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Alexander Search
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Alexander Search – [Caderno com apontamentos vários em inglês, português e francês] - 1

[BNP/E3, 144I – 1-guarda]

 

July 27 –

100 ss. in copper

 

23

 

[2r]

 

Alexander Search

 

Alexander Search

 

[2v]

 

Alexander Search

 

Alexander Search

 

Alexander Search

 

[3r]

 

Tuesday. April 21st. 1908. = Wrote letters to Natal to Sprigg and Pedrick and Co. Ltd (inquiring for my other letter to which as yet no answer) and to Quill Club, (saying not yet † but would for the heat meeting but soon as possible).

 

def. Nonentity – a kind of nothing

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Simile of moon and Tites.

Started book with no prejudice, unless a different one get anarchism

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[3v]

 

He has said.

 

Race, _______ public opinion.

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Society

 

Natural combative an attack on ambitious effusing and on individual liberty.

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Either military body tends to remain or to disappear.

If to disappear the worst thing to do is to identify it with the state.

If to remain, there will be, as there has been, a specialization.

To be fit for its end, and full of careful new.

 

Over the other (2nd) page 

 

[4r]

 

“Social Evolution” – Benjamin Kidd.

“Principles of Western Civilization” – the same.

“Pre-Raphaelitism” - Holman Hunt.

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F. Amaral’s Goat: - Goat of Cowardice.

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F. was with terror of the criminal. A’s shows the terror of a woman. Atmosphere of terror and King and, Reps touched. Quote “Repa” (27-4-08)

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Having found authors of regicide it must now be considered that there is a length crime, at that, a crime under great peroration.

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Criminal clerical intervention.

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Pacheco’s speech.

Nevertheless † speech promises much.

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[4v]

 

Society

Take as an instance some † such as that of artificial flowers.

Compare

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A man may be afraid. But is no fault of his. He has been and but has been. It is a problem of his brought to another one.

Soldier and it is likewise an attack on military efficiency.

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(As to feeling it, no man would so assert).

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[5r]

 

Had he long perhaps shut this? No. That is done in Russian. Ay, but the people of Russia are in a state surer than those of Portugal

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Democracy Argument Argument from crowds ← crowds (?) or criminals

Man (individual) is social, etc

The public is not.

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Public opinion made up of moral

Societies: these are social societies ← Note!

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Over

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[5v]

 

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A non-moral public indicates the death of the nation, under all systems that would be.

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[6r]

 

Note. All psyche can be composed thus:

(1) Auditory sense (sound)

(2) ______________ (nose)

(3) ______________ (sense)

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Letter to Dr. A. A. Lembranças: by hand on 1 May ’08.

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[6v]

 

A joke in a broken-up (by opinion) political party:

{…}: “Não embirro com os seus correligionarios, mas sim com alguns correligionarios de alguns seus correligionarios.”

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“Here is a poem” said I, “written in my 12th. year”… an impossible one for my age;

“Excellent”, all cried

“By the bye” said the Dr. somewhat rapidly “how old were you in your 12th year?”

“Oh” said I, caught by the fine stratagem, “let me see. I…”

A shrink of laughter hush me to these consciousness of what had been asked me.

This is the best detection of a lie I have yet heard. The psychology of it is complex. As I told it have ever, I shall not say aught more. 

 

[7r]

 

Accounts w. Tio.

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May 18 –

{…}

 

[7v]

 

About tragedy ending in bad. The greatest and most usual tragedy is so: that of Christ.

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tax 

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Tia Rita: to line machine: 10.000 rs

t. M (for |*paper|)         5.000 rs

 

[8r]

 

Satires.        Campaign.

Against Immorality. In French,

(One in English).

↓ or serious.

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Against Socialism.

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The Gospel according to Marx.

In that you {…} the or the one etc this revelation.

Pseudonym - ? – thus

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Progressive Taxation.

Who gains 1 pays: proportion’s   1

Who gains 2 pays: proportion’s   2 ½ 

Who gains 3 pays: proportion’s   4

 

Or: Tax on unlaboured income:

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Way to avoid socialism: to abolish, as far as possible, all things that make difference between man, yet so as not to hamper individual liberty. E.g nobility.

 

[8v]

 

Notice how many of the above characters poets inspirate.

 

This is noticeably the poetic delirium. When a coarse poet, as sometimes happens, writes fine and fun poems, he really is in a fit of a delirium of this kind. 

 

[9r]

 

Caractères spéciaux du délire qui relève directement de la grande hystérie (ou hystérie-épilepsie):

✓ 1. Conscience du délire: Le malade n’est point complètement absorbé par l’objet de son délire.

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? 2. Analogie avec les délires toxiques (alcool, opium, etc.)

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? 3. Analogie avec somnambulisme. (naturel ou provoqué)

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✓✓ 4.  Influence des émotions passées et des préoccupations du moment sur la nature des conceptions délirantes.

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✓ 5. Exaltation de l’intelligence. some speak better, more refinedly than they use to. 

 

[9v]

 

✓ 6. Mobilité des idées.

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? 7. Perversion des idées et des sentiments. Revirement soudains. They curse what a minute before they adored. Young girl of best society during her delirium went to her window and provoked the younger with obscene words.

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? 8. Idées fixes. Relatively rare, but true, in spite of the extreme mobility, which seems to always exclude it. “L’idée fixe a sa source le plus souvent dans la croyance à la réalité d’une hallucination.” (p. 356) – Examples are quoted. 

 

[10r]

 

“Les sorcières d’autrefois puisaient à cette même source la conviction inébranlable de leur commerce avec Satan”

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? 9. Automatisme, absence de spontanéité. Proceed from a special intellectual disorder consisting on the complete abolition of the will. Hence the suggestibility of hysteric.

✓✓✓✓✓ 10. Impulsions irrésistibles. Simulation. L’Hystérique n’est pas plus maîtresse des impulsions qui germent dans son propre esprit.” (p. 356). Not dangerous impulses (as in epilepsy): “elles consistent plutôt en une tendance anxieuse et instinctive à commettre des actes 

 

[10v]

 

extravagants” (ib.) etc.

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Enormous tendency to simulation and feign. “simulation instinctive, besoin invétéré et incessant de mentir sans intérêt, sans objet, uniquement pour mentir, et cela non seulement en paroles, mais en actions par une sorte de mise en scène où l’imagination joue le principal rôle, enfante les péripéties les plus inconcevables et se porte, parfois, aux extrémités les plus funestes.” (Tardieu). – p. 357.

“Le talent de ces malades pour inventer des états par lesquels elles se promettent de faire sensation, ou d’exciter la pitié, touche à l’incroyable.” (Niemeyer).

 

[11r]

 

“Enfin, l’amour de la notoriété, du merveilleux, du surnaturel est porté chez les hystériques à un degré que reste au-dessus de tout ce qu’on peut imaginer et devient l’unique mobile d’actions étranges dont les motifs ne peuvent être saisis, et que demeurent des énigmes pour qui ne connaît pas la névrose dont il s’agit.” Richer – (p. 357)

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Sometimes suicidal impulse, rarely effects; absence originating perhaps in the desire of notoriety.

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11. Agitation. Parfois les accès délirants revêtent la forme d’agitation maniaque, au plus haut degré, atteint toutes les facultés à la fois.

 

[11v]

 

12. Stupeur. Mutisme. Rarer than agitation. More commonly as a depressive state following an exaltation one.

13. Illusions. Hallucinations. Les troubles sensoriaux sont des plus accusés chez les hystériques et peuvent affecter tous les sens. Two curious predominant characteristics of hysterical delirium (visoins d’animaux → especially) (couleur rouge).

 

[12r]

 

14. Erotisme. Souvent les idées érotiques ont une place importante dans le délire hystérique. Parfois faire défaut. Pas rôle exclusif que les anciennes leur attribuent.

15. Incohérence des idées. “… ce trouble psychique ne correspond point à une diminution des fonctions cérébrales, mais plutôt à une suractivité et à un désordre momentané.” (p. 358)

… “ce point capital dans l’histoire de l’hystérie, que cette névrose, dont les dehors sont si effrayants et qui paraît jeter dans les fonc-

 

[12v]

 

tions cérébrales un trouble si profond, ne conduit jamais à la démence, tandis que c’est là le terme presqu’obligé de l’altération de l’intelligence qui accompagne l’épilepsie et principalement de cette forme silencieuse caractérisée par les vertiges.” (p. 358)

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Richer’s book contains an excellent appendix on historical forms of hysteron-epilepsy, quakers, etc.

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[12r]

 

Also: p. 510

Analogy between delirium of Grand Hystérie and that of alcohol, absinthe, opium, hashish.

 

Haschish produces, according to Moreau (de Tours) (Richer, p. 522)

1. Sentiment de bonheur.

2. Dissociation des idées ou affaiblissement du pouvoir de diriger les pensées.

3. Erreur sur le temps et l’espace.

4. Développement de la sensibilité de l’ouïe.

5. Idées fixes et conceptions délirantes.

 

[12v]

 

6. Lésion des affections, comme la défiance ou le retour des sentiments passés à l’état de souvenir.

7. Impulsions irrésistibles.

8. Illusions et hallucinations.

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Read over the chapter in question. 

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Grasset: Article in Dictionnaire des Sciences Médicales, Hyl-Inh, esp. p. 286

 

[13r]

 

Articles in Dictionnaire des Sciences Médicales

Hystérie. Grasset.

Idiotie. E. Chambard.

Identité. G. Tourdes.

Induction. V. Egger.

Inflammation. G. Herrman.

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Poets and authors immorality, criminal because a social act, not individual. 

Cf. individual and social moralists.

 

[13v]

 

{…} A ray of light

In a day’s {…} keep

‘Tis but for us mut. Soon all will be night.

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Sometimes a ray of poetry, small delight

     Make my {…} soul to weep.

This is by him, ‘tis a ray of light

     In a day’s sweetest keep,

Sometimes it seems to me that I it

     In {…}

 

[14r]

 

Last verses

 

And he said, no light[1] shalt then be

     Save some to prime and lark and rot.

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And I wasted with drink of my wit

     The ruin of my brain

I look sad and weep: for soon joy did flit 

     For my heart’s {…} pain.

__________

 

[15r]

 

Part III.

1. Beginning.

2. Elections.

3. Opening of Parliament.

4. First debates.

5. Expulsion of the Reps.

6. The Press-Law.

7. The Student Question.

8. Parliament closed.

9. Guerra Junqueiro’s trial.

10. D. C. F & co. (Dictature).

11. Voyage to Oporto.

12. Reaction grass.

13. Assault and Robbery.

14. Progress of the Dictatorship.

15. “We” – king’s letter.

 

[15v]

 

The Dictature continues

Preparing for revolt

The Death Sentence

The † is dissolved

 170  1908.

 

These feeble-minded enthusiasms in the new king, they have all their moral.

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[16r]

 

Man is yet inexperienced and sentimental; and the name of degenerate and of decay that has seized on modern societies renders him still more sentimental, still more weak. Man abdicates easily from common sense and from that high form of it, reasoning. Thus we see, on the one side whole poets borne by feeling, take towards the day-dream of socialism and of anarchism, and, on the other side entire pupils hands of men hysterical by the form of hereditary thing, closing to

 

[16v]

 

ceremonial and to formal, to monarchy in all its forms. Guided by the analysis of Reason, can observe that the Republic synthetises all that Reason makes and all that nature gives, within the limits of its † unity, that alone the Republic is from far the system that causes of attaching importance to ceremonial and to the formless (in monarchy) and from the fever that comes of thinking that complex equality, fraternity and liberty (in

 

[17r]

 

socialism as in anarchism) can be obtained upon earth.

Misera conditio nostra. Swayed by feeling, {…} by authority, avoid by force, mankind seeks for dreams and for emptinesses, ridiculous these, idle those, and on these lays the murder of his happiness, his name oppress his {…} his undiscerning fears. Misera conditio nostra. This till oh that the day  

 

[17v]

 

shall come. A sentiment gradually takes the 2nd plan and instead of arguments being drawn from sentiment, sentiment is drawn from argument, when the right is not felt, then reasoned of, but first suggestively seen and then felt by sentiment. May that day come soon when we shall be all more or less to alternate the evilness of nature, when to sentiment shall

 

[18r]

 

succeed reasoning, to feeling, path of disorder, †, path of useless to feeling conviction † of war, Science † the matter of Peace.

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The bloodstained animalism of the French Revolution and the enthusiasm of those who cheer kings and queens are those born of the same 

 

[18r]

 

{…} sentiment. Reason and Science allow both.

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[19r]

 

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In that poor brain, unspeakably diseased and in obscurity, even in a sense, consciousness, {…}

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Stories – authentic ones – of his avarice are many.

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[19v]

 

{…} there lay

The mystery of a meaning emptiness.

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[20r]

 

“très-souvent la folie confirmée n’est que le chaînon terminal d’une longe succession d’anomalies psychiques, débutant parfois par de simples bizarreries du caractère.”

 

Letourneau: Article en Hérédité, Dic. Vol. 49, p. 599.

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[20v]

 

What most people do is not to conform practice to theory, but what is quite different, to conform theory to practice.

 

[21r]

 

|*The form that binds does as nature’s will

Is {…} at last

By an inverted did of ill as past.|

 

|*Let us repose beyond Let repos

That in nature is saved|

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[21v]

 

Portraits

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{…}

_________

 

[22r]

 

A poet’s mind and a reformer’s heart

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A mind for both things, a mind man new

 

                 I dream

     In me the {…} green

And in my soul {…} was born

On whom ideal thus the heart to shred was torn.

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[22v]

 

The idea that I must die

And the thought of death

 

Oppresses me, I cannot say

In how deep and terrible a way

‘Tis obsession full of terror

A thing containing much of error

And much of a sense of something more

Than my mind can resist

 

[23r]

 

Expenses to be made.

 

|*Sumption| for 1 year to “Public Opinion.”

(see ad. p. 108 of “D. M. Year Book”) – 13:0.

 

[23v]

 

What is really the property of the state, as state?

Land is the only thing that seems so, for land is the thing that makes the nation. Socialism, to be good and scientific, can go no further than land – nationalization.

A tax on landed property is a sort of rent already. Is not rent a land location of individual liberty. Is not land of the individual that made up a steel?

No, for then † would possess land

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[24r]

 

Taxation scheme.

Earned income: | Amount of income. Amount of estate. 

Inherited (?)

Unearned income:|

 

(Real) estate:

Unearned income:

Rent of houses, etc.

Income from shares, etc.

 

Consider principals:

Satin

Gas,

Trains etc

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Why not groceries etc and yet those

 

[24v]

 

May he know how to die who knew not how to live

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Socialism – Trade by the state is nonsense.

Difference between state and a company is an association

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Teixeira de Pascoaes.

      __________

 

[25r]

 

Sonnets to be translated: possibly.

1. “Il Rittrato.” Gonçalves Crespo.

2 “Alucinação” Gonçalves Crespo.

3 “Sara – Soneto III” Gonçalves Crespo.

4 “O Camarim.” Gonçalves Crespo.

5 Soneto XIII. (p. 13) Camões.

6 Soneto XXX. (p. 22) Camões.

7 Soneto CXCVIII. (p. 108) Camões.

8 Soneto CCXXXIV (p. 127.) Camões.

9 Soneto CCCXLV (p. 186) Camões.

10 Soneto CCCXLVII. (p. 187) Camões.

11 Soneto CXXXI. (p. 74) Camões.

12 “À Virgem Santíssima”. Antero de Quental.

13 {…} Fernando Caldeira.

14 “Ponto Final” – Henrique Rosa.

15 “Saiba morrer…” Bocage.

16 {…} Guedes Teixeira.

17 {…} Gomes Leal.

18 {…} Gomes Leal.

19 {…} António Nobre.

20 “Nunca” – Augusto Gil.

21 {…}

22 {…}

23 {…}

24 {…}

25 {…}

26 {…}

27 {…}

28 {…}

 

[25v]

 

W. Heffer [x] Sons,

4. Petty Cury,

Cambridge

England

 

[26r]

 

Epigram

 

And so they whisper about us?

About me and about you?

And so they whisper about us?

Let me give them reason to.

11-10-08

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The less power, the less abuse of Power. (See the Socialistic notion of state)

 

[26v]

 

You would not avoid, you easy own 

If a million to decided applause 

I understand you, it is

At least to million you are known

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[27r]

 

#

Eram vultos

Sons barulhentos de um labor verde

Que saíam dos lábios venenosos

 

This land? I cannot help 

Ever {…} into, degenerated.

Unto †.

 

[28r]

 

O Fazedor de Sonetos

 

Com madeira muito boa

Faz a magia do santo

Talha-o bem, {…}

{…} pô-lo a um canto

E adoram-no.

Nas festas por ele são 

Capazes de {…}

 

[29r]

 

Indícios de luz desfraldada

E nem cruz, nem curva, nem espada

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Porque morrestes {…} eu perguntei

O povo ou vós já não vê

 

Cada um deles {…} surge

Na face minha {…}

 

[29v]

 

Epílogo

 

{…} não não tarda etc.

 

Fim

E a hora sombria erma e larga

No céu silencioso e {…}

 

[30r]

 

nações moribundas e mortas, Portugal acorda, Fala; –

 

Canto III.

Bragança (história cantada por Portugal) – síntese superior (fim).

Canto IV (e último)

 

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Epílogo – segundo.

 

[30v]

 

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O sonho era-lhes lei,

     A infâmia alma,

Dormia-lhes em cama

     A solidão

Do egoísmo podendo

     Em que era[2] calma

Do que tinham em vez do coração

Como um réptil imundo que se |*esfolava|

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Lesma arrastada como a sangue sujo

Com energia só para sugar,

 

[31r]

 

Prólogo.

Canto I – História do poema guerreiro; intervalo do argumento, derrota, morte de D. Sebastião e do guerreiro.

Canto II

País do além, aparentemente dois.

 

[31v]

 

Uma figura ténue e luminosa

Aparece até, que vagamente 

Vagando a alma por esperar ditosa

{…} do |oriente|

E o coração na vista treme e goza

De a suspeitar

 

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Quando nós, já tardos, da visão

Nos teus homens descansa o coração

E partir desta febre que o consome 

Assim {…} contente

Rompia em lágrima, silentemente.

 

[32r]

 

Arremessa-os para a noite injusta

E esvaia-se nos meus olhos lentamente

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Qual ténues nuvens quando o sol desponta

Na luz da sua vinda leves morrem

Pelos desígnios do esquecimento e coroa

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Aproxima-se-lhe 

o apavorante regime lhe desfaz.

Do agudo {…}

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Vem e só sempre com uma ilusão

Bela

 

E o povo vendo-o,

{…} e bela

Erguendo os braços † p’ra ela

 

[32v]

 

Na sombra, mais atroz, sinistras cousas

Rumorejam perigosamente

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É a † †, cuja alma é fel 

† e letras do † | # †

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Cambaleando de audácia extravasando 

De repugnância mais que desmedida,

O Desejado, com a mão virada

E do que via firme e decidido

Amam de si a curva e a espada

{…}, e n’um gesto e que ia e vinha 

 

[33r]

 

Assim um horror físico à alma

De quem via, viscosos aos sentidos

Cabeças cujo horror {…}

E {…} calma,

Monstruosos ventres distendidos,

Cada um {…} se agita e se {…}

E {…} para asco desmedidos[3]

Tudo, por vil que entre o vil fora, passando

Lambendo, comendo[4], remexendo

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A alma vomitava ao contemplá-lo

E o coração era mais horroroso

Sentia-se estorcer, 

 

[33v]

 

{…} um trono vimos de quem era

De |dejecções|[5] a frágil segurança

E no trono sentada uma criança.

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Em roda, à vista turvos e incompletos

Sobrepostos em ordas que mexiam,

Animais coleantes de abjectos

Arrastam-se e muitos fugiam.

 

E no {…} estorcia

Insinuavam segura confusão

De confusão e calma na mesma podridão.

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Over 

 

[34r]

 

Cores, luzires, bruscos movimentos

Repentes varridos e velozes, 

{…}

 

Que contava com {…} atrozes

 

_______

Só lembra, numa de alma solidão

Sonho confuso de uma confusão.

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† perdido – tudo

 

[34v]

 

E frio na distante assimpática

Com terrível e sereno o sol ardia

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Um tremendo vozear ininterrupto

Que parecia sempre novo e abrupto.

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O azul violento apagado

Que a luz descoloria[6] era luminoso.

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O estrepito o {…} do combate

Em rude e imensa movimentação

Estendiam-se muitos. Embate e embate

Queda de corpos com fraqueza no chão,

Despedaçar de lanças; o rebento

Do {…} na louca sensação

De guerra, {…} da vitoriosa glória.

 

[35r]

 

Vacuidades que faziam rir

Com estranhas pretensões a existir.

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Estilhaçado som 

Súbito estrugir 

 

Sempre

 

[35v]

 

Fim

 

Subia a lua

E eu, indo amargurado, ainda triste

Inconsolável sempre assim

Onde chorar, sem consolar-se, enfim.

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[1] light /thought\
[2] era /jazia a\
[3] desmedidos /espalhados\
[4] Lambendo /Absorvendo\, comendo /lambendo\
[5] De |dejecções| /Seria †\
[6] apagado /desmaiado\

Que a /Da\ luz /que\ descoloria/ava\

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Classificação
Literatura
Dados Físicos
Dados de produção
1908
Português, Inglês, Francês
Dados de conservação
Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal
Palavras chave
Documentação Associada
Publicações parciais: Fernando Pessoa, Aforismos e afins, edição de Richard Zenith, Lisboa, Assírio & Alvim, 2003, p. 27; Fernando Pessoa, Escritos sobre Génio e Loucura, Edição de Jerónimo Pizarro, Lisboa, Imprensa Nacional – Casa da Moeda, 2006, pp. 612, 644, 680-682; Jerónimo Pizarro, Fernando Pessoa: entre génio e loucura, Lisboa, Imprensa Nacional – Casa da Moeda, 2007, pp. 106-108.