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  • Boiadeiro (The Cow Herder)

    #thoughtcatalogue An excerpt from ZA/UM’s Disco Elysium. “I still don’t really understand this whole *boiadeiro* thing.” “Of course not. To truly understand the boiadeiro, you need to listen to ‘On the Western Plain’.” A *boiadeiro* (*boia* for short) is a cow herder from upstream Magritte, the great steppes of Northern Mesque. He is a rugged…

  • She Who Lingers

    #thoughtcatalogue “It is She Who Lingers—a melancholy melody of promises, prancing around my worn-out shoulders. A living reminder of what lies at my own rightful atonement.“ At first she arose from my dreams, starry-eyed. At her own funeral, she reminded me of how the sun had to set—to give way for constellations to light our…