In
just a sec will be rain<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">In
Troy, Tokio, New York City<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">And
lightning will be a touch<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">And
seeing closer to being.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">In a minute will be snowing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Over Rio, Ohio, over
Nineveth,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The sun will shine at
midnight now<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Just for you to say good
morning<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">In a while will be blood<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">On swamps, the Ganges, or
Sagres,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">And rain and blood and snow,
surprise:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Will decode Odessa.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;">(Unpublished, translated by the author at The Hermitage)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -7.1pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -7.1pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -7.1pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -7.1pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">MANASOTA KEY<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">In the pages of the sea<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">pelicans in line<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">write the shadows of their
breasts<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">almost touching a wave.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The sun drafts <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">its ruby-red farewell notes,
every sunset.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Dolphins, their fins<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">tell the sea's rough ways<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">over the prairie of the whales.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Cormorants register their
kamikaze writing,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">suicidal, invisible for
instants.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">In the pages of the sand<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">(whose shells are its
collected works)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">black fossiles of shark’s
teeth<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">write the autobiography<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">of two million years.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Tracks of a raccoon<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">write its adventure novel<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">from the dune to the road.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">A crab leaves its signature<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">over the tracks of an SUV
tire.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Bottle with a message, a
thumb drive<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">with the history of a wreck.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">In the pages of the sky<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Ancestral clouds and
supernovas describe<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">their travels over the world,
infinite.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Hurricanes hit best sellers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Over the Gulf of Mexico<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">while autumn leaves
calligraph in the air<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">precise ideograms,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">the wind’s memoir.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Satellites trace haikus of
light.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The lemon-yellow moon
describes its solemn shine<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Over Florida palm trees.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">I don’t write anything.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -7.1pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">THE
GREEN FLASH</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Life,
you gave me so much,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">I
cannot pay you back,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">you
gave me the endless sea soundtrack<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">gave
me this salmon sunset<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">gave
me what no god<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">ever<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">gave
me.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">I
can only pay you back<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">with
my daily quota of wonder,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">my
minutes of silence,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">spasms
of joy,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">while
you create.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">I
can only promise you<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">to
be your loyal, privileged biographer,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">your
translator:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">while,
day by day,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">you
go on writing the same beauty,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">tireless,
unreachable<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">muse.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">With
your clouds like shifting gods<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">with
the sea machine smashing our ears<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">with
the red tide which burns our eyes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">with
the sun that still lets a last surprise:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">in
the infinite and clear sea’s horizon<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">the
giant coin of the sun dives but leaves<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">its
gradiente miracle:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">over
its golden head<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">in
a matter of seconds<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -7.1pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Rodrigo Garcia LOPES</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> (poet, translator; Brazil)
has published five collections of poetry, including <i>Solarium</i> (1994), <i>Polivox</i>
(2001) and <i>Nômada</i> (2004). His poems,
essays and interviews have been widely published and anthologized, including in
<i>Os Cem Melhores Poemas Brasileiros do
Século 20</i> [The Best 100 Brazilian Poems of the Twentieth Century]. His
second CD, Canções do Estúdio Realidade [Songs from Reality Studio), a new book
of poems and a first novel, the detective story <i>O Trovador</i> [The Troubadour] are forthcoming in 2013. He translates
from the English (Whitman, Laura Riding, Plath) and from the French (Rimbaud,
Apollinaire). A freelance journalist and translator, he co-edits the arts
magazine <i>Coyote</i>; he also performs his
poems and songs regularly around Brazil. In 2012 he was selected to represent
Brazil in the International Writing Program at University of Iowa (USA). In
2012 he was selected for residency at The Hermitage Artist Retreat. E-mail:
rgarcialopes@gmail.com<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>Rodrigo garcia Lopeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02971138033280007948noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34370981.post-35196985578872293772023-11-30T14:00:00.002-03:002023-11-30T14:00:35.612-03:0026 Aphorisms on Poetry and New Selected Poems<p> <b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;"> </span></b></p>
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Rodrigo Garcia Lopes<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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Aphorisms on Poetry<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">New Selected Poems<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Aphorisms on Poetry<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">1.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It
remains a mystery that we live in a permanent state of language. Poetry is the ideal
instrument for capturing this mystery.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">2.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Mu Ga</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> is not to stop
thought: it is to perceive thought.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">3.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">More
and more the persistence of the idea of radical poetry understood in its
etymological sense, from the Latin <i>radix</i>,
root, base, foundation. A poetry that investigates its own occurrence,
ramifications, vis-à-vis its encounter with the world, getting at the root of
the problem: for the poem, this root is the word.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">4.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Abstraction
is the nature of the mind, not the mind a reflection of consciousness.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">5.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
challenge is not to fall into a cheap metalanguage. Or solipsism ("there
is nothing outside my mind"). On the contrary, the poem is an encounter in
our common territory, our habitat.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">6.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">A
poet is the one who provokes music with words. And it keeps aphasia away. A
certain aversion to the idea spread by common sense of life (and poetry) as
something continuous. Poems are unsteady beings, like animals, ORGANISMS, and
seem to be always wanting to incorporate the fragmentary and material character
of experience. Therefore, they often seem "incomplete."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">7.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">If
"poetry is the promise of a language" (Hölderlin), then the poem is a
non-place, a utopia. Its meaning is its movement.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">8.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
poem is an <i>outrage</i> (<i>ultraschnelle</i>), a countertext.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">9.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">With
eyes closed: the universe is red. <a name="_Hlk152245157">Poetry is a kind of
foreign language. </a>Poetry is prose at the point of no return.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">10.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">You
say<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">that
there's nothing new<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">under
the sun.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">This
may be true for the sun,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">but
not for us.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">11.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">An
"I" that is one eye, the eye that is another, the other that is one.
The consciousness of consciousness. <i>A
test of solitude</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">12.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">To
be able to think, like Paul Cézanne, that words think themselves through me.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">13.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Nature
deconstructs us without our noticing, and the night restores the memory of the
perceptions that we will use the next day to reconstruct nature and ourselves.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">14.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It
speaks to us, it mediates us, it inhabits us. It is always on the way. There is
no escape. In them we are inside our only home, or outside, or we are alone.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">15.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">All
poetic approaches (whether through illuminations, personas, objective
correlatives, collage, simultaneism, pastiche, <i>ostranenie</i>, ideogram, <i>non-sequitur</i>)
lead, through different operations, to the great question: the space inhabited
by poetry as mental matter, between word and world. Between being wordless and
being a world.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">16.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
name of the ventriloquist was Lyric-I. ("My name is Ither: the interval
between word and world).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">17.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> The poem is born while we look for it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">18.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">As
in a detective story, the poem, today, is an enigma. Its crime already begins
in the first words. The poem is nothing more than a section of correlates of
meaning suspended between false clues, fragments of profiles, frustrations of
expectations, which point unequivocally to its own appearance &
disappearance. The name of this invisible struggle is meaning.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Whodunit?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">19.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Roots
burst the belly of the earth: wild thought.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">20.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Prose
seems to translate into transparent glass, while poetry reveals hand spots on
the glass, cracks, dust, the imperfections of the surface.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">21.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Perhaps
poems should be more than simply writing about experiences, but rather the
experiences themselves. (CB?)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">22.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Product
and process, in a poem, have to be considered together. <i>What</i> and <i>how</i> are Siamese
twins. Excessive diligence distorts the palace of wisdom.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">23.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">This
has been the challenge: to investigate how the process of transference from the
"real" world to the "poetic" world takes place. I am
interested in this unique moment that occurs in perception: in the clash
between the "inside" and the "outside" (How did that become
this?). And the poem would be precisely the simultaneous translation of this
perception into words, energy, a power plant, poetry. And the poem emerges as
the result of this friction between consciousness and the world, the fruit of
this tension and, before I forget, of this pleasure.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">24.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
moment when the poem closes is the moment when it opens to the reader.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">25.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
traditional idea of prose, for me, is that the text seems to stick us in a
temporality, an absorbing state, with words almost seeming to pass
transparently from the page to the mind, ("a camera filming all
this", without continuity errors), while poetry acts more often in jumps,
cuts, surprises, syntactic deconstructions, frustrations of expectations,
associations, connections, disconnections.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">24.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Maybe
poetry is an aesthetic necessity of consciousness.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">(<i>Apud</i> Macedonio Fernandez)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">(from
<i>Extraordinary Experiences</i>, 2015)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Savagery<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In the end, the judge was the boss of a murderous
militia <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And the fire in the favela celebrated with uzis and
horns. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">More corpses found in the mud of the dam<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And the torturer colonel gets another tribute. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Two thousand soccer fields of devastated forest a day
in the Amazon<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A crowd of young black men slaughtered without
ceremony.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The TV host is a member of a neo-fascist group. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And the Chancellor believes that Flat Earth
exists. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A horde of mouthpieces begging for blood, distilling
hatred, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Freddy Krueger, Chucky and The Thing fighting the
podium.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Supreme Minister keeps slaves on his farms<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And the owner of the big paper says the truth is a
legend.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The gang of businessmen celebrates their evil in
Paris <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And the general who says that human rights are for <i>right </i>humans.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The famous pastor who rapes little girls every Friday<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And the minister who kidnaps Indians and sees the
Devil in the guava tree.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Chief of Staff is into forced confinement and
necrophilia.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The great national hero was a CIA agent. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The bishop with suitcases full of money at the temple
heliport<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And the gay killer congressman greeted as an example. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A former astrologer turned philosopher fuckhead
wannabe genius, sucker, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And the Businessman of the Year cheers with one more
tragedy: whatever comes is profit.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A gang of scoundrels, ignorant and psychopaths in
power <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And the cynical judge smiles at the innocent she just
fucked. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Legions of zombies and unemployed on corners and in
parks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In the overcrowded prison, heads roll in another
massacre.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Six billionaires hold the same wealth as 100 million
people.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And the terrifying silence in the streets of the night
resonates.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Miserable in dumps in scenes of pure despair<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The genocidal governor who shoots poor people by
helicopter.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A president who sets fire to the circus and exalts torture<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And the surprise and disgust of a people with their
own creature. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It would be a horror film, for real, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">If it weren’t just Brazil.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 62.05pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 62.05pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 62.05pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 62.05pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 62.05pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Oniros <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Somewhere north of
Medusia, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">where there is no
music, exiled innocence
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">in the solid
landscape that the vision <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">hypnotizes under
the bridge: the farce <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">of our future. With
watering eyes, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">thunders bite the
sky of our affections, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">trembles the
cathedral of senses. A cut.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">We were hired for
an unfathomable<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">job: to install
these electric fences. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Now we talk
between devices<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">in some resort in
Borneo or Normandy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">with the password
Alberta on the shoulder strap.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The strange
veteran stops<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">in front of the
window display<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">of a diamond
beach.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">There is a ship in
the sky.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Echoes of
explosions in the Steinway Gallery, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Aroma of red and
toxic algae, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">monitoring cameras,
sabotage.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Macabre puppets
smile as they sink<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">in the quicksand
days.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">There is a dream
franchise open 24/7<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">and a single
chance to touch and grope<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">the Earth forever
promised,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">before the
landscape shatters<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">and turn into a
hotel made of nothing but ruins<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">and inhabited only
by angels.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Milky
Way<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Insular
March night.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Wet
gusts<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">of
light.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
figures of the white<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">boats
oscillate: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">little
archipelago.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Old
south wind <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">delays<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">the
church clock<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">and
someone thinks <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">while
fishing <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">in
the mystery that there is <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">in
silence. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Pieces
of plaster from the moon <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">plummet
and resound in the sea. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Native
dogs dream <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">under
capsized canoes, they remind<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">the
slow avalanche <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">of
twilight.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Lagoons
in the dunes now:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">lit
eyes. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
heart, a quiet<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">neighborhood.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Here
the waves <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">break
backwards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">severe,
suave,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">and
between them three dark islands<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">under
the shell-mond of stars.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Simultaneities <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Right
now someone's listening to Wagner on the last volume, the Alps ahead.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Right
now an earthquake shakes Tokyo, and this line trembles.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Right
now an alien picks up a conch on a South Sea beach.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Right
now an Islamic radical says goodbye to his reflection in a window display in
Paris. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Right
now a couple of scientists are having wild sex in an observatory in Atacama.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Right
now giant speakers with patriotic anthems awaken the population of Pyongyang.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Right
now the smiling and attentive Russian officer pours plutonium into the spy's
drink.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Right
now a priest is whispering into his Scottish lover’s ear.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Right
now in a hotel window in Leblon a man falls in love with a dove.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Right
now on the coast of Somalia pirates attack a cargo ship and are driven off by
heavy artillery.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Right
now a photo fallen from a book moves the Swedish surgeon to tears.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Right
now a Boeing with 330 people on board disappears over the Indian Ocean. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Right
now it's a place that never ages.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Right
now a Panamanian executive makes a billion-dollar transfer via the Deep Web. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Right
now a lonely woman accesses the images of the International Space Station as it
rotates the Earth in real time and downs the second bottle of wine.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Right
now a Swiss geologist celebrates his birthday in the crater of an active volcano.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Right
now a Libyan refugee realizes that no one on that boat will make it to Naples.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Right
now a gymnast posts a deadly selfie in a building in Hong Kong.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Right
now the cold front slowly moves to the exact point where we are on the map: the
speech.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Right
now a president resigns and commits suicide live on a social network.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Right
now an asteroid heads for Earth at 72 kilometers per second.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Right
now in Colorado half a dozen Santa Clauses with ski gear on their shoulders are
running down the main street of Aspen.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Right
now the hacker wakes up and finds himself transformed into a Nordic forest, the
double of Hamlet, a Turkish pack of cards, an abandoned amusement park.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Right
now in a bar in Manhattan Beauty says to Terror, "When I'm done, you
start’.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Right
now an old lioness is dying surrounded by hyenas in an African savannah. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Right
now the almost autumnal sun bathes a white page.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Right
now a kilometric crack breaks out and pops in Antarctica.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Right
now a Greek poet invents a machine to produce eternity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Right
now in a packed theatre in Moscow Anna Fedorova plays the last chord of
Rachmaninoff's Concert No. 2.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Idyl<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">A
cart passes by <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">heavy
with acacias.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
sea and its cloak<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">of
white wounds.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Cold
hands shipwreck<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">in
the lipless morning.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Bristly
trees. Ancient light.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Mist
splinters.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">A
flight of black birds.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Shadows
in raw flesh.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Towards
the stars<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">they
dance in the immensity <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">eyes
to eyes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">the
two tied only by <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">the
space suit´s<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">umbilical
cord<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">they
know<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">they
have no certainties<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">they
no longer wait for anyone<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">far
away now <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">far
away forever<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">from
the tiny blue marble <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">planets
dance<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">all
over the place<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">in
their apparent <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">immobility<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">zero
gravity<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">far
far away from the Earth <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">the
words they exchange<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">also
float in space<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">or
stay stuck<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">in
the dome of the suits<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">but
they don't become opaque<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">fragments
of them occupy <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">the
space<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">celestial
bodies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">"<i>to desire</i> is <i>to fall from the stars</i>"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">"son,
let me go" <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">they
float<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">they
don't fight anymore<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">just
float<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">the
very concept of home<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">gets
lost in the Ether<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">"no
one responds to our signals"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">they
don't know where they're going<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">towards
the stars <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">they
float <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">in
another time<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">under
the blue light<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">emanating
from themselves<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">the
son then releases the father<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">they
know<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">the
journey without<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">is
the journey within<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">they
know --<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">to
be able to find yourself<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">you
need first <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">to
get lost <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">around<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">and
everywhere<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">where
the eyes can penetrate<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">infinite
peace <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Darkness
and silence<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 250); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20pt; line-height: 115%;">Guarujá Salem</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #FFFFFA; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #FFFFFA; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #FFFFFA; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #FFFFFA; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 250); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">lynched because of a rumor</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #FFFFFA; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 250); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">on a Saturday
afternoon</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #FFFFFA; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 250); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">a barbaric-world</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #FFFFFA; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #FFFFFA; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 250); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">Fabiane</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #FFFFFA; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #FFFFFA; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 250); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">still lifts her head</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #FFFFFA; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 250); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">for one last look</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #FFFFFA; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 250); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">at the multitude of
aggressors</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #FFFFFA; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #FFFFFA; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 250); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">filming with tablets </span><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #FFFFFA; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 250); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">and smartphones</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #FFFFFA; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #FFFFFA; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #FFFFFA; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #FFFFFA; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #FFFFFA; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #FFFFFA; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #FFFFFA; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #FFFFFA; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The future sends
greetings<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The day, old
gypsy, is over, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">taking his gold to
China.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The night is cool
on the retina.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Who will inherit
our misery?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Life is a comedy,
only serious: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Such empty
beaches, such pale pages<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">of so much
mystery, so much being read.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Who will inherit
our misery?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Distant friends,
these airlines,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Instants that were
this, nothing, foam, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">glimpses, dawn,
some moon. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Who will inherit
our misery?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">My pain lives
where others take their vacations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The past is a
river that does not return<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">and the present,
this false promise:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Who will inherit
our misery?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">A syllable in the
air is still reverberating, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Silent dunes,
black back of mountains, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">the sky, slate
headstone on this almost morning. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Who will inherit
our misery?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -14.2pt;"><span style="background: yellow; font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The empire of seconds<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If I were to stop to find out<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the taste of this instant<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I would never realize<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">what duration is made of,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the flesh of every second,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">minute from every sunset<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">this world is made of,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">blood, sperm, dust, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I would never remember<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the afternoon plot, museum<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">where ancient hours live,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">nor the hard face of this other <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">autumn, matter, mystery, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">nor the memory, that marble<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">in flux, roar in stereo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">of an incessant waterfall.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Post-truth <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">Rainy morning, grumpy <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">as a Russian general. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">Out of nowhere, it goes off
thinking: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">metalanguage has replaced
(dangerously) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">the solipsism of the
lyric-I. Why <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">not the sound of the garbage
truck <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">or the pitanga in the bird's
beak <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">against a slatey sky? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">The mustard stain on your
blouse?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">The shortest distance
between two points <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">it's not you, Ego, you fool.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">God, what more useless fight
can you <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">have on a piece of
paper? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">Why should you get stuck
with this overlap <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">of stupid words that lead
nowhere, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">no Valhala, Alamut, no
Atlandida? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;"> And the worst blind man, I insist, is the one <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">who said that life is not
worth a birdseed. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">and that the day is fake
news and it doesn't exist. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">Do the following, or don't: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">Replace the arrogant art of
refusal <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">with the simple and grateful
acceptance of things.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 107%;">On
the beach, June <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">To
have lived in a world <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">where
clouds were white sponges<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">diluting
a bizarrely blue sky <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">blue
crows on the branches of our balcony<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">and
the foams of intense moments<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">blown
furiously by a south wind <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">among
the cries of fishermen early in the morning <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">the
eyes bordering the distant islands<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">they
chewed the fog before <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">our
bodies satisfied and still warm <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">reading
the clues the night detectives didn't follow <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">the
footprints left behind <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">the
feeling of a life happening
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">clean
as sand after the wave.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 250); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20pt; line-height: 115%;">Et in Arcadia Ego </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 250); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20pt; line-height: 115%;">was his motto</span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #FFFFFA; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #FFFFFA; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #FFFFFA; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #FFFFFA; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 250); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">He lived in isolation
for years in the wilderness,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #FFFFFA; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 250); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">Believing himself to
be his own myth.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #FFFFFA; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 250); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">Fat seagulls were his
shepherdesses, Egypt,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #FFFFFA; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 250); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">his living room.
Friends,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #FFFFFA; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 250); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">almost no one. His
lover, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #FFFFFA; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 250); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">writing.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #FFFFFA; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 250); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">Thermopylae, the walk
along the trail</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #FFFFFA; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 250); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">to the beach of the
day.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #FFFFFA; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 250); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">For a while he
practiced the art</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #FFFFFA; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 250); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">of invisibility. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #FFFFFA; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 250); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">Levitation.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #FFFFFA; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 250); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">Wave hypnosis.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #FFFFFA; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 250); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">Bibliomancy.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #FFFFFA; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 250); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">With nature he learned
to be mute.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #FFFFFA; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 250); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">He made poetry without
fear, out of everything.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #FFFFFA; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 250); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">From nature he learned
to have only fear.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #FFFFFA; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 250); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">Or an immense respect.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #FFFFFA; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 250); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">Et in Arcadia Ego</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 250); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;"> was his motto. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #FFFFFA; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 250); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">Nobody remembers what
he wrote, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #FFFFFA; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 250); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">They burned
everything.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #FFFFFA; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 250); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">But his life became a
case study.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #FFFFFA; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 250); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20pt; line-height: 115%;">Qualia</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #FFFFFA; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #FFFFFA; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #FFFFFA; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #FFFFFA; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 250); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">May the morning be
beautiful, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #FFFFFA; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 250); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">long, for us
only, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #FFFFFA; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #FFFFFA; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 250); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">May the second be
still </span><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #FFFFFA; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 250); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">what the heart
foresees </span><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #FFFFFA; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #FFFFFA; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 250); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">under a January
shadow, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #FFFFFA; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 250); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">the way the wave
unravels, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #FFFFFA; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #FFFFFA; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 250); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">always a fleeting
instant, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #FFFFFA; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 250); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">a prisoner of the
present. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #FFFFFA; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #FFFFFA; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #FFFFFA; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #FFFFFA; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #FFFFFA; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #FFFFFA; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #FFFFFA; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #FFFFFA; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #FFFFFA; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Riddle<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">so immense <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">that if silent<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I still hear it<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">So fragile <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">that if named <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">it will break<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 2.5pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 70.85pt; margin-top: 2.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;">
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: yellow; font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Apple Chancery";">Soliloquy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Apple Chancery";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Apple Chancery";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Apple Chancery";">Dear thought,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Apple Chancery";">we´ve never been so much us<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Apple Chancery";">when we were alone<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Apple Chancery";">at the moment of your advent.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Apple Chancery";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Apple Chancery";">It was a bit, I remember, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Apple Chancery";">your face, at a glance:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Apple Chancery";">but how to be, in one piece,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Apple Chancery";">and in two places <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Apple Chancery";">at the same time?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Apple Chancery";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Apple Chancery";">Simple.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Apple Chancery";">We have always been alone.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Apple Chancery";">Thinking is the name of this bone.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Apple Chancery";">A body by your side, a warm touch on your neck,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Apple Chancery";">but the mind, almost never here, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Apple Chancery";">always somewhere in the past,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Apple Chancery";">in Hokkaido, Almeria, Tierra del Fuego.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Apple Chancery";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Apple Chancery";">I travel beside you, standing still.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Apple Chancery";">All sites are this.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Apple Chancery";">Even eyes in the eyes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Apple Chancery";">I'm blind to your thoughts<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Apple Chancery";">and you to mine. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Apple Chancery";">Mutual exile.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Apple Chancery";">I grope the world in a trance<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Apple Chancery";">unable to get out of my head.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Apple Chancery";">I nurture a secret.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Apple Chancery";">I'm on top of myself,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Apple Chancery";">in a refuge, who knows.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Apple Chancery";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Apple Chancery";">Then, again, alone,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Apple Chancery";">when you least expect it,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Apple Chancery";">relieved, we get it:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Apple Chancery";">others inhabit us.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Apple Chancery";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Apple Chancery";">Loneliness, solid and real, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Apple Chancery";">and consciousness<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Apple Chancery";">the name of this experiment, this dementia,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Apple Chancery";">the name of this conversation we have with us<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Apple Chancery";">all the time <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Apple Chancery";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Apple Chancery";"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Apple Chancery";"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 1.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Apple Chancery";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
visit<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Open
petals<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">like
the skilled fingers or thighs
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">of
an ancient geisha.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Who
gave you, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">summer
gardenia,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">such
nobility?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">White
petals<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">against
the dark green glow <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">of
transient leaves.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">From
its waxy folds,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">kimono
lady, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">you
look at us:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
button, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">in
the middle,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">is
a pearl.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Windows
to the world<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 233.9pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
word is a window onto reality.
Zbigniew Herbert <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
world passes through<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">the
window of the word<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">to
touch reality<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">but
reality <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">suddenly
closes <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">in
the image of a shell:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">a
shell <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">is
a world where<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">a
word fits.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">This
is enough for us:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">we
close the words of windows<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">and
we open the windows of words.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>Rodrigo garcia Lopeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02971138033280007948noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34370981.post-52262774873240629312023-11-30T13:22:00.010-03:002023-12-08T12:37:27.360-03:00Curriculum, career, and achievements (English)<p><b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZQm3lTRi4t76G3WPqXk9wOKYDeW2q56i7rVlrtWFFGtpK_YDlgkfyN0QXxDO6-hbrLL4eDSRzDo1Mz2WEnpz-OXqqc8M5QJhNolzCrKmuRx4oYXWJfjoJFGVGoD7XH4bz0Q9Z3DiJWpLykKjTXLzIAMgbk7pdf7D_mOPtxBsit6Rkn8Kiacw6lQ/s2063/Foto%20Rodrigo%20Garcia%20Lopes%20por%20Elisabete%20Ghisleni%20-%20Copia.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2063" data-original-width="1843" height="174" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZQm3lTRi4t76G3WPqXk9wOKYDeW2q56i7rVlrtWFFGtpK_YDlgkfyN0QXxDO6-hbrLL4eDSRzDo1Mz2WEnpz-OXqqc8M5QJhNolzCrKmuRx4oYXWJfjoJFGVGoD7XH4bz0Q9Z3DiJWpLykKjTXLzIAMgbk7pdf7D_mOPtxBsit6Rkn8Kiacw6lQ/w155-h174/Foto%20Rodrigo%20Garcia%20Lopes%20por%20Elisabete%20Ghisleni%20-%20Copia.jpg" width="155" /></a></b></div><b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> Photo author. Credit: Elisabete Ghisleni</span><br /><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b><p></p><p><b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">RODRIGO GARCIA LOPES</span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">
</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">(Londrina, Paraná, Brazil, October 2, 1965) is a poet, novelist, translator,
composer, essayist and journalist. He released his first book of poems in 1981,
</span><i style="font-size: 12pt;">Draft </i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">(with Maurício Mendonça, Marcos Amari and Ronaldo Ribeiro). He
learned the guitar at the age of 11. His first poems came soon after. His first
song, written at the age of 14, the tango “Failed”, won the 1983 Londrina Music
Festival. He has a degree in Journalism from the State University of Londrina
(PR), a Master's degree in Interdisciplinary Humanities from Arizona State
University, with a dissertation on the work of the American writer William S.
Burroughs, and a PhD in English Literature from UFSC (Federal University of
Santa Catarina), with a thesis on the American poet and thinker Laura Riding.
He was a professor in the Department of Social Communication (Journalism) and
Vernacular Literature at the State University of Londrina (PR) and in the
Department of English Literature at the Federal University of Rio Grande
Foundation (RS). For three years (2006-2008) he was a professor in the
Department of Romance Languages at the University of North Carolina - Chapel
Hill (United States). He has lived in Europe (1984), USA (in three occasions,
1990-1992, 1999-2000 and 2006-2009).</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> As a journalist, he worked for <i>Folha
de Londrina</i> (1985, where he also edited a literary page,
"Leitura"), <i>Folha de S.Paulo</i> ("Ilustrada", 1988) and
the historic newspaper <i>Nicolau</i> (PR, 1989). In 1996, at <i>A Notícia</i>,
in Joinville, he co-edited the "Anexo" section and the
"Leitura" literary page. In 1997 he published <i>Voices &
Visions: A Panorama of North American Art and Culture Today </i>(Iluminuras),
which features 19 interviews with major figures in North American culture and
literature such as Allen Ginsberg, Amiri Baraka, John Cage, William Burroughs,
John Ashbery, Marjorie Perloff, Meredith Monk, Roy Lichtenstein, Laurie
Anderson, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Nam June Paik, among others. Many of these
interviews were published prominently in <i>Folha de S. Paulo</i>, <i>O Estado
de São Paulo,</i> Jornal <i>Nicolau</i> and <i>A Notícia</i> (Joinville).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> From 1997 to 2000 he studied for a
postgraduate degree in Foreign Languages at UFSC in Florianópolis. In 2001, her
poem "Stanzas in Meditation" was included in the best-seller <i>The
Hundred Best Brazilian Poems of the Century</i>, organized by Ítalo Moriconi
(Objetiva). <i>Solarium</i> (1994) was included in the list of the most
important Brazilian poetry books of the 1990s by critic Flora Süssekind (<i>Folha
de S.Paulo</i>, Mais!, 23/7/2000). In 2004, the book was chosen by the Centre
National du Livre (CNL), a French government agency, for the Special Aid
Program in Favor of Brazilian Literature. In 2007, he was selected for an
artist's residency at the McDowell Colony, New Hampshire (USA). In 2012, he was
selected to represent Brazil in the important International Writers Program at
Iowa University (Iowa City, USA), and was also a guest artist at The Hermitage
Artist Colony (Manasota Key, Florida, USA). In 2023, he was selected for The
Foundation Jan Michalski Writer´s Residency Program in September-October 2024 (Montricher,
Switzerland). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> In 1995 he curated the exhibition <i>Glances</i>,
the first comprehensive exhibition by the Japanese-London photographer Haruo
Ohara (Londrina International Festival and Curitiba International Photography
Festival). Today he is considered one of the great names in Brazilian
photography. His work was donated to the Moreira Salles Institute in 2008. He
was one of the creators of Londrix - Londrina Literary Festival, in 2005.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> From 2002 to 2014 he was
co-editor of the art and literature magazine </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Coyote</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">, considered by </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Folha
de S. Paulo</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> "one of the best Brazilian literary magazines" and by
</span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Estadão</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> "one of the longest-running literature and art magazines in
the country".</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> He is the author of the books of poems <i>Solarium</i>
(Iluminuras, 1994), <i>Visibilia </i>(Setteletras, 1996; Travessa dos Editores,
2005), <i>Polivox</i> (Azougue and Atrito Art, 2002) <i>Nomad</i> (Lamparina,
2004), <i>Reality Studio</i>, 7 Letras, 2013), <i>Extraordinary Experiences </i>(Kan,
2014) and <i>The Enigma of the Waves</i> (Iluminuras, 2020, semi-finalist for
the Oceanos prize in 2021). In February 2022 <i>The Enigma of the Waves</i> was
published in Portugal by Officium Lectionis. In June 2023 Kotter Editorial
released <i>Collected Poems (1983-2020)</i>, bringing together his seven books
of poetry in their entirety (616 pages, 600 poems). In 2023 <i>Studio Realtà</i>
and <i>L'Enigma delle Onde</i> were published in Italy by Kolibris Edizione, translated
by Chiara de Luca. <i>Collected Poems (1983-2020)</i> will be published by the
same Italian publisher next year, through the National Library's Translation
Support Program.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> His work is represented in several
important anthologies of contemporary Brazilian poetry, such as <i>Arts and
Crafts of Poetry</i> (org. Augusto Massi, 1991), <i>Outras Praias / Other
Shores: 13 Emerging Brazilian Poets</i> (org. Ricardo Corona, 1998), <i>These
Poets</i> (org. Heloisa Buarque de Hollanda, 1998), <i>Commented Anthology of
21st Century Brazilian Poetry </i>(org. Manuel da Costa Pinto, Publifolha,
2006), <i>At the Turn of the Century - Poetry of Invention in Brazil </i>(org.
Frederico Barbosa and Claudio Daniel, 2002), <i>Poetry Br</i> (ed. Sergio Cohn,
2016), <i>Haiku from Brazil</i> (ed. Adriana Calcanhotto, 2014), <i>101 Poets from
Paraná</i> (ed. Ademir Demarchi, 2015), <i>Haiku from Paraná</i> (ed. Teresa
Hatue, 2018). Teresa Hatue, 2018), <i>A Kind of Cinema: Anthology of Brazilian
and Portuguese Poems </i>(org. Celia Pedrosa, 2019) and <i>Poetic Act: Poems
for Democracy </i>(org. Maria Tiburi and Luis Maffei) and <i>Lulalivre</i>.
Abroad, he has participated in the anthologies of the magazines <i>Rattapallax</i>
(USA), <i>Vallejo & Co</i>. magazine (Peru), tse=tsé (Argentina), <i>Poetry
Wales</i> (Wales) and the books <i>El Poeta y su Trabajo</i> (Mexico), <i>Cities
of Chance: an Anthology of New Poetry from the United States and Brazil and
Brazil, Lyric, and the Americas</i> (USA), among others.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> As a translator, he made
his book debut in 1990 with <i>Sylvia Plath: Poems</i> (Iluminuras, the first
Plath anthology in Brazil). In 1994 he published <i>Iluminations: Painted
Plates</i>, by Arthur Rimbaud (Iluminuras, 1994), both in partnership with
Maurício Arruda Mendonça. In 2004 he translated and organized the books <i>Mindscapes</i>,
by Laura Riding (the result of his thesis at UFSC, Editora Iluminuras) and <i>The
Seafarer </i>( by the anonymous Anglo-Saxon, Lamparina). In 2005 he published <i>Leaves
of Grass: The First Edition (1855),</i> by Walt Whitman (Iluminuras). It was
the first time that Whitman had a complete book, in a bilingual edition,
published in the country. In 2007 it was the complete and facsimile version of <i>Ariel</i>,
by Sylvia Plath (Verus Editora, in partnership with Cristina Macedo). In 2018,
Ateliê Editorial published the book <i>Epigrams</i>, by the Hispano-Roman Marco
Valerio Marcial (around 38-104 AD). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> For two consecutive years he was a
finalist for the Jabuti Prize: in 2005, in the Best Book of Poems category,
with <i>Nomad</i>, and in 2006, in the Best Translation category, with <i>Leaves
of Grass</i> (by Whitman). In 2009 and 2010 he was awarded the Funarte Literary
Creation Grant (for <i>The Troubadour</i> and <i>Reality Studio</i>). <i>Extraordinary
Experiences</i> and <i>The Troubadour</i> were semi-finalists for the Oceanos
Prize for Literature. <i>Extraordinary Experiences</i> was a finalist for the
2015 Jabuti Prize.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The Troubadour</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> (Record,
2014) was also a finalist for the 2015 São Paulo Literature Prize. In 2018, he published <i>Literary Roadmap -
Paulo Leminski</i>, one of the three winners of the 2019 National Library Award
in the Literary Essay category. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> In 2007 he co-scripted <i>Satori Uso</i>,
by Rodrigo Grota, a film inspired by the life and work of the
Japanese-Brazilian poet created by Garcia Lopes in 1985. The movie won 3 prizes in the prestigious Gramado Film Festival, among other national and international
prizes. His historical detective novel "The Troubadour" will soon be made into a feature film and miniseries, produced by Luis Dantas, of Plano Geral. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> As a songwriter and composer, working
at the intersection of word-music and voice, he independently released the CD <i>Polivox</i>
in 2001. In 2012, he released <i>Songs from Reality Studio</i> (</span><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xt0b8zv x1fey0fg" href="https://rgarcialopes.wixsite.com/site?fbclid=IwAR3cbhm84sZT_0z51ZqaU7ysbFEfTkpRpZ5FAOhP0uipJRjcN9tQOXPlpU8" rel="nofollow noreferrer" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">https://rgarcialopes.wixsite.com/site</a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">/).
He has performed in prestigious venues and musical projects such as
"Outros Bárbaros" (Itaú Cultural, São Paulo), "Prata da
Casa" (SESC Pompéia, São Paulo).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> He has been teaching literary workshops
since 2010 and is frequently invited to be a jury member for prestigious
literary awards such as Oceanos, the Paraná-Public Library of Paraná Award and
the National Library Literary Award. In 2013, he was the Literature jury for
the Elisabete Anderle Award in Santa Catarina. He currently collaborates with
the magazine <i>Suplemento Pernambuco</i>, is preparing a new album of
unpublished songs composed in Florianópolis and is finishing a crime novel. Set
in 2018 in Florianópolis, Joinville, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Berlin, the
new novel, written over the last five years, features a writer and journalist
from Santa Catarina as the central character in the plot. He is also preparing
a new book of poems. In February 2024, Companhia das Letras will publish his
translation of <i>Zona e Outros Poemas</i>, by Guillaume Apollinaire, in the
Penguin-Classics collection. In 2023 his literary project was selected by the Jan Mchalski Foundation in Switzerland. In 2023 he also won the Santa Catarina Cultural Merit Award. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">Books published in Brazil
and abroad</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">IN EUROPE:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #999999;">* <i>Poesie Raccolte
(1983-2020).</i> Translated by Chiara De Luca. Ferrara, Italy: Kolibris
Edizioni, to be published in February-March 2024.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">* <i>Studio Realtà</i>.
Translation by Chiara De Luca. Ferrara, Italy: Kolibris Edizioni, 2023.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">* <i>L'Enigme delle Onde</i>.
Translated by Chiara De Luca. Ferrara, Italy: Kolibris Edizioni, 2023.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">* <i>O Enigma das Ondas</i>. Porto, Portugal: Officium Lectionis, 2022.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">NOVEL:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">* <i>The Troubadour</i>.
Editora Record, 2014.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">POETRY:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">* <i>Collected Poems
(1983-2020).</i> Kotter Editorial, 2023.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">* <i>The Enigma of the Waves</i>.
Iluminuras, 2020.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">* <i>Extraordinary
Experiences</i>. Kan Editora, 2015.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">* <i>Reality Studio</i>.
7Letras, 2013.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">* <i>Visibilia</i>.
7Letras, 1997. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">* <i>Nomad.</i>
Lamparina, 2004.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">* <i>Selected Poems</i>,
Atritoart, 2001.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">* <i>Polivox</i>.
Azougue, 2002.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">* <i>Solarium.</i>
Iluminuras, 1994.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">TRANSLATIONS:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">* <span style="color: #999999;">Guillaume Apollinaire. <i>Zone
and Other Poems</i>. In print from Penguin-Companhia das Letras, to be released
in February 2024.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">* Marco Valerio Marcial. <i>Epigrams</i>.
Ateliê Editorial, 2017.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">* Sylvia Plath. <i>Ariel
(The Restored Edition).</i> Verus, 2007.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">* Walt Whitman. <i>Leaves
of Grass - The First Edition - 1855</i>. Illuminations, 2004.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Anonymous. <i>The
Seafarer</i>. From the Anglo-Saxon "The Seafarer" (c. 450-c. 1100).
Lamparina, 2004.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">* Laura Riding<i>.
Mindscapes</i>. Illuminuras, 2004.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">* Arthur Rimbaud<i>.
Illuminations – Painted Plates</i>. Illuminuras, 1996.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">* Sylvia Plath. <i>Poems.</i>
Illuminuras, 1990.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">* Non-commercial chapbooks with translations by Derek Walcott, Arthur Rimbaud, Jack Kerouac,
Mark Strand, Samuel Beckett, W. B. Yeats and Robert Creeley. Galileo Editions,
2020-2021.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">ESSAY:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">* <i>Literary Roadmap - Paulo
Leminski</i>. Public Library of Paraná, 2018. Re-released in 2022, in a revised
and expanded edition, as <i>It Was All Very Sudden: An Essay on Paulo Leminski</i>.
Kotter Editorial, 2022.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">INTERVIEWS:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">* <i>Voices and Visions:
A Panorama of Contemporary North American Arts and Culture</i>. With Allen
Ginsberg, Amiri Baraka, John Cage, Wiliam Burroughs, John Ashbery, Marjorie
Perloff, Laurie Anderson, Meredith Monk, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Roy
Lichtenstein, Wanda Coleman, among others. Iluminuras, 1996.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">MUSIC (poetry & music
albums):<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">* <i>Songs from Reality
Studio</i>. Independent, 2013.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">* <i>Polivox</i>.
Independent, 2001.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">CINEMA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Satori Uso.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> Co-written
by Satori Uso, directed by Rodrigo Grota, based on the heteronym by Garcia
Lopes, Satori Uso, 2007.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">Recognition, awards,
public notices, creative grants and work carried out:</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">2023.</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Selected for The Foundation Jan Michalski Writer's Residency Program scheduled for September-October 2024 (Montricher, Switzerland).</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">2023. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Cultural
Merit Award from the Government of Santa Catarina, Brazil, for Artistic Career.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">2019. </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Literary Roadmap
- Paulo Leminski</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">, is one of the 3 winners of the Brazilian National Library
Award for Best Book (Literary Essay Category) 2018.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">2016. <i>Extraordinary
Experiences</i> finalist for two literary prizes: the Jabuti and the Oceanos
Prize for Literature.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">2015. <i>The Troubadour</i>
finalist in the São Paulo Literature Prize. Finalist for the Oceanos Prize.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">2007-2008-2009 - Invited
to be a Lecturer in the Department of Romance Languages at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill (USA).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">2007. <i>Satori Uso</i>
(a film co-written with Rodrigo Grota, the film's director), based on the
Japanese-Brazilian poet created by Garcia Lopes in 1985) wins 4 awards at the
Gramado Film Festival, the most important Brazilian film festival.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">2005. <i>Nomad</i> is a
finalist for Brazil's most traditional literary prize, the Jabuti, among the 10
best poetry books of 2004.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">2004. His translation <i>Leaves
of Grass</i> by Walt Whitman is a finalist for the Jabuti Prize in the Best
Translation category. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Solarium</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">
chosen by the Centre National du Livre (of the French Ministry of Culture) for
the Special Aid Program for Brazilian Literature.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">2004. His translation <i>Leaves
of Grass </i>by Walt Whitman is a finalist for the Jabuti Prize in the Best
Translation category. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Solarium</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">
chosen by the Centre National du Livre (of the French Ministry of Culture) for
the Special Aid Program for Brazilian Literature.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">2001. "Stanzas in
Meditation" is included in <i>The 100 Best Brazilian Poems of the Century</i>
(Objetiva).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">2012. Petrobras Literary
Creation Grant. For the research and writing of <i>Extraordinary Experiences</i> (poetry).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">2012. Invited to the
International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, USA. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Invited for Artist
Residency at The Hermitage Artist Retreat. Manasota Key, Florida, USA.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">2009. Funarte Literary Creation Grant, to complete
the research and writing of <i>The Troubadour.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">2007. Invited for Artist
Residency at The MacDowell Colony. New Hampshire, USA.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">2001-2014. One of the
editors, along with Marcos Losnak and Ademir Assunção, of the art and
literature magazine <i>Coyote</i>, one of the longest-running and most
important literary magazines in Brazil, funded by PROMIC - Londrina's Municipal
Culture Incentive Program. Department of Culture of Londrina City Hall. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">From May 1999 to January
2000. Capes Doctoral Scholarship. Brazilian Agency for the Support and
Evaluation of Higher Education. UFSC-Arizona State University.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">From May 1999 to January
2000. Capes Doctoral Scholarship. Brazilian Agency for the Support and
Evaluation of Higher Education. UFSC-Arizona State University. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">1999. Literary grant from
the Ministry of Culture and the National Library Foundation. To write <i>Polivox
</i>(poetry).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">1990-1991. Journalism
Scholarship. Rotary International Foundation. For the book of interviews <i>Voices
and Visions: A Panorama of North American Art and Culture Today</i>. Arizona
State University, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p>Rodrigo garcia Lopeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02971138033280007948noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34370981.post-22785164480684598432023-07-18T15:58:00.006-03:002023-07-18T15:58:54.141-03:00"Solidão" (Madan / Rodrigo Garcia Lopes): lançamento<iframe frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://youtube.com/embed/C822XHkce18" width="480"></iframe>Rodrigo garcia Lopeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02971138033280007948noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34370981.post-29083885261067365332023-06-20T11:27:00.001-03:002023-06-20T11:27:11.745-03:00Poemas Coligidos (1983-2020), de Rodrigo Garcia Lopes (Kotter Editorial, lançamento junho de 2023)<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4TQL1VcPc9KP0lt6TRyOM3ZJ6BApAXIZeit4e32pi992sYUTgVSuOwd_4weoWQh5taqjtj05mWvPPpnvHjVobg2cogLGilXoK-8CcktMyOcfk-VhZismdZJOnbZT1M5cXbaQ2NYpGfYOpaFmP90TcC1M4YcPdrbgG7KQ81Yz8BqHWvvraC23jJA/s2717/Capa_Poemas_Coligidos%20-%20Copia-min.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8gSC5DeaC9m5bHRbCJzkc7II39aC2QebVLlDn851AnFK-FDLvWJ0nmw7hHEod-Gx66vmxJ6jhIDim8UCIdHVxJwFcTaj1OOTHkFNWtn6ZFUKbp-s26yDJqvUHqQkXul-KeOMvgps9T1Q8KGGR0rNpMGH0JKuKXDzzzxYTlwHutUvUrL91Rg8/s797/3D_Poemas-Coligidos-1-600x797.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="797" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8gSC5DeaC9m5bHRbCJzkc7II39aC2QebVLlDn851AnFK-FDLvWJ0nmw7hHEod-Gx66vmxJ6jhIDim8UCIdHVxJwFcTaj1OOTHkFNWtn6ZFUKbp-s26yDJqvUHqQkXul-KeOMvgps9T1Q8KGGR0rNpMGH0JKuKXDzzzxYTlwHutUvUrL91Rg8/s320/3D_Poemas-Coligidos-1-600x797.png" width="241" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /> HABEMUS LIBER.<p></p><p>"POEMAS COLIGIDOS (1983-2020) já está finalmente disponível na Kotter Editorial.</p><p>632 páginas.</p><p>Reunião integral das obras:</p><p>Solarium (1994)</p><p>Visibilia (1997)</p><p>Polivox (2001)</p><p>Nômada (2004)</p><p>Estúdio Realidade (2013)</p><p>Experiências Extraordinárias (2015)</p><p>O Enigma das Ondas (2020)</p><p> Compre pelo site da Kotter:</p><p><a href="https://kotter.com.br/loja/poemas-coligidos1983-2020-rodrigo-garcia-lopes/" target="_blank">/kotter.com.br/loja/poemas-coligidos1983-2020-rodrigo-garcia-lopes/ </a></p><p>Pela Amazon:<a href=" https://www.amazon.com.br/Poemas-Coligidos-1983-2020-Rodrigo-Garcia/dp/6553610320/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_pt_BR=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&crid=A3WJIG6IVJS6&keywords=poemas+coligidos&qid=1684155414&sprefix=poemas+coligidos%2Caps%2C396&sr=8-1&ufe=app_do%3Aamzn1.fos.6a09f7ec-d911-4889-ad70-de8dd83c8a74"></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">☞ "POEMAS COLIGIDOS (1983-2020)" (reunião de 7 livros, 632 páginas) sai em janeiro de 2023 pela KOTTER EDITORIAL (Curitiba).<br /></span>PRÉ-VENDA no link<br />☞<br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xt0b8zv x1fey0fg" href="http://kotter.com.br/loja/poemas-coligidos1983-2020-rodrigo-garcia-lopes/?fbclid=IwAR0XKc4TWPLxnzmZlUo4bKD7oMNstzgMTD_u-kaL_SljxtZ4EpV31KTAxbE" rel="nofollow noopener" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">http://kotter.com.br/.../poemas-coligidos1983-2020.../<br /></a></span><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Disponível para envio a partir da primeira quinzena de janeiro.</span></div>Rodrigo garcia Lopeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02971138033280007948noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34370981.post-76052634345999605922022-07-21T12:08:00.001-03:002022-07-21T12:08:27.994-03:00Podcast do Itaú Cultural "Pedra de Toque: A Poesia Brasileira Brasileira Contemporânea": depoimento de Rodrigo Garcia Lopes<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Depoimento
ao podcast "Pedra de Toque: a Poesia Brasileira Contemporânea", do
Itaú Cultural, já está no site e no Spotify (concedido em 30 de agosto de
2021). Apresentação, entrevista e edição: Ademir Assunção.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Link:
<a href="https://www.itaucultural.org.br/secoes/podcasts/rodrigo-garcia-lopes-pedra-de-toque">https://www.itaucultural.org.br/secoes/podcasts/rodrigo-garcia-lopes-pedra-de-toque</a></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Paranaense
de Londrina (PR), Rodrigo Garcia Lopes é poeta, romancista, tradutor,
jornalista e compositor. As primeiras leituras de gibis, como <i>Os Sobrinhos do
Capitão</i>, <i>Tarzan</i> e <i>Mandrake</i>, a descoberta da poesia de Vinícius de Moraes,
Rimbaud, Emily Dickinson e dos poetas concretos, além das influências de Ezra
Pound, Walt Whitman e dos poetas da Beat Generation são alguns dos temas deste
depoimento ao Pedra de Toque. Rodrigo afirma também que seu estilo é não ter um
estilo único, lamenta a superficialidade na discussão da poesia atualmente, lê
poemas de William Carlos Williams, Elizabeth Bishop e Carlos Drummond de
Andrade e termina lendo poemas próprios do livro, O enigma das ondas.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><i>Pedra
de toque</i> é publicado semanalmente, sempre às quartas-feiras. Ouça todos os
episódios clicando aqui ou em aplicativos especializados, como o Spotify, no
celular ou no computador – basta pesquisar o nome do programa. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Depoimento
gravado em 30 de agosto de 2021.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.itaucultural.org.br/secoes/podcasts/rodrigo-garcia-lopes-pedra-de-toque"></a></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGttQNzWhuP5eQVONvVoWExBKyW38xBqTK1kfxA_EbqjWFBcL0gYGwqNh80e6qcDuuhbR7JXUggAfMkrNgavelE74T6PSxgEgfuyzA-8U8RMzyzIdGDJgI-a4tik46txOO8LVgLNJbkGCQFs5mCfqcgbmHPz0LmuLSz8j7MTy8Wjn05BWK_98/s1400/pedra%20de%20toque.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1400" data-original-width="1400" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGttQNzWhuP5eQVONvVoWExBKyW38xBqTK1kfxA_EbqjWFBcL0gYGwqNh80e6qcDuuhbR7JXUggAfMkrNgavelE74T6PSxgEgfuyzA-8U8RMzyzIdGDJgI-a4tik46txOO8LVgLNJbkGCQFs5mCfqcgbmHPz0LmuLSz8j7MTy8Wjn05BWK_98/s320/pedra%20de%20toque.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span><p></p>Rodrigo garcia Lopeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02971138033280007948noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34370981.post-20859516180861234782022-07-05T21:43:00.001-03:002022-07-05T21:43:36.404-03:00Poemas Coligidos(1983-2020) - Rodrigo Garcia Lopes - Kotter Editorial<a href="https://kotter.com.br/loja/poemas-coligidos1983-2020-rodrigo-garcia-lopes/#.YsTapdrNd5k.blogger">Poemas Coligidos(1983-2020) - Rodrigo Garcia Lopes - Kotter Editorial</a>: PRÉ- VENDA Disponível a partir da segunda quinzena de agosto *** Esta edição especial da Kotter Editorial reúne, pela primeira vez, a poesia completa de um dos mais importantes poetas brasileiros contemporâneos em um único volume, compartilhando uma trajetória de quatro décadas dedicada à arte do verso. Reunião das obras Solarium (1994) Visibilia (1997) Polivox (2001) Nômada (2004) Estúdio Realidade (2013) Experiências Extraordinárias (2015) O Enigma das Ondas (2020) *** “Rodrigo Garcia Lopes, o Satori Uso, é um dos mais notáveis poetas paranaenses da safra novíssima. Me impressiona a falta de provincianismo, a abertura cosmopolita, a coragem da informação difícil, o extremo atrevimento desse londrinense, nada indigno do pioneirismo que levantou, naquela terra vermelha, a cidade mais rápida do Brasil”. Paulo Leminski, Correio de Notícias, 16/11/1985 “Depois de ler os poemas de Rodrigo Garcia Lopes, não tenho a menor hesitação em afirmar coisas grandiloquentes como: ele é um dos melhores poetas surgidos ultimamente neste país”. Caio Fernando Abreu, “Caderno 2”, O Estado de S. Paulo, 14/3/1988 “Polivox é um experimento investigativo da linguagem, assumindo a vida como a mais agressiva das artes. Ocorre a frequente mudança de tom, desenvol...Rodrigo garcia Lopeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02971138033280007948noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34370981.post-39259626643065138112022-06-02T00:24:00.002-03:002022-06-02T00:24:41.576-03:00No jornal Plural<h1 style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.plural.jor.br/colunas/ostranenie/ostranenie-a-road-poem/"> https://www.plural.jor.br/colunas/ostranenie/ostranenie-a-road-poem/</a></h1><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="headings" style="-webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; border-left: 10px solid rgb(252, 192, 1); box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; margin-bottom: 1rem; padding-left: 1rem;"><h1 style="box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: Domine, serif; font-size: 2.5rem; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0.5rem; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">OSTRANENIE, a road poem</h1><div class="article-excerpt" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: "Libre Franklin", sans-serif; font-size: 1.2rem;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Я спускаюсь в какой-то древней русской деревне (Desço em algum antigo vilarejo russo)</p></div><div class="byline-autor" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; width: 1084px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box;">Por <a href="https://www.plural.jor.br/author/rodrigo-garcia-lopes/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #d95058; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Rodrigo Garcia Lopes</a></div></div></div><div class="row" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: -15px; margin-right: -15px;"><div class="col-md-8 article-news-body" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 66.6667%; line-height: 2; max-width: 66.6667%; min-height: 1px; padding: 15px; position: relative; width: 760px;"><figure style="box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; 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object-fit: cover; width: 640px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><img alt="O londrinense Rodrigo Garcia Lopes concorre ao prêmio com o livro de poesias "O Enigma das Ondas"" data-src="/img/normal/3090000/Paranaenses-estao-entre-os-semifinalistas-do-Premi0309916400202108291901.jpg?xid=5468936" src="https://www.folhadelondrina.com.br/img/normal/3090000/Paranaenses-estao-entre-os-semifinalistas-do-Premi0309916400202108291901-sm.jpg?xid=5468936" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; object-fit: cover; width: 640px;" /></span><figcaption style="background: linear-gradient(transparent 0%, rgb(0, 0, 0) 150%); bottom: 0px; color: #707070; font-style: italic; padding-bottom: 10px; position: absolute; width: -webkit-fill-available;"><h2 style="color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 15px; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5) 2px 2px; white-space: initial;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">O londrinense Rodrigo Garcia Lopes concorre ao prêmio com o livro de poesias "O Enigma das Ondas"</span></h2><h4 style="color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px 15px; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5) 2px 2px; white-space: initial;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Elisabete Ghisleni/ Divulgação</span></h4></figcaption></figure></div></div><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Dois escritores paranaenses estão entre os semifinalistas do Prêmio Oceanos 2021. Cristovão Tezza e Rodrigo Garcia Lopes integram a lista divulgada na última quinta-feira (26) que traz os 54 classificados para a próxima etapa da premiação que contou com 1.835 inscritos. Participam da disputa autores de cinco países de língua portuguesa: Angola, Brasil, Cabo Verde, Moçambique e Portugal. Até o mês de novembro serão conhecidos os dez finalistas e, em dezembro, os três grandes vencedores que dividirão a soma de R$ 250 mil em prêmios. O livro vencedor receberá R$ 120 mil; o segundo colocado, R$ 80 mil; e o terceiro, R$ 50 mil. <br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span></p><figure style="margin: 0px; object-fit: cover; width: 640px;"><div class="imagenormal"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><img alt="Cristovão Tezza concorre na categoria romance com "A Tensão Superficial do Tempo"" data-src="/img/inline/3090000/Paranaenses-estao-entre-os-semifinalistas-do-Premi0309916400202108291901.jpg?xid=5468942" src="https://www.folhadelondrina.com.br/img/inline/3090000/Paranaenses-estao-entre-os-semifinalistas-do-Premi0309916400202108291901-sm.jpg?xid=5468942" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; object-fit: cover; width: 640px;" /></span></div><figcaption style="color: #707070; font-style: italic; padding-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Cristovão Tezza concorre na categoria romance com "A Tensão Superficial do Tempo" | Theo Marques/ Folhapress</span></figcaption></figure><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Nascido em Lages, Santa Catarina e morando em Curitiba desde os 8 anos de idade, Cristovão Tezza concorre ao Prêmio Oceanos 2021 com o romance “A tensão superficial do tempo”, lançado em 2020 pela editora Todavia. Romancista, contista, cronista e ensaísta, Tezza é autor de mais de 20 livros publicados no Brasil e traduzidos em 18 países. Já o londrinense Rodrigo Garcia Lopes disputa a premiação com o livro de poesias “O enigma das ondas”, publicado em 2020 pela editora Iluminuras e que reúne alguns poemas escritos durante a pandemia. A obra será lançada em Portugal no começo de 2022 pela Officium Lectionis Edições, do Porto. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">“Fico feliz em estar na lista dos 54 semifinalistas concorrendo com 1.835 obras de todos os continentes. Já fui finalista de vários prêmios, como o Jabuti, o Prêmio São Paulo de Literatura e o próprio Oceanos em outras edições. A gente sempre tem expectativa de avançar para as etapas seguintes. É uma premiação respeitada que ajuda muito na divulgação do próprio trabalho, principalmente no Brasil, onde as pessoas têm o hábito de prestar atenção em determinado autor apenas depois que ele recebeu um prêmio”, destaca Lopes. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span></p><figure style="margin: 0px; object-fit: cover; width: 640px;"><div class="imagenormal"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><img alt="O londrinense Rodrigo Garcia Lopes concorre ao prêmio com o livro de poesias "O Enigma das Ondas"" data-src="/img/inline/3090000/Paranaenses-estao-entre-os-semifinalistas-do-Premi0309916401202108291901.jpg?xid=5468943" src="https://www.folhadelondrina.com.br/img/inline/3090000/Paranaenses-estao-entre-os-semifinalistas-do-Premi0309916401202108291901-sm.jpg?xid=5468943" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; object-fit: cover; width: 640px;" /></span></div><figcaption style="color: #707070; font-style: italic; padding-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">O londrinense Rodrigo Garcia Lopes concorre ao prêmio com o livro de poesias "O Enigma das Ondas" | Elisabete Ghisleni/ Divulgação</span></figcaption></figure><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Autor de 18 livros e dois álbuns musicais, o escritor que atualmente reside em Santa Catarina ressalta ainda que estar entre os semifinalistas do Prêmio Oceanos dá um ânimo a mais para dar continuidade ao trabalho de escritor iniciado em 1984. “É uma esperança de que ainda há vida inteligente no Brasil, onde nos últimos dois anos a gente tem visto a cultura e o meio ambiente sendo devastados”, enfatiza ao informar que aguarda com boas expectativas a divulgação dos autores selecionados no Prêmio Jabuti e no Prêmio da Biblioteca Nacional cujo resultados, segundo ele, devem sair nos próximos dias. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Além das obras dos autores paranaenses, o Brasil está representado no Prêmio Oceanos 2021 por 16 romances, sete livros de poesia e sete de contos, totalizando 30 obras. Portugal classificou 20 livros, sendo oito romances, sete livros de poesia, três de crônicas, um de contos e uma dramaturgia. Dos países de língua portuguesa do continente africano – Angola, Cabo Verde e Moçambique – foram eleitos três romances, um de cada país. O asiático Timor-Leste contou com um romance na lista. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Entre os semifinalistas de todos os países de língua portuguesa, estão nomes já consagrados, como o angolano José Eduardo Agualusa, o cabo-verdiano Germano Almeida e o moçambicano Mia Couto. Na edição de 2021, os 54 semifinalistas do Prêmio Oceanos foram selecionados entre os meses de maio e agosto por um júri formado por 95 professores de literatura, críticos literários, escritores, poetas e jornalistas dos cinco países de língua portuguesa.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">O Júri Inicial elegeu, por votação interna, os 14 jurados que irão compor os dois júris subsequentes. Entre agosto e novembro, o Júri Intermediário, composto por sete desses profissionais, analisará as obras semifinalistas para eleger dez finalistas. Outros sete jurados que integram o Júri final elegerão entre novembro e o início de dezembro, os três vencedores. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Para dar a conhecer os 54 livros semifinalistas do prêmio, o Oceanos acaba de lançar o seu canal no Spotify, onde, nos próximos meses, os autores das obras selecionadas serão convidados a apresentar brevemente os seus livros. O link para acessar o podcast fica disponível no site do Itaú Cultural www.itaucultural.org.br. O Oceanos tem patrocínio do Banco Itaú, do Instituto Cultural Vale e da DGLAB – Direção-Geral dos Livros, dos Arquivos e das Bibliotecas, da República de Portugal; o apoio do Itaú Cultural – responsável pela governança do prêmio – e do Ministério da Cultura e das Indústrias Criativas de Cabo Verde, e o apoio institucional da CP</span><span style="font-size: 1.1em;">LP. </span></p></div></div></article></div><p></p>Rodrigo garcia Lopeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02971138033280007948noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34370981.post-15448588000649289712021-04-18T12:54:00.000-03:002021-04-18T12:54:07.264-03:00Arrigo Barnabé, programa Supertônica (Rádio Cultura FM-São Paulo): "O enigma das ondas"<p> </p><section id="programas-box-info" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #606060; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; 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vertical-align: baseline;">O Enigma das Ondas, de Rodrigo Garcia Lopes</h2><p style="border: 0px; font-family: "PT Sans", sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 15px 0px 20px; max-width: 95%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Improvisações da quarentena trazem poesia e música em edição fluida</p><br /><span class="author" style="border: 0px; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Cultura FM - 103,3</span><br /><small style="border: 0px; display: block; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 50px 20px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">17/04/2021 23h05</small><div style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; 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width: 768px;"><cite style="background: rgb(66, 66, 66); border: 0px; bottom: 0px; color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 5px; position: absolute; right: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Gravura de Katsushika Hokusai/ Reprodução da Internet</cite><small style="border: 0px; bottom: -20px; color: #4bb458; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; vertical-align: baseline;">A Grande Onda de Kanagawa</small></figcaption></figure><article style="border: 0px; color: #606060; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 15px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />Ouça o Programa Completo: </span></p><figure style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><iframe allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="50" src="https://player.mais.uol.com.br/?mediaId=16916630&type=audio" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="100%"></iframe></figure><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 15px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><br />Poemas escolhidos de “O Enigma das Ondas”, de Rodrigo Garcia Lopes (Editora Iluminuras, 2020), é o ponto de partida para esta audição sem paradas, realizada em mais uma semana de isolamento. Numa grande colagem, o texto evoca paisagens sonoras e fragmentos de Orfeo, de Monteverdi, do Quarteto n. 8, de Shostakovitch, da Marcha Fúnebre da Sinfonia n. 1, de Gustav Mahler, do Prelúdio a Colón, do compositor colombiano Julián Carrillo e do Lied para clarineta, de Luciano Berio.</p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 15px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Programa apresentado originalmente em 17 de abril de 2021.<br /><br /> O programa <a href="https://cultura.uol.com.br/radio/programas/supertonica/" style="border: 0px; color: #606060; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Supertônica</span></a><a href="https://cultura.uol.com.br/radio/programas/supertonica/" style="border: 0px; color: #606060; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></a>, com apresentação do Arrigo Barnabé, vai ao ar todo Sábado, às 23h pela <a href="http://culturafm.cmais.com.br/" style="border: 0px; color: #606060; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Rádio <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Cultura FM</span></a> de São Paulo, 103,3 e no aplicativo Cultura Digital.</p></article>Rodrigo garcia Lopeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02971138033280007948noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34370981.post-67473242357325022892021-01-08T12:25:00.002-03:002021-01-08T12:25:25.653-03:00"O enigma das ondas", de Rodrigo Garcia Lopes, por Maria Esther Maciel<p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRTO8gdwJhw1fhn4cM9SMW_dWH9ZfIBKmNqRog7-LoOrXMzMSgHbA6oOlhLOaZ5PUd4HfWyEi9qiXFK0DkF7sV0KjFUvH2yKBLNQo0BXps0mBPMRKgwLSdTbq5d1y2jNESy16fRw/s1261/maria+esther+indicaccoes.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1261" data-original-width="720" height="404" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRTO8gdwJhw1fhn4cM9SMW_dWH9ZfIBKmNqRog7-LoOrXMzMSgHbA6oOlhLOaZ5PUd4HfWyEi9qiXFK0DkF7sV0KjFUvH2yKBLNQo0BXps0mBPMRKgwLSdTbq5d1y2jNESy16fRw/w309-h404/maria+esther+indicaccoes.jpg" width="309" /></a></div><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">A poeta e ensaísta mineira Maria Esther Maciel seleciona - e justifica - as leituras que mais a impactaram ent</span><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">re os livros publicados em 2020". No caderno "Pensar", do Estado de Minas, hoje:</span></span></div><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: white;">"O enigma das ondas" (Editora iluminuras) está lá:</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: white;">____________________________________________________</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><div style="text-align: justify;">"O enigma das ondas", de Rodrigo Garcia Lopes</div></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><div style="text-align: justify;">(Iluminuras)</div></span></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><div style="text-align: justify;">"Escrever poemas nesta hora do mundo é enfrentar o inferno de uma realidade quase absurda. Escrever sobre a hora do mundo é ainda mais que um ato de coragem: requer uma lucidez crítica que não se renda à mera denúncia e indignação, mas aponte vias criativas de se lidar com os tempos infernais que vivemos. Rodrigo Garcia Lopes, neste livro, vai fundo na sua leitura do presente, com elegância e alta voltagem estética, sem qualquer estridência. Seus poemas, atravessados de densidade conceitual e referências instigantes, vêm atestar a maturidade de um poeta (também exímio tradutor) que, se valendo de múltiplos registros – líricos, irônicos, reflexivos, entre outros –, se consolida, com este seu sétimo livro de poesia, como uma das vozes mais influentes do cenário poético brasileiro atual".</div></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl py34i1dx gpro0wi8" href="https://www.em.com.br/app/noticia/pensar/2021/01/08/interna_pensar,1227046/confira-a-lista-de-maria-esther-maciel-durante-a-pandemia.shtml?fbclid=IwAR0wFeGgkV20T7Vr_lXmuoPChe6pVA6MP8Xc1mV3YI0QyIJrWETFCVds7vo" rel="nofollow noopener" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">https://www.em.com.br/.../confira-a-lista-de-maria-esther...</a></div></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><div style="text-align: justify;">#editorailuminuras</div></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span></span><p></p><div class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl oo9gr5id gpro0wi8 lrazzd5p" role="button" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: 600; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0"><span style="color: white;">Ver menos</span></div>Rodrigo garcia Lopeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02971138033280007948noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34370981.post-62258251690391594862020-12-04T12:36:00.002-03:002020-12-04T12:36:24.571-03:00Resenha de Jotabê Medeiros de "O enigma das ondas" (Iluminuras, 2020), de Rodrigo Garcia Lopes<p> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: justify;"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 127.5pt; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">O
novo livro do autor e tradutor Rodrigo Garcia Lopes reflete sobre a condição do
poeta num mundo convulsionado<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 127.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Por </span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Jotabê
Medeiros</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> (Blog
Farofafá, Carta Capital)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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poeta Rodrigo Garcia Lopes, que lança O Enigma das Ondas, seu sétimo livro
(Crédito: Elisabete Ghisleni)<o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 127.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 127.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">Entre os poetas de espíritos mais
contestadores da atualidade, destaca-se o nome do paranaense Rodrigo Garcia
Lopes, reconhecido artesão do rigor formal. Inimigo do eufemismo e dos
salamaleques literários, sua obra tem se caracterizado por um movimento em
direção à superação do invólucro que geralmente interpõem entre o cotidiano
instantâneo e a literatura. Não por acaso, o autor também faz música popular,
inserindo-se num lugar de fronteira difusa entre gêneros artísticos.</span></p>
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O Enigma das Ondas</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">, o sétimo livro do poeta, é
principalmente uma blitz satírica em torno do ofício de escrever, da
contingência de ter que dizer coisas em forma de poema. O prefácio é de um dos
maiores escritores brasileiros da atualidade, Silviano Santiago, autor de
Machado. Tradutor de Walt Whitman, Sylvia Plath, Rimbaud e outros autores,
Rodrigo Garcia reflete sobre a própria incumbência de manuseador da palavra,
zombando da pose, da premeditação, do cálculo, da idealização do leitor. A
morte do Autor, ainda vivo, é a forma mais eficaz e moderna de queima de
arquivo, escreve.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 127.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> Numa interpretação literal, o título de <i>O Enigma das Ondas</i> pode remeter ao mar.
Mas há também uma correspondência com o sentido das ondas na física, as ondas
elementares que oferecem múltiplas interpretações e ampla variedade de
contradições (como a possibilidade de estar em dois lugares ao mesmo tempo). A
menor distância entre dois pontos / não é você, Ego, seu tonto. // Céus, que
luta mais inútil / se pode travar num papel?
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 127.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> O trabalho de traduzir do latim os
epigramas do romano Marcial, incumbência que o escritor concluiu no ano
passado, trouxe um eco à poesia de Lopes. Ele despeja sarcasmo em cima de
poetas que falam mais do que escrevem e encharca de atualidade os seus epigramas
contemporâneos (<i>Isso é namorar uma reaça:
/ quando Léia me beija nunca sei / se é carinho ou ameaça</i>).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 127.5pt; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">
O Enigma das Ondas</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> é um livro fundamental da poesia que
persiste e resiste no ano melancólico de 2020. Além de abordar, é claro, a
pandemia, exorta um sentimento de rígida moralidade sobre a postura distanciada
do artista num mundo em convulsão. Garcia Lopes propõe alguma dedicação moral
para compreender o lugar no mundo: <i>Substitua
a arrogante arte da recusa / pela simples e grata aceitação das coisas</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 127.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> Apesar desse extrato zen, o livro é também
uma declaração de combate ao verso empolado (“quando vejo um poeta usar a
palavra enleio/ no ato já sei o que fazer/ nem leio”) e aos artifícios da
linguagem – ele chega a comparar estilos com metáfora de atletismo,
emparelhando o poeta fundista, que corre longas distâncias, ao poeta do sprint,
capaz de arrancadas impressionantes. Nem todos os poetas são iguais. Alguns
abusam.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 127.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> Com um senso de urgência análogo ao da
poesia beat, <i>O Enigma das Ondas</i>
reverencia os mestres, mas desta vez para refutar a profunda alienação do
artista. Como na citação de Ezra Pound que abre um dos poemas: <i>A linguagem nebulosa dos trapaceiros serve
apenas a objetivos temporários</i>. Nascido em Londrina, em 1965, Rodrigo
Garcia Lopes foi professor de literatura nos Estados Unidos e é autor, entre
outros, de <i>O Trovador</i> (2014) e <i>Experiências Extraordinárias</i> (2015),
além de ter sido premiado pela Fundação Biblioteca Nacional em 2019 por ensaio
literário sobre Paulo Leminski.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 127.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">*****<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 127.5pt; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">O Enigma das Ondas</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">.
De Rodrigo Garcia Lopes. Iluminuras, 152 págs., 53 reais.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 127.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">*****<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 127.5pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSTU71yTDSC5ee_eK43JKrYLTAzs4fvmt90CtRC0zudOBL_Z-FsHboX_MWJNezB31GSXWistf9nuCvhyR7rEgsqfWzrKFJixqQLLVZo4-rsTfiBblPNF5jKn2X2_T5szS0dq43uA/s3264/20201008_152108.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10.6667px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3264" data-original-width="2448" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSTU71yTDSC5ee_eK43JKrYLTAzs4fvmt90CtRC0zudOBL_Z-FsHboX_MWJNezB31GSXWistf9nuCvhyR7rEgsqfWzrKFJixqQLLVZo4-rsTfiBblPNF5jKn2X2_T5szS0dq43uA/s320/20201008_152108.jpg" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 127.5pt; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">O
Enigma das Ondas</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">.
De Rodrigo Garcia Lopes. Iluminuras, 152 págs., 53 reais. Link: <o:p></o:p></span><a href="https://www.editorailuminuras.com.br/o-enigma-das-ondas" style="text-align: left;">O enigma das ondas (editorailuminuras.com.br)</a></p><div class="td-pb-row" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: -24px; margin-right: -24px; position: relative;"><div class="td-pb-span12 td-main-content" role="main" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: left; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 24px; position: relative; width: 1116px;"><div class="td-ss-main-content" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="td-post-content tagdiv-type" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Volkhov; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px;"><div class="sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both;"><div class="robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em;"><div class="sd-content" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;"><li class="share-end" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; display: inline-block; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"></li></ul></div></div></div></div><footer style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div class="td-post-source-tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 11px;"><ul class="td-tags td-post-small-box clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: left; display: table; font-family: "Open Sans", arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 600; height: 20px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; float: left; line-height: 20px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px;"></li></ul></div></footer></div></div></div>Rodrigo garcia Lopeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02971138033280007948noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34370981.post-3668646307540647072020-10-23T21:34:00.003-03:002020-10-23T21:36:25.301-03:00Mulher da Multidão (Rodrigo Garcia Lopes)<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NZyE1YYu-Ds" width="320" youtube-src-id="NZyE1YYu-Ds"></iframe></div><br /> <p></p>Rodrigo garcia Lopeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02971138033280007948noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34370981.post-39491159048791694002020-10-21T11:03:00.009-03:002020-10-21T11:06:22.712-03:00Sobre "O enigma das ondas" (poesia, lançamento Edtora Iluminuras)<p> </p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-no-proof: yes;"><br /><!--[endif]--></span></i></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFVcG_xffF8DmdoWnDHgiIzcHg_TUrhfuAjWdePubsxQJjX4HCTVxRrkqB2RYDPag26oJlhy-aNdCEXXD7Zz4iKKS2kF6Ru9F5eVJIg9915tKIo3Xw1Asrkds6lHFEGWIC0DEwnQ/s3264/20201008_154417.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFVcG_xffF8DmdoWnDHgiIzcHg_TUrhfuAjWdePubsxQJjX4HCTVxRrkqB2RYDPag26oJlhy-aNdCEXXD7Zz4iKKS2kF6Ru9F5eVJIg9915tKIo3Xw1Asrkds6lHFEGWIC0DEwnQ/s320/20201008_154417.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></i></b></div><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><br /></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></span><p></p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></b><o:p> <br /></o:p><i>O enigma das ondas</i><br />O que estão falando sobre o livro</h2>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Parece não haver
tema capaz de intimidar o poeta londrinense: de delações premiadas até a
pandemia do coronavírus, ele mostra como é possível fazer uma poesia que é tão rigorosa
na forma quanto urgente no conteúdo”.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Irinêo Baptista Neto, jornal Plural<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“Um livro maravilhoso. Uma coleção de poemas primorosa: alta
voltagem estética, temas múltiplos (as questões políticas entram com elegância,
sem estridência), densidade conceitual e referências instigantes”. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Maria Esther Maciel<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“A força deste mundo pandêmico controla indiscriminadamente
O enigma das ondas, seu fatal desafiador”. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Silviano Santiago<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“Li e reli, com toda a atenção, os poemas de Rodrigo e, para
minha grande surpresa, descobri em seu conjunto, uma trama que os configura e
—<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>para mim —<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>os sustenta. Não é que eles se formam, se
desenvolvem, se armam, explodem e se aplacam como uma grande vaga?”. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Aurora Bernardini<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“Em O enigma das ondas Rodrigo Garcia Lopes vai fundo em seu
mergulho pelos tempos atuais. As notícias renovam suas surpresas, mas a
situação não muda. É também esse o espírito de um poema sobre o filme “O
Feitiço do Tempo”, em que Bill Murray acordava sempre no mesmo dia do ano. Com
grande perícia, Rodrigo Garcia Lopes emprega a forma da sextina.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Marcelo Coelho, Folha de S. Paulo<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“O enigma das ondas exige que o leitor vá além da diversão
rumo aos problemas que uma poética deve encerrar”.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Jardel Dias Cavalcanti e Ronald Polito, em Digestivo
Cultural<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“O autor olha para os conturbados episódios dos dias atuais
como acontecimentos do passado. Faz do distanciamento uma lente de lucidez que
abraça todas as possibilidades do pensar e do sentir”.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Marcos Losnak, Folha de Londrina<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“O poeta envereda por uma certa linha de ação, não se
impedindo idas à história da literatura, nem à atualidade, inclusive pandêmica,
nem à vida interior. Há versos maravilhosos, num outro poema, sobre as relações
da vida com as palavras...”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Leda Tenório da Motta <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“Poesia honesta e da melhor qualidade, com textos que ao
mesmo tempo confrontam, afligem e atraem – como as efêmeras e concretas e
enigmáticas ondas do mar”. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Luciano Trigo, Gazeta do Povo<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“Especialmente em tempos de pandemonium e pandemia, seu
enigma em forma de onda nos leva a realizar o melhor aéreo reverso da
sensibilidade. [...] Uma onda é um monumento momentâneo. Mas O enigma das ondas
durará”.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Vitor Ramil<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“Um convite corajoso, o da existência e persistência da
poesia em tempos tão sombrios”.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Diana Junkes, Revista CULT<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“Um dos grandes livros da década, e não apenas de poesia”.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Adalberto Muller<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“Um momento alto da poesia brasileira recente".<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Samuel Leon<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“Li o novo livro de poemas de Rodrigo Garcia Lopes. Pela
pegada, pelo que falam os poemas desse nosso momento de caos (mostrando que a
poesia pode falar de tudo), por seu lirismo transcendente, é já (na minha
opinião) um dos melhores livros de poesia do ano, se não for o melhor (acho que
sim). Faço minhas as palavras do grande compositor Vitor Ramil sobre "O
Enigma das Ondas". Leiam e supreendam-se!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Maurício Arruda Mendonça<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“Por ironia, a obra consolidada em tempos de isolamento
severo é seu trabalho com mais vasos comunicantes. [...] Importa saber que O
enigma das ondas é filho admirável de uma Idade de Trevas”. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">José Carlos Fernandes, Revista Pinó<o:p></o:p></p><br /><p></p>Rodrigo garcia Lopeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02971138033280007948noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34370981.post-88831155291897789192020-10-13T13:26:00.002-03:002020-10-13T13:31:21.377-03:00O enigma das ondas: sobre o livro<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoiDMf_YMkh3IA__4U2DCnzLhZ0Y34GZj59e_cr_TCKSiPnrdIzLYGA_KNw3XbFrb7SjMF0W7mneZQADnrTvabL68Enbfg98UrxH-QXstVqUCs-TLuFf_QIyDLOscV5PUDoamGEQ/s2048/Release+2+O+Enigma.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1448" height="684" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoiDMf_YMkh3IA__4U2DCnzLhZ0Y34GZj59e_cr_TCKSiPnrdIzLYGA_KNw3XbFrb7SjMF0W7mneZQADnrTvabL68Enbfg98UrxH-QXstVqUCs-TLuFf_QIyDLOscV5PUDoamGEQ/w470-h684/Release+2+O+Enigma.jpg" width="470" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>Rodrigo garcia Lopeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02971138033280007948noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34370981.post-14564693172901646352020-10-06T16:47:00.023-03:002020-10-06T18:15:19.274-03:00Revista CULT: resenha de ‘O enigma das ondas’, de Rodrigo Garcia Lopes, por Diana Junkes <p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://revistacult.uol.com.br/home/rodrigo-garcia-lopes-uma-leitura/">https://revistacult.uol.com.br/home/rodrigo-garcia-lopes-uma-leitura/</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Revista CULT:</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: georgia; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Poesia, doa a
quem doer: uma leitura de ‘O enigma das ondas’, de Rodrigo Garcia Lopes</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 120.4pt 12pt 0cm;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b> </b><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 120.4pt 12pt 0cm;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">O enigma das ondas,
de Rodrigo Garcia Lopes, <a href="http://revistacult.uol.com.br/home/rodrigo-garcia-lopes-o-enigma-das-ondas/">recém-publicado pela Iluminuras</a>, traz ao
leitor um convite corajoso, o da existência e persistência da poesia em tempos
tão sombrios. Mais que isso, sem deixar de doer, sangrar e denunciar as mazelas
que nos assolam no tempo presente e mesmo as históricas, há uma profunda
reflexão sobre o tempo, sobre o amor e o silêncio, perpassando a obra, ocultos
nas ondas, em seus ouvidos invisíveis que nos ouvem há milênios, e nos devolvem
em seu murmurejo constante, a nós mesmos, mas que um sentido, os sentidos, a
visão, o olfato, o paladar, o tato e, claro, a audição, a voz. É o que sugere o
poema que encerra o livro e dá título a ele, “Enigma das ondas”:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 120.4pt 12pt 0cm;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 120.4pt 12pt 0cm;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">[…]<br />
Sei que as ondas nos escutam (falando,<br />
sozinhos nas praias, cegos a seus acenos)<br />
há milhares e milhares de anos<br />
com uma paciência que não temos.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 120.4pt 12pt 0cm;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Sei que sob a lua, exaustas, confessam,<br />
quando recuam, mudas, em poças,<br />
e cumprem sua líquida promessa:<br />
A língua que falam é a nossa.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 120.4pt 12pt 0cm;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 120.4pt 12pt 0cm;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Essa língua falada e ao mesmo tempo inaudível aos
ouvidos insensíveis não é outra senão a própria lalangue,
que como ensina <a href="http://revistacult.uol.com.br/home/haroldo-de-campos-o-constelizador/">Haroldo de Campos</a> em O afreudisíaco Lacan na galáxia de lalíngua, é a língua do inconsciente tensionada em função
poética, materialidade pura feita de palavras que performam a si mesmas, ainda
quando o poeta as renega para encontrar sabiamente o amparo solidário do
silêncio. Solidão e silêncio são companheiros inseparáveis em muitos dos versos
de Garcia Lopes. Mas engana-se quem espera dessa conjunção entreguismo ou
tristeza. Solidão e silêncio são parte da subjetividade poética, constituem-na
e por ela são constituídos, engendram versos, orquestram enjambements. Talvez
arriscasse dizer que entre tantos, aí está um leitmotiv caro ao livro todo.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 120.4pt 12pt 0cm;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">O enigma das ondas,
diz Vitor Ramil, na quarta capa, “nos leva a realizar o melhor aéreo reverso da
sensibilidade”. E é disso que se trata também quando se fala da coragem. Em um
mundo mesquinho e pautado pelas mentiras, mais ainda do que pelo que talvez se
chama “pós-verdade”, a que um poema do livro se refere, a sensibilidade deve
nos manter vivos, atentos, destemidos. Não sentir não é uma opção. Isso nos
ensina O enigma das ondas,
mais que um aprendizado da experiência, é um aprendizado da escuta, da partilha
e da interrogação da experiência, seja pela via mais lírica, seja pela via do
humor ou da ironia, expedientes que o poeta maneja com maestria. Diz <a href="http://revistacult.uol.com.br/home/a-comedia-das-letras-de-silviano-santiago/">Silviano Santiago</a> na apresentação que “A
página em branco é uma onda vivaz e espumosa, a caminho do túnel”; e o túnel
somos nós, leitores, por onde a palavra penetra sutilmente, abruptamente, sob o
murmúrio das ondas ou dos vagalhões. É também a poesia, seu acesso, seu exílio
em si ao mesmo tempo que arraigada na história, na memória e nas utopias, na
“Vontade de crer”:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 120.4pt 12pt 0cm;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 120.4pt 12pt 0cm;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">[…]<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 120.4pt 12pt 0cm;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Acabou a caneta, o vinho tinto.<br />
O esplendor será secreto.<br />
O espelho nunca esteve tão sozinho.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 120.4pt 12pt 0cm;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Mas tudo vai dar certo.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 120.4pt 12pt 0cm;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 120.4pt 12pt 0cm;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Aqui, a vontade de crer se afirma em “tudo vai dar
certo”, à primeira vista, mesmo considerando certo acento irônico; as rimas
toantes e, claro, o equilíbrio que engendram rimas nas últimas palavras dos
versos, ainda sonham com um mundo apolíneo, não pela ordem e pela perfeição, as
rimas toantes são imperfeitas, mas um mundo em que o diálogo prevaleça – as
rimas toantes são a figurativização do diálogo no poema, pois em sua diferença,
harmonizam. E já nos ensinou <a href="https://revistacult.uol.com.br/home/tag/walter-benjamin">Walter Benjamin</a>, em A crítica da violência que onde há entendimento, não há crueldade. As
rimas toantes, neste poema, mostram que a diferença é também o laço, o lastro
que reitera que tudo vai dar certo, são por assim dizer, o próprio
entendimento.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 120.4pt 12pt 0cm;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Nas quatro seções do livro, a saber, língua, pandemonium, mentis, loci a sensibilidade provoca fraturas e suturas,
um mergulho sob as ondas imensas do insondável, da crueza e da vileza, mas
também do amor, e esse me parece um aspecto que merece ser elucidados, já que a
crítica – bastante volumosa, para um livro que acaba de nascer – vem
apontando outras praias para a leitura. Vou, portanto, neste exíguo espaço da
coluna, ater-me a um poema em que esse tema salta aos olhos.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 120.4pt 12pt 0cm;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 120.4pt 12pt 0cm;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Rimas pobres</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 120.4pt 12pt 0cm;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Dar<br />
o que ninguém quer<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 120.4pt 12pt 0cm;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Querer<br />
o que não se pode dar<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 120.4pt 12pt 0cm;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Amar<br />
doa a quem doer<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 120.4pt 12pt 0cm;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 120.4pt 12pt 0cm;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">A pobreza das rimas reverbera no jogo de
contradições entre as estrofes, não por acaso, dísticos. É assim que o
sujeito lírico articula o grande desencontro do amor, pelo encontro dos versos,
pela valsa dos versos. Uma equação, a do amor, para a qual não há solução a não
ser amar, a despeito de tudo, “doa a quem doer”. De algum modo, e extrapolando
os sentidos para além do poema, ou seja, refletindo a partir do que ele convida
a fazer, a poesia talvez coubesse nessas “rimas pobres”, de certo modo ela é o
que ninguém quer, como acesso ao sentido e não como sentido em si, não oferece
pausas ou refrescos, é um ponto de impossível ao mesmo tempo que abre tantas
possibilidades. Em um mundo cinza, agreste, de tanta incompreensão, o enigma é
a poesia em si, sua força, seu poder de revolver entranhas, mudar o curso das
marés, doa a quem doer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 120.4pt 12pt 0cm;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>DIANA JUNKES</b> é
poeta, crítica literária e professora da UFSCar. Escreve mensalmente a coluna
“Musa militante”.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><br /><p></p>Rodrigo garcia Lopeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02971138033280007948noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34370981.post-34328424534625664542020-10-05T11:39:00.002-03:002020-10-05T11:39:55.235-03:00 Resenha de "O enigma das ondas" (lançamento Iluminuras), por Luciano Trigo<p><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"> <span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Resenha de "O enigma das ondas", publicada hoje em Gazeta do Povo:</span></span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 6px 0px;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">***<br />DA POLÍTICA À COVID-19, POEMAS ANCORADOS EM UMA ESTRANHA REALIDADE</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 6px 0px;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Luciano Trigo</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 6px 0px;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">O escritor, compositor, tradutor e jornalista londrinense Rodrigo Garcia Lopes está lançando pela editora Iluminuras seu sétimo livro de poesia. Laboriosamente escrito desde 2015, “O enigma das ondas” reúne 91 poemas e se divide em quatro partes.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 6px 0px;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">A primeira, “lingua”, reúne poemas metalinguísticos, que refletem sobre o ato criativo e o fazer poético, mas também sobre aspectos mais concretos da atividade literária, como a dinâmica social do meio e os caprichos do mercado, sempre pronto a exaltar mediocridades convenientes (“Em lugar de poesia eu trago a pose/ (o que você achou que fosse?)/ Não importa ter algo a dizer// Eu quero a poesia gourmet”).</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 6px 0px;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">São poemas que, de certa forma, registram o duplo embate do escritor com as palavras e com a realidade – poemas que nascem do atrito entre as duas (“O mundo passa/ pela janela da palavra/ para tocar a realidade”; “Saiam da frente, palavras” etc) e estabelecem pontes sempre efêmeras entre as duas. Brincam, também, com questões teóricas como a “morte do autor” (“Agora temos um problema:/ quem vai assinar este poema?”)</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 6px 0px;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">O poema de abertura, “Aéreo reverso” faz um uso inventivo (ainda que não exatamente original) do espaço da página para estabelecer um paralelo entre as atividades de surfar e escrever: a linguagem como mar, que exige habilidade, sorte e coragem. Já a série de epigramas reunidos em “Short cuts” demonstra o talento do autor para a sátira afiada em instantâneos repletos de ironia.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 6px 0px;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Na segunda parte, “pandemonium”, Rodrigo Garcia Lopes usa a poesia como comentário e crítica política sobre a realidade brasileira (“Para toda maioria silenciosa/ há uma minoria tagarela”), incorporando alguns poemas escritos após a eclosão (e na reclusão) da pandemia de Convid-19. São poemas que têm um sabor de crônica e um sentimento de urgência, ao mesmo tempo serenos e angustiados, como “Vontade de crer” (“Patifes e assassinos por toda parte/ Hipócritas ditam o que é correto./ Só nos resta o agora, esta arte:/ Tudo vai dar certo”) – ou o longo “Pandora”, inspirado pela pandemia e transcrito no final desta resenha.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 6px 0px;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">A terceira e a quarta partes, “mentis” e “loci”, reúnem poemas mais introspectivos, reflexivos e oníricos, que dialogam com um vasto repertório de estilos e tradições poéticas e demonstram a habilidade técnica do autor. A propósito de sua aparente ausência de lealdade a um estilo, o autor declarou em entrevista recente: “Cada poema é uma aventura, a forma aparece no momento da escrita: a forma encontra o seu poema e o seu instante”.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 6px 0px;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">A ilustração da capa evoca a gravura famosa do artista japonês do século 19 Kanagawa, que mostra uma onda monstruosa prestes a engolir alguns barcos. Essa expectativa de algo trágico congelada no tempo, no registro de um instantâneo da realidade, é um sentimento recorrente na leitura do livro. Embora apresente aqui e ali poemas mais fracos (porque mais fáceis), como “Mobydick” e “Tango”, que não fariam falta se excluídos do volume, “O enigma das ondas” traz poesia honesta e da melhor qualidade, com textos que ao mesmo tempo confrontam, afligem e atraem – como as efêmeras e concretas e enigmáticas ondas do mar.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 6px 0px;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Leia abaixo o poema “Pandora”, de Rodrigo Garcia Lopes:</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 6px 0px;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Pandora<br />Pânico, pandemia, pandemônio:<br />é o inimigo invisível, é o novo demônio,<br />é a face coberta por um pedaço de pano,<br />é o humano reaprendendo a ser humano.<br />É uma carreata de caixões pelas ruas de Turim,<br />é o translúcido azul do céu de Pequim.<br />É o papa rezando na São Pedro deserta,<br />são as águas transparentes dos canais de Veneza.<br />Parece que faz tanto tempo que tudo aconteceu,<br />presos no labirinto com Minotauro e Teseu.<br />Legiões de desempregados em Teerã, São Paulo, Paris.<br />As calçadas de Guayaquil estão cheias de cadáveres.<br />Estão pregando tapumes nas fachadas.<br />Todas as fronteiras foram fechadas.<br />Os médicos e coveiros estão exaustos.<br />Os jornais nem noticiam mais o holocausto.<br />São pilhas de corpos-números cobertos por um véu,<br />São poemas que jamais sairão do papel.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 6px 0px;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Os confinados batem panelas, invocam os magos,<br />pumas invadem as avenidas de Santiago.<br />É uma vida pulsando entre a pedra e a espada,<br />é o prenúncio de uma economia global robotizada.<br />São velórios e shoppings vazios, praias desertas,<br />é o começo de um renascimento, é o fim de uma era.<br />É o silêncio ensurdecedor e o medo de morrer,<br />é o tempo pra ler toda a obra de Shakespeare,<br />é a chance de ser o maior experimento<br />de controle social de todos os tempos.<br />É um exército branco higienizando as cidades,<br />é um planeta em quarentena por toda a eternidade.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 6px 0px;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">É um homem que saiu do isolamento e nunca mais foi visto,<br />são fanáticos gritando O Vírus é o Anticristo.<br />São anjos em polvorosa sobre os céus de Berlim,<br />são amantes aprendendo a amar enfim.<br />Já ninguém ouve o que os agonizantes urram,<br />os metrôs voltaram hoje a circular em Wuhan.<br />É solidão compulsória, é um estado de sítio,<br />são coiotes vagando livres por San Francisco,<br />É uma flor desabrochando durante a tempestade<br />(pois quando tudo acabar talvez seja tarde).<br />É a solidão futurista da Times Square,<br />é o suicida alcançando um revólver.<br />São navios de cruzeiro proibidos de atracar,<br />são hospitais abarrotados em Milão, Rio, Dakar.<br />Pássaros continuam voando, geleiras caindo,<br />há um pôr do sol distante, solitário e lindo.<br />É viver entre as paredes dos parênteses<br />em reticências que se alongam como meses.<br />É o mundo inteiro em stand-by,<br />é o corpo lutando por ar.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 6px 0px;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">***</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 6px 0px;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Luciano Trigo é escritor, jornalista, tradutor e editor de livros. Autor de 'O viajante imóvel', sobre Machado de Assis, 'Engenho e memória', sobre José Lins do Rego, e meia dúzia de outros livros, entre eles infantis.**Os textos do colunista não expressam, necessariamente, a opinião da Gazeta do Povo.</span></span></p>Rodrigo garcia Lopeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02971138033280007948noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34370981.post-49168699991531880592020-09-28T15:35:00.005-03:002020-09-28T15:36:33.648-03:00Lançamento (poesia): "O enigma das ondas", de Rodrigo Garcia Lopes<p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 49.55pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 49.55pt 0cm 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk50814197"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20pt; line-height: 115%;">O enigma das ondas<o:p></o:p></span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 49.55pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 49.55pt 0cm 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk50814197;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Rodrigo Garcia Lopes<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 49.55pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 49.55pt 0cm 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk50814197;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 14.1pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 14.1pt 0cm 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk50814197;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 14.1pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 14.1pt 0cm 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk50814197;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">O enigma das ondas </span></i></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk50814197;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">é
o sétimo livro de poemas de Rodrigo Garcia Lopes, um dos mais instigantes e
inquietos poetas brasileiros que vem, desde os anos 80, construindo uma
sólida carreira literária, com vários títulos publicados por esta casa
editorial.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 14.1pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 14.1pt 0cm 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk50814197;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">Rodrigo
Garcia Lopes traduziu <i>Epigramas</i>, de Marcial, <i>O navegante </i>(anônimo
anglo-saxão), Rimbaud, Whitman, Apollinaire, tendo apresentado as obras de
Laura Riding e Sylvia Plath ao leitor brasileiro. Também lançou um livro de
entrevistas com personalidades da arte e da cultura norte-americanas, um
romance policial, dois álbuns de canções e coeditou por doze anos a revista <i>Coyote</i>,
publicando poetas e prosadores brasileiros e do exterior.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 14.1pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 14.1pt 0cm 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk50814197;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">O enigma das ondas</span></i></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk50814197;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">
revela um poeta em plena maturidade, que reacende a força e a relevância da
poesia, mostrando que ela pode explorar em profundidade, e em registros
múltiplos, a realidade contemporânea e a existência. Em 91 peças, o volume traz
poemas líricos, políticos, críticos, satíricos e reflexivos.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 14.1pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 14.1pt 0cm 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk50814197;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Seus poemas enfrentam o mundo
esteticamente e exibem uma urgência vital em nossos tempos turbulentos, como em
“Selvageria”: “No fim o desembargador era o chefão de uma milícia assassina / E
o incêndio na favela celebrado com fuzis e buzinas. / Mais cadáveres encon<span style="mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-align: center; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-compound: simple; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dash: solid; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dpiwidth: .75pt; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-join: round; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-linecap: flat; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-pctmiterlimit: 0%; mso-style-textoutline-type: none;">trados na lama da barragem / E o coronel torturador ganha
mais uma homenagem [...]”. Ou momentos líricos como “Na praia,
junho”: “[...] os olhos bordejando as ilhas distantes / antes mastigaram o
nevoeiro / nossos corpos satisfeitos e ainda quentes / lendo as pistas que os
detetives noturnos não seguiram / os pés imprimindo em sua passagem /
a sensação de uma vida acontecendo / limpa como a areia após a onda”.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 14.1pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 14.1pt 0cm 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk50814197;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; letter-spacing: 0.05pt; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-align: center; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-compound: simple; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dash: solid; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dpiwidth: .75pt; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-join: round; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-linecap: flat; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-pctmiterlimit: 0%; mso-style-textoutline-type: none;">Poesia como
investigação, aventura da palavra, forma de conhecimento do mundo.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 14.1pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 14.1pt 0cm 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk50814197;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-align: center; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-compound: simple; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dash: solid; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dpiwidth: .75pt; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-join: round; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-linecap: flat; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-pctmiterlimit: 0%; mso-style-textoutline-type: none;">Pela abrangência de
questões, pelo esmero estético, <i>O enigma das ondas</i> é um momento
alto da poesia brasileira recente.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 49.55pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 49.55pt 0cm 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk50814197;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-linearshade-angle: 0; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-linearshade-fscaled: no; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shadetype: linear; mso-style-textfill-type: none; mso-style-textoutline-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textoutline-fill-color: black; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-align: center; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-compound: simple; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dash: solid; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dpiwidth: .75pt; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-join: round; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-linecap: flat; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-pctmiterlimit: 0%; mso-style-textoutline-type: solid; text-effect: outline;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 49.55pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 49.55pt 0cm 0cm; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk50814197;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt;">Samuel Leon</span></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 49.55pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 49.55pt 0cm 0cm; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 49.55pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 49.55pt 0cm 0cm; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 49.55pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 49.55pt 0cm 0cm; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 49.55pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 49.55pt 0cm 0cm; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;">152 páginas | 15,5x22,5</span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 49.55pt 0.0001pt 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;"> ISBN: 978-6-555-19048-9<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 49.55pt 0.0001pt 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;"> R$: 53,00<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"> <span style="color: red;">Já em pré-venda na loja virtual da Editora Iluminuras com 40% de desconto</span>:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><a href="https://www.editorailuminuras.com.br/o-enigma-das-ondas" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;">https://www.editorailuminuras.com.br/o-enigma-das-ondas</span></a></p><p>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 49.55pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><br /><p></p>Rodrigo garcia Lopeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02971138033280007948noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34370981.post-42582101736925532952020-09-23T12:16:00.018-03:002020-09-23T12:28:02.135-03:00"Pandora", poema de "O enigma das ondas", de Rodrigo Garcia Lopes (lançamento editora Iluminuras)<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 150%; margin-left: 1cm;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: PT-BR;">Pandora<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 200%; margin-left: 1cm;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: PT-BR;">Pânico,
pandemia, pandemônio:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 200%; margin-left: 1cm;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: PT-BR;">é o
inimigo invisível, é o novo demônio,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 200%; margin-left: 1cm;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: PT-BR;">é a face coberta
por um pedaço de pano,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 200%; margin-left: 1cm;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: PT-BR;">é o
humano reaprendendo a ser humano.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 200%; margin-left: 1cm;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: PT-BR;">É uma
carreata de caixões pelas ruas de Turim,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 200%; margin-left: 1cm;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: PT-BR;">é o
translúcido azul do céu de Pequim.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 200%; margin-left: 1cm;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: PT-BR;">É o papa
rezando na São Pedro deserta, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 200%; margin-left: 1cm;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: PT-BR;">são as
águas transparentes dos canais de Veneza. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 200%; margin-left: 1cm;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: PT-BR;">Parece
que faz tanto tempo que tudo aconteceu,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 200%; margin-left: 1cm;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: PT-BR;">presos no
labirinto com Minotauro e Teseu.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 200%; margin-left: 1cm;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: PT-BR;">Legiões
de desempregados em Teerã, São Paulo, Paris. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 200%; margin-left: 1cm;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: PT-BR;">As
calçadas de Guayaquil estão cheias de cadáveres.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 200%; margin-left: 1cm;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: PT-BR;">Estão
pregando tapumes nas fachadas.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 200%; margin-left: 1cm;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: PT-BR;">Todas as
fronteiras foram fechadas.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 200%; margin-left: 1cm;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: PT-BR;">Os
médicos e coveiros estão exaustos.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 200%; margin-left: 1cm;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: PT-BR;">Os
jornais nem noticiam mais o holocausto. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 200%; margin-left: 1cm;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: PT-BR;">São
pilhas de corpos-números cobertos por um véu,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 200%; margin-left: 1cm;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: PT-BR;">São
poemas que jamais sairão do papel.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 200%; margin-left: 1cm;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: PT-BR;"><br />
Os confinados batem panelas, invocam os magos,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 200%; margin-left: 1cm;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: PT-BR;">pumas
invadem as avenidas de Santiago.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 200%; margin-left: 1cm;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: PT-BR;">É uma
vida pulsando entre a pedra e a espada,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 200%; margin-left: 1cm;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: PT-BR;">é o
prenúncio de uma economia global robotizada.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 200%; margin-left: 1cm;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: PT-BR;">São
velórios e shoppings vazios, praias desertas,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 200%; margin-left: 1cm;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: PT-BR;">é o
começo de um renascimento, é o fim de uma era.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 200%; margin-left: 1cm;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: PT-BR;">É o
silêncio ensurdecedor e o medo de morrer,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 200%; margin-left: 1cm;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: PT-BR;">é o tempo
pra ler toda a obra de Shakespeare, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 200%; margin-left: 1cm;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: PT-BR;">é a
chance de ser o maior experimento <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 200%; margin-left: 1cm;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: PT-BR;">de
controle social de todos os tempos. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 200%; margin-left: 1cm;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: PT-BR;">É um
exército branco higienizando as cidades,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 200%; margin-left: 1cm;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: PT-BR;">é um
planeta em quarentena por toda a eternidade.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 200%; margin-left: 1cm;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: PT-BR;"><br />
É um homem que saiu do isolamento e nunca mais foi visto,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 200%; margin-left: 1cm;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: PT-BR;">são
fanáticos gritando O Vírus é o Anticristo.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 200%; margin-left: 1cm;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: PT-BR;">São anjos
em polvorosa sobre os céus de Berlim,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 200%; margin-left: 1cm;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: PT-BR;">são
amantes aprendendo a amar enfim.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 200%; margin-left: 1cm;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: PT-BR;">Já
ninguém ouve o que os agonizantes urram, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 200%; margin-left: 1cm;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: PT-BR;">os metrôs
voltaram hoje a circular em Wuhan.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 200%; margin-left: 1cm;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: PT-BR;">É solidão
compulsória, é um estado de sítio, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 200%; margin-left: 1cm;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: PT-BR;">são
coiotes vagando livres por San Francisco,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 200%; margin-left: 1cm;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: PT-BR;">É uma
flor desabrochando durante a tempestade<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 200%; margin-left: 1cm;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: PT-BR;">(pois
quando tudo acabar talvez seja tarde).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 200%; margin-left: 1cm;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: PT-BR;">É a
solidão futurista da Times Square,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 200%; margin-left: 1cm;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: PT-BR;">é o
suicida alcançando um revólver.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 200%; margin-left: 1cm;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: PT-BR;">São
navios de cruzeiro proibidos de atracar,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 200%; margin-left: 1cm;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: PT-BR;">são
hospitais abarrotados em Milão, Rio, Dakar. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 200%; margin-left: 1cm;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: PT-BR;">Pássaros
continuam voando, geleiras caindo,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 200%; margin-left: 1cm;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: PT-BR;">há um pôr
do sol distante, solitário e lindo.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 200%; margin-left: 1cm;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: PT-BR;">É viver
entre as paredes dos parênteses<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 200%; margin-left: 1cm;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: PT-BR;">em
reticências que se alongam como meses.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 200%; margin-left: 1cm;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: PT-BR;">É o mundo
inteiro em stand-by,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 200%; margin-left: 1cm;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: PT-BR;">é o corpo
lutando por ar</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: PT-BR;">.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;">
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