terça-feira, 22 de janeiro de 2013

Celebremos tanto a eterna complexidade como a faustosa diversidade do mundo: qual das três Jeniferes é a autora deste espectacularmente magnífico e incomparável livro?

 
Jenifere A. Lopez?
 
  
Jenifere L. Anderson?
 
 
Jenifere L. Aniston?



 
Mahogany traces the path of this wood through many hands, from source to sale: from the enslaved African woodcutters, including skilled “huntsmen” who located the elusive trees amidst dense rainforest, to the ship captains, merchants, and timber dealers who scrambled after the best logs, to the skilled cabinetmakers who crafted the wood, and with it the tastes and aspirations of their diverse clientele. As the trees became scarce, however, the search for new sources led to expanded slave labor, vicious competition, and intense international conflicts over this diminishing natural resource. When nineteenth-century American furniture makers turned to other materials, surviving mahogany objects were revalued as antiques evocative of the nation’s past.



 

2 comentários:

Plaft, Sílvia disse...

E perpetuemos a noção dos homens feios de que um livro espectacular terá forçosamente de ser escrito por uma gaja feia,

Amen.

alf disse...

Cara Plaft, Silvia

O mundo tem que possuir alguma ordem, e nós, homens feios, também merecemos alguma misericórdia por parte do criador.