Em 15.08.1057 morre o rei Macbeth da Escócia.
Só agora descobri que não era apenas uma personagem literária.
Em 16.08.1900 morre Eça de Queiroz.
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Para ler
There is now an archive of eulogies given by Palestinian journalists to their martyred colleagues.
“[Journalists] are knocking on the walls of the tank and pleading their case to those who are listening. And yet the world is not moving fast enough or doing nearly enough to stop this genocide. It is their hands upholding all the standards and ideals of humanity, keeping the world from collapsing into something completely dark, oppressive, and barbaric. A world that’s nothing but a jungle. It already is . . . But there’s still goodness here, in this small place, in the ground underneath us, in those who fight the evil spreading through the rest of the world. To me, those are the people and journalists of Gaza.”
–Bisan Owda
Before We Are Erased: Why I Founded Gaza Publications During the Genocide
There is a difference between death and erasure. Death is the end of a person’s life, whereas erasure is an attempt to wipe out their existence—to eradicate everything that proves they lived there, felt, loved, feared, and tried to understand the world around them.
We didn’t have a printing press inside Gaza, and the working conditions were impossible. I decided that the printing would take place outside Gaza, but the work would begin from within the Strip. I assembled a team consisting of an editor, a proofreader, a designer, a marketing manager, and someone to oversee printing and distribution. I didn’t know some of these people before, but they believed in the idea and volunteered to participate because they felt there was something that needed to be saved.
“Menos data centers, mais bibliotecas”. E mais leitores
estes livros criados pela marca norte-americana para pendurar na mala custavam cerca de 95 dólares. O preço bem acima do valor de mercado e a sua adaptação como acessório de moda, mostram como o livro se foi tornando progressivamente um símbolo. E se no caso da coleção da Coach os livros ainda davam a possibilidade de os ler (talvez com a ajuda de uma lupa), outras marcas não foram além das capas.
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Livros no meu radar
O apocalipse dos trabalhadores, Valter Hugo Mãe
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Para aprender
Esta a pesquisar os cursos de formação da NAU e fui surpreendida por um curso sobre Eça de Queiroz, pela Fundação Eça de Queiroz.
Mas não só, há cursos interessantíssimos sobre Saramago, narrativas históricas dos primeiros encontros, história da banda desenhada…