Ijust wanted to thank zer0 for mentioning Pessoa. As a fellow countryman. He is considered indeed our finest poet, and his life and thought are quite complex in the way that one isn't related to the other at all. Pessoa was a "mild mannered" public official, but deeply interested in astrology, psychology, etc. He actually corresponded and befriended Aleister Crowley. He has a huge scope of work, both prose and poetry, but his poetry is in fact divided among several "personas", each with its own indiviudal style. I have to confess I haven't read much, but his "Alvaro de Campos" persona is my favourite, being a srot uf urban Walt Whitman.
I read a prose book, a tale, which I think could make a very interesting topic here: "The anarchist banker". It's a dialogue, a provocative dialogue, where one of the speakers actually proves that bankers are the best of anarchists.
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