It’s amazing what pretenders madmen and poets can be. Fernando Pessoa was right. While pretending to tell of their pains they pretend to purge them, to adequate themselves, to succumb to mediocrity. And everyone, even they, eventually come to believe in their pretending, a mere artifice of the rhetoric, mere creation. But in pretending their pains don’t just draw off. In the catharsis of telling, although pretended,...

There is nothing more to say about the dull monotony of my jail days in this mental health clinic. Not the guitar, not even having met Fernanda, not anything appeases the pain of being… Because the pain is not of being or existing, but from being unable to fully exist, of living like a bird with clipped wings and chains round its feet. Not to mention the barred cage preventing even the slightest attempt of taking flight....

I open my eyes and the same scene repeats itself once again: Valerie lying on the bed beside me, I on the floor, the same room, same TV, same doors. The days were always the same, dragging on endlessly inside that prison clinic. I couldn’t stand the monotony anymore, the sameness of it all. Especially since I had been let out before, breathed the airs of freedom for a short time before being locked back up again. I had strol...

A história do país é repleta de mulheres corajosas, empreendedoras e sempre dispostas a vislumbrar, de cabeça erguida, novos horizontes e oportunidades. Entre os grandes nomes da nossa história está o de Joaquina Bernarda da Silva de Abreu Castelo Branco Souto Maior de Oliveira Campos, a poderosa Joaquina do Pompéu, a Dama do Sertão, ou simplesmente a Sinhá Brava! Não se sabe como era a real fisionomia da fazendeira,...

Here in Pinel, the days are almost always the same, despite the fact of having virtually every possible and impossible lunacy gathered in the same place all at once. Normally I wake up on my mattress on the floor to avoid those terrible back pains. I look up and sitting there beside me is either the melancholic Valéria or the ever caring Sandra, companions of mine who alternate between shifts to safeguard my nightly dreams. W...

Segundo os historiadores, Pitangui foi o mais importante centro agrícola-comercial mineiro, com destaque para a pecuária, no Ciclo do Ouro, fim dos anos 1700 e início dos anos 1800. Cortando um trecho do bairro da Penha, pode-se chegar a uma outra “Estrada Real”, que ligava a Vila até Paracatu e daí a Goiás Velho, a “Picada de Goiás”, por aí passavam as mercadorias, nos anos 1700–1800. A Estação Ferroviári...

  As I tell of my arrival in Pinel, I still find myself being held captive in this sympathetic mental health clinic, amidst Sandras, Valérias, Daniéis, Moniques, Fernandas and many other travel companions. They come and go. I myself have been let out on the outside and have come back, and I have no idea when I’ll ever get out again. The only thing left for me is to write, it is the only way to not let the revolutionar...

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