General

III – Whole Heart, Confused Mind

On my return to Rio, I rode a ferryboat and then the subway to reach Botafogo.  It’s interesting how past and modernity coexist together. Rio is the city of antithesis,…

Nelson Rodrigues Quotes III – Love, Passion and Sex

  If we were all familiar with each other’s sexual intimacies, we would stop greeting each other. Men begin to die at their first sexual experience. Every timid person is…

O inimigo da humanidade

Recuerdo

The manipulation of intent

Unbending intent is a sort of single-mindedness human beings exhibit; an extremely well-defined purpose not countermanded by any conflicting interests or desires; unbending intent is also the force engendered when…

II – The Meanders of Remembrance

By the time I was 23 I had already graduated in history the year before and was working on my master’s degree. It was exactly this master’s degree that led…