Diário: África revela-se à descoberta. 10 de Dezembro de
1967.
Journal: Africa reveals itself to discovery. December 10, 1967.
Journal: Africa reveals itself to discovery. December 10, 1967.
O silvo do vapor
“N/T Príncipe Perfeito” escuta-se a quilómetros em redor. Está um dia
ensolarado deslumbrante. A manhã tinha despertado com uma suave brisa que
soprava do Leste, trazendo o canto das gaivotas, embalado pela esperança de um
novo amanhecer. Próculo Augusto mira o infinito, abrindo os braços como que
tentando envolver o porto da cidade da Beira em caloroso abraço.
Oficialmente,
buscava com seu amigo, Diogo Lopes Pacheco, o túmulo da Rainha Fátima Binti Zacarias.
Na realidade
ansiava por uma vida nova, um renascer que findasse a sua longa jornada,
iniciada duas décadas antes, em terras de Vera Cruz.
A cidade da
Beira é então uma pequena metrópole e tudo lhe traz à lembrança rostos e
imagens do seu Portugal deixado há anos atrás. Os gestos das pessoas simples
cativam-no e por toda a parte os sorrisos (sinceros ou não) rasgam-se de par em
par. Gente feliz com tão pouco. Os assimilados
moçambicanos aguçam a sua curiosidade durante a sua estadia citadina. Para os
trâmites do Estado Novo o assimilado
é o moçambicano negro ou mestiço que supera a sua condição de indígena, de “não
civilizado”, a realidade é bem diversa, pois o assimilado não abandona completamente as suas práticas e costumes
indígenas.
É durante um
desses convívios que conhece Helena Melânia, o grande Amor da sua vida. E em
que Diogo Lopes Pacheco, seu amigo de longa data, passa a figurar como o pior
de seus inimigos, invejoso pelos sorrisos de felicidade dos amantes, sequioso
por possuir a bela Helena, ansioso por trair Próculo nos seus intentos.
Depois de alguns
meses de preparação a expedição segue caminho para o Norte, para as islamizadas
terras de nunu (Senhora) Fátima
Zacarias, governante da região Seremaje, habitat de aguerridos Macondes e
matriarcais Macuas. A sua jornada leva-os de passagem pela árvore sagrada Muanene Ilapo (Dono da Terra) e a
curandeira local ao ver passar tão garbosos cavaleiros, lança o seu repto ao
guia de tão vistosa expedição. A sua voz rouca pareceu ganhar nova vida ao
pronunciar um nome: “Melânia ? Alguém doce como o mel?” Próculo, ao escutar o
nome da sua amada, vira a face pasmada à velha feiticeira questionando: “Que
sabes tu de Helena?”, ao que a curandeira afirma com um enigmático sorriso: “O
Amor há-de triunfar!”. Sentindo-se bafejado pela Sorte, Próculo prossegue o seu
caminho impávido às restantes palavras da anciã, carregando no espírito e na
lembrança, a imagem dos olhos amendoados pelos quais se encantara... não
vislumbra ao se afastar um estranho esgar na face da curandeira, nem escuta as
suas últimas palavras, sussurradas ao sabor do vento Leste: “Depois do Amor
triunfar à Terra hás-de tornar... à Terra hás-de tornar...”.
The hiss of the steamer “N / T Príncipe Perfeito” can be heard for miles around. It is a stunning sunny day. The morning had awakened with a gentle breeze that blew from the East, bringing the song of the gulls, lulled by the hope of a new dawn. Próculo Augusto aims at the infinite, opening his arms as if trying to wrap the port of the city of Beira in a warm embrace.
Officially, he was searching with his friend, Diogo Lopes Pacheco, for the tomb of Queen Fátima Binti Zacarias.
In reality, he longed for a new life, a rebirth that would put an end to his long journey, which had began two decades earlier, in the distant lands of Vera Cruz.
The city of Beira is then a small metropolis and everything brings to mind the faces and images of his Portugal left some years ago. The gestures of simple people captivate him and everywhere smiles (sincere or not) revealed themselves from ear to ear. Happy people with so little possessions. Mozambican assimilates pique his curiosity during his city break. For the procedures of the "Estado Novo", the assimilated person is the black or mixed-race Mozambican who overcomes his condition as an indigenous, “non-civilized”, the reality being quite different, since the assimilated person does not completely abandon his indigenous practices and customs.
It is during one of these gatherings that he meets Helena Melânia, the greater Love of his life. And in which Diogo Lopes Pacheco, his longtime friend, comes to figure as the worst of his enemies, envious of the smiles of happiness from the two lovers, desiring to possess the beautiful Helena, eager to betray Próculo in his intentions.
After a few months of preparation, the expedition heads to the North, towards the Islamized lands of Nunu (Lady) Fátima Zacarias, ancient ruler of the Seremaje region, habitat of the hardened Macondes and matriarchs Macuas. Their journey takes them through the sacred tree Muanene Ilapo (Owner of the Earth) and the local female healer, seeing so many striking knights passing by, launches her challenge to the guide of such a showy expedition. Her husky voice seemed to take on a new life when she pronounced a name: “Melânia? Someone as sweet as honey? ”Próculo, upon hearing the name of his beloved one, turns his face in amazement to the old witch questioning:“ What do you know about Helena? ”, To which the healer said with an enigmatic smile: “Love will triumph!”. Feeling favored by Luck, Próculo continues his undaunted path, deaf to the last words of the old woman, carrying in his mind and memory, the image of the almond-shaped eyes with which he was enchanted ... he does not notice a strange frown on the healer's face, nor listen to her last few words, whispered in the breeze of the East wind: "After Love triumphs to the Earth you will return ... to the Earth you will return ...".
The hiss of the steamer “N / T Príncipe Perfeito” can be heard for miles around. It is a stunning sunny day. The morning had awakened with a gentle breeze that blew from the East, bringing the song of the gulls, lulled by the hope of a new dawn. Próculo Augusto aims at the infinite, opening his arms as if trying to wrap the port of the city of Beira in a warm embrace.
Officially, he was searching with his friend, Diogo Lopes Pacheco, for the tomb of Queen Fátima Binti Zacarias.
In reality, he longed for a new life, a rebirth that would put an end to his long journey, which had began two decades earlier, in the distant lands of Vera Cruz.
The city of Beira is then a small metropolis and everything brings to mind the faces and images of his Portugal left some years ago. The gestures of simple people captivate him and everywhere smiles (sincere or not) revealed themselves from ear to ear. Happy people with so little possessions. Mozambican assimilates pique his curiosity during his city break. For the procedures of the "Estado Novo", the assimilated person is the black or mixed-race Mozambican who overcomes his condition as an indigenous, “non-civilized”, the reality being quite different, since the assimilated person does not completely abandon his indigenous practices and customs.
It is during one of these gatherings that he meets Helena Melânia, the greater Love of his life. And in which Diogo Lopes Pacheco, his longtime friend, comes to figure as the worst of his enemies, envious of the smiles of happiness from the two lovers, desiring to possess the beautiful Helena, eager to betray Próculo in his intentions.
After a few months of preparation, the expedition heads to the North, towards the Islamized lands of Nunu (Lady) Fátima Zacarias, ancient ruler of the Seremaje region, habitat of the hardened Macondes and matriarchs Macuas. Their journey takes them through the sacred tree Muanene Ilapo (Owner of the Earth) and the local female healer, seeing so many striking knights passing by, launches her challenge to the guide of such a showy expedition. Her husky voice seemed to take on a new life when she pronounced a name: “Melânia? Someone as sweet as honey? ”Próculo, upon hearing the name of his beloved one, turns his face in amazement to the old witch questioning:“ What do you know about Helena? ”, To which the healer said with an enigmatic smile: “Love will triumph!”. Feeling favored by Luck, Próculo continues his undaunted path, deaf to the last words of the old woman, carrying in his mind and memory, the image of the almond-shaped eyes with which he was enchanted ... he does not notice a strange frown on the healer's face, nor listen to her last few words, whispered in the breeze of the East wind: "After Love triumphs to the Earth you will return ... to the Earth you will return ...".
Diário: Amor... ou desamor? 31 de Janeiro de 1968.
Diary: Love ... or unloved? January 31, 1968.
Diary: Love ... or unloved? January 31, 1968.
No decorrer da
viagem, tudo parece novo aos olhos do temperado explorador, África guarda em si
os segredos mais profundos da Humanidade. Como todo o bom explorador que se
preze, Próculo tudo escrevinha nas páginas do seu Diário de Viagem. Que nas
árvores sagradas, as famílias buscam a cura dos seus males, oferecendo parte do
pouco que possuem em refeições rituais (quer a deuses vários, como em honra dos
seus antepassados), quando a medicina ocidental não lhes trás essa tal cura ou
a resposta pronta para as suas maleitas. A mandioca e o milho são as oferendas
mais comuns em tais intentos.
A primeira
página do diário de Próculo continha um simples poema dedicado ao seu primeiro
e único verdadeiro Amor africano, a Helena Melânia, moça de estatura pequena,
olhos amendoados negros como as pérolas do Índico e seus múltiplos cambiantes
de sorrisos receosos. Corpo doce como o mel, pele macia, firme e ao mesmo tempo
frágil. Apaixonada, mas receosa acerca dos verdadeiros intentos daquele mussungo (branco) que viera de tão
longe. O dito rezava assim:
Beleza
perdida – e encontrada (Quatro Estações)
|
|
Eras
jovem e bela Primavera
Mil
sorrisos nasciam em teu rosto
Flor
mais bela que ao mundo a mãe dera
Flor
de noiva em grinalda posto
|
O
Verão em teu corpo esbelto
Em
mim soltava ondas de paixão
E
teus lábios doces – meu prato predilecto
Sol
de desejo e sensação
|
Com
o Outono fria não ficaste
Árvore
de verde despida
Enrugada
mas jamais sem vida
Confirmavas
o Amor que germinaste
|
Ao
chegar o fim da caminhada
De
andares pelo Céu e pelo Inferno
Em
teu sorriso vislumbro minha Amada
A
Primavera que virá após o Inverno.
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During the trip, everything seems new in the eyes of the seasoned explorer, Africa keeps within itself the deepest secrets of humanity. Like any good self-respecting explorer, Próculo wrote everything on the pages of his Travel Journal. That in the sacred trees, families seek to cure their illnesses, offering part of the little they have in ritual meals (either to various gods, or in honor of their ancestors), when Western medicine does not bring them such a cure or the answer ready for their ailments. Cassava and corn were the most common offerings for such purposes.
The first page of Próculo's Journal contained a simple poem dedicated to his first and only true African Love, Helena Melânia, a girl of small stature, with almond-shaped eyes as black as pearls from the Indian Ocean and her multiple shifts of fearful smiles. With a body sweet as honey, skin soft, firm and at the same time so fragile and tender. Passionate, but afraid about the true intentions of that (White men) mussungo that had come from so far. The saying prayed like this:
Lost and found beauty (Four Seasons)
Young and beautiful spring ages
A thousand smiles were born in your face
Most beautiful flower
than in the world any mother had given
Bridal flower in wreath placed
|
Summer in your slim body
In me released waves of passion
And your sweet lips - my favorite meal
Sun of desire and sensation
|
With the autumn cold you didn't
stay
Naked green tree
Wrinkled but never lifeless
You confirmed the Love that you germinated
|
At the end of the walk
Floating through Heaven and Hell
In your smile I see my Beloved One
The spring that will come after the winter.
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O longo braço da ditadura. 22 de Fevereiro de 1968
The long arm of the dictatorship. February 22, 1968
Os sonhos podem
ser ditosos, mas a realidade fica muito aquém do que é por vezes sonhado. O
regime ditatorial tudo e todos busca controlar, quer na Metrópole como nas
Colónias, utilizando para tal as garras inquisitoriais dos seus esbirros
espalhados pelos quatro cantos do Império. Próculo, inocentemente, em todos os
seus actos mostra ser homem de valores, princípios, honra... infelizmente
profere palavras e discursos assumidamente de esquerda.
Diogo Lopes
Pacheco vê aí a sua oportunidade. Quando por fim chegam a Nampula a fama da
expedição já os tinha antecedido e os seus membros mais ilustres são convidados
para cear nessa mesma noite na residência do governador local.
Imiscuídos entre
os convivas, dois inspectores da PIDE aguardam pelo momento certo pela captura.
Próculo em todos os seus actos nada diz que confirme as suas preferências
políticas, mas a sentença já estava ditada e lavrada desde há muito. Quando
finalmente deixam a recepção, seguindo por um caminho mal alumiado, Diogo
desfere um golpe na nuca do amigo e este tomba inerte no chão. Capturado é
levado assim para o cárcere.
Dreams can be blissful, but reality falls far short from what is sometimes dreamed of. The dictatorial regime seeks to control everything and everyone, both in the Metropolis as in the Colonies, using the inquisitorial claws of their henchmen spread throughout the four corners of the Empire. Próculo proclaims, innocently... in all his actions, he shows to be a man of values, principles, honor... unfortunately he utters words and speeches admittedly from the left wing.
Diogo Lopes Pacheco sees his opportunity there. When they finally arrived in Nampula, the expedition's fame had already preceded them and its most illustrious members are invited to dine that night at the residence of the local governor.
Intermingled among the guests, two PIDE inspectors wait for the right moment for the capture. Proculo in all his acts says nothing to confirm openly his political preferences, but the sentence was dictated and drafted for a long time. When they finally leave the reception, following a poorly lit path, Diogo strikes his friend on the back of the head and he falls limp on the floor. Captured, he is thus taken to prison.
Dreams can be blissful, but reality falls far short from what is sometimes dreamed of. The dictatorial regime seeks to control everything and everyone, both in the Metropolis as in the Colonies, using the inquisitorial claws of their henchmen spread throughout the four corners of the Empire. Próculo proclaims, innocently... in all his actions, he shows to be a man of values, principles, honor... unfortunately he utters words and speeches admittedly from the left wing.
Diogo Lopes Pacheco sees his opportunity there. When they finally arrived in Nampula, the expedition's fame had already preceded them and its most illustrious members are invited to dine that night at the residence of the local governor.
Intermingled among the guests, two PIDE inspectors wait for the right moment for the capture. Proculo in all his acts says nothing to confirm openly his political preferences, but the sentence was dictated and drafted for a long time. When they finally leave the reception, following a poorly lit path, Diogo strikes his friend on the back of the head and he falls limp on the floor. Captured, he is thus taken to prison.
Diário: Nos Idos de Março, a traição. 15 de Março de
1968.
Diary: In the Ides of March, betrayal. March 15, 1968.
Diary: In the Ides of March, betrayal. March 15, 1968.
Álvaro
Gonçalves, corpo atarracado e de queixo pouco proeminente, um mau juiz,
corrompido por Diogo Lopes Pacheco não leva o julgamento a arrastar-se por
muito tempo – não fosse alguém ousar pedir clemência por esse homem – advogando
lesta sentença de morte por crimes de traição à Pátria e ao Estado. As torturas
24 sobre 24 horas são uma constante ao longo de quase um mês.
Álvaro Gonçalves, a stocky body with a little prominent chin, a bad judge, corrupted by Diogo Lopes Pacheco does not lead the trial to drag on for a long time - were it not possible for someone to dare to ask for clemency for this man - advocating his death sentence for crimes of betrayal of the Fatherland and the State. Torture for 24 hours a day is a constant for almost a month.
Álvaro Gonçalves, a stocky body with a little prominent chin, a bad judge, corrupted by Diogo Lopes Pacheco does not lead the trial to drag on for a long time - were it not possible for someone to dare to ask for clemency for this man - advocating his death sentence for crimes of betrayal of the Fatherland and the State. Torture for 24 hours a day is a constant for almost a month.
Diário: Finalmente chegado a casa! 4 de Abril de 1968.
Diary: Finally got home! April 4, 1968.
Diary: Finally got home! April 4, 1968.
Próculo caminha
lentamente pois a tortura do sono e das cadeiras partidas no lombo deixam assim
as suas marcas, corpo dorido, nós dos dedos roxos, quase surdo das torturas
infligidas, face erguida em sinal sempre desafiante, rodeado pelos seus
esbirros que não ousam então tocar-lhe, tolhidos e vergados à força do seu
caracter. A cela fica então vazia. Nas paredes do cárcere, um pequeno poema
gravado como filiforme passava despercebido a todos os olhares:
Já
inocente não sou
Para
muita, imensa pena minha
Penas
de outros por mim não as desejo
Vá
de retro Oh, beata caridadezinha
Já
inocente não sou
Vejo
hoje em dia de tudo o quanto baste.
Vejo
além dos rostos de amarelados sorrisos mascarados
Totens
da hipocrisia de osso e carne feitos
Alguns
colegas e amigos
Que
nossa rocha diziam ser muito ufanados
Na
realidade revelaram-se bem outros
A
mão direita estendida em cordialidade
Com
a esquerda apunhalando essa inverdade
Hei-de
ir um dia para a terra da amizade
Hei-de
ir um dia para o povo dos sorrisos
Hei-de
ter um cão para amizade fiel
Hei-de
ter abelhas com a doçura do seu mel
A
poeira da jornada cobre-me camada sobre camada
Caminhante
sempre, assim tenho sido fadado
Das
sandálias a lama e o pó limpo no dia-a-dia
Ansiando
pelo fim da alegoria
Já
inocente não sou nos dias de hoje
Cantor,
poeta fui ? Talvez... não sei.
Quero
voltar a sorrir, amar e ser amado
Por
alguém que por mim espere, sendo esperado.
Ser
novamente o Sol da Lua que amo imenso
E no
céu estrelado encontrar de novo o certo rumo
Já
inocente não sou mas quero bem voltar a ser
E
rodeado de sorrisos um belo dia perecer.
A manhã tinha
começado com uma suave brisa que soprava de Leste, trazendo o canto das
gaivotas embalado pela esperança de um novo amanhecer. Próculo mira o pelotão
de fuzilamento, cerrando firmemente os pulsos.
As últimas
palavras trocadas com Helena ecoam na sua mente: “Prometes que voltas para
junto de mim, quando terminares a tua expedição Augusto ?”. Helena sempre o
tratara pelo seu segundo nome. “Sim, prometo minha Deusa, não vês como te Amo
já?”. Aquele ténue momento de despedida pareceu-lhe ter ocorrido há décadas
atrás... daria tudo naquele instante para regressar áquele pátio, pegar em
Helena e levá-la consigo de volta para Portugal, para um sítio seguro e
afastado de todos aqueles cenários.
Pedro Coelho,
chefe do pelotão de fuzilamento era um homem fustigado pelo desejo de vingança
do massacre dos seus ocorrido alguns meses antes e aquele homem na sua frente,
personificava séculos de antagonismo e a raiva que sentia. No entanto, os
poucos dias de convívio em que juntos privaram fez-lo ver que Próculo era um
Homem bom. Uma mescla de sentimentos invade a sua mente em turbilhão de ideias
antagónicas. Uma e outra vez, mira para a varanda, onde Álvaro Gonçalves se
encontra impávido e sereno. Espera escutar uma ordem diversa, mas a mesma não
chega: “Fogo!” é a sua última palavra pronunciada ao pelotão de fuzilamento.
O corpo de Próculo, varado pelas balas resultantes da fuzilaria, ajoelha em sinal de última prece aos seus algozes e finalmente frágil cai no chão enlameado, punhos cerrados.
No seu punho
firmemente cerrado, quando muito a custo o conseguem abrir, encontraram uma
pulseira com um coração em ouro puro... gravados, uma Lua com as iniciais H.M.
Os que buscavam despojos no corpo jacente do explorador afastam-se então,
sorrindo amareladamente entre si, já tinham ganho o dia.
Num repente as
nuvens cerraram e as chuvas das monções do Índico começam a jorrar fortemente,
como se os próprios céus chorassem pela morte de Próculo. Todos abandonam
descompassada e atabalhoadamente o pátio e a varanda e, algum tempo depois, um
pequeno e frágil vulto coberto por longa capa negra aproxima-se do corpo
inerte. Após certificar-se que mais ninguém se tinha apercebido da sua presença,
chama para si dois homens de alta estatura, recolhendo o corpo a um abrigo...
Nesse mesmo dia,
a mais de uma dezena de milhar de quilómetros de distância, outro corpo tinha
tombado assassinado. Num jornal esparramado pelo matope (lama) da rua, caído da varanda do mau juiz, ainda se podia
ler a seguinte emblemática frase proferida por tal homem: “O que mais preocupa
não é o grito dos violentos, nem dos corruptos, nem dos desonestos, nem dos sem
ética. O que mais preocupa é o silêncio dos bons.”
O que foi feito
do corpo de Próculo nunca mais ninguém o soube. Os velhos jogando cartas na
Ilha de Moçambique, nas escadarias de uma das múltiplas mesquitas que aí se
erguem, áqueles poucos que por vezes ao passar perguntavam novas de Próculo
diziam:
“Fátima Zacarias
levou-o para junto de si!” Outros afirmavam que estava agora junto a Helena
Melânia, que teria sobrevivido ao seu fuzilamento e agora viveriam felizes numa
pequena ilha no arquipélago das Quirimbas, onde nenhuma inveja, maldade,
escárnio ou mal dizer os poderia agora alcançar.
Após as agruras
da longa jornada, pela primeira vez o explorador tinha finalmente chegado a
casa!
Próculo walks slowly because the torture of sleep and the broken chairs on his back thus leave their marks, sore body, purple knuckles, almost deaf from the tortures inflicted, face raised in a sign always defiant, surrounded by his henchmen who do not then dare to touch him, stunted and bent by the force of his character. The cell is then empty. On the walls of the prison, a small poem recorded as a filiform went unnoticed by all eyes:
Próculo walks slowly because the torture of sleep and the broken chairs on his back thus leave their marks, sore body, purple knuckles, almost deaf from the tortures inflicted, face raised in a sign always defiant, surrounded by his henchmen who do not then dare to touch him, stunted and bent by the force of his character. The cell is then empty. On the walls of the prison, a small poem recorded as a filiform went unnoticed by all eyes:
I'm not innocent anymore
For a lot, very sorry for me
Petty of others for me I do not desire them
Go away Oh, blessed little charity
I'm not innocent anymore
I see today all that is enough.
I see beyond the faces of yellowed masked smiles
Bone and flesh hypocrisy totems made off
Some colleagues and friends
That our rock said to be very proud
Reality, another was revealed
The right hand extended in warmth
With the left stabbing this untruth
I will one day go to the land of friendship
I will go one day to the people of smiles
I will have a dog for faithful friendship
I will have bees with the sweetness of their honey
The dust of the journey covers me layer upon layer
Hiker always, so I have been fated
From my sandals, the mud and dust cleaned on a daily basis
Longing for an end to the allegory
I'm not innocent nowadays
Singer, poet was I? Maybe, I do not know.
I want to smile again, love and to be loved
For someone waiting for me, being expected.
Be the Sun of the Moon I love so much again
And in the starry sky find the right direction
I'm not innocent, but I want to be
And surrounded by smiles a beautiful day to perish.
The morning had started with a gentle breeze blowing from the East, bringing the song of the seagulls lulled by the hope of a new dawn. Próculo targets the firing squad, firmly clenching his wrists.
The last words exchanged with Helena echo in his mind: “Do you promise to come back to me when you finish your expedition, Augusto?”. Helena had always called him by his second name. "Yes, I promise my Goddess, don't you see how I love you already?" That tenuous moment of farewell seemed to have happened decades ago ... he would have given everything at that moment to return to that courtyard, pick up Helena and take her back to Portugal, to a safe place and away from all those scenarios.
Pedro Coelho, the firing squad leader, was a man whipped by the desire of revenge for the massacre of his own a few months earlier and that man in front of him personified centuries of antagonism and the anger he felt. However, the few days of living together that they deprived made him see that Próculo was a good Man. A mixture of feelings invades his mind in a whirlwind of antagonistic ideas. Again and again, he looks out onto the balcony, where Álvaro Gonçalves finds himself unmoved and serene. He hopes to hear a different order, but it is not enough: “Fire!” Is his last word spoken to the firing squad.
Próculo's body, swept by the bullets resulting from the rifles, kneels as a sign of last prayer to his executioners and finally fragile falls to the muddy ground, clenched fists.
On his firmly clenched fist, when they were able to open it at great cost, they found a bracelet with a heart in pure gold ... engraved, a moon with the initials HM. Those looking for spoils in the explorer's body lay away, smiling yellowy among themselves, they had already won the day.
Suddenly the clouds closed and the monsoon rains in the Indian Ocean started to pour out, as if the skies themselves were weeping for Próculo's death. All of them abandon the courtyard and veranda in an unsteady and clumsy way and, some time later, a small and fragile figure covered by a long black cloak approaches the inert body. After making sure that no one else had noticed it's presence, it called two tall men for himself, taking the body to a shelter ...
That same day, more than a dozen thousand kilometers away, another body had fallen, murdered. In a newspaper spread across the mud of the street, fallen from the balcony of the bad judge, one could still read the following emblematic sentence uttered by such a man: “What worries me most is not the cry of the violent, nor the corrupt, nor the dishonest, nor the unethical. What worries me is the silence of good men."
What was done of Próculo's body was never known to anyone else. The old men playing cards on the Island of Mozambique, on the steps of one of the multiple mosques that rise there, for those few who sometimes when passing by asked for news from Próculo said:
“Fátima Zacarias took him with her!” Others claimed that he was now with Helena Melânia, who would have survived his firing squad and now they would be living happily on a small island in the Quirimbas archipelago, where no envy, malice, scorn or bad saying could reach them now.
After the hardships of the long journey, for the first time the explorer had finally arrived home!
P.s. - Sob o Pseudónimo Luce Fecit, escrito para Concurso da Tertúlia João de Araújo Correia.
Neste momento encontra-se a ser adaptado a Peça Teatral aqui em Moçambique e contamos levar a cena durante o próximo ano de 2020.
(Dedicado a uma Princesa Africana)
P.s. - Under the pseudonym Luce Fecit, written for the Tertúlia João de Araújo Correia Competition.
It is currently being adapted to a Theater Play here in Mozambique and we expect to take the stage during the next year of 2020.
(Dedicated to an African Princess)
P.s. - Under the pseudonym Luce Fecit, written for the Tertúlia João de Araújo Correia Competition.
It is currently being adapted to a Theater Play here in Mozambique and we expect to take the stage during the next year of 2020.
(Dedicated to an African Princess)