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READIN started out as a place for me to keep track of what I am reading, and to learn (slowly, slowly) how to design a web site.

There has been some mission drift here and there, but in general that's still what it is. Some of the main things I write about here are reading books, listening to (and playing) music, and watching the movies. Also I write about the work I do with my hands and with my head; and of course about bringing up Sylvia.

The site is a bit of a work in progress. New features will come on-line now and then; and you will occasionally get error messages in place of the blog, for the forseeable future. Cut me some slack, I'm just doing it for fun! And if you see an error message you think I should know about, please drop me a line. READIN source code is PHP and CSS, and available on request, in case you want to see how it works.

See my reading list for what I'm interested in this year.

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🦋 The poet is a liar

I just found a interesting article by Margaret Jull Costa, who is Saramago's translator, on Translating Pessoa, with an exercise in translating a passage from his Book of Disquiet.

Fernando Pessoa is a 20th-Century Portuguese poet who assumed a number of different identities in his poetry and prose writing. Another interesting exercise is here: Thirteen ways of looking at "Autopsicografia".

posted morning of Friday, July 11th, 2008
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Dear Jorge,
I invite you to visit two artists' books in tribute to Fernando Pessoa:

http://www.peresalinas.com/libros-artista/PEQUE%D1OS/2009.htm

In this link you will see a series of collages that I made and titled "Against Pessoa"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnbnSHBlyyM

I hope you like them.

Greetings

Pere

posted afternoon of March 6th, 2011 by pere

Thanks Pere, it looks like an interesting site. I'll take a look...

posted afternoon of March 6th, 2011 by Jeremy

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