When did you know experienced the joy of the victors, is exalted his ego and ambition, jealously guarded, was superior to mankind. Live forever. As feared deadly traffic to another dimension, now could make fun of any threat. He had before him for eternity all things that he wanted, all the time in the world at his feet.
As a man born in the century XII dreamed he would attend the second stage of human history, the rebirth of man as the center of the universe, the Inquisition, the papal councils and the division of Christianity, would be an eyewitness to the conquest of America, the killings of Indian and the slave trade, would be immersed as operator in the baroque and neoclassical styles; participate as a leader in the French revolution and help in the defeat of the Napoleonic empire, would take part of the radical transformations of art and the Russian Revolution, narrated their impressions as a survivor rescued from the cold waters where the Titanic sank, became the first reporter World War, fascism and neo-colonialism in America would suffer the consequences of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, would find the millions upon millions of deaths from the second great war of the twentieth century, victims of Viet-Nam, the war of Middle East, famine in Africa, the destruction of the ozone layer, the sea floods, environmental disasters, as reasonable and evil in one experience.
The next day there was a hole in the head.
As a man born in the century XII dreamed he would attend the second stage of human history, the rebirth of man as the center of the universe, the Inquisition, the papal councils and the division of Christianity, would be an eyewitness to the conquest of America, the killings of Indian and the slave trade, would be immersed as operator in the baroque and neoclassical styles; participate as a leader in the French revolution and help in the defeat of the Napoleonic empire, would take part of the radical transformations of art and the Russian Revolution, narrated their impressions as a survivor rescued from the cold waters where the Titanic sank, became the first reporter World War, fascism and neo-colonialism in America would suffer the consequences of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, would find the millions upon millions of deaths from the second great war of the twentieth century, victims of Viet-Nam, the war of Middle East, famine in Africa, the destruction of the ozone layer, the sea floods, environmental disasters, as reasonable and evil in one experience.
The next day there was a hole in the head.
( book Parables for a Deaf Ear to M. Á. Fraga)
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