A conexão deste livro que acabei de ler vai para um outro género literário, pouco mencionado neste blogue mas que. mesmo sem ser grande conhecedora, aprecio... a poesia.
Robert Service foi um poeta inglês (1874-1958). É mencionado várias vezes neste livro pelo protagonista, que escolheu este poema que vos deixo e de que gostei bastante....
The Men Who Don't Fit In by Robert Service
There's a race of men that don't fit in,
A race that can't stay still;
So they break the hearts of kith and kin,
And they roam the world at will.
They range the field and they rove the flood,
And they climb the mountain's crest;
Theirs is the curse of the gypsy blood,
And they don't know how to rest.
If they just went straight they might go far;
They are strong and brave and true;
But they're always tired of the things that are,
And they want the strange and new.
They say: "Could I find my proper groove,
What a deep mark I would make!"
So they chop and change, and each fresh move
Is only a fresh mistake.
And each forgets, as he strips and runs
With a brilliant, fitful pace,
It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones
Who win in the lifelong race.
And each forgets that his youth has fled,
Forgets that his prime is past,
Till he stands one day, with a hope that's dead,
In the glare of the truth at last.
He has failed, he has failed; he has missed his chance;
He has just done things by half.
Life's been a jolly good joke on him,
And now is the time to laugh.
Ha, ha! He is one of the Legion Lost;
He was never meant to win;
He's a rolling stone, and it's bred in the bone;
He's a man who won't fit in.
Peço desculpa por estar em inglês mas não encontrei tradução, e apesar de o ter compreendido bem não me aventuro a traduzir poesia.
A conexão dos livros anteriores, que já devem calcular qual seja, não está esquecida, apenas terá de aguardar um pouco.
