{"id":4606,"date":"2020-11-09T15:56:51","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T13:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/?p=4606"},"modified":"2020-11-09T16:01:14","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T14:01:14","slug":"652-truth-carlos-drummond-de-andrade-brasil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/652-truth-carlos-drummond-de-andrade-brasil\/","title":{"rendered":"652 | Truth | Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Brasil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4607\" src=\"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Foto-ithaca-652-286x300.jpg\" alt=\"Foto Ithaca 652\" width=\"286\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Foto-ithaca-652-286x300.jpg 286w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Foto-ithaca-652-200x210.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Foto-ithaca-652.jpg 524w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 286px) 100vw, 286px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>TRUTH<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The door of truth was open,<br \/>\nbut let only half a person<br \/>\npass at a time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Thus, it was not possible to reach the whole truth,<br \/>\nbecause the half person who entered<br \/>\nbrought only the shape of half the truth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And its second half<br \/>\nalso returned with half a profile.<br \/>\nAnd the two halves did not match.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">They blasted the door. They knocked it down.<br \/>\nThey arrived at a luminous place<br \/>\nwhere truth radiated its flames.<br \/>\nIt was divided into two halves,<br \/>\ndifferent one from the other.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Each half argued which was more beautiful.<br \/>\nNone of the two was completely beautiful.<br \/>\nBut how hard to decide. Each chose<br \/>\naccording to his whim, his illusion, his myopia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Carlos Drummond de Andrade<\/strong>, Brasil, 1902\u20131987<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Translation: Germain Droogenbroodt, Stanley H. Barkan w\/Roy Cravzow &amp; Wanda Rivera<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TRUTH The door of truth was open, but let only half a person pass at a time. Thus, it was not possible to reach the whole truth, because the half person who entered brought only the shape of half the truth. And its second half also returned with half a profile. And the two halves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4607,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[43],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4606"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4606"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4610,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4606\/revisions\/4610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}