Eduardo Alexandre Pinto

I am Eduardo Alexandre Miranda Pinto, I was born in Lisbon on a Thursday the 14th of January of 1971 at 8:40 am.

Son of Nelson Ferreira Pinto and of Maria Elizete Da Silva Miranda.

The first images of my infancy are of Escurquela-Sernancelhe (where my father was raised) and Lordelo-Vila Real (homeland of my mother), whereas of Lisbon the first recollections are of the college ‘O Pimpolho’.

I liked to lay in my bed here in the same house where I have lived for 13 years alone and had thinking continued hours. Reading with abundance  in my childhood,Walt Disney,Comics, Newspapers, all sort of books and I learned how to read alone, joining the words and articulating phrases when I was reading in the bathroom.

When I entered the elementary school ‘Externato Paula Vicente’ in the Praça do Areeiro (today Praça Francisco Sá Carneiro), I had a complex of inferiority, seen that everybody of my colleagues were of rich families, but I exceeded that initial stigma, becoming myself in the best student and as the best athlete, during the 6 years I spent there.

 I studied in the Liceu Feminino Maria Amália Vaz of Carvalho, where I did not apply myself very much in the studies, but where I amused me enough by playing soccer, dating girls, frequency of the library, writing poetry and I was very popular young boy.

On the 15th of September of 1987 I was held (jointly with more persons) cause I have manifested against a fair of armament in the international day of the peace, ending up to be amnestied. In this height initiated the knowledge of the outside in Lisbon and alone as I always liked. The bookstores, discotheques (sale of disks), sideways,, Portuguese anarco-punk gigs , other bands, the gardens, the ‘miradouros’ , the castle, the Bairro Alto, while in this walked and lived of sensations.

In 1988 the abandonment of the secondary school and a later year in 1989, I proved to my professor of Philosophy that my readings and libertarian expressions were possible and I joined the anarchist commune ‘Indianner Kommune’, that today is now called Akkak. I worked with the group in actions of protest in Portugal, France, Holland, Germany; I learned how to make biological agriculture and I knew the city of Nurnberg where I was two months, walking for the countries mentioned by hitchhiking and without spending no money at all. The project finishes in the end of that year and I returned to Lisbon. In 1988, my girlfriend, with whom I lived and with whom I lost the virginity in a little shack of the Annual Lisbon Book Fair. With 28 years of age, I gave some gulps in a cigarette of hashish and at once aching symptoms came, as a emotional brainstorm, a heart attack and having fought with all the my forces, I survived and I returned the Lisbon with a lot suffering. Since that August that I suffer from panic disorder ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_disorder) with agoraphobia until today.

On the Spring of 2002 to August of 2007 I read hundreds of books and wrote in notebooks. In 2004 I created a blog called Academia do Sonho, in memory of the spirit that I introduced in the group that I have formed at Maria Amália with that name. I passed for the domain of the blogspot in 2007 and in December of 2007 I created this site in individual name.

I had a love at first sight in Escurquela in August of 1988 with my cousin Bárbara Ferreira in 3º rank, I believe, that marked myself poetically.

I lived with the Ana Cristina Cardoso with whom I passed good moments in that same year and up to the beginning of 1990.

 I  lived with my mother in Santo António da Caparica, of where do I guard many and good recollections, between 1991 and 1994.

At January the 14th of 1995 begins my relation with Ana Margarida Pires Seixas, that was an equally outstanding and pure love. Having I taken the initiative for the end in June of 1997 and said for me even though I would go to find the most beautiful girl of Lisbon and I found Patrícia Guerreiro with whom I became very passionated, I wrote her hundreds of pages, she stayed my friend and she used to make me smile widely.

Between 1997 and 1999 I passed countless nights in Bairro Alto and I had until today after the love with Margarida around 20 girlfriends, never myself becoming attached to no one.

To my relation with the land in the paternal places, slowly losing that reality and I recollect it with an immense nostalgic feelings on my poetic infancy.

My greatfull feelings to my loyal friends and the solidarity of part of my maternal family.