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A wound is reopened
My text appeared in the Collector’s Booklet, as part of the DVD (Music Box, 2018) of Daniela Thomas’s Vazante:
Vazante is a piercing portrait of the exploitation and suffering that mark slaveholding societies. The plot takes us to the early 19th century, on the eve of Brazil’s independence from Portugal.… Read the rest
October 9, 2018
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Papel, amigo papel, não recolhas tudo o que escrever esta pena vadia. Querendo servir-me, acabarás desservindo-me.
-Machado de Assis. Memorial de Aires. 1908.
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