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They will kill\/only because there is a thought,\/like a tumor,\/in that which constitutes them. (...)”; the distrust of science creates a poetic attitude of fusion with it, since “once the founding astonishment has passed,” everything is possible because the Masters, humanity, have tamed everything, drawn everything on maps, brought everything home, and equally drawn the extermination. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eIf everything has been unveiled, will there then be room for poetry? “When the time comes, everything that separated\/science and poetry will cease\/to exist on earth.” The mystery of breathing, by Hélia Correia’s hand, has always been a mystery. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe lungs that pulse with life, the transformation of air in the body, cannot be explained by the movement of cells and blood. Only through poetry can this pulsing, this vital transformation, be felt.» \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ein \u003c\/em\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/derivadaspalavras.blogspot.com\/2020\/12\/acidente-de-helia-correia.html\"\u003eDeriva das Palavras: “Acidentes,” by Hélia Correia\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHélia Correia (1949) \u003c\/strong\u003eis a contemporary Portuguese writer. She holds a degree in Romance Philology and is a secondary school Portuguese teacher. 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For two generations, there was a certain radiance, that which they called progress, that is, The way forward, as if such a direction existed.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThen the factory closed, the river dried up, and the bird of the century ended up delivering a monthly payment to people’s homes that was neither earnings nor income. It was a ghost that had everyone’s gratitude. For the winds of the time did not let them starve, although some died, in the mountains, of cold.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey were not all old, but what they had in common was their indifference to tribal pleasures, to drinks, to raucous games. Some painted the rainbow in the chapel because they supposed that sexualizing such a place would make them enthusiastic, dancing with great obscene effusions. But it was asking too much of feelings. There was no longer faith for blasphemies. The chapel kept its altar, which served as a counter for the beers whose old taste they had grown to dislike. They quickly grew tired of it.” [From “Certain Roots”]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt would be good if the Camões Prize, which was awarded to her in 2015, contributed to drawing attention to the work of Hélia Correia, an author averse to the spotlight and one of the great voices of contemporary Portuguese literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHélia Correia (1949)\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis a contemporary Portuguese writer. She graduated in Romance Philology and is a secondary school Portuguese teacher. 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The novella \"Montedemo\", staged by the group O Bando, brought the author a certain notoriety. In fact, Hélia Correia revealed early on her taste for theatre and classical Greece, which led her to perform in Oedipus Rex and to write \"Perdição\", both staged in 1993 by Comuna. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe also wrote \"Florbela\" in 1991, which was later staged by the group Maizum. Her novels \"Casa Eterna\" and \"Soma\", and her poetry collection \"A Pequena Morte\/Esse Eterno Conto\", also stand out in her body of work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 2002, she received the 2001 PEN Prize for fiction for her work Lillias Fraser, and in 2006 the Máxima Literature Prize for her work Bastardia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt would be good if the Camões Prize, awarded to her in 2015, helped draw attention to the work of Hélia Correia, an author who shuns the spotlight and one of the great voices of contemporary Portuguese literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHélia Correia (1949)\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis a contemporary Portuguese writer. She holds a degree in Romance Philology and is a secondary school Portuguese teacher. 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She had gathered her hair at the nape of her neck. She showed her legs, and this produced a curious asexual effect. Gabriel stepped forward and began to attend to the missing figure, not on the sketch papers, but on the canvas. The male figures were already very advanced. He had posed for the fool. The Pre-Raphaelites created situations of mutual assistance in which there was, alongside exhibition, sincerity.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDeverell and Millais cooled, standing still and losing enthusiasm. They saw in Lizzie the thin girl with irregular features whom they had not seen until then. Walter’s narrative, which had overwhelmed the narrator himself, ceased to exert its influence, and the temperature of their bodies suffered. They rubbed their arms, realizing the full ruthlessness of Winter. They watched Rossetti and Miss Sid, who were alone in what was perhaps the painter’s meeting with the model. Yet they felt discomfort, as if they were witnessing an intimate scene.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLizzie, who had held the position without wavering in the previous days, arched her back, leaning toward the ground. It was a powerful slump beneath which there circulated some glory. John Everett Millais understood the origin of Miss Sid’s fascination. She had a body sealed in tragedy, a sacrificial appetite. “I shall paint this woman,” he thought. He imagined her in a setting of daffodils. 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