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| Anselm Kiefer, The Land of the Two Rivers, 1995 |
The dance floor is not just a place, it's a threshold:
A ritualistic space where movement replaces language.
- Madonna
I didn't understand it then. I'm not sure I understand it now. But it was real to them.
- Daisy in The Testaments, S01E04
ELENA
You're a thief and you want a 401(k). I think you need to decide who you are and be that person.
ANDREW
"I contain multitudes."
Your Friends & Neighbors, S02E02
TORI
Can't we just stay here and do this instead?
ANDREW
And by this you mean nothing?
TORI
Exactly. But with intension.
Your Friends & Neighbors, S02E02
Oh, religious people are happier, that's a fact.
Ok, so what do I do, just, like, pick up the Bible and start reading it?
That'd be a start.
Yeah, but isn't there a bunch of crazy shit in there?
Like what?
Ali, I like girls.
What's that have to do with anything?
Well, doesn't it say that, like, gays should be put to death or something?
That was, like, 3,000 years ago.
What, so 3,000 years ago it was fine, like, to put gays to death?
Ok, look—you're talking about the Israelites. They were on the run, that was the main thing, alright? There wasn't time for any type of distractions.
So, being gay is a distraction?
If you're running from the Egyptian army, fuck yeah, it's a distraction. Ain't time for sex.
Yeah, but it specifically calls out gay sex.
They didn't want men fucking men, alright? They didn't say anything about women. But hold on, it kind of makes sense, though—because men had to focus back then, alright? The survival of the people was at stake.
Ok, so if two men were caught kissing, they just... [moves arm as a sword] killed them?
Oh, my God, what are you writing, a romance novel? It says men who lay with men. They're talking about butt sex. I don't know nothing about butt sex. But I do know that war ain't the time for butt sex. This was before the invention of soap, germ theory, antibiotics.
- Ali & Rue in Euphoria, S03E01
psycho logic
a. melo
your queer
trophy husband—
polished like an argument
no one dares to finish
yes, show him off,
his angles rehearsed,
his silence tailored
to fit the room
he wears himself well
like a verdict mistaken for choice
like desire that learned
to speak in etiquette
while he’s feeling suited
for this job—
this performance of being wanted
without ever wanting back
watch how he stands:
a monument to approval,
breathing carefully
so as not to disturb the frame
irony slips in
through the cuff of his sleeve:
he was never the prize,
only the evidence
and you—
curator of this living exhibit—
keep pointing
as if display
could save either of you
from the slow erosion
of being seen too clearly
Meu amor agora mora no silêncio.
Me disseram que ela virou memória.
- Evenildo em Emergência Radioativa, S01E06
EVA
There are infinite possibilities for this to go wrong, it almost certainly won't work. It's what you Americans call a long shot.
RYLAND
Hail Mary. I get it.
Project Hail Mary, 2026
THAÍS
O sociólogo Pierre Bourdieu desconfiava dessa ideia de que o intelectual fazia coisas por desinteresse, ou apenas pelo interesse no debate das ideias. Ele criou o que chamou de Homo Academicus — que é o acadêmico inserido num espaço de poder em que se disputam reputação, alunos... Você vê isso no seu cotidiano?
PONDÉ
Absolutamente. O que o Bourdieu transformou em reflexão sistemática é que, quando o intelectual se tornou uma profissão paga, construiu-se uma sistematização de carreira: todo esse campo — bolsas, viagens, seminários, coordenação de departamento, direção de faculdade — faz com que grande parte da vida acadêmica seja tomada por essas metas, por esses objetivos. Então o Bourdieu acertou: é a mercantilização do saber.
Linhas Cruzadas, 09/04/2026
I don't know that I wanna be anywhere anymore.
So, what's the plan?
Ride.
Toward what?
I don't know.
Away from what?
Everything.
Well, that's not riding—that's running.
- Dr. Michael & Duke in The Pitt, S02E14
JUNE
Don't let the bastards grind you down, okay?
DAISY
Okay. Sure. I won't let them.
The Testaments, S01E03
Dataístas afirmariam que o humano inventou o pensamento porque não é capaz de calcular rápido o suficiente; para eles, o pensamento terá sido apenas um curto episódio.
- Byung-Chul Han em O desaparecimento dos rituais
Instead of Depression
Andrea Gibson
try calling it hibernation.
Imagine the darkness is a cave
in which you will be nurtured
by doing absolutely nothing.
Hibernating animals don’t even dream.
It’s okay if you can’t imagine
Spring. Sleep through the alarm
of the world. Name your hopelessness
a quiet hollow, a place you go
to heal, a den you dug,
Sweetheart, instead
of a grave.
MEL
Just do me a favor and don't mention the perimenopause thing to Cooper.
ALI
There's nothing to be ashamed of.
Your Friends & Neighbors, S02E01 (03/04/2026)
——
Por muito tempo, foi um tabu falar, em casa, na mídia e mesmo nos meios acadêmicos e científicos, sobre o nosso tema central de hoje: a menopausa. Cercada de estigmas, ela deixou de ser estudada devidamente; com isso, a ciência demorou a entender como o cérebro, e não apenas os órgãos reprodutivos, desempenha um papel central nesse processo. Este programa é para acabar com esse tabu. E já começa com um alerta: não é um papo para mulheres — é fundamental que vocês, homens, fiquem conosco.
- Vera Magalhães em Roda Viva com Lisa Mosconi, 26/01/2026
What you want is to do whatever it is you feel like in the moment. See, that's the problem with your whole generation. You're so self-centered. It's me, me, me.
- Edward to his son in For All Mankind, S05E02
I don't know what I am anymore. Something that makes no decision, has no choices, follows a path I can't see. I'm not even choosing the words I speak now.
- Lily in Devs, S01E08
THAÍS
Cada época redescobre Jesus à sua maneira?
PONDÉ
Muito possivelmente, visto que é um artefato cultural.
Linhas Cruzadas, 02/03/2026
The universe is deterministic. It's godless and neutral and defined only by physical laws. The marble rolls because it was pushed. The man eats because he's hungry. An effect is always the result of a prior cause. The life we lead, with all its apparent chaos, is actually a life on tramlines. Prescribed. Undeviating. Deterministic.
We fall into an illusion of free will because the tramlines are invisible, and we feel so certain about our subjective state. Our feelings, our opinions, judgments, decisions.
- Forest in Devs, S01E01
You chose a version of me a long time ago and that's all I am
and you get frustrated when I am not it.
- Rachel to Nicky in Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen, S01E08
The problem is that you contextualize every little thing around yourself.
- Jules to Nicky in Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen, S01E06
Well, you have to admit you do have trouble accepting things. You can't accept imperfection. You give up when you know something won't work out in your favor.
- Jules to Nicky in Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen, S01E06
In a marriage, you must promise to regard the soul you see now as the most important, holy thing. Because time is an unstoppable force. And it will do whatever it can to destroy you. And ultimately, it will win. So you sacrifice superficial things, moods of the day, petty preferences in favor of the purest, deepest parts. You accept and forgive each other's wrongdoings. You don't let anything tear you apart, no matter how gruesome.
- Victoria in Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen, S01E02
I gave it a brain. It learns from past runs and it can predict anything that can go wrong in the future in microseconds.
- Link in Paradise, S02E08
Compreendeu quem era o acusado e quem era o acusador - percebeu como era obsceno permitir que a impotência se colocasse como virtude e amaldiçoasse o poder da vida como pecado - e viu, com a clareza da percepção direta, a feiura de uma crença que já fora sua.
- Ayn Rand, A revolução de Atlas, sobre Hank
Well, I said it once, I'll say it again
The golden starlight in your eyes
So true
- Kanye West & Carpenters
A boca molhada
Still wet
Ainda marcada pelo
Your kiss
Beijo seu
On my lips
- Maria Bethânia & Violet Kauffman Smith
Nadi: some queer joy
Violet Kauffman Smith
Nadi,
I am so gay!
Your kiss is still wet on my lips
with butterflies wriggling out from their cocoons
from the dry washes in my lips
bursting into flesh like quail taking off over the sahuaros.
After Ern Malley
A. Melo
fecho os olhos—
o corpo já não
insiste
um cisne invade
o que não é água
e ainda assim
afunda
I can’t think of anything else Bakhtin would say
Let us for once mention a thing without unpacking it
- Doug Paul Case
You know, every old person knows what it is to be young, but no young person can know what it is to be old. Thank you for listening.
- Patient Mr. Cohen to Dr. Mohan & Dr. Melissa in The Pitt, S02E12
It's just scary to dream small. Nobody teaches us how to do that.
- Ruth in How to Make a Killing, 2026
O AMA DE LEITE
Senhor Rearden, o que é uma premissa moral?
REARDEN
Uma coisa que vai lhe criar muitos problemas.
- Aynd Rand em A revolta de Atlas
Não ocorre depressão em uma sociedade determinada pelo ritual. A alma é totalmente absorvida, esvaziada, pelas formas rituais. Rituais contém mundo. Produzem uma relação forte com o mundo. Na origem da depressão, ao contrário, está uma relação consigo mesmo exageradamente tensa. Nela, se é incapaz de sair de si mesmo, de se ultrapassar em direção ao mundo, e acaba-se encapsulado em si mesmo. O mundo desaparece. Com uma angustiante sensação de vazio, circula-se apenas por si mesmo. Rituais, ao contrário, aliviam o eu do fardo de si mesmo. Eles despsicologizam e desinteriorizam o eu.
- Byung-Chul Han em O desaparecimento dos rituais
They were not kidding in the Fourteenth Century
Maureen N. McLane
They were not kidding
when they said they were blinded
by a vision of love.
It was not just a manner
of speaking or feeling
though it’s hard to say
how the dead
really felt harder
even than knowing the living.
You are so opaque
to me your brief moments
of apparent transparency
seem fraudulent windows
in a Brutalist structure
everyone admires.
The effort your life
requires exhausts me.
I am not kidding.
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