tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post1090722977620794293..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Fernando Pessoa: A Shrug of the ShouldersUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-33545173554052533372011-01-03T10:26:41.823-08:002011-01-03T10:26:41.823-08:00Thanks, Curtis, and of course, the same best new y...Thanks, Curtis, and of course, the same best new year's wishes, once again, and never too often, to you.<br /><br />Pessoa, I find, is well worth the trouble. Fascinating, various, inexhaustible.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-63093176416496154942011-01-03T09:55:46.455-08:002011-01-03T09:55:46.455-08:00This is memorable, rings true and is incredibly lu...This is memorable, rings true and is incredibly lucid. A new subject for me also (Pessoa) and a new beginning. Happy New Year.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-81751873177836109692011-01-03T09:21:57.681-08:002011-01-03T09:21:57.681-08:00Yes, exactly -- that's precisely how I underst...Yes, exactly -- that's precisely how I understand the term "history" (not quite the same thing as "progress", perhaps).<br /><br />Pessoa: "My hapless peers with their lofty dreams -- how I envy and despise them! I'm with the others, with the even more hapless, who have no one but themselves to whom they can tell their dreams and show what would be verses if they wrote them."<br /><br />(from The Book of Disquiet)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-50670824499944839182011-01-03T09:08:33.202-08:002011-01-03T09:08:33.202-08:00May be, but it isn't so negative, I believe. T...May be, but it isn't so negative, I believe. That's why I like the second sentence: "...the false name and the true dream DO CREATE A NEW REALITY."<br /> <br />Error, inappropriate and dreams, could turn out to be positive and constructive things.Juliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16419101761966668410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-16384249023260080272011-01-03T08:03:57.850-08:002011-01-03T08:03:57.850-08:00Yes, that's such a polite (an accurate) way of...Yes, that's such a polite (an accurate) way of saying that what we call civilization is actually the sum total of century after century of human error and accident -- including art and dreaming.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-23422871833194324462011-01-03T05:03:52.010-08:002011-01-03T05:03:52.010-08:00Thanks for this text, Tom.
I specially like these...Thanks for this text, Tom. <br />I specially like these ideas:<br /><br />"Civilization consists in giving an inappropriate name to something and then dreaming what results from that. And in fact the false name and the true dream do create a new reality."<br /><br />That's wonderful and an interesting issue to meditate about.<br /><br />¡Saludos!Juliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16419101761966668410noreply@blogger.com