This type, the Gouveia, judged that there for having been born in Lisbon it obtained to escape. It telephoned to the consul of Portugal, gentleman consul, I am Portuguese, I am hidden in such part, it comes to save me please, and already now my woman, who is black but she waits a son mine. Ah! Ah! It knows what it made the Portuguese consul? It was to search them it the two and to follow it delivered them in my hands. Ah! Ah! I was thankful to it very the consul, said to it, the comrade is a genuine revolutionary, I gave one to it I hug fort, even so enojado, is clearly, do not think that I do not have escrpulos, preferred to have to it cuspido in the face, but I gave one to it I hug, yes, I fired me of it and later I was to interrogate rapariga. It supported two days. To as much she give birth there exactly, one menininha, thus, of this size, blood, blood, when I think about this what I see is blood. … Blood, ppilas! , blood pra caralho, rapariga, to such of the Marta, with two eyes that seemed moons, costs to dream me it, and the baby to the shouts I smell, it to the burnt meat.

Still today, when I lie down and adormeo, I feel that one I smell of the child – One keeps silent! (AGUALUSA, 2006, P. the 176-177) souvenir is the survival of the past. The past, conserving itself in the spirit of each human being arises to the conscience in the form of image-souvenirs, kept for the individual memory reconstituted by the collective canary, for the collective memory. Ricoeur (2008) inquires concerning the esquecimento, if it is possible or to be happy not affirming that the malaise how much to the joust attitude that if must adopt before the uses and abuses of the esquecimento, mainly in practical the institucional one, it is finally a symptom of a tenacious uncertainty that affects the relation of the esquecimento with the pardon in the plan of its deep structure.