Belo e inesperado encontro

Ontem lá nos encontrámos, alguns antigos companheiros do CELUC – Coral dos Estudantes de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra. Vieram procurar-me. Confraternizámos desde o início da tarde e até noite adentro.

Entre eles, o Manel, que me ofereceu o seu último livro: Traição de São Paulo – Despaulinizar o Novo Testamento Sob o Signo do Jesuanismo.

Um belo e inesperado encontro. Agora já sabemos onde estamos…

Vila do Conde à descoberta

“If”

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream–and not make dreams your master,
If you can think–and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ‘em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!”

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings–nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And–which is more–you’ll be a Man, my son!

By Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936).

Prostituées diplômées

L’Université néo-zélandaise pourrait s’enrichir de cours de prostitution dans le cadre de réformes visant à accroître “la qualité et la pertinence des disciplines enseignées”, rapporte The New Zealand Herald. Les responsables de l’enseignement supérieur, interrogés par une commission parlementaire sur le financement des cours, n’excluent pas l’organisation d’un cursus dédié au plus vieux métier du monde. Le gouvernement, pour sa part, n’a pas eu vent de demandes émanant “des contribuables, des collectivités locales, des entreprises ou des étudiants” pour des cours de tapin.

- Courrier International

Políticos corruptos

Há dias, um matutino titulava: Chineses matam políticos corruptos em jogo de internet.

Mesmo a brincar, a coisa pode tornar-se perigosa!

Vale a pena ler…

… Jonathan Swift (1665-1745), reincarnado e revivido aqui!

Le mari de ma femme

Desenho de Côté

em Le Soleil (Quebeque)

A Polícia Judiciária e a sua destruição

Será que existe quem paulatinamente continua apostado na destruição da Polícia Judiciária?

Este insigne Docente Universitário diz que sim.

Fernando Pessoa e o pó

A entrevista de Francisco José Viegas, director da Casa Fernando Pessoa, ao Correio da Manhã.