AI A REALIDADE AGUENTA AGUENTA UM MUNDO IRREAL E VIRTUAL VIVER O DIA A DIA PELO SOL É MELHOR QUE VIVÊ-LO DOMINADO POR RELÓGIOS E TELEFONES E INTERNET'S? ataraxia. acho que é Grego, para quem anda preocupado. 4 hrs · Like Maria R. Henriques Acho que vou ver se consigo comprar um garrafão de absinto.Para ver se em arranjando um borrifador potente consigo encher os ares com ele.Pode ser que os tais gajos realistas que ora mandam cá no burgo passem a gajos surrealistas sem poder e sem milhões. 4 hrs · Like António Nunes Só te tocarás, quando quiseres fazer-te ao bife, e ainda com alguma sorte, só lá terás o a prato!! A natureza é generosa, mas ainda não faz nascer bifes no prato, até lá chegar há muito trabalho de outros! A utopia persegue-me, mas não me cega!! 1 hr · Like Mario Braga Só tocarás de noute e de dia no Iphone que te IPhode PARA QUE QUER ALGUÉM UMA COUSA QUE ALÉM DE CUSTAR UM PORRADÃO DE BIFES ESTÁ SEMPRE A TOCAR E A EXIGIR QUE LHE MEXAM...PESSOAS DE QUEM FUGIS QUANDO AS VEDES NA RUA TROIKAM SMS CONVOSCO E VOCÊS RESPONDEM.....É A CHATA DA ÂNGELA...MAS VOCÊS NÃO SE GRAMAM PORQUE ELA COISA COM O TEU GAJO...BOM TEU E DE MUITAS MAIS NÉ....AH ELE MANDOU-ME UM SMS ..E AGORA VAI VER...MAS JÁ ESTÁS NISSO HÁ MEIA-HORA ...É QUE ELA CONTINUA A RESPONDER...POIS GAJOS E GAJAS IRREAIS OU SE CALHAR SURREAIS COMO ESCREVE UM ATARAXOS QUALQUER.... 2 mins · Like Mario Braga O TEMPO É UMA COUSA LIXADA QUANDO NOS DEIXAMOS DOMINAR POR ELE....O TEMPO DE ESCREVER E DE NADA FAZER PELA REALIDADE PODE SER UMA BOA COUSA SE O SOUBERMOS UTILIZAR...PARA PENSAR NAS COUSAS EM VEZ DE DEBITAR CHAVÕES E CHAVECAS....

GRAHAM GREENE ---NÃO INTERESSA A 

MANEIRA COMO NOS VAMOS MAS COMO

VIVEMOS....POIS MAS HÁ FORMAS MESMO

MUITO MÁS DE MORRER ...LOGO PODE-SE 

VIVER DE MODO MUITO VIRTUOSO

SEGUNDO UM PADRÃO DUM ESTADO 

ISLÂMICO QUALQUER 

E MORRER-SE DUM MODO ESTÚPIDO

E EXTREMAMENTE DOLOROSO

But I must not think of such things, they make a person homesick. This is a most strange place to come to get rid of disease. E O DÓLAR AGUENTA AGUENTA AI AGUENTA AGUENTA É TUDO UMA QUESTÃO DE FÉ IN THE QUEEN WE TRUST THE POUNDS IN CRÉDIT SUISSE WE TRUST THE TAX FRAUD DOLARS 1394 alqueire de trigo em lisboa 11 a 16 reais e em braga só 4 a 6 reais e inda dizem cu alentejo era o celeiro dus rumanus 1402 rio maior 20 reais por alqueire 1419 santarém 8 reais em 1389 eram 50 soldos ou seja 5 reais dos tais 1423 ceuta 14 reais ou réis 1485 1486 o alqueire em lisboa vai dos 40 aos 100 reais entre douro e minho só 25 reais LISBOA FOI SEMPRE CARA...desde cus amarikanus chegaram ós azores DESDE QUE OS AMARIKANUS VIERAM AO MUNDO OS EMPREGADOS E DONOS DE BARES PROSTITUTAS E SEUS CHULOS TIVERAM BASTOS INCREMENTOS MONETÁRIOS OS AMERICANOS DINAMIZARAM A ECONOMIA ONDE QUER QUE INVADISSEM OU METESSEM BASES PASSADORES DE DROGA MOTORISTAS DE TÁXI PESSOAL MERCADO NEGRO....E DO JOGO ASCENDERAM AO TOPO DA PIRÂMIDE ECONÓMICO-POLÍTICO-SOCIAL-SEXUAL VER BERLUSCONI E LOJAS MAÇÓNICAS A CLASSE MÉDIA OBVIAMENTE ADMITO-O FOI-SE ABAIXO PORQUE COM O DÓLAR EXPORTA-SE FÉ E INFLAÇÃO AS RENDAS DAS CASAS FICAM MAIS CARAS OS AMERICANOS PAGAM MAIS AS GAJAS FICAM MAIS CARAS OS AMERICANUS PAGAM MAIS OS PUTOS DA CASA PIA FICAM CARÍSSIMOS OS...ETC OS TAXISTAS PREFEREM OS AMERICANOS AOS CIGANOS E AOS DROGADOS OS AMERICANOS ESFAQUEIAM MENOS QUANDO DÃO A GORGETA ,,,,E RECLAMAM MENOS DA BANDEIRADA A INFLAÇÃO GERADA PELA DESPESA AMARIKANA É UMA CONSTANTE DESDE QUE COMEÇARAM A FAZER DESPESA E DAÍ OS NATIVOS COM MENOR PODER DE COMPRA E INFERIOR NÍVEL DE VIDA E COM AS GAJAS MAIS FEIOSAS E OBVIAMENTE RESSENTEM-SE E VÃO-SE AO ESTADO ISLÂMICO ...E DESEJAM A VITÓRIA DOS CHARLIE....OS VIETCONGS ÇA VA?

It seems no very great distance from Annecy, 
in Haute-Savoie, to this place — you make it in 

less 
than thirty hours by these continental express 
trains — but the changes in the scenery are great ; they 
are quite out of proportion to the distance covered. 
From Annecy by Aix to Geneva, you have blue 

lakes, 
with bold mountains springing from their borders, 
and far glimpses of snowy wastes lifted against the 
horizon beyond, while all about you is a garden 
cultivated to the last possibility of grace and

 beauty 
— a cultivation which doesn't stop with the handy 
lower levels, but is carried right up the sheer 

steeps 
and propped there with ribs of masonry, and made 
to stay there in spite of Newton's law. Beyond 
Geneva — beyond Lausanne, at any rate — 

you have 
for a while a country which noticeably resembles 
New England, and seems out of place and like an 
intruder — an intruder who is wearing his every -

day 
clothes at a fancy-dress ball.

Next day you have the lake of Zurich, 
and presently the Rhine is swinging by you. How 
clean it is! How clear it is! How blue it is! How 
green it is! How svnd and rollicking and insolent 
are its gait and style! How vivid and splendid its 
colors — beautiful wreck and chaos of all the soap 
bubbles in the universe! A person born on the 
Rhine must worship it. 

I saw the blue Rhine sweep along; I heard, or 
seemed to hear, 
The German songs we used to sing in chorus 
sweet and clear. 

Yes, that is where his heart would be, that is 
where his last thoughts would be, the "soldier of 
the legion" who "lay dying in Algiers." 

And by and by you are in a German region, which 
you discover to be quite different from the recent 
Swiss lands behind you. You have a sea before you, 
that is to say; the green land goes rolling away, in 
ocean swells, to the horizon. And there is another 
new feature. Here and there at wide intervals you 
have islands, hills two hundred and three hundred 
feet high, of a haystack form, that rise abruptly out 
of the green plain, and are wooded solidly to the top. 
On the top there is just room for a ruined 
castle, and there it is. every time; above the summit 
you see the crumbling arches and broken towers 
projecting. 


MARIENBAD—A HEALTH FACTORY 

Beyond Stuttgart, next day, you find other changes 
still. By and by, approaching and leaving Nurem- 
berg and down by Newhaus, your landscape is 
humped everywhere with scattered knobs of rock, 
unsociable crags of a rude, towerlike look, and 
thatched with grass and vines and bushes. And 
now and then you have gorges, too, of a modest 
pattern as to size, with precipice walls curiously 
carv^ed and honeycombed by — I don't know wjiat 
— but water, no doubt. 

The changes are not done yet, for the instant the 
country finds it is out of Wurttemberg and into 
Bavaria it discards one more thickness of soil to go 
with previous disrobings, and then nothing remains 
over the bones but the shift. There may be a poorer 
soil somewhere, but it is not likely. 

A couple of hours from Bayreuth you cross into 
Bohemia, and before long you reach this Marienbad, 
and recognize another sharp change, the change 
from the long ago to to-day ; that is to say from the 
very old to the spick and span new; from an archi- 
tecture totally without shapeliness or ornament to 
an architecture attractively equipped w4th both; 
from universal dismalness as to color to universal 
brightness and beauty as to tint ; from a town which 
seems made up of prisons to a txDwn which is made 
up of gracious and graceful mansions proper to the 
Hght of heart and crimeless. It is like jumping out 
of Jerusalem into Chicago. 

The more I think of these many changes, the more 
surprising the thing seems. I have never made so 
picturesque a journey before, and there cannot beanother trip of like length in the world that can 
furnish so much variety and of so charming and 
interesting a sort. 

There are only two or three streets here in this 
snug pocket in the hemlock hills, but they are hand- 
some. When you stand at the foot of a street and 
look up at the slant of it you see only block fronts of 
graceful pattern, with happily broken lines and the 
pleasant accent of bay projections and balconies in 
orderly disorder and harmonious confusion, and 
always the color is fresh and cheery, various shades 
of cream, with softly contrasting trimmings of white, 
and now and then a touch of dim red. These blocks 
are all thick walled, solid, massive, tall for this 
Europe; but it is the brightest and newest looking 
town on the Continent, and as pretty as anybody 
could require. The steep hills spring high aloft from 
their very back doors and are clothed densely to 
their tops with hemlocks. 

In Bavaria everybody is in uniform, and you 
wonder where the private citizens are, but here in 
Bohemia the uniforms are very rare. Occasionally 
one catches a glimpse of an Austrian officer, but it 
is only occasionally. Uniforms are so scarce that 
we seem to be in a republic. Almost the only strik- 
ing figure is the Polish Jew. He is very frequent. 
He is tall and of grave countenance and wears a 
coat that reaches to his ankle bones, and he has a 
little wee curl or two in front of each ear. He has 
a prosperous look, and seems to be as much respected 
as anybody. music time twice a day are fashionably dressed after 
the Parisian pattern, and they look a good deal 
alike, but they speak a lot of languages which you 
have not encountered before, and no ignorant person 
can spell their names, and they can't pronounce them 
themselves. 

MariEnBad — Mary's Bath. The Mary is the Vir- 
gin. She is the patroness of these curative springs. 
They try to cure ever>'thing — gout, rheumatism, 
leanness, fatness, dyspepsia, and all the rest. The 
whole thing is the property of a convent, and has 
been for six or seven hundred years. However, 
there was never a boom here until a quarter of a 
century ago. 

If a person has the gout, this i^ what they do 
with him: they have him out at 5.30 in the morning, 
and give him an egg and let him look at a cup of 
tea. At SLX he must be at his particular spring, with 
his tumbler hanging at his belt — and he will have 
plenty of company there. At the first note of the 
orchestra he must lift his tumbler and begin to sip 
his dreadful water w^th the rest. He must sip slowly 
and be a long time at it. Then he must tramp about 
the hills for an hour or so, and get all the exercise 
and fresh air possible. Then he takes his tub or 
wallows in his mud, if mud baths are his sort. By 
noon he has a fine appetite, and the rules allow him 
to turn himself loose and satisfy it, so long as he is 
careful and eats only such things as he doesn't 
want. He puts in the afternoon walking the hills 
and filling up with fresh air. At night he is allowed 
to take three ounces of any kind of food he doesn't 
like and drink one glass of any kind of liquor that 
he has a prejudice against; he may also smoke one 
pipe if he isn't used to it. At half past nine sharp 
he must be in bed and his candle out. Repeat the 
whole thing the next day. I don't see any advantage 
in this over having the gout. 

In the case of most diseases that is about what 
one is required to undergo, and if you have any 
pleasant habit that you value, they want that. They 
want that the first thing. They make you drop 
ever>'thing that gives an interest to life. Their idea 
is to reverse your whole system of existence and 
make a regenerating revolution. If you are a Repub- 
lican, they make you talk free trade. If you are a 
Democrat they make you talk protection; if you 
are a Prohibitionist, you have got to go to bed 
drunk every night till you get well. They spare 
nothing, they spare nobody. Reform, reform, that 
is the whole song. If a person is an orator, they gag 
him; if he likes to read, they won't let him; if he 
wants to sing, they make him whistle. They say 
they can cure any ailment, and they do seem to do 
it ; but why should a patient come all the way here ? 
Why shouldn't he do these things at home and save 
the money? No disease would stay with a person 
who treated it like that. 

I didn't come here to take baths, I only came to 
look around. But first one person, then another 
began to throw out hints, and pretty soon I was a 
good deal concerned about myself. One of these 
goutees here said I had a gouty look about the eye; 
next a person who has catarrh of the intestines asked 

ii8 



-MARIENBAD— A HEALTH FACTORY 

me if I didn't notice a dim sort of stomach ache 
when I sneezed. I hadn't before, but I did seem to 
notice it then. A man that's here for heart disease 
said he wouldn't come downstairs so fast if he had 
my build and aspect. A person with an old-gold 
complexion said a man died here in the mud bath 
last week that had a petrified liver — good deal such 
a looking man as I am, and the same initials, and 
so on, and so on. 

Of course, there was nothing to be uneasy about, 
and I wasn't what you may call really uneasy; but 
I was not feeling ver>^ well — that is, not brisk — and 
I went to bed. I suppose that that was not a good 
idea, because then they had me. I started in at the 
supper end of the mill and went through. I am said 
to be all right now, and free from disease, but this 
does not surprise me. What I have been through 
in these two weeks would free a person of pretty 
much ever\'thing in him that wasn't nailed there — 
any loose thing, any unattached fragment of bone, 
or meat or morals, or disease or propensities or 
accomplishments, or what not. And I don't say 
but that I feel well enough, I feel better than I would 
if I was dead, I reckon. And, besides, they say I 
am going to build up now and come right along and 
be all right. I am not sa^^ng anything, but I wish 
I had enough of my diseases back to make me aware 
of myself, and enough of my habits to make it 
worth while to live. To have nothing the matter 
with you and no habits is pretty tame, pretty color- 
less. It is just the way a saint feels, I reckon ; it is 
at least the way he looks. I never could stand a 

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MARK TWAIN 

saint. That reminds me that you see ver>^ few 
priests around here, and yet, as I have already said, 
this whole big enterprise is owned and managed by 
a convent. The few priests one does see here are 
dressed like human beings, and so there may be 
more of them than I imagine. Fifteen priests dressed 
like these could not attract as much of your atten- 
tion as would one priest at Aix-les-Bains. You can- 
not pull your eye loose from the French priest as 
long as he is in sight, his dress is so fascinatingly 
ugly. I seem to be wandering from the subject, 
but I am not. This is about the coldest place I ever 
saw, and the wettest, too. This August seems like 
an English November to me. Rain? Why, it seems 
to like to rain here. It seems to rain every time 
there is a chance. You are strictly required to be 
out airing and exercising whenever the sun is shining, 
so I hate to see the sun shining because I hate air 
and exercise — duty air and duty exercise taken for 
medicine. It seems un genuine, out of season, 
degraded to sordid utilities, a subtle spiritual some- 
thing gone from it which one can't describe in 
words, but — don't you understand? 
With that gone 
what is left but canned air, canned exercise, and 
you don't want it. 

When the sun does shine for a few moments or 
a few hours these
 people swarm out and flock through 
the streets and over the hills and through the pine 
woods, and make the most of the chance, 
and I have 
flocked out, too, on some of these occasions, 
but as a rule I stay in and try to get warm. 

QUE MIL FANÁTICOS LIVREMENTE FLORESÇAM NUM MILHÃO DE LUGARES NUM MILHÃO DE DETONAÇÕES VIBRANTES

NON É EM NOME DO EQUILÍBRIO MUNDIAL OU DA PAX AMERICANA
ODIUM AH MAOISTA NA SENIL IDADE
REVEJAMOS O TEXTO LIVRE LIBREMENTE SIN CUBA LIVRE
Que mil câmaras de filmar floresçam
OU QUE MIL CARTOONISTAS REACCIONÁRIOS SEJAM SEMEADOS
OU QUE CEM MIL...JÁ QUE É DAQUELAS MÁXIMAS CHINESAS ADAPTADAS AO PEQUENO LIVRO DO BENFICA

Quando vejo...OLHE QUE NÃO OLHE QUE NÃO DEPENDE DOS ORGÃOS  o unanimismo nos órgãos de comunicação social EUROPEIA? MENOS ALBÂNIA E TURQUIA? OCIDENTAL?  a condenar o que se passou em Paris, CONDENA-SE NA MEDIDA EM QUE HÁ EMPATIA CULTURAL...NINGUÉM CONDENOU A MORTE DE MILHARES DE ALEMÃES ESFOMEADOS ATÉ À MORTE PELO EXÉRCITO AMERICANO NOS POW CAMPS DO PALATINADO E DA ALSÁCIA LORENA NA PRIMAVERA DE 1945...E SE só SE lembrA de cenas como esta...QUE CENA MEU... Margaret Thatcher sobre a greve da fome de Bobby Sands,SE BEM ME LEMBRO MORRERAM MUITOS OUTROS PORQUE SÓ FICOU ESTE NA MEMÓRIA?  militante E ATIRADOR COM POUCO SUCESSO DIZIA O DOERTY....do IRA, em luta pela HEGEMONIA CATÓLICA NO ULSTER E SECUNDARIAMENTE PELA  remoção do Special Category Status.UM MÁRTIR DA FÉ

A linha divisória deve ser sempre a vida humana....E QUE VIDA? A QUE COME OUTRAS VIDAS?

Mas fica este alerta O HOMEM ALERTA-NÓIS  para leituras simplistas, que cavalgam HORSEPLAY OU HIPODROMOMANIA a defesa dos direitos absolutos da Humanidade à 2F e 3F, para logo se esquecerem deles no resto da semana, sobretudo quando são violados em seres humanos tão distantes de nós, como no Médio Oriente....MANIA DO ORIENTE MÉDIO...THE FAR FAR ORIENTAL LANDS HÃO-DE SER NOSSAS OUTRA VEZ , palco vital para entender A RAZÃO FALTA A RAZÃO...tanta da violência que, cada vez mais, se sente no nosso "quintal"....SENTE ESTE TAMBÉM CAI PELO GAY PARIS

Um alerta para quando as forças que hoje chamamos de terroristas podem, um dia, transformar-se em governo VIDE THE AMERICAN'S (vidé em Israel com Begin) ou mesmo em forças políticas eleitas como na Irlanda. E estranhamos: "Como foi que isso aconteceu?"VIDE O ANC VIDE O PARTIDO DO CONGRESSO HINDU ...VIDE VITE VITE




E outra nota:
No outro dia, foi ver o Água Prateada sabe-se lá porque se chama assis ou o que é , de um tal  Wiam Bedirxan e Ossama Mohammed CONTRAPROPAGANDA NA GRANDE WORLD ECONOMIC WAR . Uma coisa que me assaltou foi o facto de as imagens relacionadas com seres humanos a serEM  baleados, maltratados, mortos enfim, não serem inesperadas, nem nos esmurrarem já o estômago. Já vimos cenas iguais, retratadas tantas e tantas vezes em séries televisivas no aconchego do lar - combates, mortes à bala, à faca, por estrangulamento, torturas diversas, por afogamento, com choques eléctricos, química, tudo remedIado com bombas amigas que se sobrepõem no final às bombas inimigas.....GERALMENTE OS INIMIGOS TÊM FALTA DE BOMBAS TÊM DE AS FAZER À MÃO

De tal maneira que as imagens que mais O tocam naquele filme são as dos animais estropiados e mutilados na guerra, nos cercos das cidades, nas cidades desfeitas pelos combates e bombardeamentos, enfim, as imagens que nunca foram trazidas para os pequenos écrans lá de casa.

Banalizámos a violência e aceitamos todos os dias as bombas "cirúrgicas" dos nossos governos E AS DITADURAS DE FANÁTICOS ÁRABES OU GRUPOS REVOLUCIONÁRIOS OU ESCRAVATURA SEXUAL OU LABORAL A BEM DO STATUS ECONÓMICO EURO-ASIÁTICO-AMERICANO, como solução e terapia para - dizem-LHES e repetem sempre nas análises - mantermos "the western way of life....E TEMOS CONSEGUIDO FELIZMENTE SENÃO ONDE É QUE HAVIA PETRÓLEO A 50 DÓLARES AHN? E ENERGIA PARA ANDAR A SER MORALISTA DA INTERNET?". E depois estranhamos. E somos todos Charlies Hebdo.   ..É ...OU BÊBADO
EH PEDO....DO RITTO MAÇÓNICO
Se calhar, a única forma de entendermos a importância real da vida humana é que tudo seja retratado com imagens filmadas....E CHAMA-SE A ISSO VER PORNOGRAFIA  Ao vivo. AO MORTO É MAIS CAROTE
Onde quer que seja.NA RETRETE NA RETRAITE NA ... Se calhar dessa forma, seja impossível esquecer que o mundo está repleto de Charlies Hebdos nunca homenageados por nós, quando o deveriam ter sido de forma bem mais unânime. Pela importância que têm para a nossa paz DE ESPÍRITO? DE ALMA?

THE ABSOLUTE CONTROL OF BODY AND SOUL....AS MIL E UMA RECEITAS PARA UM ESTADO TOTALITÁRIO OU PARA A GLOBALIZAÇÃO DO TOTALITARISMO NO FUNDO NO FUNDO TANTO FAZ SER CHINÊS OU UM DOS NOVOS POBRES DA AMÉRICA DITA DO NORTE....OU DA MORTE UMA AMÉRICA DESSAS YES THEY CAN... We are entering an age of totalitarian capitalism, a political and economic system which, by seizing absolute control of fundamental resources

OS SUMÉRIOS FORAM OS PRIMEIROS 

A PREENCHER A LACUNA ENTRE O 

ESTADO DE GRAÇA 

E O ESTADO TOTALITÁRIO

PASSARAM DA PICTOGRAFIA 

AO HIERÓGLIFO

PASSARAM DA ARTE ABSTRACTA 

PARA A BUROCRACIA ORGANIZADA

E A BUROCRACIA FORMADA NO 

SÍMBOLO FONÉTICO 

CONSTRÓI ESTADOS MONOLÍTICOS

E DESAPIEDADOS QUE TUDO TRITURAM

A BEM DO ESTADO  

QUE É DE TODO O MUNDO 

NÃO PERTENCENDO A NINGUÉM

O PRIMEIRO SILABÁRIO QUE CONDENAVA

OS HOMENS À SERVIDÃO OU À MORTE

TINHA APENAS 500 OU 600 SÍMBOLOS

LETAIS 

E ESSES SÍMBOLOS EM DIABÓLICAS 

PERMUTAÇÕES 

FORNECEM A RECEITA PERFEITA 

PARA CONTROLAR OS QUE NADA TÊM

E DIZIMAR OS QUE SÓ TÊM O NADA 

COMO DESTINO