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A ética e o
Marketing da esperança
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tindo como sofrimento; se alcançar-
mosoquequer anossavontade, nós
a suprimimos. Ficamos sem a espe-
rança da vontade e, daí, sobrevémo
tédio. Para não sucumbir ao tédio, a
nossa mente torna a representar o
mundo, a idealizá-lo. Cria um ciclo.
E como podemos escapar desse ci-
clo?Matandonossavontade, anulan-
do a esperança. O texto de Schope-
nhauer é muito bonito, ganhou um
prêmio literário, mas a supressão da
esperança como garantia contra a
infelicidade é complicada. Aliás, as
suas idéias são invendáveis. Dão ca-
lafrios. Deveriam ter o dístico que
Dante colocou na porta do Inferno:
Lasciateognisperanza,voich’entrate
.
Podemos seguir a Dante e deixar a
esperança de lado.Mas não solucio-
naríamos o dilema de saber se a es-
perança é boa ou ruim. A bem da
verdade, acho que só os poetas de-
ram um tratamento útil a esta ques-
tão. Por exemplo, há um poema do
outro Dante, de Dante Gabriel Ros-
setti, que trata da esperança feliz. É
sobreuma jovemqueestánoParaíso
e espera que o seu amado venha se
THEBLESSED
DAMOZEL
(TRECHO)
The blessed damozel lean'd out
From the gold bar of Heaven;
Her eyes were deeper than the depth
Of waters still'd at even;
She had three lilies in her hand,
And the stars in her hair were seven.
Her robe, ungirt from clasp to hem,
No wrought flowers did adorn,
But a white rose of Mary's gift,
For service meetly worn;
Her hair that lay along her back
Was yellow like ripe corn.
Her seem'd she scarce had been a day
One of God's choristers;
The wonder was not yet quite gone
From that still look of hers;
Albeit, to them she left, her day
Had counted as ten years.
(To one, it is ten years of years.
... Yet now, and in this place,
Surely she lean'd o'er me--her hair
Fell all about my face ....
Nothing: the autumn-fall of leaves.
The whole year sets apace.)
It was the rampart of God's house
That she was standing on;
By God built over the sheer depth
The which is Space begun;
So high, that looking downward thence
She scarce could see the sun.
It lies in Heaven, across the flood
Of ether, as a bridge.
Beneath, the tides of day and night
With flame and darkness ridge
The void, as low as where this earth
Spins like a fretful midge.
Around her, lovers, newly met
'Mid deathless love's acclaims,
Spoke evermore among themselves
Their heart-remember'd names;
And the souls mounting up to God
Went by her like thin flames...
HáumpoemadooutroDante, de
DanteGabrielRossetti,que trata
daesperança feliz. Vejaum
pequeno trecho ao lado.
)
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