these are the timesdirty beloved
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26.3.04



In 1915 he dropped the circumflex from his surname.
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Maria José, a nineteen-year-old hunchback consumptive who wrote a desperate, unmailed love letter to a handsome metalworker who passed under her window on his way to work each day; and so on.
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His articles in praise of the saudosismo (nostalgia) movement provoked polemics because of their extravagant language.
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The poetical technique for which Pessoa has become especially noted is the use of heteronyms, or alternative literary personae, resembling the verse personae of Ezra Pound. or Søren Kierkegaard's "characters" who actually "authored" some of his books. Pessoa's own name means both person and persona.
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This clockwork train called the heart
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Richard Zenith's translation of the "Tudo quanto" passage is but one of what Pessoa apparently would call its "possible meanings" — or, perhaps, its "multiple" or "myriad" meanings.
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Fernando Pessoa aos vinte anos de idade.
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rental of Pessoa's vacation home -- follow the links from Algarve to Faro to Tavira


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