sábado, janeiro 24, 2004

Fernando Esteves, "O Sisudo"

O homem não era capaz de reconhecer uma boa piada nem que ela lhe acertasse violentamente na testa.

Leiam, na página 24 d'O Independente de ontem, a sua coluna "Opinião" sobre a Anabela Mota Ribeiro.
"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)