The Literary Games of Fernando Pessoa
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Fernando Pessoa: Office Worker, Occultist, Galaxy of Writers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28191843 - August 2021 (16 comments)
The Politics of Fernando Pessoa - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27768795 - July 2021 (17 comments)
Fernando Pessoa’s Disappearing Act (2017) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23894466 - July 2020 (46 comments)
My favorite poem of all time:
Autopsychography
The poet is a faker, Who’s so good at his act, He even fakes the pain, Of pain he feels in fact,
And those who read his writing, Will read in what he wrote, Neither of the pains he has, But just the one they’re missing,
And so around it’s track, This thing called the heart winds, A little clockwork train, To entertain our minds.
Finge tão completamente
Que chega a fingir que é dor
A dor que deveras sente.
E os que lêem o que escreve,
Na dor lida sentem bem,
Não as duas que ele teve,
Mas só a que eles não têm.
E assim nas calhas da roda
Gira, a entreter a razão,
Esse comboio de corda
Que se chama o coração.
Fernando Pessoa , Cancioneiro.
"Question: Who are the four greatest Portuguese poets of the 20th century?"
"Answer: Fernando Pessoa. "
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