Autobiography, Volume 2: 1937-1960, Exile's Odyssey by Mircea Eliade

Author:Mircea Eliade
Format: epub

APPENDIX

From the Lusitanian Journal

NOWHERE, in any country, have I heard a cry more melancholy, more heartrending, than that of the grinder-man in Lisbon. This craftsman has the habit of announcing his passing on the streets by blowing notes of infinite sorrow on a short reed pipe: long, lingering notes, ending abruptly in a sharp, piercing plaint, like the cry of a wounded bird. The grinder pipes most despairingly on hot afternoons, when the sun puts the great trees to sleep and a glassy vapor hovers over the pavement. It is as though he were the last man alive, passing in sorrow through a deserted city.

And again I hear him toward sunset, when the air recovers its transparency and the trees begin to exude their fragrances. It is, undoubtedly, the most consumate expression of saudade (longing).

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