Nepenthe

by Leah Falk For the body Alan Turing, age 16 is a machine, sharing its eyes with the horse and the cinemascope, blood with the gas engine, fountain pen. What have I in common with other living things? The moment a dinosaur’s jaw cracked in two — one half snapping birdlike, the other ground to powder. We have that. We have the objects in this room where a billion years have come and laid down on the tile, seeping out the screen door and down the garden drain. This parlor: dresser scarf — ashtray — good light for reading — easy chairs with ribbing. Moonstone bust of a mother, a child rising out of her, mountain from slip-strike. Although it hurts me, out of a living line, out of stone or meat, I choose myself again, again that is one of me , here where my carriage grew vertical, where my fists forgot the heavy ground. But your body, wedge, remembered. Cartridge leaking...

From BBC Travel When 16th-Century Portuguese came to Japan, they brought a special dish with them. Today, in Japan, it’s called tempura and has been a staple of the country’s cuisine ever since.  In 1543, a Chinese ship with three Portuguese sailors on board was headed to Macau, but was swept off course and ended up on the Japanese island of Tanegashima. Antonio da Mota, Francisco Zeimoto and Antonio Peixoto – the first Europeans to ever step on Japanese soil – were deemed ‘southern barbarians’ by the locals because of the direction from which they came and their ‘unusual’, non-Japanese features. The Japanese were in the middle of a civil war and eventually began trading with the Portuguese, in general, for guns. And thus began a Portuguese trading post in Japan, starting with firearms and then other items such as soap, tobacco, wool and even recipes. The Portuguese remained in Japan until 1639, when they were banished because the ruling shogun Iemitsu bel...

"Aquele que na hora da vitória respeitou o vencido Aquele que deu tudo e não pediu a paga Aquele que na hora da ganância Perdeu o apetite Aquele que amou os outros e por isso Não colaborou com a sua ignorância ou vício Aquele que foi «Fiel à palavra dada à ideia tida» como antes dele mas também por ele Pessoa disse" Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, dedicado a Salgueiro Maia

Com esta obra belíssima da nossa Vanessa Barragão :)

AUTOESTRADA DA COSTA DO PACÍFICO, CALIFÓRNIA – “Às vezes precisamos de sair da estrada para apreciar a beleza da Autoestrada da Costa do Pacífico. Já percorri esta estrada inúmeras vezes pela sua vista imbatível. Como não existem lugares para estacionar, pedi a um amigo para me deixar aqui. Depois do pôr do sol, a névoa marinha fundiu-se rapidamente com o penhasco, e tive a sorte de captar esta imagem. Adoro a Califórnia!” Fotografia de Jiawei L., 2019 National Geographic Travel Photo Contest

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