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« on: Oct 04, 2011, 13:10 »
Pracere cemetery in Lisbon,
located on the most beautiful spot overseeing the river Tego on one side and all of the city on the other.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lisboa-carmo-pracere/sets/72157627793540158/
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« Reply #1 on: Oct 04, 2011, 16:47 »
Thanks. Very interesting pictures. I particularly like the architectural details like the little Death's-head Hawkmoth.
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« Reply #2 on: Oct 04, 2011, 21:00 »
You are welcome.
The moth is a detail of the door knock on primary  tomb of famous fado singer Amalia Rodriges who was later
reburied at the National Panteon at St Clara et Vicence district of Lisbon.
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« Reply #3 on: Oct 04, 2011, 21:39 »
Ah, fado... I love fado but it upsets me so much sometimes.  Sad
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« Reply #4 on: Oct 05, 2011, 10:42 »
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudade


  There are also less upsetting styles of fado, like  smoking mood, or  drinking mood fado,
literary "fado for smoking", in a sense of contemplating while smoking, when one mustn't allow ones thought to last
longer then a single puff exhaled....
It is actually very oriental in nature
  The upsetting one is also refereed as fado triste  "the sad fado", but the word it self doesn't have synonyms in any living languages but Welsh. 
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« Reply #5 on: Oct 05, 2011, 18:32 »
You know, I almost thought you'd say "Welsh" before reading it. I've been to Wales twice (rural Wales) and the melancholia of it is overpowering yet serene, as the vastness of time and space are overpowering yet serene.

Are you Portuguese? I've been to the Algarve when I was a teenager and went diving for fish and dreams. One of the most beautiful places I have ever been to.
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« Reply #6 on: Oct 05, 2011, 20:58 »
Well,
actually I am Serbian, but from a far south where ppl live with deep pathos, so I guess that is why I connect well
with places like Algarve, or  better yet Alentejao where smell of herbs in august can induce a state of pure erotomania...
The downside is connection to darker side of  existentialism, and aesthetics of death and macabre.
 Thou I have never been to Wells or Ireland, I do seriously consider both as my home to be,especially Erin since I grew tired of this cursed waist-land, and can only hope that the end of my penance is near. 

p.s. Are we having Halloween topic this year?
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