Wednesday, February 07, 2007

"The Brazilians are great people for telling stories on themselves...

... One story that was going the rounds a few years ago was about God and an archangel on the third day of creation. When the Lord Jehovah has finished making Brazil he can't help bragging a little to one of the archangels. He's planted the greatest forests and laid out the world's biggest river system and built a magnificent range of mountains with lovely bays and ocean beaches. He's filled the hills with topaz and aquamarine and sowed the rivers with gold dust and diamonds. He's arranged a climate free from hurricanes and earthquakes which will grow every conceivable kind of fruit.
" Is it fair, Lord,", asks the archangel, "to give so many benefits to just one country?"
"You wait," says the Lord Jehovah, "till you see the people I'm going to put there"

heheheh
Esse eh o inicio do livro "Brazil on the move", by John dos Passos, que o Benjamim me emprestou.

Chove chuva em Tiradentes. Fizemos uma trilha linda ateh o topo da Serra de Sao Jose e conhecemos o interior da igreja matriz de Sao Joao Del Rey. Uma pizza agora, talvez?

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