What is less or more than a touch?
- Walt Whitman


Human touch. Our first form of communication. Safety, security, comfort, all in the gentle caress of a finger. Or at the brush of lips in a soft cheek. It connects us when we're happy... bolsters us in times of fear... excites us in times of passion... and love.

- Stella in Five Feet Apart, 2019
Lang may yer lum reek
André Melo

isabela
isabela
isabela
is-absolutely-ela
bonnie
bella donna
dona de si – is a bela
o pensamento dividido entre deitar-se primeiro
à esquerda ou à direita

- adélia prado
TORVI
What happened to you, Lagertha?

LAGERTHA
I almost died but was reborn.

TORVI
You were between life and death. What did that teach you?

LAGERTHA
The only thing that I've learned is that life is about suffering. There is no escape from it. That's the truth. What's important is how we deal with suffering, how we deal with the truth. 

Vikings, S05E20
Are there words thin enough for such thin lips?
Smiles are more tenuous than laughter,
And their only echo is pain.

- Laura Riding Gottschalk
wondering which me will survive
- audre lorde
He he he he and he and he and and he and he and he and and as and as he and as he and he. He is and as he is, and as he is and he is, he is and as he and he and as he is and he and he and he and he.

- Gertrude Stein
He.
He.
As add to it.
As add to it.
As he
As he as add to it.
He.
As he
Add to it.
Not so far.
Constantly as seen.
Not as far as to mean.
I mean I mean.
Constantly.
As far.
So far.
Forbore.
He forbore.

- Gertrude Stein
I have returned here a thousand times,
though history cannot tell us its location.

- Frank Bidart
now, just the glamour of habits
- frank bidart
Now that your life nears its end
when you turn back what you see
is ruin. You think it is a prison. No,
it is a vast resonating chamber in
which each thing you say or do is

new, but the same.

- Frank Bidart
BISHOP HEAHMUND
You saved my life. Thank you.

LAGERTHA
But if I had not spared your life, you would now be in heaven. I believe you are a Christian priest? Isn't that where you would prefer to be?

BISHOP HEAHMUND
I am a priest. But I am also a man. I love God. But I also love life.

LAGERTHA
And what is it about life that you love so much?

BISHOP HEAHMUND
 Its joy. Its pain.

LAGERTHA
And do you love human beings?

BISHOP HEAHMUND
Our Lord loved all human beings. His love was agape, not eros. A great embracing love.

LAGERTHA
And do you have that same embracing love, priest? Do you love men and women just the same?

BISHOP HEAHMUND
I am not our Lord. Agape is too hard for me. I love women, not just spiritually.

LAGERTHA
We have no problems loving the spirit and the flesh. Our gods encourage it.

BISHOP HEAHMUND
Then you have no guilt? No remorse?

LAGERTHA
No.

BISHOP HEAHMUND
I envy you. I have spent many years of my life living sinfully. Even in my thoughts.

LAGERTHA
You're funny. Your thoughts are your thoughts. But if you do terrible things, that is different. 

Vikings, S05E09
vento mudou de lugar
- raul bopp
à beira de um mar rigorosamente igual
a única coisa que não muda porque muda sempre

- ana martins marques

sit down class, open up your books on page 42 48*
porcupine-ology, antler-ology
car-ology, bus-ology, train-ology, plane-ology
mama-ology, papa-ology, you-ology, me-ology
love-ology, kiss-ology, stay-ology, please-ology

i'm sorry-ology, forgive me-ology
let's study

- regina spektor
* modificado por mim
Freya. Beloved godess. Think well of me. See my suffering. Heal my heart, and let my prayers come unto you.

- Torvi in Vikings, S05E07
quanta nostalgia

Lord Odin, did I make the right choice? Give me a sign. Help me. What is my fate?
- Hvitserk in Vikings, S05E04
All things change. This world is impermanent and deceiving. Many things are not what they seem.
- Sinric in Vikings, S05E04
I know what I am (God knows what I am)
Enquanto dura esta hora
Este luar, estes ramos
And I know what I'm not (and He knows what I'm not)
Deixem-me crer
O que nunca poderei ser

- Madame X & Ricardo Reis
sou formado em desencontros
- manoel de barros
e que soy del blocke también como jenny
- major lazer & anitta

she's not me
she doesn't have my name
- madonna

i'm still, i'm still jenny from the block
- jennifer lopez
tudo era claro, jovem, alado
- eugénio de andrade
hello sunshine, won't you stay?
- bruce springsteen
quando vejo meu ex

I'm searching for my love
- Bruce Springsteen

I don't search, I find
- Madonna
don't worry about tomorrow, don't mind the scars
- bruce springsteen
I woke up this morning with stones in my mouth
You said eu menti pra você

- Bruce Springsteen & Karina Buhr

Rosa Bonheur, The Horse Fair, 1853-1855

bitch i'm loca chasin' wild horses
- madonna & bruce springsteen

George Stubbs, Horse Frightened by a Lion, 1763 

No, I wasn't lost
It was a different feeling
A mix of lucidity and craziness
the road is long and the highway listens
- madame x
A new democracy
God and pornography
bésame la boca
- madame x
not wanting, wanting
- lagertha in vikings, s04e11
eu te amo
mas não deixo você me destruir
o mundo é selvagem
o caminho é solitário
- madame x

What is the cost of lies? It's not that we'll mistake them for the truth. The real danger is that if we hear enough lies, then we no longer recognize the truth at all. What can we do then? What else is left but to abandon even the hope of truth and content ourselves instead with stories? In these stories, it doesn't matter who the heroes are. All we want to know is: who is to blame?

Chernobyl, S01E01
no clarão, no vasto, no vago, no vão, no não, na multidão
- adriana calcanhotto
não sei o que quer dizer a metáfora
o que eu digo me vem das vísceras

- adriana calcanhotto
era pra ficar eternamente no presente
- adriana calcanhotto
onda depois doutra onda
depois doutra onda depois
doutra onda depois
onda depois doutra onda
depois doutra onda depois
doutra onda depois

- adriana calcanhotto
ROLO
Being alive is nothing. It doesn't matter what I do. Ragnar is my father, he is my mother, he is Lagertha. He is Siggy. He is everything I cannot do. Everything I cannot be. I love him. He is my brother. He's taken me back. But I am so angry! Why am I still so angry? You tell me, wise one. 

SEER
Hmm.

ROLO 
Or I will tell you! It is because I am useless, feckless, hollowed-out by failed ambitions, by failed loves. Nothing good can ever come of my life now.

SEER
[laughs]

ROLO
What is there to laugh about?

SEER
Oh, Rollo, if you truly knew what the gods have in store for you, you would go down now and dance naked on the beach.

Vikings, S03E05
mas é normal
dor de amor e contas pra vencer

I'm sorry baby
Do you still love me?

- Maglore


.


.
.
mas se eu deixar pra lá
if I stopped
vai escurecer dentro de mim
the pain
esse sentimento
was unbearable

- tiê & mary oliver
sinto saudades já não me recordo por quê
- maglore
Memória afetiva – eu tinha 14 anos quando ouvi o álbum Profana pela primeira vez.  Momento maravilhosamente kitsch hoje à noite quando Gal Costa cantou Chuva de prata com essa iluminação. Acabou comigo.

Show A Pele Do Futuro, Teatro Gustavo Leite, Maceió-AL, 06/06/19

Breakage
by Mary Oliver

I go down to the edge of the sea.
How everything shines in the morning light!
The cusp of the whelk,
the broken cupboard of the clam,
the opened, blue mussels,
moon snails, pale pink and barnacle scarred –
and nohing at all whole or shut, but tattered, split,
dropped by the gulls onto the gray rocks and all the moisture gone.
It's like a schoolhouse
of little words,
thousands of words.
First you figure out what each one means by itself,
the jingle, the periwinkle, the scallop
full of moonlight.

Then you begin, slowly, to read the whole story.
ROLO
I too loved someone in the same way once. I sat among the reeds, waiting and waiting for my love. I prized that woman as much as my own life. Lot of good it did to me.

RAGNAR
And what did you get from sitting in the reeds, but a wet arse.

TORSTEIN
[laughs]

FLOKI
I would say, let no man mock another over what touches many men. Time and again the wise are fettered by beauty. They ache with love-longing. Lucky are the fools like you, Torstein, who remain unmoved and free.

TORSTEIN
[laughs]

Vikings, S03E01
Help me, Lord. Who are these gods who haunt my nights and wreck my peace? Odin, Thor, Freyr. You taught us not to worship false gods, but I have seen them. I have seen Thor in the sky. I have seen the sparks from his anvil. I felt the sea heave with his anger. Why is this false? Things I've seen with my own eyes.

- Athelstan in Vikings, S02E09
tóxico romance
i'm slipping under

- as bahias e a cozinha mineira & britney spears
pelo amor de deus me dê sossego para amar
- alice caymmi
tudo o que é perfeito dá defeito cedo ou tarde
- alice caymmi

kiss me on na boca
- sofi tukker
vai ter uma festa
vamos a la fiesta
que eu vou dançar
bailar bailar
até o sapato pedir para parar
until my shoes ask me to stop
aí eu paro
tiro o sapato
take my shoes off
e danço o resto da vida
dancing until i'm bruised

chacal & sofi tukker
e era o amor uma obscura trama
- chico buarque
eles têm pena de eu viver sozinho
qual é o problema de estar na honra de sua própria companhia?

sem você o tempo é todo meu
posso até ver o futebol, ir ao museu ou não
fazer o que der na telha

chico buarque & vanessa da mata & chico buarque
My Saturdays are like:

he's gone
he's gone
you're better off, i'm glad that he's gone
vá com deus, vá com deus, vá com deus
vá com deus, vá com deus, vá com deus

tove lo & vanessa da mata