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This listing is not rated yet.   Rate it!  |  Report it! Alien Nonsense http://www.helderdarocha.com.br/bloggy Essays, poems, short stories, play scenes, anything. Category: Blog Directory » Arts Blogs » Literature Hits: 3 Date added: 2006-05-07 14:32:34 Alexa traffic rank: 826,697 Site language: PT Site encoding: ISO-8859-1

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Pretend it's just your imagination
He walked toward the sheets of flame. They did not bite his flesh, they caressed him and flooded him without heat or combustion. With relief, with humiliation, with terror, he understood that he also was an illusion, that someone else was dreaming him. (Jorge Luis Borges, in The Circular Ruins)I... Read more...
Published 6 months ago

Ghosts
Saturday, 9 p.m. A dark living room. A sofa. A table. A door. There is some yellow light leaking under the door, otherwise we would see nothing. All is silent.But now someone seems to be trying to open the door from the outside. We hear the key turning once, twice. We look away when the door... Read more...
Published 1 years ago

Don't think about it
She was a bright girl, and he was just another guy, perhaps a dreamer. They just acted their parts in life as everyone else. But one day she discovered his treasure island and saw him in different eyes. And a few days later he found himself in her eyes. In the beginning nothing was said and... Read more...
Published 2 yearss ago

The end of the world
When I finally reached the end of the world, the end of my long journey, I saw land far away in the distance. But I was on a cliff, and could no longer continue. The oceans had ceased. The land had ceased. And now I would have to look down. But there was no end down. There was only land in the... Read more...
Published 2 yearss ago

In my room there is an angel
In my room there is an angel. I can't see her, but she is always around; she has been around since I can remember. She is there, in my room, in my dream. She has my eyes and something more I can only find in my mind, but she is not I, as I am not she. I am sure.I stand by the window watching the... Read more...
Published 2 yearss ago

More on Germany and the Play-off Festival
I wrote a lot about the Play-off International Theatre Festival and my trip to Germany, in June. It also inspired several related posts (about the Krupp family on Essen, about Rembrandt). But... it's all in Portuguese! The good news is that I love rewriting and translating and whenever I find... Read more...
Published 2 yearss ago

Play-off/06: the village
Sunrise over Portugal. Flight São Paulo - Paris.This is an English version of a post originally written in Portuguese.Our trip started on Sunday, in São Paulo. The flight to Paris would leave at 4:30 P.M. We all met at Guarulhos International Airport (São Paulo) and waited... Read more...
Published 2 yearss ago

The Play-off/06 theatre festival
This is an English version of a post originally written in Portuguese.I'm back after two weeks in Germany participating as an actor in an international theatre festival called Play-off/06, organized by four independent theatres in the state of Nordrhine-Westfalen (NRW): Consol Theater, in... Read more...
Published 2 yearss ago

How did we end up in Germany?
Our group during rehearsal in the Consol Theater. Photo: Laerte Késsimos.This is an English version of a post originally written in Portuguese.We travelled to Germany because of our play Vestir o Corpo de Espinhos (Dress your Body in Thorns). The play is the practical result of one year's... Read more...
Published 2 yearss ago

Os Satyros
One of the theatre houses owned by Os Satyros at Praça Roosevelt, no. 214. The other one is at no. 421. Photo: Satyros.The award-winning brazilian theatre company Os Satyros was started in 1989, in Curitiba, by the actor and playwright Ivam Cabral and director and playwright Rodolfo... Read more...
Published 2 yearss ago

Essen, Gelsenkirchen, Herne and Dortmund
Abbey of Saint Ludger, in Essen-Werden, which today is the Folkwang School of Music, Theatre and Dance.This post was originally written in Portuguese.The Play-off/06 theatre festival plays were staged in four cities of the Ruhr area: Essen, Dortmund, Gelsenkirchen and Herne.Essen is one of the... Read more...
Published 2 yearss ago

Zeche Zollverein
Zeche Zollverein Schacht XII. Photo: http://www.zollverein.de.This post was originally written in Portuguese.Designed by the architects Fritz Schupp and Martin Kremmer in Bauhaus style, the Zollverein industrial complex (Zeche Zollverein) is a symbol that represents the rise and fall of all an... Read more...
Published 2 yearss ago