Definitivamente, o achamento que mais me afectou neste ano foi o do senhor C. S. Lewis.
"Bridge-players tell me that there must be some money on the game ‘or else people won’t take it seriously.’ Apparently it’s like that. Your bid – for God or no God, for a good God or the Cosmic Sadist, for eternal life or nonentity – will not be serious if nothing much is staked on it. And you will never discover how serious it was until the stakes are raised horribly high, until you find that you are playing not for counters or for sixpences but for every penny you have in the world. Nothing less will shake a man – or at any rate a man like me – out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses."
"Bridge-players tell me that there must be some money on the game ‘or else people won’t take it seriously.’ Apparently it’s like that. Your bid – for God or no God, for a good God or the Cosmic Sadist, for eternal life or nonentity – will not be serious if nothing much is staked on it. And you will never discover how serious it was until the stakes are raised horribly high, until you find that you are playing not for counters or for sixpences but for every penny you have in the world. Nothing less will shake a man – or at any rate a man like me – out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses."
A Grief Observed, 1961.
Um feliz 2009 para todos vós.
Um feliz 2009 para todos vós.
5 comentários:
Um muito feliz 2009 para ti também, Cláudia. :)
Abraço, Emanuel!
Depois da menina limão vão agora as minhas palavras parecerem tão triviais... mas lá sigo então: meus francos votos de um muito feliz Novo Ano.
:)
Francisco (os teus votos, como as imagens que fixas, nunca deixam de ser singulares), abraços, e um bom 2009!
É verdade...
menos os portugueses.
O que é que será que tem o poder de acordar os portugueses?
:)
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