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		<title>Yes or no, neither</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is left after satire corroded all possibilities? In the last few days I have become addicted to the song below. Its euphoric positiveness and the counterpoint of negativity. It parodies truthfully a certain way of being political and Portuguese.





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Agora sim, há pernas para andar!
Agora sim, eu sinto o [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What is left after satire corroded all possibilities? In the last few days I have become addicted to the <a href="http://www.deolinda.com.pt/">song</a> below. Its euphoric positiveness and the counterpoint of negativity. It parodies truthfully a certain way of being political and Portuguese.<br />
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Agora sim, damos a volta a isto!<br />
Agora sim, há pernas para andar!<br />
Agora sim, eu sinto o optimismo!<br />
Vamos em frente, ninguém nos vai parar!
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Yes, now, we will turn this around!<br />
Yes, now, it has legs to walk!<br />
Yes, now, I feel the optimism!<br />
Ahead, nobody can stop us!
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Agora não, que é hora do almoço&#8230;<br />
Agora não, que é hora do jantar&#8230;<br />
Agora não, que eu acho que não posso&#8230;<br />
Amanhã vou trabalhar&#8230;
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Not now, it&#8217;s lunch time&#8230;<br />
Not now, it&#8217;s supper time.<br />
Not now, I don&#8217;t think i can make it&#8230;<br />
Tomorrow I have to go to work…
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Once you place enthusiasm against its inverted self, does enthusiasm survive? One could say it&#8217;s simply dialectics, one ravages the other. But I don&#8217;t see the next step in the progression. </p>
<p>I see a hollow, dark place, of silence, neither positive, nor negative, instead indifferent and laughing and displaced. Maybe it is nothing to do with the song, and everything to do with where I listen to it. I am no longer there, where this satire happens with conviction and without self-perspective, so I cannot be in it, and resolve it.</p>
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