[...] when the rich are poor they are never poor like the poor are poor [...]
Alan Bennett, Keeping On Keeping On.
[...] when the rich are poor they are never poor like the poor are poor [...]
Minha infraestrutura é completamente amorosa.
“Por que as pessoas acham que eu escrevo para os eruditos? Eu falo tão claro. Eu falo até sobre a bunda”. E ele me respondia: “Mas tua bunda é terrivelmente intelectual, Hilda”.
16 May [2010]. Spend part of the afternoon hiding in the gazebo with a (water) pistol on my knee hoping to surprise the squirrel rifling the (squirrel-proof) bird feeder.
Deve ocorrer em breve
uma brisa que leve
um jeito de chuva
à última branca de neve.
Até lá, observe-se
a mais estrita disciplina.
A sombra máxima
pode vir da luz mínima.
24 March [2009]. [...] A similar couple in the store are at the greengrocery counter where the husband is undecided, on a cauliflower.
‘What are you waiting for?’ says the wife. ‘Do you want it to sprout?’
John delights, he says, in these ancient couples who have spent a lifetime honing their skills at scoring off one another.