Oswald de Andrade

I cut out the paragraph and stuck it in my pocket. I found it today, years later in a book. I remembered I read it on a plane and assumed it was an in-flight magazine. I was wrong. It was Wired. The article was by Julian Dibbell, but she's quoting the modernist Brazilian poet Oswald de Andrade.


"In 1556, not long after the Portuguese first set foot in Brazil, the Bishop Pero Fernandes Sardinha was shipwrecked on its shores and set about introducing the gospel of Christ to the native "heathens." The locals, impressed with the glorious civilization the bishop represented and eager to absorb it in its totality, promptly ate him. Thus was born Brazilian culture."
-Oswald de Andrade


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