"black corridor" (michael moorcock)

(fotografia de ester partegàs, "what you are, the world is", 2007)


"Space is infinite.
It is dark.
Space is neutral.
It is cold.

Stars occupy minute areas of space. They are clustered a few billion here. A few billion there. As if seeking consolation in numbers.
Space does not care.

Space does not threaten.
Space does not comfort.
It does not sleep; it does not wake; it does not dream; it does not hope; it does not fear; it does not love; it does not hate; it does not encourage any of these qualities.
Space cannot be measured. It cannot be angered, it cannot be placated. It cannot be summed up. Space is there.
Space is not large and it is not small. It does not live and it does not die. It does not offer truth and neither does it lie.
Space is a remorseless, senseless, impersonal fact.
Space is the absence of time and of matter." (1)

hawkwind



(1) retirado do cd dos hawkwind, space ritual, de 1973.



este tema dos hawkwind, "black corridor", é mais uma introdução do que uma canção propriamente dita. introduz "space is deep" que é, provavelmente, um dos temas mais conhecidos da banda. uma das razões porque escolhi esta letra/poema (?) deve-se ao tema do espaço: o que é o espaço? será ele limitado ou infinitamente grande? terá ele cor? ou será um amontoado de estrelas e de vazio, a preto e branco?