PROYECTO PARA
UN VIAJE A SIRIA

Magdalena Brezzo y Túlio Rosa

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Intervención en el texto "Project for a trip to China", de Susan Sontag

Project for a Trip to Syria

I.

I am going to Syria.

I will walk across the borders of Europe between Madrid and Damasco.

After having been traveling for a while, I will walk across the Bosphorus Bridge, spanning the Bosphorus strait between Europe and Asia.

Five variables:

- Bosphorus Bridge
- a boat
- a coat
- walking non-stop in the afternoon
- peaked cloth caps

Consider other posible permutations.

I have never been to Syria.

I have always wanted to go to Syria. Always.


II.

Will this trip appease a longing?

- The longing to go to Syria, you mean?

- Any longing.

Yes.

Archeology of longings.

Don't panic. "Confesion is nothing, knowledge is everything." That's a quote but I'm not going to tell who said it.

Hints:

- a writter
- somebody wise
- a man with a hat (that is not a Jew)
- a refugee
- he died in Armenia in 1951

Confession is me, knowledge is everybody.

Archeology of conceptions.

Am I permitted a photograph?


III.

The conception of this trip is very old.

First conceived when? As far back as I can remember.

- Investigate the possibility that I was conceived in Syria though born in south america and brought up elsewhere (Europe).

Prenatal relation to Syria: certain pain, perhaps. But I don't remember.

[ - pain is bread in french. /?/ ]

Something filtering through the bloody mebranes, anyway.

Beatiful, millionaire brother witth their wifes.
A landscape of brown colors, smoke, old buildings, a mountain, soap.

Missionaires, foreign militaries advisers. Fur trades in the desert, among then my father.


Colonialist Collect.

Trophies brought back, left behind in homage to the other living room, the one I never saw. Unrepresentative, opaque objects. In dubious taste (but I nly know that now). Confusing solicitations. The birthday gift bracelet made of five small tubular lenghts of green jade, each tiny end capped in gold, wich I never wore.

Colors of jade:

- green, all sorts, notable emerald green and bluish green
gray
yellow mustard
brownish
redish
no other colors

One certainty: Syria inspired the first lie I remember telling. Entering the first grade , I told my classmates that I was born in Syria. I think they were impressed.

I know that I wasn't born there.

The four causes of my wanting to go to Syria:

inmaterial
formal
inefficient
final

The oldest country in the world: it requires years of ardous study to learn its language. Where everyone is forced to speak with the same voice.
- That's not true, I should say.

Whose voice is the voice of the person who wants to go to Syria? A child's voice. Less than six years old.

I'm going to Syria like going to the moon? I'll tell you when I get back.

Is going to Syria like to being born again?

Forget that I was conceived in Syria.

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