The Sanhamanga Canon

3 autores. Por data de nascimento: Fernando Pessoa, José Rodrigues Miguéis, Robert A. Heinlein. E Luís de Camões.

3 livros. Por ordem de publicação:

Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad (1902)

I was within a hair’s-breadth of the last opportunity for pronouncement, and I found with humiliation that probably I would have nothing to say. This is the reason why I affirm that Kurtz was a remarkable man. He had something to say. He said it. He had summed up—he had judged. "The horror!" He was a remarkable man.

The Sea Wolf, Jack London (1904)

"Not at all." He was speaking rapidly now, and his eyes were flashing. "It is piggishness, and it is life. Of what use or sense is an immortality of piggishness? What is the end? What is it all about? You have made no food. Yet the food you have eaten or wasted might have saved the lives of a score of wretches who made the food but did not eat it. What immortal end did you serve? or did they? Consider yourself and me. What does your boasted immortality amount to when your life runs foul of mine? You would like to go back to the land, which is a favourable place for your kind of piggishness. It is a whim of mine to keep you aboard this ship, where my piggishness flourishes. And keep you I will. I may make or break you. You may die today, this week, or next month. I could kill you now, with a blow of my fist, for you are a miserable weakling. But if we are immortal, what is the reason for this? To be piggish as you and I have been all our lives does not seem to be just the thing for immortals to be doing. Again, what's it all about? Why have I kept you here?"

1984, George Orwell (1948)

But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.