THE TIME.
T here are things that we only perceive with time, and even worse, even if we feel them in some much earlier time, we only understand them clearly much later. One of the things that I already felt but that became so clear so recently is that unless you are a complete idiot, on one of the many levels of manifestations that are also idiotic and pathetic is to be Brazilian. Of course, there are now prolific smiling testimonies of foreigners who say without mincing words that they have found in Brazil a kind of paradise with things that do not exist in their own countries and peoples. Things so diametrical that it is hard for us to believe that only in this land of fugitives from religious wars or not, of losers in wars, of those deceived by the songs of some sirens or ambitious opportunists came to find their faces and boots, or without them here. It is true that in the past these testimonies came in newspaper texts, chronicles, essays and novels. It is also true that he hears recorded an...