terça-feira, maio 18, 2004

1944 (i)

A 26 de Abril, Rommel, numa carta para sua mulher, escreve:
«Em Inglaterra, o moral está em baixo. As greves sucedem-se e os gritos de "Abaixo Churchill e os judeus" ouvem-se cada vez mais alto. São maus presságios para a ofensiva que se aproxima»
Estava-se a cinco semanas do desembarque aliado na Normandia.
# Lançado por PSA às 5:44:00 da manhã
"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)