Reading in bed
‘… the record that is about to begin is written under the sponsorship of the most popular soft drink in the world even though it does not earn me anything; a soft drink that is distributed throughout the world. It is the same soft drink that sponsored the recent earthquake in Guatemala. Despite the fact that it tastes of nail polish, toilet soap and chewed plastic. None of this prevents people from loving it with servility and subservience. Also because … this drink which contains coca is today. It allows people to be modern and move with the times.’
– A Hora da Estrela, Clarice Lispector (trans. Giovanni Ponteiro) 1986: 23.