31 songs

Estava lendo Neve, mas larguei de mão um pouco para ler "31 Songs", do ótimo Nick Hornby. É livro leve, diferente, e muito bom de ler. Especialmente para pôr em dia meu "english", que andava meio defasado. E daí chego na música 5 - One Man Guy de Rufus Wainwright. Talvez eu já conheça ele, mas nada que tenha me chamado a atenção. Mas o texto de Hornby fala coisas que eu penso, que eu entendo. Já estou baixando essa música para ver se concordo com ele quanto a ela, mas no geral, eu assino embaixo do que ele diz. Segue uma palhinha:

"I try not to believe in God, of course, but sometimes things happen in music, in songs, that bring me up short, make me do a double-take. When things add up to more than the sum of their parts, when the effects achieved are inexplicable, then atheists like me start to get into difficult territory. Take Rufus Wainwright's version of his father Loundon's 'One Man Guy', for example. There should be nothing evoking the spirit about it, really: the song's lovely, but it's a bit sour, a little sad, jokey - the joke being that the song is not about the joys of monogamy but is about the joys of solipsism and misanthropy, a joke that is given a neat little twist by Wainwright junior's sexual orientation - and it's hard to imagine that God has time to pay a visit to something so wry and so self-mocking. And yet, weirdly, He does. There's no doubt about it".

Glossário:

Solipsism - the theory that only the self exists or can be known

Misanthropy - misanthrope - a person who hates other people and avoids human society

Wry - indicating amused intelligent awareness of a situation; slightly mocking or cynical