Too much thinking

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2024/09/02

2024/09/02

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Nem por acaso! came across this page on a book I'm reading that's completely relevant to the previous post. You can find the original PT transcription on the wiki. Here I'll share a basic EN translation.

=> RE: Linkrot and Intellectual Stagnation | Matilde Campilho, "Flecha" § Um inuíte

An Inuit

An eskimo stores with care the fresh meat under the snow. He knows that if it is kept well all his family will have what to eat for the whole winter. While digging the frozen earth, he recalls that foreigner who visited him the year prior -- the man spoke a lot, and thought yet more. The eskimo, caught by that memory, lets a naughty snicker go. "After all," he whispers to the snow, "for what reason need the man of the south think so much all of the time?" The eskimo knows that, if the meat is sufficient to pass through one more winter, nothing else needs thinking.