I received, 500 years later, a letter from a traveler (Pero de Magalhães Gandavo) who once wandered through a place vulgarly called Brazil.
Among his writings, this observation caught my attention:
“The language of these natives along the whole coast is one; it lacks three letters, you will not find F, nor L, nor R in it. A remarkable thing, for thus they have no Fé (Faith), no Lei (Law), nor Rei (King); and in this way they live without Justice, and in disorder.”
Pero de Magalhães Gandavo
Oh, Gandavo…
I wish we had kept our lives without those letters.
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