I HAVE been reading virtually everything that is published about the British young royal couple. That includes national and international articles. The worst in my view is that in Veja magazine, this week's cover story, which comments on the shape of Kate's legs. Shabby. The best is, suprisingly, an one-page essay that has come out today in Serafina, the free magazine accompanying the newspaper Folha de S.Paulo. I found it so nice that I here release my translation into english of the part of it I liked best. Ok. That's nice to thank me for that. Here goes:
Once upon a time forever
original by Vivian Whiteman (Era uma vez para sempre), this translation into english by Mariangela Pedro (Amelia Coelho)The plot of a tale of the sort a prince-meets-a-princess should be like this: a guy - that behaves the right way and shows the beauty of good character - lives aimlessly, suffering in the hands of cunning witches and neurotics of all types. A girl, aware of her desires and brave defender of her own ethical principles, goes on bravely fighting ogres, troublesome chauvinists and the coward spoiled by stinker psycotherapy. All of a sudden, the two find each other somewhere in the corners of life. There is nothing special in any of them, but there is something that pulls themselves together: the sensation of sharing that basic, hard to define notion that enables us to say right from wrong, without having to refer to any theses, nor formal laws. In their coincidental fantasies, he makes her a princess, and she makes him a prince, titles that they may only use while encircled by walls, enjoying the intense, blazing feeling that then emerges.
In their very bones and well beyond any titles, there vibrates a common cause. And in the name of such cause, love will grow. Perhaps they will have to break up for the benefit of that cause, but, even then, they will be together. That cause speaks up whenever a man and a woman tie up their arms so as to make an eternal idea reality. This is the magic spell or, as some would prefer, the leap of faith: the true secret of that enchantment is in the encounter of their hands.
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