Art prostitut*.

No man's land. (As if drawn during that war, and not just now.)


"There are literally hundreds of songs about why one sings fado, who sings it and to who it should be sung." --Donald Coh*n, Fado Português (2003)

"He told the story of Benjamin Franklin's leaving one hundred dollars in his will to his native town of Boston, to be put out at 6 percent compound interest for a century, then used for a work of public benefit. At the end of that period--in 1890--the one hundred dollars had grown to forty thousand dollars. The money was used to build Franklin Park, which is the same size as New York's Central Park." --Amy Wallac*, Th* Prodigy (1986)

"Pessoa became profoundly influential as a poet; a number of his lyrics were set to music and became popular as fados." --Coh*n, op cit (Also.)