Nowhere Street

"Nowhere Street" in Portuguese

"It was true that I didn’t have much ambition, but there ought to be a place for people without ambition, I mean a better place than the one usually reserved. How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?"; "Baby," I said, "I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me."

in Factotum by Charles Bukowski

 

 

 



Fogueiras

Deste castelo de Palmela, com vista para o Vale dos Barris, vê-se fumo. Não é tão vistoso quanto o lumaréu que Nuno Álvares Pereira acendeu para enviar uma SMS a D. João I dizendo: "Xtamos aki," enquanto este último estava sitiado em Lisboa pelas tropas castelhanas, mas não deixa de ser uma coincidência com sorriso.