Mostly useless » Saudade http://www.mostly-useless.com/blog There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge (Bertrand Russell) Wed, 09 Mar 2011 10:22:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Sunset in Rio http://www.mostly-useless.com/blog/2009/01/02/sunset-in-rio/ http://www.mostly-useless.com/blog/2009/01/02/sunset-in-rio/#comments Fri, 02 Jan 2009 00:00:05 +0000 simone http://www.mostly-useless.com/blog/?p=393 Sunset from the office window in Rio

This was taken from the office window in Rio de Janeiro during my last trip.  Today here in Italy is so freezing cold that my brain wanted to escape…

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I’m on my flight back to Europe and I feel saudade already. In the last ten days I’ve been in a place very different than the one I live, a place where angels jog on the beach and guys surf all the time, while the Christ Redeemer looks after them from the top of Corcovado, a place where people get hit by a bala perdidas while they drive on the highway crossing favelas, a place where extremely poor and extremely rich live side by side and 2.5M people can amass on the same beach for new year’s party without incidents, a place where lots of people can’t read but have no problem voting with an electronic ballot system, a place where prices are written in installments (e.g. 4x19R$) but people get crazy for shopping, a place where window cleaners work hanged on a rope but drink anti-oxidant matte.

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