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09-JAN-2010 JPC

Luis Vaz de Camoes: "Please God...

Belem, Lisbon, Portugal view map

...take me out of this God forgotten Country, Portugal, where I had the terrible misfortune to be born!"
A XX Century 'Artist' once wrote "Portugal is like Kronos, swallows his sons at birth..."

In fact, Luis Vaz de Camoes was not only Portugal's biggest Poet but a completely abandoned one, as it is tradition in that country where mediocrity is law!
Not only did he lived and die in utmost poverty, even now, acclaimed by some, look at his tomb made hundreds of years after his death: They don't even bother to clean the spiderwebs...

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