
Eram-no sempre.*
*Em dia de festa.
"É então que surges: o teu corpo, que se confunde com o das palavras que te descrevem, hesita numa das entradas do verso. Puxo-te para o átrio da estrofe; digo o teu nome com a voz baixa do medo; e apenas ouço o vento que empurra portas e janelas, sílabas e frases, por entre as imagens inúteis que me separaram de ti."
"Anything approching the change that came over his features I have never seen before, and hope never to see again. Oh, I wasn't touched. I was fascinated. It was as though a veil had been rent. I saw on that ivory face the expression of sombre pride, of ruthless power, of craven terror -of an intense and hopeless despair. Did he live his life again in every detail of desire, temptation, and surrender during that supreme moment of complete knowledge? He cried in a whisper at some image, at some vision, -he cried out twice, a cry that was no more than a breath-
'The horror! The horror!' " Joseph Conrad