Nos 100 anos da morte de Machado de Assis : Círculo Vicioso

Vagalume imagem daqui

Bailando no ar, gemia inquieto vagalume:
– «Quem me dera que fosse aquela loura estrela,
que arde, no eterno azul, como uma eterna vela!».
Mas a estrela, fitando a lua com ciúme:

– «Pudesse eu copiar-te o transparente lume
que, da grega coluna à gótica janela,
contemplou, suspirosa, a fronte amada e bela!».
Mas a lua, fitando o sol com azedume:

– «Mísera! Tivesse eu aquela enorme, aquela
claridade imortal, que toda a luz resume!».
Mas o sol, inclinando a rútila capela:

– «Pesa-me esta brilhante auréola de nume...
enfara-me esta azul e desmedida umbela...
porque não nasci eu um simples vagalume?»

Joaquim Maria MACHADO DE ASSIS nasceu no Rio de Janeiro a 21 de Junho de 1839 e aí faleceu de aterosclerose a 29 de Setembro de 1908. Mestiço, filho de um pintor de paredes mulato e de uma lavadeira açoriana, o maior de todos os escritores brasileiros demonstra aos racistas que a miscigenação não é factor de degenerescência, antes pelo contrário. Só com a instrução primária, este autodidacta de génio começou como compositor tipógrafo e revisor de provas e acabou como fundador da Academia Brasileira de Letras, de que foi o primeiro presidente, eleito por unanimidade. Casou com uma portuguesa, Carolina Augusta, irmã do poeta portuense Faustino Xavier de Novais. Sofria de epilepsia e de... cepticismo. Foi autor, nomeadamente, dos romances «Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas» (1881), «Quincas Borba» (1891), «Dom Casmurro» (1900) e da novela «O Alienista», além de muitos contos, que são obras-primas do género.

Soneto e nota biobibliográfica extraídos de «A Circulatura do Quadrado - Alguns dos Mais Belos Sonetos de Poetas cuja Mátria é a Língua Portuguesa. Introdução, coordenação e notas de António Ruivo Mouzinho. Edições Unicepe - Cooperativa Livreira de Estudantes do Porto, 2004.

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On this day in History - Sep. 29

• 522 BC - Darius I of Persia kills the Magian usurper Gaumâta, securing his hold as king of the Persian Empire.
• 480 BC - Battle of Salamis: The Greek fleet under Themistokles, defeats the Persian fleet under Xerxes I.
• 106 BC - Pompey was born (d. 48 BC). Roman statesman and general.
• 61 BC - Pompey the Great celebrates his third triumph, for victories over the pirates and the end of the Mithridatic Wars on his 45th birthday.
• 48 BC - Ptolemy XIII of Egypt had Pompey murdered and his head cut off on his 58th birthday. Pompey's head and ring were kept for Julius Caesar.
• 48 BC - Pompey, the Great dies assassinated (b. 106 BC). Roman general.
• 0440 - Leo I becomes Pope.
• 0855 - Pope Benedict III becomes Pope.
• 1066 - William the Conqueror invades England.
• 1227 - Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, is excommunicated by Pope Gregory IX for his failure to go on crusade.
• 1321 - John of Artois, Count of Eu was born (d. 1387). French soldier.
• 1328 - Joan of Kent was born (d. 1385)
• 1364 - Battle of Auray: English forces defeat French at Brittany; end of the Breton War of Succession
• 1364 - Charles, Duke of Brittany dies.
• 1388 - Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence was born (d. 1421). Second son of Henry IV of England
• 1402 - Nasce Fernando de Portugal, o Infante Santo († 1443)
• 1511 - Miguel Servet was born († 1553). Spanish humanist.
• 1547 - Miguel de Cervantes was born († 1616). Spanish author.
• 1548 - William V, Duke of Bavaria was born (d. 1626)
• 1560 - King Gustav I of Sweden dies (b. 1496)
• 1561 - Adriaan van Roomen was born (d. 1615). Flemish mathematician.
• 1567 - At a dinner, the Duke of Alva arrests the Count of Egmont and the Count of Horne for treason.
• 1567 - The second War of Religion in France breaks out.
• 1571 - Caravaggio was born (d. 1610). Italian artist.
• 1636 - Thomas Tenison was born (d. 1715). Archbishop of Canterbury
• 1637 - Lorenzo Ruiz dies. Filipino saint
• 1639 - Lord William Russell was born (d. 1683). English politician.
• 1640 - Antoine Coysevox was born (d. 1720). French sculptor.
• 1642 - René Goupil dies (b. 1608). French Catholic missionary, one of Canadian Martyrs.
• 1650 - Henry Robinson opens his Office of Addresses and Encounters - the first historically documented dating service - in Threadneedle Street, London
• 1678 - Adrien-Maurice, 3rd duc de Noailles was born (d. 1766). French soldier.
• 1691 - Richard Challoner was born (d. 1781). English Catholic prelate.
• 1703 - François Boucher was born (d. 1770). French painter.
• 1703 - Charles de Saint-Évremond dies (b. 1610). French soldier.
• 1725 - Robert Clive was born (d. 1774). British general and statesman.
• 1758 - Horatio Nelson was born (d. 1805). British admiral.
• 1786 - Guadalupe Victoria was born (d. 1843). First president of Mexico.
• 1789 - The U.S. War Department first establishes regular army with a strength of several hundred men.
• 1789 - The first U.S. Congress adjourns.
• 1800 - Michael Denis dies (b. 1729). Austrian poet.
• 1801 - Tratado de paz entre Portugal e a República francesa, assinado em Madrid, em consequência da «Guerra das Laranjas», pelo qual Portugal se obriga a fechar os portos aos britânicos.
• 1803 - Jacques Charles François Sturm was born (d. 1850). French mathematician.
• 1803 - Mercator Cooper was born (d. 1872). American sea captain.
• 1804 - Michael Hillegas dies (b. 1728). First Treasurer of the United States.
• 1808 - Henry Bennett was born (d. 1868). American politician
• 1810 - Elizabeth Gaskell was born (d. 1865). British novelist.
• 1829 - The Metropolitan Police of London, also known as the Met, is founded.
• 1833 - King Fernando VII of Spain dies (b. 1784)
• 1842 - Louis J. Weichmann was born (d. 1902). Chief witness in the trial of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln
• 1843 - Mikhail Skobelev was born (d. 1882). Russian general.
• 1844 - Miguel Juárez Celman was born. Argentine politician.
• 1848 - Battle of Pákozd: Hungarian forces defeat Croats at Pákozd; the first battle of the War of Independence.
• 1849 - Dom Francisco do Rego Maia was born († 1928). Brazilian bishop.
• 1850 - The Roman Catholic hierarchy is re-established in England and Wales by Pope Pius IX.
• 1853 - Princess Thyra was born (d. 1933). Daughter of Christian IX of Denmark
• 1863 - Hugo Haase was born (d. 1919). German politician and jurist.
• 1864 - American Civil War: The Battle of Chaffin's Farm is fought.
• 1864 - Alexandra Kitchin was born (d. 1925). British model for Lewis Carroll
• 1864 - Miguel de Unamuno was born (d. 1936). Spanish writer and philosopher.
• 1881 - Ludwig von Mises was born († 1973). Austrian economist.
• 1885 - The first practical public electric tramway in the world was opened in Blackpool, England.
• 1887 - Bernhard von Langenbeck dies (b. 1810). German surgeon.
• 1889 - Louis Faidherbe dies (b. 1818). French general.
• 1890 - Maria Matos was born. Portuguese actress and theatre entrepreneur.
• 1895 - J.B. Rhine was born (d. 1980). American parapsychologist.
• 1895 - Roscoe Turner was born (d. 1970). American aviator and racer.
• 1897 - Herbert Agar was born (d. 1980). American journalist and historian.
• 1898 - Trofim Lysenko was born (d. 1976). Stalinist biologist.
• 1900 - Miguel Alemán Valdés was born (d. 1983). President of Mexico.
• 1901 - Enrico Fermi was born (d. 1954). Italian physicist, Nobel Prize in Phisics laureate, in 1938.
• 1901 - Lanza del Vasto was born (d. 1981). Italian philosopher, poet, and activist.
• 1902 - Impresario David Belasco's first Broadway theater opens.
• 1902 - William Topaz McGonagall dies (b. 1825). Scots/Irish poet.
• 1902 - Émile Zola dies (b. 3 Apr 1840). French writer.
• 1904 - Greer Garson was born (d. 1996). British actress.
• 1907 - The cornerstone is laid at Washington National Cathedral in the U.S. capital.
• 1907 - Gene Autry was born (d. 1998). American actor and businessman.
• 1907 - George W. Jenkins was born (d. 1996). American businessman.
• 1908 - Eddie Tolan was born (d. 1967). American athlete.
• 1908 - Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis dies (b. 21 Jun 1839). Brazilian writer.
• 1910 - Virginia Bruce was born (d. 1982). American actress.
• 1911 - Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
• 1912 - Michelangelo Antonioni was born. Italian film director
• 1913 - Trevor Howard was born (d. 1988). English actor.
• 1913 - Stanley Kramer was born (d. 2001). American film director.
• 1915 - Brenda Marshall was born (d. 1992). American film actress.
• 1916 - Antonio Buero Vallejo was born. Spanish dramatist.
• 1916 - John D. Rockefeller becomes the first billionaire.
• 1918 - World War I: The Hindenburg Line is broken by Allied forces during World War I.
• 1920 - Peter D. Mitchell was born. English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1922 - Lizabeth Scott was born. American actress.
• 1923 - Stan Berenstain was born (d. 2005). American children's author.
• 1924 - Plutarco Elías Calles is proclaimed President of Mexico.
• 1924 - Steve Forrest was born. American actor.
• 1925 - Léon Bourgeois dies. French politician. Nobel Prize for Peace laureate in 1920.
• 1927 - Willem Einthoven dies (b. 1860). Dutch physician, Nobel laureate.
• 1927 - Nascia Adhemar Ferreira da Silva († 2001). Bicampeão olímpico brasileiro no triplo salto
• 1930 - Colin Dexter was born. British author of Inspector Morse novels.
• 1930 - Ilya Yefimovich Repin dies (b. 1844). Russian painter.
• 1931 - Anita Ekberg was born. Swedish actress
• 1931 - James Watson Cronin was born. American nuclear physicist, Nobel Prize laureate in 1980.
• 1932 - Robert Benton was born. American screenwriter and director
• 1932 - Mehmood was born (d. 2004). Indian actor.
• 1933 - Samora Machel was († 1986). First President of Mozambique.
• 1934 - Lance Gibbs was born. West Indian cricketer
• 1935 - Jerry Lee Lewis was born. American musician
• 1936 - Silvio Berlusconi was born. Italian politician, leader of Forza Italia and former Prime Minister of Italy
• 1937 - Ray Ewry dies (b. 1873). American athlete.
• 1938 - Britain, France, Nazi Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, allowing Germany to occupy the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
• 1938 - Wim Kok was born. Prime Minister of the Netherlands
• 1939 - Tommy Boyce was born. American songwriter, Boyce and Hart, The Monkees
• 1939 - Molly Haskell was born. American film critic
• 1939 - Larry Linville was born (d. 2000). American actor.
• 1939 - Poland is divided between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.
• 1940 - Nicola Di Bari was born. Italian singer
• 1941 - Holocaust in Kiev, Ukraine: German Einsatzgruppe C starts Babi Yar massacre. According to the Einsatzgruppen Operational Situation Report No. 101, at least 33,771 Jews from Kiev and its suburbs were killed at Babi Yar on September 29 - 30, 1941. / 33.771 Judeus são mortos durante o massacre de Babi Yar, perto de Kiev, na Ucrânia, no começo da invasão alemã da União Soviética.
• 1941 - Fred West was born. British serial killer.
• 1942 - Madeline Kahn was born (d. 1999). American actress.
• 1942 - Ian McShane was born. British actor.
• 1942 - Jean-Luc Ponty was born. French jazz violinist.
• 1942 - Felice Gimondi was born. Italian cyclist.
• 1942 - Bill Nelson was born. U.S. Senator from Florida
• 1942 - Jean-Luc Ponty was born. French jazz violinist
• 1942 - Steve Tesich was born (d. 1996). Serbian screenwriter.
• 1943 - U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio sign an armistice aboard the British ship Nelson off the shore of Malta.
• 1943 - Mohammad Khatami was born. Former President of Iran
• 1943 - Gary Boyd Roberts was born. American genealogist
• 1943 - Lech Wałęsa, President of Poland was born. Recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
• 1944 - Mike Post was born. American composer.
• 1945 - Kyriakos Sfetsas was born. Greek composer.
• 1946 - Celso Pitta was born. Brazilian politician.
• 1947 - Martin Ferrero was born. American actor.
• 1948 - Bryant Gumbel was born. American television personality
• 1948 - Mark Farner was born. American guitarist Grand Funk.
• 1948 - Theo Jörgensmann was born. German jazz clarinetist.
• 1949 - George Dalaras was born. Greek singer.
• 1951 - Michelle Bachelet was born. President of Chile.
• 1951 - Andrés Caicedo was born (d. 1977). Colombian writer.
• 1951 - Maureen Caird was born. Australian hurdler.
• 1951 - Mike Enriquez was born. Philippine broadcaster.
• 1952 - Max Sandlin was born. American politician.
• 1953 - Drake Hogestyn was born. American actor.
• 1953 - Jean-Claude Lauzon was born (d. 1977). Quebec film director.
• 1953 - Warren Cromartie was born. Major League Baseball player.
• 1954 - The convention establishing CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed.
• 1955 - Benoît Ferreux was born. French actor.
• 1955 - Nasce, em Repeses, concelho de Viseu, Francisco José Ferreira Rebelo Fernandes. Economista e fiscalista português.
• 1956 - Sebastian Coe was born. British athlete.
• 1957 - 20 MCi (740 petabecquerels) of radioactive material is released in an explosion at the Soviet Mayak nuclear plant.
• 1957 - Andrew Dice Clay was born. American comedian and actor.
• 1957 - Sokratis Malamas was born. Greek singer and composer.
• 1958 - First cinema exhibitions in Cinemateca Portuguesa
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• 1960 - Nikita Khrushchev, leader of Soviet Union, disorders a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly with a number of angry outbursts.
• 1961 - Rebecca DeMornay was born. American actress.
• 1961 - Stephanie Miller was born. American comedian and liberal talk show host.
• 1961 - The New York Times publishes music critic Robert Sheldon's review of a performance from little known singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, which will lead to Dylan's discovery by Columbia Records representative John Hammond.
• 1962 - Alouette 1, the first Canadian satellite is launched.
• 1962 - Roger Bart was born. American actor.
• 1963 - Les Claypool was born. American bassist (Primus).
• 1963 - The second period of the Second Vatican Council opens.
• 1963 - Dave Andreychuk was born. Canadian hockey player.
• 1964 - The Argentine comic strip Mafalda is published for the first time.
• 1964 - Les Claypool was born. American bassist (Primus).
• 1964 - Tom Sizemore was born. American actor.
• 1965 - The NSA memorial lists ten agents lost on this date.
• 1965 - Rino Levi dies (b. 1901). Brazilian architect.
• 1966 - The Chevrolet Camaro, originally named Panther, is introduced.
• 1966 - Jill Whelan was born. American actress.
• 1967 - The first episode of Captain Scarlet is aired on Television.
• 1967 - Brett Anderson was born. British musician/singer (Suede,The Tears)
• 1967 - Carson McCullers dies (b. 1917). American author.
• 1968 - Patrick Burns was born. Television presenter.
• 1969 - Erika Eleniak was born. American actress and Playboy Playmate.
• 1969 - Aleks Syntek was born. Mexican singer
• 1970 - Yoshihiro Tajiri was born. Japanese professional wrestler
• 1970 - Natasha Gregson Wagner was born. American actress
• 1970 - Emily Lloyd was born. British actress
• 1970 - Edward Everett Horton dies (b. 1886). American actor.
• 1971 - Oman joins the Arab League.
• 1971 - Sibel Tüzün was born. Turkish singer.
• 1972 - Sino-Japanese relations: Japan establishes diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China after breaking official ties with the Republic of China.
• 1972 - Robert Webb was born. British actor, comedian, and writer.
• 1973 - W. H. Auden dies (b. 1907). English poet.
• 1974 - Brian Ash was born. American screenwriter and producer.
• 1974 - Alexis Cruz was born. American actor.
• 1975 - WGPR in Detroit, Michigan, becomes the world's first black-owned-and-operated television station.
• 1975 - Sharon Dahlonega Raiford Bush becomes American television's first African-American weathercaster.
• 1975 - Casey Stengel dies. Baseball player and manager
• 1976 - Andriy Shevchenko was born. Ukrainian football player.
• 1976 - Darren Byfield was born. English football player.
• 1976 - Oscar Sevilla was born. Spanish cyclist.
• 1977 - Debelah Morgan was born. R&B coloratura soprano.
• 1977 - Portugal: As Bases da muralha de Cascais, a Bateria Alta, as Cortinas de Atiradores, o Forte de São Teodósio e o Forte do Guincho são classificados como imóveis de Interesse Público
• 1977 - União Soviética lança estação espacial Salyut 6
• 1978 - Kurt Nilsen was born. Norwegian singer.
• 1978 - Mohini Bhardwaj was born. American gymnast.
• 1978 - Gunner McGrath was born. American vocalist and guitarist (Much The Same).
• 1979 - Pope John Paul II became the first pontiff to set foot on Irish soil with his pastoral visit to the Republic of Ireland.
• 1979 - Beau Zimmer was born. Telejournalist
• 1981 - Siarhei Rutenka was born. Belarussian handball player.
• 1981 - Bill Shankly dies (b. 1913). Scottish football manager.
• 1982 - Tylenol Crisis of 1982 begins when the first of seven individuals dies in metropolitan Chicago.
• 1982 - Monty Stratton dies (b. 1912). Baseball player.
• 1982 - Ariana Jollee was born. American actress and director.
• 1982 - Monty Stratton dies (b. 1912). Baseball player.
• 1983 - Mário Botas dies. Portuguese painter.
• 1984 - Per Mertesacker was born. German football player.
• 1986 - Benoit Pouliot was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1987 - Henry Ford II dies (b. 1917). President of Ford Motor Company
• 1988 - NASA resumes space shuttle flights, grounded after the Challenger disaster, with STS-26.
• 1988 - Charles Addams dies (b. 1912). American cartoonist.
• 1988 - Forças de Paz das Nações Unidas recebem Prémio Nobel da Paz
• 1988 - NASA resumes space shuttle flights, grounded after the Challenger disaster.
• 1989 - Sebastian Elmaloglou was born. Australian soap actor
• 1989 - Luís Dourdil dies. Portuguese painter.
• 1990 - Washington National Cathedral finished.
• 1990 - The YF-22, which would later become the F-22 Raptor, flies for the first time.
• 1991 - Military coup in Haiti. Jean-Bertrand Aristide, President of Haiti, is deposed
• 1992 - Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello resigns.
• 1992 - Erotica (song) released by Madonna
• 1992 - Lançamento do álbum Dirt da banda norte-americana Alice in Chains
• 1992 - Primeiras eleições em Angola cujos resultados não são aceites pela UNITA.
• 1994 - Cheb Hasni dies (b. 1968). Algerian singer.
• 1995 - Khaled Kelkal is killed by the French Police.
• 1995 - The United States Navy disbands Fighter Squadron #84 (VF-84), the celebrated Jolly Rogers.
• 1996 - Super Mario 64, a revolutionary platformer game for the Nintendo 64, is released in the United States.
• 1997 - Roy Lichtenstein dies (b. 1923). American artist.
• 1998 - Tom Bradley dies (b. 1917). Mayor of Los Angeles, California.
• 1998 - Jacyra Sampaio dies (b. 1922). Brazilian actress.
• 2001 - Nguyen Van Thieu dies (b. 1923). President of South Vietnam.
• 2001 - The Syracuse Herald-Journal, a U.S. newspaper dating back to 1839, ceases publication.
• 2003 - Hurricane Juan makes landfall at Nova Scotia.
• 2004 - The asteroid 4179 Toutatis passes within four lunar distances of Earth.
• 2004 - The Burt Rutan Ansari X Prize entry SpaceShipOne performed a successful spaceflight, thereby halfway to winning the prize.
• 2004 - Baseball: The Montreal Expos play their last game at Olympic Stadium.
• 2004 - Richard Sainct dies (b. 1970). French motorcycle rally rider.
• 2005 - US Senate confirms John Roberts to be the next Chief Justice of the United States.
• 2005 - Amnesty referendum in Algeria.
• 2005 - Austin Leslie dies (b. 1938). Considered by many the "Godfather of Fried Chicken".
• 2005 - Sérgio Correia da Costa dies (b. 1919). Brazilian historian and diplomat.
• 2006 - US Representative Mark Foley resigns after allegations of inappropriate emails to house pages were introduced.
• 2006 - Michael A. Monsoor, a United States Navy SEAL, dies killed in Iraq. Posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.
• 2006 - Jan Werner Danielsen dies (b. 1976). Norwegian singer.
• 2006 - Khalique Ibrahim Khalique dies (b. 1926). Pakistani journalist and Urdu poet and critic.
• 2006 - Louis-Albert Cardinal Vachon dies (b. 1912). French Canadian Catholic archbishop of Quebec.
• 2006 - Walter Hadlee dies (b. 1915). New Zealand cricketer.
• 2007 - Calder Hall, the world's first commercial nuclear power station, is demolished in a controlled explosion.
• 2007 - Lois Maxwell dies (b. 1927). Canadian actress.
• RC Saints - Michaelmas - Christian feast of the Archangels St. Michael, St. Gabriel, and St. Raphael
• England, Ireland - One of the four Quarter days in the Irish calendar
• Argentina, Inventor's Day - László József Bíró's birthday.
• Portugal: Municipal holidays in Cabeceiras de Basto and Fornos de Algodres

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Liga Sagres - 4ª. Jornada: Derrotas dos primeiros Nacional e Sporting

Resultados da 4ª. Jornada
26 Set. 21:15	FC Porto	2-0	Paços de Ferreira
27 Set. 17:00	Braga	1-1	Naval 1º. de Maio
27 Set. 19:00	Vitória de Setúbal	1-0	Rio Ave
27 Set. 20:45	Benfica	2-0	Sporting
28 Set. 16:00	Marítimo	2-0	Académica
28 Set. 16:00	Nacional	1-2	Estrela da Amadora
28 Set. 20:15	Trofense	1-3	Vitória de Guimarães
29 Set 19:45	Belenenses	-	Leixões

A 4ª. Jornada começou com o Porto, no Estádio do Dragão, a regressar às vitórias depois do empate em Vila do Conde com o Rio Ave, ao vencer com alguma tranquilidade mas sem deslumbrar a equipa do Paços de Ferreira.

No sábado o Braga, a fazer um início de campeonato abaixo das expectativas, desperdiçou o triunfo perto do fim com a Naval a empatar através de um penalty enquanto o Setúbal com um único golo derrotou os vilacondenses e subiu ao grupo dos quintos classificados na Liga Sagres. O Rio Ave dispõe de dois pontos obtidos curiosamente contra o Benfica e o Porto.

O jogo grande da jornada estava, porém, reservado para a noite de sábado na Luz. No derby lisboeta o Benfica conseguiu finalmente dar uma grande alegria aos seus adeptos com uma segunda parte de excelente nível (maior solidez do meio campo com Katsouranis a auxiliar Yebda) e com Reyes a aparecer como a individualidade do jogo. Falta um triunfo frente ao Nápoles para a equipa do Benfica poder avançar psicologicamente e tacticamente para o asslto ao campeonato.

Já hoje o Nacional acusou a responsabilidade de poder passar a ser o guia isolado (e para isso bastaria um empate) e foi derrotado pelo Estrela da Amadora. Luís Vidigal com dois golos (aos 22' e 70') deu o triunfo aos visitantes, com o resultado a ser amenizado já no tempo de descontos (golo de Néné).

Já a outra equipa madeirense coleccionou o primeiro triunfo derrotando em casa a Académica por 2-0 com golos de Marcinho (42') e Djalma (90').

O Guimarães aproveitou o facto de o calendário o ter colocado esta semana o Trofense como adversário para vencer com tranquilidade por 3-1. A equipa da Trofa, a primeira a despedir o treinador esta época, ainda não tem qualquer ponto e parece não restar muitas dúvidas sobre o bilhete de regresso à Liga de Honra, face ao (fraco) potencial demonstrado.

Amanhã a jornada completa-se com o Belenenses- Leixões.

Durante a semana temos a Champions League e a Uefa Cup e vamos lá a ver o comportamento da equipas portuguesas. Sporting é favorito e deve ganhar ao Basileia, o Porto vai a Londres defrontar o Arsenal e depois do triunfo em casa frente aos turcos do Fehnerbace oum empate seria benvindo. Na Taça Uefa o Braga está praticamente qualificado, Guimarães, Setúbal e Marítimo com remotas hipóteses e o Benfica-Napoli será um grande jogo. O Benfica tem de ganhar e basta uma vitória por um golo de diferença desde que não sofra dois golos.

Na 5ª. Jornada há outro clássico com o Sporting a receber o Porto. O Benfica desloca-se a Matosinhos para defrontar o Leixões na segunda feira. O Nacional vai a Coimbra defrontar a Académica.

Lugar	Clube	Pontos	Golos
1.	Nacional	9	8-4
1.	Sporting	9	6-3
3.	FC Porto	8	5-1
3.	Benfica	8	8-5
5.	Naval 1º. de Maio	7	6-4
5.	Vitória de Guimarães	7	5-4
5.	Vitória de Setúbal	7	3-2
8.	Leixões (*)	6	5-4
8.	Académica	6	2-3
10.	Braga	4	3-4
11.	Marítimo	4	2-2
11.	Braga	4	3-4
13.	Rio Ave	2	1-3
13.	Belenenses (*)	1	2-6
15.	Paço de Ferreira	1	5-10
16.	Trofense	0	4-11

(*) Amanhã completam a 4ª. Jornada em jogo no Restelo pelo que a classificação destas equipas respeita apenas a três jogos disputados

Próxima Jornada - 5ª.
04 Out. 19:45	Naval 1º. de Maio	-	Belenenses
05 Out. 16:00	Académica	-	Nacional
05 Out 16:00	Estrela da Amadora	-	Trofense
05 Out. 16:00	Rio Ave	-	Paços de Ferreira
05 Out. 19:45	Sporting	-	FC Porto
06 Out. 19:30	Vitória de Guimarães	-	Braga
06 Out. 21:00	Leixões	-	Benfica
07 Out. 19:45	Vitória de Setúbal	-	Marítimo

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Sombras Fraternas - Emílio Moura

Sombras - imagem daqui

Sombras fraternas que viveis na sombra,
porque vindes nesta hora? Porque vindes?
Bem que vos vejo, como antigamente,
sombras fraternas, que viveis na sombra.

Bem que eu quero vencer tanto silêncio,
falar, cantar e despertar em tudo
a alma que um dia emudeceu comigo.
Bem que eu quero vencer tanto silêncio.

Vede as estrelas como estão geladas,
frias e mortas, pelo céu vazio…
Vede as estrelas como estão geladas.

Como quebrar tanto silêncio e frio,
sombras fraternas que viveis na sombra?
Como quebrar tanto silêncio e frio?…

EMÍLIO Guimarães MOURA nasceu em Dores do Indaiá (MG) a 14 de Agosto de 1901 e faleceu em Belo Horizonte (MG) a 28 de Setembro de 1971. Formado em Direito pela universidade do seu estado natal, pouco advogou. Foi professor catedrático (Ciências Económicas), burocrata (altos cargos da função pública) e jornalista. O seu «Itinerário Poético» é de 1970. Mineiro arredio, pouco dado à publicidade, os seus poemas são meditações sobre o mistério da vida: o medo, a angústia, a solidão, em versos melancólicos, cépticos, místicos. É o poeta da indagação e da perplexidade.

Soneto e nota biobibliográfica extraídos de «A Circulatura do Quadrado - Alguns dos Mais Belos Sonetos de Poetas cuja Mátria é a Língua Portuguesa. Introdução, coordenação e notas de António Ruivo Mouzinho. Edições Unicepe - Cooperativa Livreira de Estudantes do Porto, 2004.

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