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“Eu estava ali a olhar para tudo. Ele avançou para mim, cambaleando. Os dois negros atrás olharam admirados. Ele chegou-se. Conservei-me quieto. O seu hálito tocava-me. Suportei tudo e inconscientemente sorri. Ele despertava em mim todas as imagens da minha infância. Por isso eu sorria, com um sorriso que o tocou. Olhou bem para mim e bateu-me no ombro. — Olá, pá, não pagas nada? E eu vi no brilho dos seus olhos mortiços e raiados de sangue que me tinha reconhecido. E na noite quente, eu e ele falámos muito, toldados ambos pelo palhete da taberna. Nunca me soube tão bem vinho palhete! Um encontro de acaso! Cá fora, sumindo-se na escuridão, negra como eles, os dois amigos cambaleavam abraçados. E o da harmónica tirava do instrumento uma música que parecia arroto de bêbado através de palhetas, mas que no fundo era a canção de todos nós, meninos brancos e negros que comemos quiquérra e peixe frito, que fizemos fugas e fisgas e que em manhãs de chuva deitávamos o corpo sujo na água suja e de alma bem limpa íamos à conquista do reduto dos bandidos do Canaxixe.”

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Author:Luandino Vieira, A Cidade e a Infância
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“I once read that if the folds in the cerebral cortex were smoothed out it would cover a card table. That seemed quite unbelievable but it did make me wonder just how big the cortex would be if you ironed it out. I thought it might just about cover a family-sized pizza: not bad, but no card-table. I was astonished to realize that nobody seems to know the answer. A quick search yielded the following estimates for the smoothed out dimensions of the cerebral cortex of the human brain. An article in Bioscience in November 1987 by Julie Ann Miller claimed the cortex was a "quarter-metre square." That is napkin-sized, about ten inches by ten inches. Scientific American magazine in September 1992 upped the ante considerably with an estimated of 1 1/2 square metres; thats a square of brain forty inches on each side, getting close to the card-table estimate. A psychologist at the University of Toronto figured it would cover the floor of his living room (I haven't seen his living room), but the prize winning estimate so far is from the British magazine New Scientist's poster of the brain published in 1993 which claimed that the cerebral cortex, if flattened out, would cover a tennis court. How can there be such disagreement? How can so many experts not know how big the cortex is? I don't know, but I'm on the hunt for an expert who will say the cortex, when fully spread out, will cover a football field. A Canadian football field.”

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Book:The Burning House : Unlocking the Mysteries of the Brain
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