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Um dia destes falarei um pouco melhor acerca do livro de onde tirei estes excertos. Para já, aqui ficam algumas descrições interessantes de elementos do nosso dia-a-dia, captados através do olhar atento dum estrangeiro.

«(…) and asked for a bica, the one inch shot of caffeine which adrenalizes a few million Portuguese hearts every morning.»

«It used to be a small fishing village [Cascais] with houses falling down steep cataracts of cobbled streets to the harbour and port. Now it was a townplanner’s nightmare, unless you were one of the townplanners who’d passed the numerous development projects in which case you’d be living in a dream elsewhere. It was a tourist town with an indigenous population of women who dressed to shop, and men who shouldn’t be allowed out of a nightclub. Real life had been stripped out and replaced with an international cosmopolitanism which appealed to a lot of people who had money, and about as many again who wanted to ease it away from them. »

«´That’s the Portuguese for you, ´ (…) ´they can’t do anything without food.´»

«´You always said the Portuguese prefer to live in the past…»

«´The sea is probably the most important Portuguese icon.´»


in “A small death in Lisbon”, Robert Wilson