Desabafo:

Eu digo. Eu exclamo. EU GRITO. Porque raio tive eu que ler Ma Rainey's Black Bottom no secundário se o livro Look back in Anger é muito muito muito muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuito mais giro!

O Ma Rainey's Black Bottom até começou bem mas detestei aquele fim. O Look Back in Anger é tão mais giro.

Excertos do livro:

Helena: I think you're a very tiresome young man.
Jimmy: Oh dear, oh dear, my wife's friends. Pass Lady Bracknell the cucumber sandwiches, will you?

[...]

Jimmy: On a Sunday evening in this town? Where on earth are you going?
Alison: (rising)I'm going out with Helena.
Jimmy: That's not a direction - that's an affliction.

[...]

Helena: (like ice) If you come any nearer, I will slap your face.

Jimmy: I hope you won't make the mistake of thinking for one moment that I am a gentleman.

Helena: I'm not very likely to do that.

Jimmy: (...)If you slap my face - by God, I'll lay you out.
Helena: You probably would, you're the type.
Jimmy: You bet I'm the type, the type that detests physical violence.

[...]

Helena: (...)And all the time you just sit there, and do nothing!
Cliff: That's right - I just sit here.
Helena: What's the matter with you? What sort of a man are you?
Cliff: I'm not the District Commissioner, you know.

[...]
Cliff: I love those two people very much. (He looks at her steadily, and adds simply) And I pity all of us.
Helena: (...)I don't understand you or him or any of it.

[...]

Cliff : Jimmy - I don't think I shall stay here much longer.
Jimmy: Oh, why not?
Cliff: Oh, I don't know. I've just thought of trying somewhere different. The sweet-stall's all right, but I think I'd like to try something else. You're highly educated, and it suits you but I need something a bit better.

[...]

Cliff: My feet hurt.
Jimmy: Try washing your socks.

É tão giro este livro. Que me perdoe August Wilson mas eu gostei muito mais do livro Look back in Anger de John Osborne.

[Acho que fiz jus à nossa raiva do Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Joana S.]

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