A Genialidade, A Genialidade

Numa das cenas finais de Apocalypse Now, o Cel. Kurtz declama um poema, um trecho dele na verdade, para o Cap. Williard. É um trecho de um poema muito foda de T.S.Elliot, chamado "The Hollow Man". O Elliot inclusive escreveu um poema chamado "Wasteland" inspirado pelo livro "Coração das Travas".

The Hollow Man (só a primeira parte e o final)

We are the hollow man
We are the stuffed man
Leaning Toghether
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper toghether
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry glass
or rats´feet over broken glass
In our dry cellaer

shape without form, shade without color
Paralysed force, gesture without motion

Those who have crossed
With direct eyes, to death´s other kingdon
Remeber us - if at all - not as lost
Violent souls, but only
As the hollow man, the stuffed man

..............

This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but with a whimper

Foda.