25 abril, 2007

Palavras lidas #21

The Dangerous Liaison - René Magritte, 1926

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"Man should not be able to see his own face. Nothing is more terrible than that. Nature gave him the gift of being unable to see either his face or into his own eyes.

He could only see his own face in the waters of rivers and lakes. Even the posture he had to adopt to do so was symbolic. He had to bend down, to lower himself, in order to suffer the ignominy of seeing his own face.

The creator of the mirror prisoned the human soul."

-- The Book of Disquiet, Bernardo Soares

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