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“The boy, Max Rüst, will later on become a tinker, father of seven more Rüsts, he will go to work for the firm of Hallis & Co., Plumbing and Roofing, in Grünau. At the age of 52 he will win a quarter of a prize in the Prussian Class Lottery, then he will retire from business and die during an adjustment suit which he has started against the firm of Hallis & Co., at the age of 55. His obituary will read as follows: On September, suddenly, from heart-disease, my beloved husband, our dear father, son, brother, brother-in-law, and uncle, Paul Rüst, in his 55th year. This announcement is made with deep grief on behalf of his sorrowing family by Marie Rüst. The notice of thanks after the funeral will read as follows: Acknowledgment. Being unable to acknowledge individually all tokens of sympathy in our bereavement, we hereby express our profound gratitude to all relatives, friends, as well as to the tenants of No. 4 Kleiststrasse and to all our acquaintances. Especially do we thank Herr Deinen for his kind words of sympathy. At present his Max Rüst is 14 years old, has just finished public school, is supposed to call by on his way there at the clinic for the defective in speech, the hard of hearing, the weak-visioned, the weak-minded, the in-corrigible, he has been there at frequent intervals, because he stutters, but he is getting better now.”


Alfred Döblin - Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929)



De tudo, ao meu amor serei atento

Antes, e com tal zelo, e sempre, e tanto

Que mesmo em face do maior encanto

Dele se encante mais meu pensamento.


Quero vivê-lo em cada vão momento

E em louvor hei de espalhar meu canto

E rir meu riso e derramar meu pranto

Ao seu pesar ou seu contentamento.


E assim, quando mais tarde me procure

Quem sabe a morte, angústia de quem vive

Quem sabe a solidão, fim de quem ama


Eu possa me dizer do amor (que tive):

Que não seja imortal, posto que é chama

Mas que seja infinito enquanto dure.

 

Estoril, outubro de 1939 | São Paulo, 1946



Soneto de fidelidade - Vinicius de Moraes




No me pidas falsas

colaboraciones, juegos

del equívoco y la confusión:

pídeme que a mi ser

lo lleve hasta su sol sangrando.


No me pidas firmas,

fotos, créditos para un abominable

desarrollo de la doblez: pídeme

que estemos como hermanos

abriéndonos el corazón hasta la muerte.


No halagues mi vanidad, busca mi fuerza,

que es la tuya. No quieras, con tu delicadeza,

que me traicione. No simules

que vas a creer en mi simulación.

No hagamos otros mundo de mentiras.


Vamos a hacer un mundo de verdad, con la verdad partida

como un pan terrible para todos.


Es lo que yo siento que cada día me exige, implacablemente,

la Revolución.


Cintio Vitier

Cayo Hueso Florida, Estados Unidos, 25 de septiembre de 1921 - La Habana, Cuba, 1 de octubre de 2009

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