Natal: diferenças entre revisões
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:- [[Louisa May Alcott]]
* "Natal é um terror que compara favoravelmente com a grande praga de Londres, incêndio de 1665-66. Ninguém foge dos sentimentos de desânimo mortal, inaptidão, frustração, solidão, culpa e compadecem. Ninguém foge sentindo-se usado pela sociedade, por religião, por amigos e parentes, pela totalmente artificial responsabilidade de estender saudações falsas, enviando cartões banais, trocando
:- ''"Christmas is an awfulness that compares favorably with the great London plague and fire of 1665-66. No one escapes the feelings of mortal dejection, inadequacy, frustration, loneliness, guilt and pity. No one escapes feeling used by society, by religion, by friends and relatives, by the utterly artifical responsiblities of extending false greetings, sending banal cards, reciprocating unsolicated gifts, going to dull parties, putting up with acquaintances and family one avoids all the rest of the year...in short, of being brutalized by a 'holiday' that has lost virtually all of its original meanings and has become a merchandising ploy for color tv set manufacturers and ravagers of the woodlands".
:- [[Harlan Ellison]]
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