Dor de Cotovelo

o ciúme dói nos cotovelos
na raiz dos cabelos
gela a sola dos pés
faz os músculos ficarem moles
e o estômago vão
e sem fome

dói da flor da pele ao pó do osso
rói do cóccix até o pescoço

acende uma luz branca em seu umbigo
você ama o inimigo
e se torna inimigo do amor
o ciúme dói do leito à margem
dói pra fora na paisagem
arde ao sol do fim do dia

corre pelas veias na ramagem
atravessa a voz e a melodia.

The reason the networking situation is not likely to produce the sometimes considerable rewards that can result from contact situations is that the amount of need present in the networking situation is too high for the comparatively few individuals in a position to supply the much needed boons and favors to distribute them in any equitable manner. At the pleasant chatty cash bar reception closing out the first day of panels and workshops at the writer's conference, in may look like a friendly and sociable gathering. At precisely the socioeconomic level (Symbolic, if you will) where the class war occurs, however, you have a situation analogous to a crowd of seventy-five or a hundred beggars pressed around a train station in some underdeveloped colonial protectorate, while a handful of burgeois tourists make their way through, hoping to find a taxi to take them off to the hotel before they are set upon and torn to pieces.

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Basically the thing to remember is this:
One does not get publications by appearing in public.
One gets further invitations to appear in public.
Networking produces more opportunities to network – and that's about all.

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The same principle which makes contact cede major material, social or psychological prizes than networking makes interclass/intercommunity contact more likely to cede such prizes than intraclass and intracommunity contact: At the interclass and intercommunity level, competition for those prizes is likely to be less than it would be within a class, within a community.