domingo, junho 06, 2004

1944 (ix)

Na Sky News, um veterano pára-quedista da 6th Airborne Division e que em 1944 participou na tomada da ponte Pegasus, termina assim o seu discurso, a propósito da visita que fará hoje ao cemitério onde repousam os restos mortais dos seus camaradas de armas de então:
"After all, we've had another sixty years of life..."

# Lançado por PSA às 7:35:00 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)