Languages spoken, languages written, languages shared

[Artur F. Silva]

At 14:37 15-11-2000 +0000, Chris Weaver/Rhett Hudson wrote:

> > In French, sorry - Artur
>
>If you must apologize for French, I will begin apologizing for every time I
>post in English!

Ok, Chris, see what follows ;-)


At 11:03 15-11-2000 -0800, Lisa Heft wrote:

>One of the (many) things I love about this OS list is that I
>really feel the global nature of the OS community.
>
>Since our OS poetry is encouraged in any language, and since
>several languages were used at OSonOS, it is my impression
>that the weaving together of language, culture, perspective
>and imagery from all cultures forms the richness of our
>interchanges.

Ok, let's follow the music...

What follows is the correct version of a poem from a
portuguese-mozambiquean poet, Reinaldo Ferreira,
that wrote in Maputo in the years 40-50, that I offered
to Joelle's session on poetry at Berlim. He had alread died
when I arrived there, but was still "present" among both
cultures  [Joelle, if you send me my English "translation
from memory) I will correct it...

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No principio so' a vida existia;
O mundo era o que havia
Ao alcance da vida...
E mais nada.

Tudo era certo, simples, claro.

Quando o passado passar
(E passara' porque o passado e' hoje),
E o futuro vier
(E ha'-de vir, porque o futuro e' hoje),
Então, sim, ha'-de saber-se tudo
E tudo sera' certo, simples, claro.

Eu, porem, não sei nada.

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