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James McNeill Whistler, Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket, c.1875.

Chantarelles

Peter Ilsted, 1892.

Dezembro, depois da chuva

MULHER COM FILHA AO COLO, EM DEZEMBRO

Onde quer que esteja a mãe
debruçada sobre a filha,
o Natal pousa
e repousa.

Nos longos dedos da mãe
sobre os cabelos da filha,
o Natal mora
e demora.

Filha dormida na mãe
repetição de Belém:
o Natal feito
e perfeito.

A. M. Pires Cabral, O Livro dos Lugares e outros Poemas.

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Fotograma de Um conto de Natal do Mickey, de Walt Disney, 1983.

Agustiniana

Se a injustiça é o resultado da falta de sentido do que nos acontece, e com a qual nos confrontamos com dificuldade, é também a possibilidade de reclamar um certo quinhão de graça nas nossas vidas. A redenção não reside por isso em encontrarmos um sentido para tudo, mas na possibilidade de surpreendermos a graça no que é arbitrário.

Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida, Esse Cabelo.

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Bartolomeu Van der Helst, Retrato da princesa Maria Stuart, 1652. (pormenor)

Passar a tarde

Arnold Newman, Georgia O’Keeffe, Ghost Ranch, New Mexico, 1968.

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Por breves instantes
o meu amigo foi deus
num ano para esquecer

Matsuo Bashô, O eremita viajante, p. 204.

Crespusculário

Aleksey Savrasov, 1879.

A composição doméstica

What he loved about writing with a stub is that it made his scribble mostly illegible. That way, he never felt embarrassed by what he had written. He’d look at it, and look at it, afterward, while trying to guess what in the name of God he had said. If he had no luck, he asked his wife for help. She surprised him again and again by coming up with things that sounded better than anything he’d had in his head. A marriage of real and imagined, isn’t that what poetry is? As the years passed, he could no longer recall what was his, what his wife’s, and what belonged to all those divine concotions of hers simmering on the stove, some of which, the truth to be told, were as much the authors of his poems as he was.

Charles Simic, The Poet’s Pencil.

O problema de Lineu

Many scholars, like the 17th-century chemist Robert Boyle, preferred to work on loose sheets of paper that could be collated, rearranged, and reshuffled, says Blair. But others came up with novel solutions. Thomas Harrison, a 17th-century English inventor, devised the “ark of studies,” a small cabinet that allowed scholars to excerpt books and file their notes in a specific order. Readers would attach pieces of paper to metal hooks labeled by subject heading. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, the German polymath and coinventor of calculus (with Isaac Newton), relied on Harrison’s cumbersome contraption in at least some of his research. 

Linnaeus experimented with a few filing systems. In 1752, while cataloging Queen Ludovica Ulrica’s collection of butterflies with his disciple Daniel Solander, he prepared small, uniform sheets of paper for the first time. “That cataloging experience was possibly where the idea for using slips came from,” Charmantier explained to me. Solander took this method with him to England, where he cataloged the Sloane Collection of the British Museum and then Joseph Banks’s collections, using similar slips, Charmantier said. This became the cataloging system of a national collection.

A história do aparecimento de um revolucionário recurso para organizar a informação, que caiu em desuso no virar de milénio com a net.

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Paul Child/ The Julia Child Foundation for Culinary Arts, Julia at her kitchen sink, Paris, 1952.