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after the generation of students who ChatGPT’ed their way through high school and college arrive on the job market, once society is saturated with people who cannot publicly speak or write or dialogue, and once the effects of intellectual passivity and mindless entertainment are fully felt, the world will look again to the humanities.

Politeness, decorum, and etiquette are not trivial ornaments we inherited from a stiff past; they are the very framework that makes intimacy possible

Luis Alberto de Cuenca

William of Aquitaine Returns

I’m going to make a poem out of nothing.

You and I will be the protagonists.

Our emptiness, our loneliness,

the deadly boredom, the daily defeats:

all these things will go into the poem,

which is bound to be short, since they

fit in a few lines, maybe as few as seven,

or perhaps eight, if this last line... See more

that ache of having no one to tell.

love as invention, desire as blueprint, yearning as the very engine of creation

Do nada, pensando aqui na expressão “matar as saudades”. Um sentimento tão profundo que não basta acabar com ele, desfazê-lo, é preciso assassiná-lo. Talvez seja o melhor dos crimes. E o português, a melhor das línguas.