UM

                        What bloody man is that?  Who put it on earth? At first, just a boyfriend. He gave me gifts and attention. But then he gave me drugs and became abusive and controlling. After a while, he disappeared. I should be dead, like the majority of the people in my situation. The sex industry here in Hawaii. Elsewhere in the world, three people were arrested for hanging a woman to death, believing they made millions from the hanging rope. Isn´t this crazy? where are we going? question Orson, not Welles, one of Austin´s homeless. And we´re the biggest power in the worl, he said. Nobody wants to be homeless, people are homeless because we have problems, he said. Unable to glimpse the reason for the problems. Will this failure be attributed solely to him? Me,  I´m leaving to Pasargada. I´m fixing to be evicted, I can´t pay anything, said Eliot, desperate for aid. I don´t even have power right now. Hot at it is, we´re sititing here sweating to death, he said. Who can to survive  by the pandemic? the devastating economic plunge caused? So, don´t just throw away your money. Some people, very few, get rich from the waste of the poorest. What happened between Adele and brazilian Martinho da Vila? 

                        Wake me, wake me, please, please and live me with her. I am sure of it. You'll do it for me.

PREFÁCIO

                      It´s not about Brazil, It´s about mankind. A novel? who knows?  I feel now is the right time to start writing in English, at the mercy of the great masters of the English language. If neither the portuguese I know, how to be afraid of writing in English? This is a long journey, but as Plotinus once said  This is not a journey for the  feet; the feet bring us only from land to land; nor need you think of coach or ship to carry you away; all this order of things you must set aside and refuse to see: you must close the eyes and call instead upon another vision which is to be waked within you, a vision, the birthright of all, which  few turn to see. So, Let´s go.