Lisbon Revisited

Lissabon, gezien door de ogen van een buitenaards wezen, op gedichten van Álvaro de Campos (een heteroniem van Fernando Pessoa):

‘Once more I see you, / City of my horrifyingly lost childhood… / Happy and sad city,
once more I dream here… / I? Is it one and the same I who lived here, and came
back, / And came back again, and again, / And yet again have come back? / Or
are we all the I’s that I was here or that were here – / A series of
bead-beings joined together by a string of memory, / A series of dreams about
me dreamed by someone outside me?

Once more I see you, / With a heart that’s more distant, a soul that’s less mine. /
Once more I see you – Lisbon, the Tagus and the rest – / A useless onlooker of
you and of myself, / A foreigner here like everywhere else […]’

• 

• 

•