Thought for the day
Everyone thinks of changing the world,
but no one thinks of changing himself. - Leo
Tolstoy
Take home – Nelson Rodrigues
Nelson Rodrigues was a Brazilian playwright,
journalist and novelist. In 1943, he helped usher in a new era in Brazilian
theater with his play Vestido de Noiva (The Wedding Dress), considered
revolutionary for the complex exploration of its characters' psychology and its
use of colloquial dialog. He went on to write many other seminal plays and
today is widely regarded as Brazil's greatest playwright.
As a playwright, Rodrigues is frequently considered a
realist, mostly on account of the self-acknowledged influence exerted on him by
the dramatic work of Eugene O'Neill.It was this petit-bourgeois, almost lumpen
viewpoint, that explained Rodrigues' antipathy towards the higher middle-class
intelligentsia that made much of the political Left of the period ("I'm
not moved by marches of the ruling classes", was he to say before a march
of protesters against the military dictatorship)
A fervent, spontaneous anticommunist already before
the military coup d'etat of 1964, Rodrigues was generally regarded as
apolitical before the dictatorship, during which he was to engage in constant
clashes and running feuds with the Left. During much of the 1960s and early
1970s, he included incendiary attacks in his newspaper column against various
opponents of the dictatorship—a list that ranged from leaders of leftist
movements and guerrilla organizations to the bishop of Olinda Helder Câmara and
the Catholic literary critic Alceu de Amoroso Lima, eventually leading charges
of being an apologist for the dictatorship. One of his collections of articles
- where he offered, in an almost daily basis, an exquisite mix of adulation for
the dictatorship and denunciation of allegedly communist plots-he proudly
titled O Reacionário (The Reactionary).
"I am a child who sees love through a keyhole.
That's all I've ever been. I was born a child, and am bound to die a child, and
the keyhole is my lens as a writer. I am, and have always been, a pornographic
angel."
"Man finds happiness only in the superfluous.
Under communism, he has only the essentials. How abominable and
ridiculous!"
Picture for the day – Goatherd, Somalia
A little girl who walks two to three hours to the well
to get water for her goats and her family
Website for the day
PRB informs people around the world about population,
health and the environment and empowers them to use that information to advance
the well-being of current and future generations.
Article for the day – Brazil, a racial paradise
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