Aurea Mediocritas @ 21:17

Sex, 05/11/10

 

 

 

"-What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum?

 

The barbarians are due here today.

 

-Why isn't anything going on in the senate?
Why are the senators sitting there without legislating?

 

 

 Because the barbarians are coming today.
What's the point of senators making laws now?
Once the barbarians are here, they'll do the legislating.

 

-Why did our emperor get up so early,
and why is he sitting enthroned at the city's main gate,
in state, wearing the crown?

 

Because the barbarians are coming today
and the emperor's waiting to receive their leader.
He's even got a scroll to give him,
loaded with titles, with imposing names.
-Why have our two consuls and praetors come out today
wearing their embroidered, their scarlet togas?
Why have they put on bracelets with so many amethysts,
rings sparkling with magnificent emeralds?
Why are they carrying elegant canes
beautifully worked in silver and gold?

Because the barbarians are coming today
and things like that dazzle the barbarians.
-Why don't our distinguished orators turn up as usual
to make their speeches, say what they have to say?

 

 Because the barbarians are coming today
and they're bored by rhetoric and public speaking.
-Why this sudden bewilderment, this confusion?
(How serious people's faces have become.)
Why are the streets and squares emptying so rapidly,
everyone going home lost in thought?

 

 Because night has fallen and the barbarians haven't come.
And some of our men who have just returned from the border say
there are no barbarians any longer.

 

Now what's going to happen to us without barbarians?
Those people were a kind of solution.

Constantine P. Cavafy 

 



Barbarous are us @ 20:50

Sab, 06/11/10

 

Chinês é civilizado Português é bárbaro invasor

logo além dos demónios brancos serem mais bárbaros e rústicos do que os invadidos

Cava Cu não é nome imperial

Basta ver que os supostos bárbaros nem sestércios têm para comprar roupa

e põem a mão no cu uns dos outros como os jogadores de futebol

logo são evidentemente portugueses

logo os bárbaros não chegaram já cá estão


F....mi @ 03:11

Dom, 14/11/10

 

pois eu lembro-me dos 30 milhões que a câmara do seixal gastou na nova sede

ou o Ceausescu no seu palácio

arrasou o país para a sua obra

ou Nero

Whatever happened to the bright ones
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