I am now here.*

*For Melanie, who could not find me

This time he is close to her, he speaks to her. She welcomes him without surprise. They are without memories, without plans. Time builds itself painlessly around them. Their only landmarks are the flavour of the moment they are living and the markings on the walls.

La Jetée, Chris Marker

O mortal and perishing love, born with this flesh and dying with this brain, your memory will haunt the earth forever.

And now the voyage out. Where?

Look Homeward, Angel, Thomas Wolfe

15h da tarde / mergulhada no Outono

Cuidar de um jardim, ter terra à volta da sua casa, é um privilégio; é um trabalho em que todo o corpo, a pessoa inteira, se funde, se projecta no movimento. Vejo-me respirar, dar as minhas mãos e força às plantas e à terra, e, no fim, não me distingo do dia que passa.

Uma Data em Cada Mão. Livro de Horas I, Maria Gabriela Llansol

We are the Lambeth girls

Un été avec Monika

The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.

Murphy, Samuel Beckett

Wherever his hand has lain there is a tiny purple blemish.