certaine nuit le pointu de la douleur s'infiltra si bien qu'une armure devint nécessaire.
il lui poussa alors de courtes plumes bleu métallique, irisés comme celles du merle exotique qu'elle avait vu la veille, prisonnier d'une cage minuscule.
exprimée ainsi par une beauté féroce, la vilaine, flattée? oublia ses avances.
Oct 29, 2013
Oct 28, 2013
non-human animals
paradoxo : ir a uma exposição de animais exóticos, pagar o bilhete, ficar lá umas horinhas a olhar admirar desenhar e ao sair pedir o Livro de Reclamações. É que, de facto, os animais não humanos estão ali expostos, em gaiolas e vivários propositadamente minúsculos para que não possam escapar aos olhares de quem, justamente, pagou.
Libellés :
beasts,
drawing,
ler o mundo,
português
Oct 27, 2013
un dimanche protestant
je ne me souviens pas du visage de la dame que nous n'aimions pas parce qu'elle ne mettait pas assez de pruneaux sur le gâteau
...
...
Oct 25, 2013
xercice du matin
enquanto saem os primeiros carrinhos de castanhas assadas, envoltos cada um na sua nuvem de fumo salgado
d'ici
Libellés :
drawing
Oct 23, 2013
Kentridge, William
"There are lots of drawings that
are about the need for comfort. I'm not sure if that's identical to
compassion—about a 'taking' rather than a ‘giving'. Maybe the
depiction of it is a giving. In the activity of making work, there's
a sense that if you spend a day or two days drawing an object or an
image there's a sympathy towards that object embodied in the human
labor of making the drawing."
Libellés :
drawing,
english,
others draw
Oct 21, 2013
Oct 20, 2013
pas fini ne date pas d'hier. celui-ci a bien 20 ans.
"Renée, ma chérie, il y a une semaine qu'il pleut sans cesse. La route est si boueuse que les voitures ne passent plus. Odile et moi vivons des réserves. Plutôt bien, ne t'inquiète pas. Mon seul souci c'est le jardin. Le ruisseau a débordé et je crains bien que le potager se soit fait la malle.
Odile, tu la connais, ne s'intéresse qu'aux escargots d'après. Des cagouilles de rêve.
Pedro est venu hier. D'abord, comme il ne disait rien, j'ai cru qu'il était ivre. On était bien, mais il se taisait de plus en plus. Tous d'un coup il a dit que les trois chênes se sont abattus sur sa maison et m'a demandé "
coisa encontrada de manhã numa limpeza feliz. feliz porque deu para deitar fora montes de coisas sem a mínima dúvida.
Oct 19, 2013
Oct 17, 2013
Oct 14, 2013
lying, if ever
Arturo R. Fleming. Third-born. The family clown. Psychological psychology says that's the last born's role, but everybody is the last born for some time. So what the heck, Arturo makes them laugh. Good nights for Arturo R. end in tears and belly aches. You know which ones. The good ones.
Libellés :
drawing,
english,
the 17 arturos
Oct 13, 2013
...
dans l'appartement où je vis seule
dans l'appartement plus vaste
j'imagine
que l'un des ces navires où vivent
le temps d'une traversée
(jusqu'au naufrage souvent)
350 immigrants
(de chez eux, ils émigrent)
dans la chambre où je vis seule
je rêve
que j'essuie les souliers de petits enfants, collants
du miel où ils ont marché
dans l'appartement plus vaste
j'imagine
que l'un des ces navires où vivent
le temps d'une traversée
(jusqu'au naufrage souvent)
350 immigrants
(de chez eux, ils émigrent)
dans la chambre où je vis seule
je rêve
que j'essuie les souliers de petits enfants, collants
du miel où ils ont marché
Libellés :
français,
ler o mundo,
sissigmund
Oct 10, 2013
dia da doença mental
Mais de 50 % dos portugueses sofrem de anxiedade, uns 19 % de depressão, e eu desenho laranjas.
Libellés :
drawing,
meteo,
paratonnerre,
português
Oct 7, 2013
Oct 6, 2013
Oct 3, 2013
Oct 1, 2013
the Invention of the Lightning Rod
on the first day of an october
long ago
the Honourable Mister Rozenblitz
fell hard
for Disreputable Miss Rosenschlitz
he was Eduardo
and a bastardo
she was frail and fair
long ago
but of the pair
it was her
frail and fair
who bent the light
in her rosy hands
in the dark kitchen
for him to wash
his body white
long ago
the Honourable Mister Rozenblitz
fell hard
for Disreputable Miss Rosenschlitz
he was Eduardo
and a bastardo
she was frail and fair
long ago
but of the pair
it was her
frail and fair
who bent the light
in her rosy hands
in the dark kitchen
for him to wash
his body white
Libellés :
drawing,
english,
la fesse et le fleuret,
parallel evolution
Sep 30, 2013
dia de nada
ontem tinha um sentido:
amigos queriam comer
( sentidos quotidianos são o suficiente)
hoje
cinzento em cima cinzento em baixo
chuva morosa
mas que sorte:
amanhã amigos vão querer comer.
amigos queriam comer
( sentidos quotidianos são o suficiente)
hoje
cinzento em cima cinzento em baixo
chuva morosa
mas que sorte:
amanhã amigos vão querer comer.
Libellés :
la poussière de la souris
Sep 27, 2013
midi le noir
l'après-midi l'après l'orage
a perdu son goût et toutes ses dents
ne mord ne meurt ne nourrit
c'est la faute de ce vieux miel
qui dort
....
Sep 23, 2013
italian cat, portuguese dogs, cedars in the background always
and a new pen. ( how privileged are you to speak up against paradises? Be quiet and look at the trees, at the beasts that sleep and wake.)
Sep 18, 2013
Pinceau bouleversé
Dans le vent de l'aurore, seul au milieu d'un pré, un petit saule pleureur tout échevelé.
---
Sep 15, 2013
le premier dimanche après le cochon
Durant trois jours j'ai déambulé dans une ville faite pour le repos. Tiède, propre, ensoleillée, pleine de jardins et de fleurs, d'enfants et de vélos. Qu'en dire? On y a remplacé les distributeurs de préservatifs par des distributeurs de chambres à air. Pour survivre à tant de paix, on y pratique les sports exigeants. Les montagnes s'y prêtent et il faut bien se fatiguer.
Son principal attrait est une momie. On l'expose dans un cercueil glacé comme la belle au bois dormant. On ne l'embrasse pas mais certaines se sont déjà offertes pour porter un enfant conçu avec son sperme.
Ailleurs, chaque moment a la longueur infinie des grandes vacances. La première moitié est éternelle, la seconde existe à peine. Ici c'est le contraire. Le temps est objectif. On peut y apprendre à attendre le prévisible. Pratiquer la patience, muscler la prudence? Mais non, simplement apprendre à profiter de l'instant calculable.
Libellés :
français,
les questions
Sep 8, 2013
bon, ça suffit
that's enough. as nonsensical as it is, zeroglotte takes too much of my time. so I'll continue on a weekly basis. a new post on every new sunday. let's see where it takes me.
et merci aux fidèles, aux têtus et aux curieux.
and thanks to the faithful, the stubborn and the passer-bys.
le cochon est de F.K.Waechter the pig is by
Sep 7, 2013
l'intime, le trait et le mot.
On dessine dans la rue et de temps en temps un passant demande : "je peux regarder?" Presque toujours on se réjouit et obtempère.
Mais si on écrivait, personne n'oserait. "Je peux lire?"
Tu veux rire.
Libellés :
drawing,
français,
la poussière de la souris
Sep 3, 2013
Sep 2, 2013
got a table to work on, ten stories high and no connection
3
asters 2 cyclamens: le bouquet de bienvenue que la logeuse a posé
sur la table de ma chambrette sans internette.
Libellés :
boulangerie,
subzero
Sep 1, 2013
heaven is not a constant
"In Kashmir, near Kargil, there was an old man who knew how to climb the tallest mountain and become lighter than air. To keep alive he ate snow and when people asked him why he ate snow, he answered, “It is not forbidden.”
Always a trail of children formed behind him.
Once the boy Adi asked: “Baba, why do you keep climbing the same mountain again and again?”
“Boy,” he answered, “I am calculating the distance to heaven.”
Time passed. The man correctly and satisfactorily calculated the distance. Yet, he never stopped trudging up the slopes of the mountain. He had grown very old and the boy had turned into a tall man.
“Baba,” Adi asked him one day with a smile, “now, why do you keep climbing? Isn’t it boring?”
“The
distance to heaven,” the old man replied with a whiff of sadness, “is
not a constant, as I thought earlier. It fluctuates. It changes, and
changes with the population of the birds.”
“This means,” the boy interpreted, “you will never be successful.”
The
old man fell on his knees, smiled, and scooped up some freshly fallen
snow from the trail. As he began eating the flakes one by one he turned
to the boy and said, “All it means is that more work is required.”
More work is required."here
Libellés :
drawing,
english,
les questions,
Lisboa
Aug 31, 2013
Aug 30, 2013
blaze
As of August, 52 pyromaniacs arrested this year in Portugal. Probably just petty paid criminals. Why is it that I can understand the gesture of the man who set fire to the Kyoto Golden Pavilion but not these guys. Mishima's way with words?
I remember sitting alone in another of Kioto's wooden temples. (Alone, because japanese turists come in waves, and hurry, even at home. In between waves, as on a beach, there is a moment of quiet. ) I was sitting under the mighty sugi pillars and thinking about it. About the fire. What difference does it make to your religious feeling if the houses of the holy are made of stone, heavy, unmovable, eternal, or of wood, light, removable, fragile?
I remember sitting alone in another of Kioto's wooden temples. (Alone, because japanese turists come in waves, and hurry, even at home. In between waves, as on a beach, there is a moment of quiet. ) I was sitting under the mighty sugi pillars and thinking about it. About the fire. What difference does it make to your religious feeling if the houses of the holy are made of stone, heavy, unmovable, eternal, or of wood, light, removable, fragile?
Libellés :
a força da palavra,
drawing,
english,
la poussière de la souris
Aug 29, 2013
Aug 28, 2013
enxacoco
que ou aquele que fala mal uma lingua estranha, misturando-lhe palavras da sua.
pois. aliás, enxacoca.
...
Aug 27, 2013
Paul Celan on the german language
. Erreichbar, nah und unverloren blieb inmitten der Verluste dies eine: die Sprache. Sie, die Sprache, blieb unverloren, ja, trotz allem. Aber sie
mußte nun hindurchgehen durch ihre eigenen Antwortlosigkeiten,
hindurchgehen durch furchtbares Verstummen, hindurchgehen durch die
tausend Finsternisse todbringender Rede. Sie ging hindurch und gab keine
Worte her für das, was geschah; aber sie ging durch dieses Geschehen.
Ging hindurch und durfte wieder zutage treten, «angereichert» von all
dem. (Bremer Literaturpreisrede)
"There remained in the midst of the losses this one thing: language.
It, the language, remained, not lost, yes in spite of everything. But it had to pass through its own answerlessness, pass through frightful muting, pass through the thousand darknesses of deathbringing speech. It passed through and gave back no words for that which happened; yet it passed through this happening. Passed through and could come to light again, “enriched” by all this."
"There remained in the midst of the losses this one thing: language.
It, the language, remained, not lost, yes in spite of everything. But it had to pass through its own answerlessness, pass through frightful muting, pass through the thousand darknesses of deathbringing speech. It passed through and gave back no words for that which happened; yet it passed through this happening. Passed through and could come to light again, “enriched” by all this."
and this: Wolfsbohne, a poem that Celan chose to not include in die Niemandsrose. here the translator Michael Hamburger, says interesting things about it.
et puis une image anonyme trouvée ce matin, avant que le hasard ici ne me pousse: deux dames dans les haricots de loup, les lupins.
et pour compléter la pagaille : la graine de curieux, oui, celle du paquet bleu, ben c'est aussi du lupin.
Wolfsbohne
". . . o Ihr Blüten von Deutschland, o mein Herz wird Untrugbarer Kristall, an dem Das Licht sich prufet, wenn Deutschland
Holderlin, "Vom Abgrund nämlich . . ."
". . . wie an den Häusern der Juden (zum Andenken des ruinierten Jerusalem's), immer etwas unvollendet gelassen werden muss . .
Jean-Paul "Das Kampaner Thal"
Leg den Riegel vor: Es sind Rosen im Haus. Es sind sieben Rosen im Haus. Es ist der Siebenleuchter im Haus. Unser Kind weiss es und schläft.
(Weit, in Michailowka, in der Ukraine, wo sie mir Vater und Mutter erschlugen: was blühte dort, was blüht dort? Welche Blume, Mutter, tat dir dort weh mit ihrem Namen?
Mutter, dir, die du Wolfsbohne sagtest, nicht: Lupine.
Gestern kam einer von ihnen und tötete dich zum andern Mal in meinem Gedicht.
Mutter. Mutter, wessen Hand hab ich gedruckt, da ich mit deinen Worten ging nach Deutschland?
In Aussig, sagtest du immer, in Aussig an der Elbe, auf der Flucht. Mutter, es wohnten dort Mörder.
Mutter, ich habe Briefe geschrieben. Mutter, es kam keine Antwort. Mutter, es kam eine Antwort. Mutter, ich habe Briefe geschrieben an - Mutter, sie schreiben Gedichte. Mutter, sie schrieben sie nicht, war das Gedicht nicht, das ich geschrieben hab, um deinetwillen, um deines Gottes willen. Gelobt, sprachst du, sei der Ewige und gepriesen, dreimal Amen.
Mutter, sie schweigen. Mutter, sie dulden es, dass die Niedertracht reich verleumdet. Mutter, keiner fällt den Mordern ins Wort.
Mutter, sie schreiben Gedichte. O Mutter, wieviel fremdester Acker trägt deine Frucht! Trägt sie und nährt die da Toten!
Mutter, ich bin verloren. Mutter, wir sind verloren. Mutter, mein Kind, das dir ähnlich sieht.)
Leg den Riegel vor: Es sind Rosen im Haus. Es sind sieben Rosen im Haus. Es ist der Siebenleuchter im Haus. Unser Kind weiss es und schläft.
21. Oktober 1959.
et puis une image anonyme trouvée ce matin, avant que le hasard ici ne me pousse: deux dames dans les haricots de loup, les lupins.
et pour compléter la pagaille : la graine de curieux, oui, celle du paquet bleu, ben c'est aussi du lupin.
Libellés :
botánica,
deutsch,
english,
la criée du hasard,
zero
Aug 26, 2013
1894
"On pourrait caractériser la différence de l'ancien régime en littérature et de nos temps modernes par le mouvement inverse du style et de l'orthographe. Il nous paraît que tous les écrivains du XVe et XVIe siècle usaient d'une langue admirable, alors qu'ils écrivaient les mots chacun à leur manière, sans se soucier de leur forme. Aujourd'hui que les mots sont fixés et rigides, vêtus de toutes leurs lettres, corrects et polis, dans leur orthographe immuable, comme des invités de soirée, ils ont perdu leur individualisme de couleur. Les gens s'habillaient d'étoffes différentes : maintenant les mots, comme les gens, sont habillées de noir. On ne les distingue plus beaucoup. Mais ils sont tous correctement orthographiés. Les langues, commes les peuples, parviennent à une organisation de société raffinée d'où on a banni les bariolages indécents. Il n'en est pas autrement des histoires ou des romans".
Marcel Schwob in Robert Louis StevensonCoquille de noix : Wal Paget
Libellés :
français,
others draw,
zero
Aug 24, 2013
Aug 23, 2013
Aug 22, 2013
l'ombre est à tout le monde.
Sur la place où la balançoire a été remplacée par une machine à faire le grand-écart, a lieu le rendez-vous des légumes. Pendant que les dames s'exercent et que leurs gosses s'égosillent sous les arrosages giratoires, oignons et melons changent de mains. il y a aussi quelques tapeurs de clopes et des attendeurs de bus.
Phytolacca dioica L., ou belasombra ou phare de la pampa (dont il est originaire)
Phytolacca dioica L., ou belasombra ou phare de la pampa (dont il est originaire)
Libellés :
botánica,
drawing,
français,
la cuisinière vengeresse
Aug 21, 2013
os rabos dos rapazes
"what can you do when all goes wrong?
oh sing a song!"
Disney's Snow-White
from a picture by Frank Oscar Larson
Libellés :
cinema,
drawing,
english,
la fesse et le fleuret
Aug 20, 2013
...
queria
morrer numa lingua que tivesse palavra para a tristeza do luto.
palavra precisa.
...
...
Libellés :
missing words,
português
Aug 19, 2013
redemption for a pig
On the steep street, her step is silent. As she is going to catch up with two slow men, a very old limping giant leaning on an old rotund small guy, the tall one lets a trompeeting fart. The short one scolds him, you're a real pig. That's when she overtakes them. She hears the surprise in the intake of their breath. A few more steps and they're both giggling.
Aug 18, 2013
Aug 17, 2013
Aug 16, 2013
fast
"Minority languages are going extinct at an alarming rate. Linguists believe that an indigenous language disappears every two weeks. "
in an article about the death of the last speaker of Cochin Creole Portuguese
image Caspar David Friedrich, studies for Sea of Ice, sometimes called End of all Hopes
Libellés :
english,
others draw,
zero
Aug 15, 2013
J'ai eu longtemps un visage inutile
...
J'ai eu longtemps un visage inutile
Mais maintenant
J'ai un visage pour
être aimé
J'ai un visage pour
être heureux
...
paul éluard
Libellés :
a força da palavra,
français
Aug 14, 2013
Aug 13, 2013
viens vieux génie avec ton ventre safran
si
seulement internet me donnait le grave mal de mer
......
......
Libellés :
boulangerie,
français
Aug 12, 2013
même petit garçon?
non, il n'avait jamais rêvé d'être esquimau, de vivre dans un igloo, tout nu sous les peaux d'ours. sans prendre la peine de terminer le questionnaire, la chasseuse de têtes décida qu'elle donnerait le poste à un autre.
Libellés :
double-mini,
drawing,
français
Aug 11, 2013
oh! a global blackout
and the whole night world looks at the falling stars
craned necks faraway eyes
craned necks faraway eyes
Libellés :
english,
parallel evolution
Aug 10, 2013
glorious failure
after ten days of (im)patience, the summer solarigraphy yielded a dim brownish spot, nothing more. so here's a winter some years ago
Aug 1, 2013
solarigraphy summer break
set up in the marquise of my brand new chinese jasmine pinhole camera. i'll be back when the picture is exposed, in more or less 2 weeks, i hope. never did it before.
until then the window stays open and the shop closed.
Jul 31, 2013
Jul 30, 2013
Jul 29, 2013
ruinas da CP no Barreiro
vi um homem velho velho uma bengala em cada mão atravessar as linhas do comboio pelo atalho proíbido por onde toda gente passa. ele, levou mais de um minuto.
Libellés :
catarina eufemia,
drawing,
português
Jul 27, 2013
subway
young mother fascinates baby into trance through repeated blowing and bursting of pink chewing-gum bubble.
middle aged man with sad face listens long and carefully to inbox of cell-phone.
dials a number, says: it's me, i'm sorry.
listens again for some time. again says i'm sorry.
listens again, sad face, sad face. again, i'm sorry. Then listens again.
please let him say something else
middle aged man with sad face listens long and carefully to inbox of cell-phone.
dials a number, says: it's me, i'm sorry.
listens again for some time. again says i'm sorry.
listens again, sad face, sad face. again, i'm sorry. Then listens again.
please let him say something else
Libellés :
all of us,
dans le train,
english
visão periférica
a cidade ao desbarato. nas janelas crescem os apelos. vende-se. trespassa-se. arrenda-se. apressada, até os olhos têm pressa, ela corre. onde está: arrenda-se, lê: arrependa-se. arrependa-se. mas de quê?
Jul 26, 2013
a mother can tell
Arturo I Fleming, the first born.
Age 19
age 63
Lucilla had no inkling he was to be the first of seventeen. Plumber, dentist, or rocket-engineer, that's what she thought he would become. At 8, a boy's war gone wild left him deaf of the left ear. He turned into a musicolinguist. He actually invented the branch. When asked (it happened once), he explained his theory sprouted in the always different ways his many brothers learned to speak. He helped them a lot. (Truth be told, he taught them, Lucilla worked too much to be very present). His method, a strange sing-song that made his mother suspicious of brain damage, got so efficient that almost all of his brothers spoke before they walked. Yep. He himself, Arturo I ( that's an I, not a 1 ) almost stopped talking after the last of his brothers had entererd his first important extra-familial relationship. He'd achieved the practical part of his work, now he embraced theory.
Lucía, on the other hand.... Lucilla pretends her only daughter made herself heard before being born. Not by way of words of course but with a soft rustling, like a girl-cricket rubbing her feet against the fleshy vault. She's Arturo I's weak spot, his one interlocutor. She opens his dams, she lets him flow.
These days, they meet twice a year. Once for Lucilla's birthday, with every Fleming still alive, and once in private. Over clam chowder.
Age 19
age 63
Lucilla had no inkling he was to be the first of seventeen. Plumber, dentist, or rocket-engineer, that's what she thought he would become. At 8, a boy's war gone wild left him deaf of the left ear. He turned into a musicolinguist. He actually invented the branch. When asked (it happened once), he explained his theory sprouted in the always different ways his many brothers learned to speak. He helped them a lot. (Truth be told, he taught them, Lucilla worked too much to be very present). His method, a strange sing-song that made his mother suspicious of brain damage, got so efficient that almost all of his brothers spoke before they walked. Yep. He himself, Arturo I ( that's an I, not a 1 ) almost stopped talking after the last of his brothers had entererd his first important extra-familial relationship. He'd achieved the practical part of his work, now he embraced theory.
Lucía, on the other hand.... Lucilla pretends her only daughter made herself heard before being born. Not by way of words of course but with a soft rustling, like a girl-cricket rubbing her feet against the fleshy vault. She's Arturo I's weak spot, his one interlocutor. She opens his dams, she lets him flow.
These days, they meet twice a year. Once for Lucilla's birthday, with every Fleming still alive, and once in private. Over clam chowder.
Libellés :
drawing,
english,
the 17 arturos,
zeroglotte - origines
Jul 25, 2013
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