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De pronto oigo la voz del agua

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Hiromi Kawakami

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“198 - Saber mudar de lugar. Todo estranho é estimado, seja porque veio de longe, seja porque logra feitos em sua perfeição. Muitos já foram desprezados em seu rincão e hoje são a honra do mundo, sendo estimados dos seus e de estranhos: de uns porque os miram de longe, de outros porque distantes. Nunca venerará a escultura aquele que conheceu o trono morto de onde saiu.”

“The task of literature, it seems, is precisely to present, as people worthy of respect and pity, all those who in life are commonly despised. Thus authors adopt a rather lofty position in relation to the rest of the world, taking upon themselves the role of sole defenders of the aforesaid despised, assuming the role of judges, defence, and prosecution rolled into one, and undertaking the hard task of educating the masses and purveying great ideas.”

“The southron knights rode out in plate and mail, dinted and scarred by the battles they had fought, but still bright enough to glitter when they caught the rising sun. Faded and stained, torn and mended, their banners and surcoats still made a riot of colors amidst the winter wood--azure and orange, red and green, purple and blue and gold, glimmering amongst bare brown trunks, grey-green pines and sentinels, drifts of dirty snow.”