Ilha dos Amores #79

Jacques-Louis David, La mort de Socrates, 1787.

The sturdily built philosopher is on his high bed, bare to the waist, finger in the air, sitting upright and expounding to his crowd of friends the doctrine of the immortality of the soul. The picture could well carry as an alternative title or caption the words "I permitted myself everything except complaints"--a remark made by Joseph Brodsky.

Seamus Heaney

ADENDA: leia, pela sua saúde, o comentário de Zé Povão na caixa de comentários deste post.