Anjo II (o de Klee)

My wing is ready for flight
I would like to turn back
If I stayed timeless time
I would have little luck.

Gerhard Scholem, “Gruss vom Angelus”

"A Klee painting named Angelus Novus shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. This storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress.

Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), nona tese in Theses on the Philosophy of History.

Anjo I (nem de Dürer nem de Klee)

Se só consegues amar um anjo, fica ciente de que não os há neste mundo, com a excepção do de Klee. Contudo, esse está demasiado triste com o nosso horror para se deixar amar.

Belacqua

Humor Negro

"Pour quelle raison tous ceux qui ont été des hommes d'exception, en ce qui regarde la philosophie, la science de l'Etat, la poésie ou les arts, sont-ils manifestement mélancoliques, et certains au point même d'être saisis par des maux dont la bile noir est l'origine, comme ce que racontent, parmi les récits concernant les héros, ceux qui sont consacrés à Héraclès? En effet ce dernier paraît bien avoir relevé de ce naturel; ce qui explique aussi que les maux des épileptiques, les Anciens les ont appelés, d'après lui, maladie sacrée."

Aristóteles: L'Homme de génie et la Mélancolie.