RJ 09/01/1985 Wednesday
You won’t believe this! Jeison just phoned, saying he went to Mesbla and saw the Rock In Rio shirts for 19,000, for which you get a 28,000 crz Rock In Rio ticket. He bought them. Only the two of us will go, unfortunately, Maira is not going. Jeison decided to go because a friend of his read the prophecy (Nostradamus) book 3 times and said there is nothing there predicting such disaster during the festival. It will be a nightmare to get Zezé to let me go. It’s been hard to get a ticket for a good day but it seems we might get tickets for the 11th. Zezé let me go but if she hadn’t I would have gone. I stayed at Maira’s all day. I washed my hair in the morning and then did some drawings. I really wanted to go to Zezé’s, I wonder why…
15th of Jan is arriving and we will soon see the headlines: Trancredo Neves President. Yes, it looks like he will win. Even if Maluf won to me it would be the same. They are both the same, only Tancredo is less corrupt. But he is so old he’ll probably die half way through it. It’s weird, the vast majority of the population in this country is young and we are ruled by old farts.
Figueiredo ended up in hospital about 11 times. Aureliano too when he fell off a horse. Actually all the big politicians fall off horses (Fig. Maluf, Aureliano). That’s because all they do is ride horses, but not even that they do properly, and it looks like not even the horses like them very much. It’s how Caetano says: “A America catolica sempre precisará de ridiculos tiranos” (the catholic America will always need ridiculous tyrants) …
Enquanto os homens exercem seus podres poderes morrer e matar de fome de raiva e de sede sao tantas vezes coisas naturais (While the men exert their rotten powers to die and kill of hunger, anger and thirst are, so often, natural events).
Look at the picture we took at christmas (It’s a tri-photo, where there is a large picture and two little ones): (Maira, Jeison, Marvio and I)
