terça-feira, janeiro 13, 2004

A brincar, a brincar...

[...] eu costumo dizer a brincar, que sou uma velha meretriz, já perdi a vergonha [...]
Alberto João Jardim, no Público de hoje

Estamos-lhe muito gratos pela sua sinceridade, dr. Jardim, mas há já bastante tempo que estamos ao corrente. Gostaríamos agora de o ouvir dizer qualquer coisa de novo, de diferente... Como, por exemplo, que doravante não precisa mais do dinheiro daqueles a quem tão simpaticamente costuma apelidar de 'cubanos' e que vai passar a gastar apenas e só o dinheiro que dispõe para gastar, nem mais um cêntimo!
"In North America the black bear was seen by [Samuel] Hearne swimming for hours with widely open mouth, thus catching, like a whale, insects in the water. Even in so extreme a case as this, if the supply of insects were constant, and if better adapted competitors did not already exist in the country, I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection, more and more aquatic in their structure and habits, with larger and larger mouths, till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale."
Darwin, Charles; "The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection" (On the origin and transitions of organic beings with peculiar habits and structure)