Lisbon, 28th August, 1975
Dearest Lorrie:
I hope you are feeling well, and at peace with yourself—that peace you have been seeking for so long…I think that you have to cope with a very strong sense of a wrong or a sin that you feel your life is—not in a strict moral meaning but in a large [...]
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Report from Lisbon
Posted in Letters & Journals, tagged Antonio Quadros, Lisbon, Portugal on February 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Spring in Portugal
Posted in Essays, tagged Lisbon, Portugal on February 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If Dostoevsky had been a Latin, it is certain he would have been a Portuguese. One doesn’t sense this so strongly now that it is spring, since all springs everywhere are a denunciation of everything Dostoevskian. The soul of man no longer festers in a silent alienation. Spring turns it and the city inside out. [...]