Portrait of Geovane, the site's author, on the Elucubrations page. He appears in a 'Morpheus' style, sitting in a dark library, offering a red pill and a blue pill, inviting the reader to choose between truth and illusion.

Musings

To ponder is to work by lamplight, to burn the midnight oil searching for meaning. Here I offer no easy answers (the blue pill), but my honest attempt to confront reality (the red pill), be it about the silence of deafness or the noise of daily life.

Contribu(rr)int… Cargo!

Illustration of an old "beast of burden" overloaded with boxes marked with the logo of the Federal Revenue Service, representing the concept of "burden taxpayers" and tax injustice in Brazil.

Has your CPF (Brazilian taxpayer ID) been blocked by the Federal Revenue Service even though you are exempt from taxes? Read the true story of how the system punishes those who work and discover the trap of "burdened taxpayers." A necessary rant.

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Rio 2016: Olympic Qualification

Photo of Geovane Souza, wearing the green shirt of Líder EVS, with his arms outstretched in front of the Rio 2016 logo sculpture. The photo was taken inside the Olympic and Paralympic Village, a high-security area with restricted access for athletes and accredited personnel. In the background, the athletes' residential buildings can be seen.

No institutional crisis, but plenty of truth. I open the Pandora's box of my behind-the-scenes experiences at Rio 2016 with a personal perspective, averse to "political correctness" and filled with never-before-seen images. An honest account (almost a diary) of how a former soldier who overcame depression found his path to overcoming challenges in the Olympic routine.

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Coronary Delusions

The truth is that, since the beginning of social isolation, I've been strategically observing this landscape from inside my house—nobody in the morning, completely empty in the afternoon, and…

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