The Antoninos

Este fim-de-semana substituí finalmente a lâmpada led do candeeiro da casa de banho.

Foi o final de uma odisseia que envolveu uma pergunta a um electricista que estava de passagem, uma visita a um show-room, emails para duas empresas, encomendas de peças da China, intermediadas por Portugal, consultas a um amigo engenheiro electrónico e o quadro mandado abaixo duas vezes.

Sinto-me Thor, o deus da electricidade. Ok, trovão. Thor! Thor! Thor!

 A nova cadeia portuguesa de cafés com salgadinhos.

'And you must never let them change your values. Ideals are good, but people are sometimes not so good. You must try to look at the big picture.'

Yossarian reject the advice with a skeptical shake of his head. 'When I look up, I see people cashing in. I don't see heaven or saints or angels. I see people cashing in on every decent impulse and every human tragedy.'

Joseph Heller, Catch 22

It was a man's world, and she and everyone younger had every right to blame him and everyone older for every unnatural tragedy that befell them

Joseph Heller, Catch 22

[mas também pelas coisas boas que foram sendo deixadas pelas gerações passadas]

It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.

Joseph Heller, Catch 22

 Mas será mesmo possível?

 A mudança climática quase mata o prazer de um dia de sol no Inverno.