sexta-feira, fevereiro 20, 2004

Mas, afinal, esse senhor é quem?

Ontem, na SIC Notícias, foi entrevistado, com grande pompa e circunstância, um senhor de apelido Pinto da Costa.

Arredado que andei da actualidade nestes últimos dias, não estava ao corrente do poder e influência na resolução dos candentes problemas nacionais entretanto alcançados pelo senhor em questão.

Só assim se pode explica que eu não tenha entendido logo o porquê da presença no programa, enquanto entrevistador, do Director da SIC Notícias, himself.
"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)