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Just a question of time...

I learned that time is universal, a constant, immutable...

I discovered that's wrong.

Time is a Titan, a Titan who's projectig his shadow on us, on our lives like a nightmare on a screen...

Now I see...

Now I understand that time's fading everything in his way, movements, colors, life...
Now, I see the past, the futur which are framing my present and I watch my son's living, running inside It.

No need to discuss... That's just a question of time

by Marsup'

Life, a short eternity

For who knows where the time goes?

photo, Mexico by malyfred

what is this thing that we call time?

what is that?... were do's it go's...
a think you cannot touch and is it a live
is it the clock? the work by the clock, the life by the clock?

and one day, sometime in your life
you will have an occasion to say - what is this thing we call time?
and then you will look in to the mirror and you say — I'm old...
I have no fear of time... and you say - where is the time goes?
and you ask:
what is this thing that we call time?

Who knows where the time goes?

Across the purple sky, all the birds are leaving

But how can they know it's time for them to go?
Before the winter's fire, I will still be dreamin'
I have no thought of time

For who knows where the time goes?
Who knows where the time goes?

Sad, deserted shore, your fickle friends are leaving
Ah, but then you know it's time for them to go
But I will still be here, I have no thought of leaving
I do not count the time

For who knows where the time goes?
Who knows where the time goes?

And I am not alone while my love is near me
I know it will be so until it's time to go
So come the storms of winter and then the birds in spring again
I have no fear of time

For who knows how my love grows?
And who knows where the time goes?

Sandy Denny - © 1967 Sonet Music

Who Knows Where The Time Goes - Nina Simone - Black Gold 1970
Recorded live at the Philharmonic Hall, New York in 1969.
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Prémio National Geographic 2010

A supercell thunderstorm rolls across the Montana prairie at sunset.
Photo and caption by Sean Heavey

National Geographic’s Photography Contest 2010

a viagem do elefante

dás-me lume?... obrigado

"livros licenciosos..."

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N'"O Vício em Lisboa" (Antigo e Moderno), publicado pela primeira vez em 1912, o autor descreve com um alegado hiper-realismo experiente a vida das prostitutas lisboetas e seus clientes. Da degeneração das criaditas subjugadas ao vício do amor às costureirinhas ambiciosas, das hospedarias imundas aos bordéis e casas chiques, aqui se tecem as considerações morais sobre uma cidade de onde há até testemunho de cinema pornográfico com sexo ao vivo no mesmo ano de 1912. Inclui Regulamento Policial das Meretrizes e Casas Toleradas da Cidade de Lisboa, emitido pelo Governo Civil de Lisboa em 1865.

Fernando Schwalbach "O vício em Lisboa - antigo e moderno" tinta da china, 2011

O livro conta com os hilariantes desenhos de Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro (sob anonimato) e com textos de autores desconhecidos, mas sem dúvida com a mais elevada erudição e desbragado sentido de humor. Um almanaque típico do século XIX, com os habituais calendários, adágios, adivinhas, canções, enigmas, pequenos contos, textos pseudocientíficos, alguns dos quais alusivos às viagens em África ou aos progressos no campo das ciências naturais. Mas a temática, essa, é inteiramente distinta...

Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro "O Pauzinho do Matrimónio - Almanaque Perpétuo" tinta da china, 2011

Esta obra foi escrita na clandestinidade de um pseudónimo por Cândido de Figueiredo, ilustre lexicógrafo, presidente da Academia de Ciências de Lisboa e fundador da Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa. Uma divertida e muitíssimo picante novela, definitivamente proibida a menores de 18 anos. Segue-se-lhe "Proezas de Frade ou Mistérios do Confessionário", um texto em verso também publicado no final do século XIX por autor anónimo. A temática, muito comum na época, envolve um clérigo e as suas escaldantes aventuras. A linguagem, para dizer o mínimo, libertina, apanhará desprevenidos os leitores, a quem apenas o riso poderá salvar da apoplexia.

Cândido de Figueiredo "Entre Lençóis - Episódios Inocentes para Educação e Recreio de Pessoas Casadoiras" tinta da china, 2011

colecção dirigida pelo Historiador António Ventura, a partir da sua biblioteca privada.

Andy Warhol Polaroid

Warhol Polaroids

Bookmobile

Compton Road Bookmobile Stop
The Library's bookmobile on Compton Road, circa 1933

Carta de Albert Hofmann a Steve Jobs 2007

Dear Mr. Steve Jobs,

Hello from Albert Hofmann. I understand from media accounts that you feel LSD helped you creatively in your development of Apple computers and your personal spiritual quest. I'm interested in learning more about how LSD was useful to you.

I'm writing now, shortly after my 101st birthday, to request that you support Swiss psychiatrist Dr. Peter Gasser's proposed study of LSD-assisted psychotherapy in subjects with anxiety associated with life-threatening illness. This will become the first LSD - assisted psychotherapy study in over 35 years.

I hope you will help in the transformation of my problem child into a wonder child.

Sincerely,

A. Hofmann

[Ryan Grim: Read the Never-Before-Published Letter From LSD-Inventor Albert Hofmann to Apple CEO Steve Jobs]

cette «substance magique», ce «révélateur d’âme»

The Acid Library: Collected pdf's 1949-2002

A.M. Becker . The LSD Papers, 1949 (pdf)

Cordula Becker . Subjective Visual Experiences of Colour and Form Induced by Temporally Modulated Light, 2005 (pdf)

D.B. Blewitt and N. Chwelos . Handbook for the Therapeutic Use of LSD-25, 1959 (pdf)

Betty Eisner . Remembrances of LSD Therapy Past, 2002 (pdf)

Aldous Huxley . The Doors of Perception, 1970 (pdf)

Martin Lee and Bruce Shlain . Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD, 1985 (pdf)

The Psychedelic Review 1-10 (1964-1969) (zip)

Jay Stevens . Storming Heaven, 1987 (pdf)

Alexanger Sulgin . Dow Psychopharmacology Notes, 1979 (pdf)

Zap Comix Issues 0-5 (1967-1970) (zip)


source: A∴A∴

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