164. Pequenas coisas perfeitas

Benny: Time is a funny thing. Time is a very peculiar item. You see when you're young, you're a kid, you got time, you got nothing but time. Throw away a couple of years here, a couple of years there... it doesn't matter. You know. The older you get you say, "Jesus, how much I got? I got thirty-five summers left". Think about it. Thirty-five summers.

*No prato: Stan Ridgway & Steve Copeland, Don't box me in

92. Pequenas coisas perfeitas

"Desperto ainda oiço chegar o inverno -
onde iria com seus martelos de silêncio
seus cavalos lentos pela névoa
os dedos minúsculos sobre a pedra?"

Eugénio de Andrade, Rente à fala

64. Ao fundo, a erva

De um amigo que foi ver o Cohen, a sms ontem







"there is a crack in everything / that's how the light gets in"



Andamos às avessas sobre a perfeição dos círculos ("forget your perfect offering"), a fenda não é sempre notória.

57. Pequenas coisas perfeitas

(...)
Quand la pluie étalant ses immenses traînées
D'une vaste prison imite les barreaux,
Et qu'un peuple muet d'infâmes araignées
Vient tendre ses filets au fond de nos cerveaux,
(...)
C. Baudelaire, Spleen



Philip Glass, The Poet Acts

52. Grandes coisas perfeitas

Bank of China, Hong-Kong (2008)

41. Pequenas coisas perfeitas

O Joker visto por Dave McKean (Dave McKean / Grant Morrison, Batman: Arkham Asylum, 1989)

15. Pequenas coisas perfeitas

... Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,

And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the

[floor (...)

Deep into that darkness pearing, long I stood there

[wondering, fearing,

Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to

[dream before;

But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no

[token,

And the only word there spoken was the whispered word,

["Lenore!" (...)

(Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven)

Jim Giddings, Raven, Oil, paintstick & graphite on paper

8. Pequenas coisas perfeitas: "scordato strumento"

"...il vento che nasce e muore
nell'ora che lenta s'annera
suonasse te pure stasera
scordato strumento,
cuore."
(E. Montale, Corno Inglese)