There exist those days that a person never forgets. Who never lived a
moment of great happiness?... It was on the seventh day of September of
1989, day of the commemoration of the independence of Brazil, some days
after I had viewed the documentary special about Daniel produced by the
journalist Mônica Teixeira. Although I Am far from having the power of
associating precise dates with events that I have lived, this is the date of
the dedication in his book that I received from Daniel on the day that I met
him. "Independence and life!", thus he wrote among those letters of pleasure
on our meeting... and thus I felt an indelible impression in my memory, that
will accompany me always, until the day on which love and fraternity shall
be fed by my intentions.
Coincidentally with the National Day, Daniel represented for me the
personification of the patriotic communion, the utopia of union between the
citizens of a society, of dignity, of justice, of love... That unconditional
sentiment of our wanting to feel for our son, for our blood brother that,
once lived with a profound intensity, expands itself and exceeds any family
ties, concluding in love for all.
Solidarity.
Yes, I love him. For all for which he struggled, I love the gift, the
verve, the courage, the deftness and the lucidity of his handling in the
treatment of political representation founded in justice, in liberty and in
love. He represented me in the world. The emotional quality of desiring a
society humanized, free and just transformed itself into something
reasonable, clearly logical.
Politics.
I reflected, within my restricted intellectual universe, on who were
the great wise political masters, aside from being illuminated and fraternal
men.
Daniel was certainly a being illuminated by the projects and by his
humanist longings, by his character and by his joy. On the only opportunity
I had to accompany him to a discussion, I saw citizens become emotional on
hearing his explanations. On this occasion, he expanded on his solidarity
thought based on the demistification of the burden of stigmas that surround
AIDS and kill more than the virus itself. Perhaps these citizens sensed in
those words a universe of ideas very akin, their longings, a concrete
interpretion of love, that moved many present to cry and others to write
notes of thanks... but I should like to support the idea that that singular
friend whom I loved so much was a very special and powerful spirit. In
reality, he was this forme, and perhaps the totality of his work can move
you also to the extent that it can render and stimulate a fraternal,
humanitarian and liberating impulse in your being, bringing it to action,
life and solidarity!!
I conclude with a refrain used by Daniel in his texts of the period
of the Grupo pela VIDDA (Group for Life): "Vida a vida!" ("Long live life!")
Ricardo Orsi
Stretch of music "Vento no litoral" (Wind on the cost by Russo/Bonfá/Villa-Lobos) - sung Legião Urbana:
Stretch of music "Vento no litoral" (Wind on the cost)
(by Russo/Bonfá/Villa-Lobos) - sung Legião Urbana
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