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“Casamento costumava ser um arranjo conjunto de um homem e uma mulher resolutos, embora eles esperem vinte anos por ele para encontrar a joia da amizade conjugal. (…) Com pessoas que vivem na superfície, o casamento é um erro, um absurdo grotesco e muitos aqui estão agora dizendo isso – já chegou a esse ponto.” (1914, Cartas de J. B. Yeats)
Esta não é uma
mensagem para o mundo. Isto é tão longe quanto uma garota poderia ir em sua
tentativa de encontrar a si mesma. Não que eu esteja perdida. Esse não é o
caso. A fim de se dizer em termos presumidamente claros, isto provavelmente deriva da
intrínseca força que me impele a falar, a mesma que me fez chorar quando era um
pequeno bebê para mostrar meus sentimentos e necessidades quando nasci. Nasci
para dizer o que contenha esta última linha, por assim dizer.
“Marriage used to be a setting out together of a man and woman resolved though they wait twenty years for it to find the jewel of conjugal friendship. (…) With people who live on the surface marriage is a failure, a grotesque absurdity, and many here are now saying so – already is it come to that.” (1914, J. B. Yeats Letters)
This will involve a lot of what is left from
our previous lives. Our memories may burst in front of us like sins unforgotten
and we won’t perish by losing ourselves where our souls once sunk. The last is
something that I hope at least. I find that the right person will fit in requirements
not so clearly stablished until I finally know what I want after years in
search of myself, after years grooming myself with dresses never displayed in
public. What comes fast is felt like a hurricane expressing itself fiercely and naturally as Nature forms it. It dangerously exposes itself. The right choice is an everlasting friendship, the kind that is true.
This is not a message to the world. This is as far as a girl could go in her attempt to find herself. Not that I am lost. That is not the case. So as to say it in presumedly plain terms, this probably stems from the intrinsic force that impels me to speak, the same that made me cry as a little baby to show my feelings and needs when I was born. I was born to say what this very last line contains, so to speak.
This is not a message to the world. This is as far as a girl could go in her attempt to find herself. Not that I am lost. That is not the case. So as to say it in presumedly plain terms, this probably stems from the intrinsic force that impels me to speak, the same that made me cry as a little baby to show my feelings and needs when I was born. I was born to say what this very last line contains, so to speak.
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