“The sun did not shine.
It was too wet to play.
So we sat in the house
All that cold, cold, wet day.”
Dr. Seuss book The Cat in the Hat
Source: The Cat in the Hat (1957)
“The house clock, place certain there at the bottom of things, strikes the half hour dry and null. All is so much, all is so deep, all is so dark and cold!”
— Fernando Pessoa, book The Book of Disquiet
Ibid., p. 60
The Book of Disquiet
Original: O relógio da casa, lugar certo lá ao fundo das coisas, soa a meia hora seca e nula. Tudo é tanto, tudo é tão fundo, tudo é tão negro e frio!
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