Leafing through The Book of Disquiet a couple of nights ago, I found the exact phrase “nostalgia for the future”, the title of my post on him. I know it’s been used before, and it’s precisely the kind of paradox you’d expect from Pessoa.
And yet what nostalgia for the future* if I let my ordinary [...]
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Another on Pessoa
Posted in Books, Pessoa, tagged Book of Disquiet, Pessoa on Friday, October 17, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Wasting my boredom
Posted in Writing, tagged boredom on Friday, October 17, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The most nagging problem in my life, the most central source of unhappiness, is the fact that I want the slowness of time that boredom brings, the stasis and silence, the stopping of time, the sense of time not passing, and yet I always end up doing things and filling up my time with things [...]
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