For the benefit (?) of my English-speaking friends, I’ll start posting in this section of the Basin some English translations of selected texts of mine. The first is The Prince and The Palace. The translation is mine, but my Australian friend Maeve Vella gave me a tip or two in the polishing of the “A far greater injustice” sentence. The translation has now a touch of my dear Jinny Brown as well. Se você não fala inglês, em Bauru tem uma escola muito boa.

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There’s also the story of the prince who thought it unfair to live in such a magnificent palace, so wisely built and richly finished—and being unable to admire it in its entirety because of living in it.

“The poorest citizen has a privilege I don’t”, the prince said. “He can admire the beauty of my palace from the streets, the fields, from any window. I claim that right for myself”.

He asked the three wiser men in the kingdom to come up with a solution for his problem. continue lendo >

His wisdom was legendary.