SAILING ON THE TEXT

Time and inspiration invite me to sail on the text with form and oars as who sails in a wooden boat. A ship made in my mind goes through yours disguised with tattoos, bright icons and wonderful designs. While decoding my thoughts, the sight of the images takes me through the letters with which I steer the words, guide people and give information to you that accompany the unrolling of the papyrus. Thus, with this introductory tenor, I intend to involve the mind of whom is in search of the comprehension, using a unique moment of a whole life of reading and translations.

From these passages made of codes, well drawn and defined, from these words extracted from the harbor of my personality, I elaborate a map with a treasure-trove to guide you to an unknown forest. Because, when I am cruising I take care to give you some tracks that contain sentences and phrases to attract the reader to my soul. The latter, as an errand at the beginning of the journey, covers the spaces and the sands without knowing which way I am going to take your imagination. At the same time I dream with a person to whom I write and I hope the dreamer is a reader digest of pages and books still in construction.

Then, I hold the anchor, throw it into the ocean, and with your knowledge I make you dive in the sea of imagination. Under the water you can see a wonderful and fantastic new world. From the corsair I can see a distant land and to commemorate due to the discovery I climb up the mast, send a bird with a message in order to arrest your attention for a few minutes and travel with you to a country of paragraphs. Afterwards I invite you to swim in the beach of ideas, reader of the hours, to spread our emotions, to color this piece of paper and give life to this young text.

Therefore, with the treasure already found, with which we can buy some fish and make a good supper to fill the hours and the void of this sheet, I jump into the immense vocabulary made of signs, linked in cohesion and coherence. I make with this innovative discourse, new brigs, sails and flags to compose a new work of art like a buried golden treasure. If I want do reach and in the next quay full of knowledge, then I discover lots of books and a whole encyclopedia, as we have several words and this world is so wide. I unload the floating dock and I choose the readers to bring them on in order to explain this new ideology from my lack of wisdom and culture.

The fact is that, as a captain of this linguistic ship I must give sense to my creation and reveal all the clues hidden in the map. With many kinds of tools, I must be able to carve until I find another theme to write about. Using printers as cargo ships, papers as sand an computers as a compass I really wish I would travel crossing every continent by sea. And at the end of this adventure I would meet you, my readers just to say goodbye and deliver to your soul the contents of my own.

Antonio Carlos Tomás Fialho Magalhães