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162 pages, Paperback
First published August 30, 1991
I am in prison in the small town of my childhood.
I鈥檓 not a criminal. I鈥檓 here because my papers are not in order; my visa has expired. I鈥檝e also run into debt.
In the morning my guard brings me breakfast 鈥� milk, coffee, bread. I drink some coffee and then shower. My guard finishes my breakfast and cleans my cell. The door is left open; I can go out into the courtyard if I want.
There are no more flames; the fire has gone out and the street is only soft ashes cooling.
I ask the child, 鈥淵ou鈥檙e my brother, aren鈥檛 you? Were you waiting for me?鈥�
The child shakes his head. 鈥淣o, I have no brother and I鈥檓 not waiting for anyone. I am the guardian of eternal youth. The one waiting for his brother is sitting on a bench in Central Square. He鈥檚 very old. Perhaps he鈥檚 waiting for you.鈥�
The white house with green shutters on a quiet street, the kitchen in which my mother sang, the yard in which my father chopped wood 鈥� was it once a reality, the perfect happiness in the white house, or had I merely hallucinated it or dreamed it up during the long nights of five years spent in a hospital?
And he who lay in the other bed in the little room, who breathed at the same rhythm as me, the brother whose name I still believe I know, was he dead or had he never existed?
Verdade, mentira, certeza, incerteza鈥�
Verdade, mentira, certeza, incerteza鈥�
Aquele cego ali na estrada tamb茅m conhece estas palavras.
Estou sentado num degrau alto e tenho as m茫os apertadas
Sobre o mais alto dos joelhos cruzados.
Bem: verdade, mentira, certeza, incerteza o que s茫o?
O cego p谩ra na estrada,
Desliguei as m茫os de cima do joelho.
Verdade, mentira, certeza, incerteza s茫o as mesmas?
Qualquer coisa mudou numa parte da realidade 鈥� os meus joelhos e as minhas m茫os.
Qual 茅 a ci锚ncia que tem conhecimento para isto?
O cego continua o seu caminho e eu n茫o fa莽o mais gestos.
J谩 n茫o 茅 a mesma hora, nem a mesma gente, nem nada igual.
Ser real 茅 isto.
鈥� Alberto Caeiro
" 兀賯賵賱 賱賰 廿賳 丕賱丨賷丕丞 亘賱丕 噩丿賵賶 鬲賲丕賲賸丕 貙 賵賱賷爻 賱賴丕 賲毓賳賶 貙 廿賳賴丕 丕賳丨乇丕賮 貙 賲毓丕賳丕丞 賱丕賳賴丕卅賷丞 "