Sangue por todo o lado / Blood everywhere

Dobrámos o ano a ler «Meridiano de Sangue ou o Crepúsculo Vermelho no Oeste», de Cormac McCarthy. Um romance impregnado de mitologia, retrato da brutalidade da expansão americana algures no Oeste Selvagem, entre mexicanos, Apaches e tudo o que respire numa imensidão de perder de vista. Um livro brutal onde se assiste à regeneração pela violência de um homem, o enigmático juiz Holden, que simplesmente se recusa morrer. Fica um pequeno excerto:

"Pouco interessa o que os homens pensam da guerra, disse o juiz. A guerra perdura. É o mesmo que perguntar-lhes o que acham da pedra. A guerra sempre esteve presente. Antes de o homem existir, a gueera já estava à espera dele. O ofício supremo a aguardar o seu supremo artífice. Sempre foi assim e sempre assim será. Assim e não de outra forma".


We turned the page to the new year reading «Blood Meridian or the evening redness in the west», from Cormac MacCarthy. A novel impregnated with mythology, picture from the american expansion brutality, somewhere in the Savage West between mexicans, apaches, and everything that breathes in an endless immensity. A violent book where we assist to the regeneration by violence of a man, the enigmatic judge Holden, that simply refuses himself to die. Here is an excerpt:

"The judge placed his hands on the ground. He looked at his inquisitor. This is my claim, he said. And yet everywhere upon it are pockets of autonomous life. Autonomous. In order for it to be mine nothing must be permitted to occur upon it save by my dispensation.

Toadvine sat with his boots crossed before the fire. No man can acquaint himself with everything on this earth, he said.

The judge tilted his great head. The man who believes that the secrets of this world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. The rain will erode the deeds of his life. But that man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry will by the decision alone have taken charge of the world and it is only by such taking charge that he will effect a way to dictate the terms of his own fate".