7/29/2023 0 Comments Thank you mr postman![]() It was a personal thing that had been with me since my early teens.). Some time ago (I think I have mentioned this before, here on the blog) I've bought a copule of Emilio Salgari's Sandokan books in a new Portuguese edition (I had to read them. but to me, the most relevant proof of the attention that is given to literature lies in the work of that most times unsung hero, the Translator, for if the writer is to be blamed for the act of creation, the translator is the one that makes the writer's work travel past the boundaries of idiom,Ī good translation is a comfort to a good book, a bad one is a bed of nails.Īnd we now face a terrible danger, I feel, not only in the form of automated creation but also of automated translation. The social importance of Literature is acknowledged in many forms all over the world, mainly though the contests as prizes awarded to writers. all this and a huge lot more have i found in Literature, in its many guises. Heroes, villains, places, habits, thoughts, doubts, certainties, discoveries, disquiets, interrogations, solutions. Since then I've lost count of the many, many hours of absolute pleasure I have spent indulging in the almost sacred ritual of pushing my right index over a sheet of printed paper to flip page after page. Of all the things I have been grateful for throughout my life, the day my father introduced me to the joys of a public library in Faro, when I was just going to primary school, has to rank amongst the top handful. ![]() Literature can even allow us to travel through time, without the need to invest in a DeLorean. It's main benefit is that it allows us to travel when physical means to do so aren't available as only by travelling, or should I say, discovering, can we start to realise that the world extends much further away that our own backdoor, and that the way I see it, might not be the way someone else does. Literature is an essential part of our development. Thanks, Ruinan, for another cover with an interesting set of stamps. Posted on the 3rd June Received on the 16th June 2023 pretty unusual, If I may say so, but if those are the rules. My wife also told me that in spite of the sender's address being written on the back of the envelope, she asked her to write her name and address on the front of the envelope, since it seems to be mandatory. This she kindly did, but the lady at the counter, to whom she gave the envelopes to affix the stamps and postmark them, made sure I'd not only get two quite imperfect stamps with missing corners, but she also managed to glue them juxtaposed (what is understandable because there was little available space in the envelope □). My wife attended a conference in Baku and I couldn't let go the opportunity, so I prepared a couple of addressed envelopes and gave them to her, asking if she wouldn't mind, if the opportunity arrived, to pass by the Post Office and mail them. The great thing is that, in spite of it all, it did find its way home, probably because on the back there is also my own full address, this time not forgetting to end it with a capitalised PORTUGAL. Who would have thought? How could I forget to include the country name while addressing this cover to my own self? Posted somewhere between 14 and 19 May Received on the 19th June 2023
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