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The Father | The Fear of Knowing, the Cross of Doubting
“"He who fears suffering already suffers what he fears." Michel de Montaigne ©Teatro Nacional São João What would be more terrible: discovering that your greatest fear was real or spending your life with the possibility that it was? In August Strindberg's The Father, the question takes the form of an intimate and devastating suspicion. Adolfo,…
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Kruger | I Know I'm Going That Way
“"The universal is the local without walls. It is the authentic that can be seen from all sides, and on all sides it is right, like the truth." Miguel Torga. A small dog can survive hunger, a colonial empire, a rough road, and more than a tumultuous century, as long as someone…
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Avoid | Why Don't You Cry for Me?
“Instead of a government, we had a stage.” Che, Evita, Tim Rice / Andrew Lloyd Webber. Eva Perón died at thirty-three, but age had long ceased to be a sufficient measure to tell her life story. In just a few years, Eva Duarte traversed a distance that cannot be measured in kilometers between…
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Johannesburg | A Long Walk
“There’s nothing like returning to a place that remains the same to discover how much we’ve changed.” Nelson Mandela. It was to the sound of a national anthem that Johannesburg ceased to fit into what I’m about to tell you. At the Steyn City Clubhouse, amidst a lavish meal, a Springboks game, a fine South African Sauvignon Blanc…
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Kingsbridge | Nostalgia Can Also Be Built
«"Because it will be beautiful." Tom Builder in The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett. Humans have never quite accepted the idea of disappearing. That's why they had children, wrote books, painted portraits, carved names in stone, and erected monuments. The pharaohs built pyramids to bargain with eternity, the Roman emperors left arches where victory…
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Douro Oxheart Tomato | The Holy Grail in the Right Place
«"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: 'What? You too? I thought it was just me…'" Clive Staples Lewis. An empty table is just a piece of furniture… At the end of the 15th century, Leonardo da Vinci was commissioned to paint one of the most repeated scenes in Christian tradition. He had before him…
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The Mousetrap | Brief as Eternity
“We are such stuff as dreams are made on… our life is shrouded in a sleep.” William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act IV, Scene I, translated by Fernando Pessoa. Time has a particular cruelty: it passes through everything, but not in the same way through all things. It ages bodies, erases places, transforms memories and, strangely, spares…
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I swear | I give you my word. The bad one too.
«What you hear me shout is precisely what I least believe in.» John Davidson. We spend a large part of our lives believing that we own our bodies. Perhaps because we've never needed to ask permission. We want to be quiet, and we are. We want to remain silent, and we are. We choose one word among thousands and we say it. Rarely…
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DOP | Yesterday That Arrives After Tomorrow
«It was not only missing some of those branches that time and life's successive encounters cause to break off from the central trunk, it also lacked someone to help its roots penetrate to the deepest underground layers, someone to refine the consistency and flavor of its fruits, someone to broaden and strengthen its crown to…"
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The Invite | The Concert as a Concert
“When we play the piano four-handed, we play our partner, we can converse, even during a concert. It’s profoundly intimate… With four hands, we can deeply feel the other person, their sensitivity, the pulse of their heart.” Alexandre Tharaud It is often said that the opposite of love is hate. Perhaps that is one of the most…