Well, out here there was good coverage and I did actually see some of the events. Our 2nd TV channel is quite good quality and apart from playing all sorts of independent films and cultural events, debates and documentaries, they also do some extensive coverage of sports events, and the Paralympics was one of them. We have several good quality paralympic athletes and the drive they have despite their situation is astounding to me. I enjoyed watching the events but I suck at names! Portugal won 7 medals in this year's event - not bad for a relatively small country (both in size and population). None of our athletes compares to Petitclerc though! Amazing 
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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