“(…) both the nostalgic man and the one who is not perceive the external world and the internal world exactly the same way. And with the same senses, with the same processes, with the same...
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“(…) both the nostalgic man and the one who is not perceive the external world and the internal world exactly the same way. And with the same senses, with the same processes, with the same...
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“(…) both the nostalgic man and the one who is not perceive the external world and the internal world exactly the same way. And with the same senses, with the same processes, with the same categories by which each of them apprehends sensations, elaborates ideas and generalizes on abstractions. Nonetheless, the two men might diverge if they do not diverge already, in the same way as they interpret existence, in such a way that next to an intellectual interpretation and to a pragmatic interpretation one can speak of a nostalgic interpretation.”
JOAQUIM DE CARVALHO, A PROBLEMÁTICA DA SAUDADE
The Problematic of Nostalgia]
It is then from this nostalgic interpretation of the city, from this parallel between the internal and external world and out of the multiple interpretations that Nostalgia [Saudade] allows, that the fragmented Coimbra is born. Always the same for itself; and we, we’re always just passing by.
BRUNO SILVA ABRIL de 2019
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