In Bed With Pessoa again - Disquiet 70
Not as intimate as the last, but nonetheless... I recorded this (on March 6th) before I posted the other.
Posted by Jesus Crisis at 3/10/2010 3:11 PM 
Categories: Poetry by Others, Video Blogs
Tags: Penguin Classics Portuguese The Book of Disquiet Fernando Pessoa Richard Zenith Jesus Crisis
Categories: Poetry by Others, Video Blogs
Tags: Penguin Classics Portuguese The Book of Disquiet Fernando Pessoa Richard Zenith Jesus Crisis
Não: Náo digas nada!
Supor o que dirá
A tua boca velada
É ouvi-lo já.
É ouvi-lo melhor
Do que o dirías
O que és não vem à flor
Das frases e dos dias.
És melhor do que tu
Não digas nada: sê!
Graça do corpo nu
Que invisíble se vê.
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Cool...
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what happened to 67, 68 and 69?
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67 is a good one for this beautiful spring day: Here's the first paragraph.
"Often the surface and the illusion catch me, their prey, and I feel like a man. Then I'm happy to be in the world, and my life is transparent, I float. And it gives me pleasure to get my pay-cheque and go home. I feel the weather without seeing it, and there's some organic sensation that pleases me.
If I contemplate I don't think. On these days I'm particularly fond of gardens....
(That's sort of the way this day makes me feel. But by the last paragraph he makes this statement...)
"But the illusion never lasts long, partly because it doesn't last and partly because night arrives. And the colours of the flowers, he shade of the trees, the geometry of streets and flower beds - it all fades and shrinks. Above this error in which I feel like a man, the enormous stage setting of stars suddenly appears, as if daylight had been a curtain hiding it from view. And then my eyes forget the amorphous audience and I wait for the first performers with the excitement of a child at the circus.
I'm liberated and lost.
I feel. I shiver with fever. I'm I."
(If you try to make videos of every page it would take forever since there are over 400 pages you have to finish reading first. Personally I jump around and just read one or two at a time. But I picked this one on the first warm day in ages where I actually got out to the deck and garden and it was like heaven here after the bitter cold and snow all winter.)
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I don't think I was home when I read those three. Anyway, I'm afraid to do too many of 'em, get into copyright trouble, and maybe have my You Tube account disabled - so I'll probably not do any more Book of Disquiet videos, though I may record myself reading some of my other favorite authors. I love the whole book so far.
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You have a voice for radio and a visage for television!
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Thanks, Tara!
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Love the "in bed" readings. I hope you are doing a whole series. If not, I will have to - it begs to be done!
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Thanks, Ren! I think I will - but feel free to do it, too. The more the merrier! Reminds me of the bed-ins with John and Yoko....
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All I can say is you are very fickle Mr. B.... One week your in bed with one poet the next week another... Pessoa, Wilde, Joyce, Shakespeare, levy.... where will it all end?
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a veritable orgy of poets!
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