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Entrada sobre a arte do Quilling, ou Filigrana de Papel, digo eu (na Wikipedia)





| Discurso do urso Julio Cortázar Emilio Urberuaga Tradução: Elisabete Ramos |
«No Verão, à noite, nado no depósito picotado de estrelas. Lavo a cara com uma mão, depois com a outra, depois com as duas juntas, e isso dá-me uma enorme alegria.»
Um urso que habita as tubagens de um edifício vai descobrindo a estranha e solitária vida dos seres humanos. Trata-se de uma estória espantosa, fiel expoente da literatura de Julio Cortázar, que incluiu este conto no seu livro Historias de cronopios y de famas, considerado pelo autor argentino Alberto Cousté “uma espécie de ética, disfarçada pelo humor e protegida da solenidade pela ternura”.
Cortázar reúne nesta obra uma sucessão de situações descabidas, retalhos do seu humor surrealista que deitam por terra o racionalismo trivial e mecanizado, com que expressa a sua rebeldia contra os objectos e pessoas que constituem a nossa vida quotidiana e a nossa maneira mecânica de nos relacionarmos com ela.
A palavra “cronópio” surgiu pela primeira vez em 1952, por ocasião da crónica sobre um concerto a que Cortázar assistiu em Paris em homenagem a Igor Stranvinsky. Enquanto o público saía no entreacto, o escritor permaneceu no teatro, onde sentiu a sensação de que “havia no ar personagens inexplicáveis, uma espécie de balões verdes, muito cómicos, muito divertidos e muito amigos, que andavam por aí a circular”.
Deu-lhes esse nome e disse acerca dos cronópios que “são um pouco a conduta do poeta, do associal, do homem que vive um pouco à margem das coisas”, por contraposição ao conceito de “famas”, que atribuiu a “grandes gerentes de bancos, presidentes da República, pessoas sérias que defendem a ordem”.


TRAVA-LÍNGUAS, de Dulce de Souza Gonçalves (Recolha) e Madalena Matoso (Ilustração)1) When people came to my door I should have accepted the food. I should have pretended my stitches hurt really bad so I could have got cupcakes.
2) When people offered to clean my house, I should have accepted. I never liked cleaning the bathroom anyways.
3) When people offered to babysit so I could sleep, I should have accepted. There’s nothing like sleeping the afternoon away.
4) When my husband offered to feed the baby during the night, I should have accepted. Then he could hear me snoring while he’s up with the baby.
5) When people offered to change the baby for me, I should have accepted. Why not, that will be one less poopy diaper on my grand total of the million I would have changed in the years ahead.
6) I should have never used the change table. They are useless. You can’t keep them unsupervised for one second. That’s what they made floors for…and they are free.
7) I should have let my baby use the pacifier. There is nothing like waiting in a Boxing Day line only to have to leave it because your baby will only nurse.
8 ) I should have bought more than one bouncy chair. Those chairs are multi-purpose. If the baby is fussy you can throw him in it. If he’s hungry, throw him in there and feed him. If you want to watch Ellen, throw him in there and let him watch too.
9) I should have taught my dog to babysit. There’s nothing like making your dog watch the baby. Teach him to bark when he thinks something wrong. That way you will be able to get in that time to email your friend.
10) The thing that I should have listened to is…”Sleep when your baby sleeps.” They say this for a reason. Mom’s aren’t supposed to be awake for 24 hours. We are not doctors. We need sleep. I need sleep. I should have relaxed more and did that. The housework will be there tomorrow, but will your sanity be?
Found by Daddy at Knocked-up Celebs
Seriously...
1. Start a conversation with another adult.
2. Have someone else continually tug on your pants and shirtsleeves while playing the tape prepared above.
1. On a day when you have an important meeting, wear your nicest work attire.
3. Put 1 cup of lemon juice into a cup of cream. Stir.
5. Pour half of it on your shirt.
6. Saturate a towel with the other half.
7. Attempt to clean your shirt by rubbing it with the saturated towel.
8. Do not change clothes. You're late already!
9. Go directly to work.
You are now ready to have children