A Carolina e o Manuel deliram com este livro de absoluto nonsense, e que me obrigam a ler repetidamente:
Nadia Budde, Um Dois Três Maltês
Editor: A Cobra Laranja
ISBN: 9789729881817
«-- Imperium romanum, J.J. O'Molloy said gently. It sounds nobler than British or Brixton. The word reminds one somehow of fat in the fire.
Myles Crawford blew his first puff violently towards the ceiling.
-- That's it, he said. We are the fat. You and I are the fat in the fire. We haven't got the chance of a snowball in hell.
The Grandeur that was Rome
-- Wait a moment, professor MacHugh said, raising two quiet claws. We mustn't be led away by words, by sounds of words. We think of Rome, imperial, imperious, imperative.
He extended elocutionary arms from frayed stained shirtcuffs, pausing:
-- What was their civilisation? Vast, I allow: but vile. Cloacae: sewers. The Jews in the wilderness and on the mountaintop said: It is meet to be here. Let us build an altar to Jehovah. The Roman, like the Englishman who follows in his footsteps, brought to every new shore on which he set his foot (on our shore he never set it) only his cloacal obsession. He gazed about him in his toga and he said: It is meet to be here. Let us construct a watercloset.
-- Which they accordingly did do, Lenehan said. Our old ancient ancestors, as we read in the first chapter of Guinness's, were partial to the running stream.
-- They were nature's gentlemen, J.J. O'Molloy murmured. But we have also Roman law.
-- And Pontius Pilate is its prophet, professor MacHugh responded.»James Joyce, Ulysses
Desenganayuos judeus que isto he castigo quereruos Deos trazer ẽnforcados como diz saõ Chrisostomo em vossas esperanças viuos, pera que assi andeis sempre em vossas conciencias mortos. Caym depois que matou a seu irmão Abel, pòslhe Deos em seu corpo hum sinal & dizem Eusberio & Chrisostomo q̃ lhe creceraõ hũs tremoros no corpo que o faziaõ andar de hũa parte pera a outra sempre com tremor, sempre conhecido: esse mesmo castigo deu Deos aos judeus depois da morte que deraõ ao innocente Abel CHRISTO IESV seu Deos & irmão, & foi que andasseis pelo mundo desterrados, eylos em Persia, eylos em França, ora em Alemanha, ora em Hespanha, & isto tão medrosos que atee da terra em q̃ poem os pees tem medo & pos nelles Deos hũ sinal, não sey que tal que logo os conhecem por gente apartada de Deos & que anda em continuas esperanças & ansias pelo Messias que naõ tendes que esperar.
Parece que me estais dizendo: Padre, nòs naõ fomos os que crucificamos a Christo, nossos pays foraõ os que o puzerão na cruz, esta foi a consumação do seu pecado, elles forão os que acabaraõ de encher a medida: logo não somos peiores q elles. Ainda assi sois peoiores, porque primeiramente tal he o odio q tendes a Christo Senhor nosso, verdadeiro Redemptor, & Saluador, que entendo que estallais de raiua, & de inueja; ou porque naõ viuieis no tempo que elle andaua no mundo, para o crucificardes com vossos pays; ou porque vedes adorado, & venerado aquelle mesmo Senhor a quem vossos pays crucificáraõ.
Frei António das Chagas
Sermão pregado no Auto da Fé de
11 de Outubro de 1654, em Lisboa
(15) e recorda no Livro a Maria, quando se afastou do seu povo para um lugar a Leste, (16) e escondeu-se deles com um véu, e então enviámos sobre ela o nosso Espírito, e tomou o aspecto de um homem. (17) Disse ela: refugio-me de ti no Misericordioso, se O temes. Disse ele: eu sou mensageiro do teu Senhor para te dar um filho puro. (19) Disse ela: como posso ter filho se nenhum homem me tocou e sou casta? (20)Disse ele: assim disse o teu Senhor: isso é simples para Mim, e fá-lo-ei sinal para os homens e misericórdia da Nossa parte.
At a time when India is going through great changes and, with China, is likely to inherit the world from the west, it is important that writers like me try to highlight the brutal injustices of society. That's what writers like Flaubert, Balzac and Dickens did in the 19th century and, as a result, England and France are better societies. That's what I'm trying to do - it's not an attack on the country, it's about the greater process of self-examination.
The Autobiography of a Half-Baked Indian. That’s what I ought to call my life’s story.
Me, and thousands of others in this country like me, are half-baked, because we were never allowed to complete our schooling. Open our skulls, look in with a penlight, and you’ll find an odd museum of ideas: sentences of history or mathematics remembered from school textbooks (no boy remembers his schooling like one who was taken out of school, let me assure you), sentences about politics read in a newspaper while waiting for someone to come to an office, triangles and pyramids seen on the torn pages of the old geometry textbooks which every tea shop in this country uses to wrap its snacks in, bits of All India Radio news bulletins, things that drop into your mind, like lizards from the ceiling, in the half hour before falling asleep—all these ideas, half formed and half digested and half correct, mix up with other half-cooked ideas in your head, and I guess these half-formed ideas bugger one another, and make more half-formed ideas, and this is what you act on and live with.
The story of my upbringing is the story of how a half-baked fellow is produced.
But pay attention, Mr Premier! Fully formed fellows, after twelve years of school and three years of university, wear nice suits, join companies, and take orders from other men for the rest of their lives.
Entrepreneurs are made from half-baked clay.
Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger
"Não posso garantir títulos. Se eu tivesse árbitros em minha casa, podia garantir isso. Não almoço com eles, não janto com eles em minha casa, portanto, não posso garantir isso"Pois não, de facto não os recebe em casa: escolhe-os por telefone.
Luís Filipe Lampião, no Record