Sostiene Pereira que le conoció un día de verano.Esta frase es el maravilloso inicio de uno de los libros que más profundamente me han marcado,
"Sostiene Pereira" de Antonio Tabucchi. El libro que probablemente me llevaría a una isla desierta...Mi monólogo favorito del Cisne del Avon.
...EMILIA
Yes, a dozen; and as many to the vantage as would
store the world they played for.
But I do think it is their husbands' faults
If wives do fall: say that they slack their duties,
And pour our treasures into foreign laps,
Or else break out in peevish jealousies,
Throwing restraint upon us; or say they strike us,
Or scant our former having in despite;
Why, we have galls, and though we have some grace,
Yet have we some revenge.
Let husbands knowTheir wives have sense like them: they see and smell
And have their palates both for sweet and sour,
As husbands have.
What is it that they doWhen they change us for others? Is it sport?
I think it is: and doth affection breed it?
I think it doth: is't frailty that thus errs?
It is so too: and have not we affections,
Desires for sport, and frailty, as men have?
Then let them use us well: else let them know,
The ills we do, their ills instruct us so.
(Si adivinaís de que obra es, os llevais un gallifante... :P )
