dijous, 28 d’agost del 2014

This was a golden age, a time of high adventure, rich living and hard dying ... but nobody thought so. This was a future of fortune and theft, pillage and rapine, culture and vice ... but nobody admitted it. This was an age of extremes, a fascinating century of freaks ... but nobody loved it. O ÁCIDO DA FÚRIA CORROEU A BRUTA PACIÊNCIA E A PREGUIÇA QUE TINHAM FEITO DELE UM ZERO (1-0 ZÉRÔ...É O QUE SE CHAMA EMPATIA..) QUANTUM SATIS....QUANTO BASTE He was Gulliver Foyle, Mechanic's Mate 3rd Class, thirty years old, big boned and rough.. . and one hundred and seventy days adrift in space. He was Gully Foyle, the oiler, wiper, bunkerman; too easy for trouble, too slow for fun, too empty for friendship, too lazy for love. EDUCATION: NONE. SKILLS: NONE. MERITS: NONE. RECOMMENDATIONS: NONE” So reads Gully Foyle’s Merchant Marine card.

 O QUADRANTE DA MANHÃ A PARTE DO MUNDO ENTRE A MEIA-NOITE E A 
MADRUGADA 

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry? 


That's me,' he said, motioning to the robot. 'That's all of us. We prattle about free will, but we're nothing but response ... mechanical reaction in prescribed grooves. So ... here I am, here I am, waiting to respond. Press the buttons and I'll jump.'

---

- 'Why reach out to the stars and galaxies? What for?'
- 'Because you're alive, sir. You might as well ask: Why is life? Don't ask about it. Live it'


---

'There's got to be more to life than just living,' Foyle said to the robot.
'Then find it for yourself, sir. Don't ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts'
'Why can't we all move forward together?'
'Because you're all different. You're not lemmings. Some must lead, and hope that the rest will follow.'
'Who leads?'
'The men who must ... driven men, compelled men.'
'Freak men.'

'You're all freaks, sir. But you always have been freaks. Life is a freak. That's its hope and glory.'
'Thank you very much.'
'My pleasure, sir.'
'You've saved the day.'

'Always a lovely day somewhere, sir,' the robot beamed.  


 A man is a member of society first, and an individual second. You must go along with society, whether it chooses destruction or not.
 

dissabte, 23 d’agost del 2014

DOS LIVROS FEITOS DE FRASES DAS FRASES QUE FAZEM LIVROS E CRIAM MUNDOS OU DAS FRASES QUE SONHAM MUNDOS QUE DORMEM EM LIVROS ...UM SOL BRUNIDO PELO SOL NASCENTE E LIMPO PELO VERÃO ...O RIO SERPENTEANTE COMO UM VELHO PREGUIÇOSO SEM SE DETER MAS SEM SE APRESSAR, ALARGANDO-SE POR VEZES EM PÂNTANOS ...ATRAVÉS DO BIOMBO DE SALGUEIROS PODIAM VER A CLARIDADE DA FOGUEIRA QUE PARECIA UM INSECTO VERMELHO NA ESCURIDÃO ....É UMA TERRA SOLITÁRIA FAZ NASCER COISAS CASTANHAS ...A ÚNICA REALIDADE ERA AQUELE VAZIO BIZARRO E PERMANENTE QUE NUNCA MAIS ACABAVA

O BELO CASTANHO DOURADO DAS ERVAS SECAS

UM TAPETE GORDO

ERA UM LÍQUIDO ROXO, MAIS ESPESSO QUE A ÁGUA CORRIA PELA TERRA

ESCARLATE ARENOSA, ONDE CRESCIAM COISAS COM FORMAS DE BARRIL

E TUBOS E DE BOLAS, COM ESPINHOS E AGULHAS

AS QUAIS PODIAM OUVIR, FALAR, VER

QUANDO O LÍQUIDO PASSAVA SOBRE AS COISAS VIVAS ELAS MORRIAM

ÁRVORES ERGUIAM-SE...UMA SÓLIDA MURALHA VERDE

NÃO TENHAM PENA DELA, NADA NO MUNDO LHE PODE TOCAR

UM TERROR ARDENTE FIRME QUE ABSORVE AS VIDAS,

UMA TORRENTE TUMULTUOSA QUE ABRIA CAMINHO

ATRAVÉS DAS TERRAS

O IMPULSO SOLENE E PODEROSO DO MISSISSIPI SUPERIOR

A CAMARADAGEM TAGARELANTE E RUIDOSA DO MINESOTA

E ALI A BELICOSIDADE DO MISSOURI

dijous, 21 d’agost del 2014

OS FILHOS DA FOME....OU OS FILHOS DA MÃE POIS NASCEM TODOS DUMA EXCEPTO OS CARACÓIS .....QUE NASCEM TODOS DE UM ...DO NEVOEIRO, NUM TURBILHÃO CINZENTO SURGIRAM MOLES DE GAJOS E GAJAS A DESPEJAR ÁGUA GELADA OU CUBOS DE GELO JÁ MUITO FUNDIDOS EM CIMA DAS CACHIMÓNIAS ...É DOM SEBASTIÃO QUE REGRESSA DO DENSO NEVOEIRO MENTAL QUE NOS SUFOCA OU QUE NOS ENTERRA VAI PARA 900 ANOS DESDE QUE ESCOLHEMOS UM FRANCÊS PRA SENHORIO DA TERRA QUE ERA NOSSA OU PELO MENOS NÃO ERA DELE ATÉ LHE DARMOS A ESCRITURA

E O BALDE CHEIO DE ÁGUA PARA A BARRELA DOS PECADOS DO MUNDO

E DA LAVAGEM DA ROUPA SUJA EM PÚBLICO

SÃO O PALCO E O PANO DE FUNDO DESTA ÓPERA MUITO BUFA ....

TODOS OS QUE EXISTEM FORA DA TRIBO DOS BALDES DE ÁGUA

NÃO SÃO CONSIDERADOS HUMANOS .....SÃO SUB URBANOS...QUIÇÁ

SÓ A TRIBO DOS BALDES DE ÁGUA FRIA É HUMANA E CARIDOSA

E UM POUCO VÁ LÁ ....ESTÚPIDA

MAS É POR UMA BOA CAUSA ....

TAL COMO HITLER É PRA LIVRAR O MUNDO DOS SUB-HUMANOS

SEM CORAÇÃO OU SEM CU...OU SEM MEDO ...UMA DESSAS...

divendres, 15 d’agost del 2014

ECSTASINE FELICITINE INEBRIOL -QUE PENA O HILTON NÃO TIVESSE ARANHAS E RATOS PENSAVA EU ...QUE BICHINHOS ENCANTADORES ENTRETANTO IA ACARICIANDO A MESA - TENTEI LIBERTAR-ME COM A JUSTIFICAÇÃO DE TER O BRAÇO CANSADO ...NESSE CASO GRITOU A SOLUÇAR DESSE-LHE AO MENOS UM PONTAPÉ ...QUE PODIA FAZER....RECUSAR SERIA DESUMANO ..........APARECEU GRITANDO QUE TINHAM DADO FURIOL À POLÍCIA PARA ANULAR OS EFEITOS DOS BENIGNIZANTES - FARMOCRACIA - TODA A GENTE QUER COMETER VILANIAS MAS NINGUÉM QUER SENTIR-SE VILÃO - AS RATAZANAS JOGAVAM BRIDGE AOS PÉS DO PROFESSOR, MESMO COM A ELEVADA CONCENTRAÇÃO DE ALUCINOGÉNIOS NO AR SERIA POSSÍVEL JOGAREM BRIDGE? AFLITO OLHEI A MAIS GORDA....AS CARTAS QUE TINHA NA MÃO NÃO ESTAVAM POR ORDEM E ELA JOGAVA MAL ....BOM,ENTÃO ESTAVA TUDO BEM.....She was beautiful all right, beautiful in a way that was at once seductive, demonic, and raspberry.....Anyhow, the criterion of common sense was never applicable to the history of the human race. Averroës, Kant, Socrates, Newton, Voltaire, could any of them have believed it possible that in the twentieth century the scourge of cities, the poisoner of lungs, the mass murderer and idol of millions would be a metal receptacle on wheels, and that people would actually prefer being crushed to death inside it during frantic weekends exoduses instead of staying, safe and sound, at home?” ― Stanisław Lem, The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy .


 
Each speaker was given four minutes to present his paper, as there were so many scheduled — 198 from 64 different countries. To help expedite the proceedings, all reports had to be distributed and studied beforehand, while the lecturer would speak only in numerals, calling attention in this fashion to the salient paragraphs of his work. ... Stan Hazelton of the U.S. delegation immediately threw the hall into a flurry by emphatically repeating: 4, 6, 11, and therefore 22; 5, 9, hence 22; 3, 7, 2, 11, from which it followed that 22 and only 22!! Someone jumped up, saying yes but 5, and what about 6, 18, or 4 for that matter; Hazelton countered this objection with the crushing retort that, either way, 22. I turned to the number key in his paper and discovered that 22 meant the end of the world.
Meanwhile, political trouble is brewing outside the hotel. In an attempt to forestall a revolution, the government pumps benignimizers into the water supply and the hotel is accidentally bombed with hallucinogens. Tichy is transported to an even bizarrer future, where chemicals are used to simulate everything. This is the opening for Lem to launch into a barrage of neologistic puns and satirical invention:
And therefore we have the malingerants, fudgerators and drudge-dodgers, not to mention the special phenomenon of simulimbecility or mimicretinism. A mimicretin is a computer that plays stupid in order, once and for all, to be left in peace. And I found out what dissimulators are: they simply pretend that they're not pretending to be defective. Or perhaps it's the other way around. The whole thing is very complicated.

A probot is a robot on probation, while a servo is one still serving time.

A robotch may or may not be a sabot.

One vial, and my head is splitting with information and nomenclature.

A confuter, for instance, is not a confounding machine — that's a confutator — but a machine which quotes Confucius. A grammus is an antiquated frammus, a gidget — a cross between a gadget and a widget, usually flighty.

A bananalog is an analog banana plug. ...
VÊ É UMA BICHA AUTÊNTICA 
(UMA FILA ...COMO AS DOS SOVIETES  OU AS FILAS DE PAPEL HIGIÉNICO VENEZUELANAS)
ÓPTIMO - DISSE EU DEPOIS DE UMA HORA EM PÉ....E QUANDO ABREM?
-ABREM....O QUÊ? PERGUNTOU CONFUSO
-BOM O GUICHET ACHO EU 
-NUNCA- RESPONDE-ME UM CORO DE VOZES TRIUNFANTES 

OS FABRICANTES TÊM AGORA PROBLEMAS
MUITO ESTRANHÍSSIMOS NUMA EMBALAGEM
SÓ PODE FAZER PROPAGANDA HORA AOS 
SEUS PRODUTOS, É PROIBIDO AGARRAR O CLIENTE PELOS COLARINHOS....

OS NEGROS MUDAM DE RAÇA TOMANDO CAUCÁSIO 
CARO DOENTE ....AS MEDIDAS PARA SALVÁ-LO LEVARAM A QUE SE FIZESSEM 1,2,....1O (MARCAR O QUE INTERESSA) OPERAÇÕES ...EMBORA TENHA SIDO NECESSÁRIO REMOVER OS PULMÕES FÍGADO CRÂNIO ETC....ESSES DESPOJOS FORAM TRATADOS NO RIGOROSO RESPEITO PELA SUA RELIGIÃO FORAM CREMADOS EMBALSAMADOS ATIRADOS AO LIXO, AO MAR, ENTERRADOS (MARQUE COM UM CÍRCULO O QUE INTERESSA...
 
 
 
 
Bayesianism Messianism obamanism ...onanism
Changes"

Everyone is facing changes
No one knows what's going on.
And everyone is changing places
Still the world keeps moving on.

Love must always change to sorrow?
And everyone must play the game,
Because its here today and gone tomorrow
Still the world goes on the same.

Love must always change to sorrow
And everyone must play the game,
Because its here today and gone tomorrow
Still the world goes on the same.

Its here today and gone tomorrow
Still the world goes on the same.
 General Apollon Diaz was currently in power and leaned toward the position of the hawks, which was to meet force with force. The proposal had already been made at Parliament (which stood in permanent emergency session) to counterattack: to pull twice the number of teeth from the political prisoners the abductors were demanding and mail them poste restante, as the address of guerrilla headquarters was unknown.

 Ijon Tichy, having returned to Earth from space, finds himself attending the Eighth World Futurological Congress, being held in a 106-storey hotel in Costa Rica alongside the Plenary Council of Student Protest Veterans, the Convention of Publishers of Liberated Literature, and a Philumenist Society meeting 
(collectors of matchbooks)
 For instance the second delegate from Japan unveils a 10,000:1 model of a housing complex some 800 stories tall with self sustaining everything and mobile in the ocean! It's the future! In fact, everything is recycled! Even the food is recycled waste and excrement from the people. The sausage left out in the hall is actually reconstituted human waste (at which point everyone in the audience stops eating and shuffles the food underneath their seats). This sets the tone for a few of the minor themes of the novel and gives you an idea of how Lem takes subtle jabs at everyone. For example another United States delegate takes the floor to talk about population problems that are rapidly developing. He outlines seven solutions: "mass media and mass arrests, compulsory celibacy, full-sale deeroticization, onanization, sodomization, and for repeated offenders--castration.