08 julho 2010

tender is the night (*)

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uma música inspiradora
e a noite.
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um livro que li a long, long time ago,
uma fortuita associação de pensamentos ..

(*) título de um romance de F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)

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      • artigo recomendado, aqui
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      - Tender Is the Night appears in the movie Who's That Knocking at My Door by Martin Scorsese .... also in Michelangelo Antonioni's  L'avventura and in Wim Wenders' Alice in den Städten 
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      - Jack Kerouac begins the 30th Chorus of Mexico City Blues with the line "Tender is the Night".
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      do poema que dá o nome ao romance, Ode to a Nightingale, de John Keats (1795-1821):
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      Here, where men sit and hear each other groan;
      Where palsy shakes a few, sad, last gray hairs,
      Where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies;
      Where but to think is to be full of sorrow
      And leaden-eyed despairs,
      Where Beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes,
      Or new Love pine at them beyond to-morrow.
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      Away! away! for I will fly to thee,
      Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards,
      But on the viewless wings of Poesy,
      Though the dull brain perplexes and retards:
      Already with thee! tender is the night ..
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