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Salman Rushdie
“What happened that day in Pachigam need not be set down here in full detail, because brutality is brutality, excess is excess and that’s all there is to it. There are things that must be looked at indirectly because they would blind you if you looked them in the face, like the fore of the sun. So, to repeat: there was no Pachigam anymore, Pachigam was destroyed. Imagine it for yourself.

Second attempt: The village of Pachigam still existed on the maps of Kashmir, but that day it ceased to exist anywhere else, except in memory.

Third and final attempt: The beautiful village of Pachigam still exists.”
Salman Rushdie, Shalimar the Clown

Salman Rushdie
“O que aconteceu nesse dia em Pachigam não precisa de ser aqui descrito em pormenor porque a brutalidade é sempre brutalidade, o excesso é sempre excesso e não há mais nada a dizer. Há coisas que não podem ser olhadas de frente sob pena de ficarmos cegos, tal como acontece com a luz do sol. Portanto, repetindo: Pachigam já não existia. Pachigam foi destruída. Imaginem-na.

Segunda tentativa: A aldeia de Pachigam ainda existia no mapas de Caxemira, mas, nesse dia, deixou de existir em qualquer outro sítio, a não ser na memória.

Terceira e última tentativa: A bela aldeia de Pachigam ainda existe.”
Salman Rushdie, Shalimar, o Palhaço

Jorge Luis Borges
“A realidade não tem a mínima obrigação de ser interessante ... A realidade pode prescindir dessa obrigação, mas não as hipóteses.”
Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones

Jorge Luis Borges
“O executor de uma empresa atroz tem de imaginar que já a cumpriu, tem de se impor um futuro que seja irrevogável como o passado.”
Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones

Jón Kalman Stefánsson
“We cry because language is imperfect and fails to reach all the way down to the bottom-most depths of life, not even halfway down into the deepest charms, our tears begin where our words stop, are they messages from the abyss, the unspoiled depths?”
Jón Kalman Stefánsson, Fiskarnir hafa enga fætur
tags: cry, tears

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