225 - The future now.

In Shangai.

224 - Pi.

Perfect idiot.

223 - Dormindo com o inimigo.

Hoje durmo com uma pessoa que está ligada a um monitor Holter. Parece um bombista suicida.

Será que vai retirar a cavilha?

222 - I Sing the Body Electric.

Hoje, enquanto conduzia numa cidade estranhamente transitável, ocorria-me que, no futuro, os seres humanos terão uma slot onde irão ser inseridos cartões de memória contendo todos os livros, todas as sinfonias, todas as obras de arte, etc... Assim, o processo de aquisição de conhecimentos que hoje dura toda a vida, passará a ser resumido ao instante em que se liga o cartão de memória. Ou, "O Futuro Segundo David Cronenberg: ExistenZ".

Num sinal vermelho, olho para o lado. O condutor tinha um daqueles auriculares que emolduram a orelha.

Do androids dream of electric sheep?

221 - Overload!

CD...
...livros...
DVD...
...jornais...
blogs...
...revistas...
radio...
...TV...
concertos...
...teatro...
exposições...

What's the purpose?

220 - Tao Te Ching (26)

The heavy is the root of the light.
The unmoved is the source of all movement.

Thus the Master travels all day
without leaving home.
However splendid the views,
she stays serenely in herself.

Why should the lord of the country
flit about like a fool?
If you let yourself be blown to and fro,
you lose touch with your root.
If you let restlessness move you,
you lose touch with who you are.

219 - I love Gotlib!

218 - Segunda, 17 Nov 2003, 19:00 - Grande Auditório da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.

Hélène Grimaud.

216 - The meaning of life.

Tudo o que irá ser inventado,
Tudo o que irá ser escrito,
Tudo o que irá ser dito,
Tudo o que irá ser pintado,
...


Tudo o que o futuro nos reserva já existe. Agora.
...


Tudo isso irá ser revelado à medida que vão surgindo as pessoas que - instrumentalmente - tenham a capacidade de estabelecer a ligação entre esse mundo potencial e o momento presente, dando-lhe forma.

Essa capacidade adquire-se com a busca incessante da perfeição - através do trabalho - numa determinada área do conhecimento humano. Atingido esse estado, tudo aquilo que é objecto da nossa "criação" não passa da explicitação de um conhecimento que está num nível superior de percepção.

Esse esforço, que é uma responsabilidade e uma obrigação, decorre, apenas, do facto de existirmos. Da dádiva da vida.

Lamentavelmente, há mais pessoas a preocuparem-se com aquilo que a vida lhes pode dar do que com aquilo que podem, e devem, dar à vida.

215 - The Magnificent Welles.

Na Cinemateca: Orson Welles no Século XXI: O Labirinto sem Centro.

214 - Tao Te Ching (25)

There was something formless and perfect
before the universe was born.
It is serene. Empty.
Solitary. Unchanging.
Infinite. Eternally present.
It is the mother of the universe.
For lack of a better name,
I call it the Tao.

It flows through all things,
inside and outside, and returns
to the origin of all things.

The Tao is great.
The universe is great.
Earth is great.
Man is great.
These are the four great powers.

Man follows the earth.
Earth follows the universe.
The universe follows the Tao.
The Tao follows only itself.

213 - O Mês dos Escorpiões.

212 - Manhattan.

211 - Tao Te Ching (24)

He who stands on tiptoe
doesn't stand firm.
He who rushes ahead
doesn't go far.
He who tries to shine
dims his own light.
He who defines himself
can't know who he really is.
He who has power over others
can't empower himself.
He who clings to his work
will create nothing that endures.

If you want to accord with the Tao,
just do your job, then let go.

210 - Um livro esgotado para um amigo esgotado.

209 - Yes, Minister in glorious DVD!

Prime Minister: Ah, good morning Jim, Sir Humphrey. Do come in and sit down. How's your wife? Is she well?

Jim Hacker: [Puzzled] Oh yes, fine, Prime Minister. Fine. Thank you. Yes, fine.

PM: Good. So pleased. I've been meaning to have a word with you for some time. I've got an idea.

JH: [Brightening visibly] An idea, Prime Minister? Oh good.

Sir Humphrey: [Guardedly] An idea, Prime Minister?

PM: Well, not really an idea. It's gone beyond that actually. I've given it quite a bit of thought and I'm sure you, Jim, are the right man to carry it out. It's got to do with a kind of institution and you are sort of responsible for institutions, aren't you?

SH: [Cautiously] Institutions, Prime Minister?

JH: [Decisively] Oh yes, institutions fall to me. Most definitely. And you want me to set one up, I suppose?

PM: Set one up? Certainly not. I want you to get rid of one.

JH: [Astonished] Get rid of one, Prime Minister?

PM: Yes. It's all very simple. I want you to abolish economists.

JH: [Mouth open] Abolish economists, Prime Minister?

PM: Yes, abolish economists ..... quickly.

SH: [Silkily] All of them, Prime Minister?

PM: Yes, all of them. They never agree on anything. They just fill the heads of politicians with all sorts of curious notions, like the more you spend, the richer you get.

JH: [Coming around to the idea] I see your point, Prime Minister. Can't have the nation's time wasted on curious notions, can we? No.

SH: [Sternly] Minister.

PM: Quite right, Jim. Absolute waste of time. Simply got to go.

JH: [Uncertain] Simply got to go?

PM: [Motherly] Yes Jim. Don't worry. If it all goes wrong I shall get the blame. But if it goes right - as it will - then you'll get the credit for redeploying a lot of underused and misapplied resources. Probably get promotion too.

SH: [Indignantly] Resources? Resources, Prime Minister? We're talking about economists.

PM: Were, Sir Humphrey. Were.

JH: [Decisively] Yes Humphrey, were. We're going to get rid of them.

PM: Well, its all settled then. I'll look forward to receiving your plan for abolition soon. Tomorrow, shall we say? I'd like you to announce it before it all leaks.

JH: [Brightly] Tomorrow then, Prime Minister.

PM: Yes. Well, go and sort it out. Now, Sir Humphrey ..... what did you say your degree was?

SH: [Innocently] Degree, Prime Minister?

PM: [Firmly] Yes, Sir Humphrey, degree. Your degree. You have one, I take it - most Permanent Secretaries do, or perhaps two?

SH: [Modestly] Er, well actually, Prime Minister, a double first.

PM: Congratulations, Sir Humphrey, but what in?

SH: [Weakly] Politics ..... er ...... and er ..... economics.

PM: [Soothingly] Capital, my dear Sir Humphrey. You'll know exactly where to start.

SH: [Bleakly] Yes, Prime Minister.

[Exit Jim Hacker and Sir Humphrey]