Nicholas Was

Nicholas Was é um texto criado por ninguém mais, ninguém menos, que Neil Gaiman. O texto faz parte do livro Smoke and Mirror. Considerando que o próprio Neil recomendou esse vídeo no Twitter, deixo aqui o link para apreciação, abaixo do vídeo segue o poema original em inglês. Caso eu não torne a postar mais nada até o natal, feliz natal a todos.


Nicholas Was: created by Neil Gaiman and, part of the book Smoke and Mirror.





Nicholas Was...

older than sin, and his beard could grow no whiter. He wanted to die.

The dwarfish natives of the Arctic caverns did not speak his language, but conversed in their own, twittering tongue, conducted incomprehensible rituals, when they were not actually working in the factories.

Once every year they forced him, sobbing and protesting, into Endless Night. During the journey he would stand near every child in the world, leave one of the dwarves' invisible gifts by its bedside. The children slept, frozen into time.

He envied Prometheus and Loki, Sisyphus and Judas. His punishment was harsher.

Ho.

Ho.

Ho.



Simplesmente GENIAL!

Texto retirado de: http://www.neilgaiman.com/works/Books/Smoke+%2526+Mirrors/in/197/