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- Botafogo - 06-01-2004
While in Rio de Janeiro last month we came across the following essay in O Globo by Arnaldo Jabor on the search for perfection (in this case the perfect wine, tasting a 1947 Cheval Blanc):
"I examined the wine from all angles and here I struck the truth, cruel and not open to appeal: The wine does not exist. There only exists the IDEA of the wine, an abstract and platonic conception of it. In the case of this wine, the actual wine destroys the imagined wine, the wine we have always dreamed of as it rests in its hollowed place in the cellar promising the multidimensional riches of a metaphor. There it is ALL wines, a promise of enriched life in our hearts. But, presented with the actual wine, life lost its mystery, the wine ceased to be utopian and retained only what is possible. We saw, with clarity and realism, it turn into a mere mortal, without transcendence, just another (very!) delicious wine... In the end, it was proven that it was just another wine, one which we perceive as romantic, gentile, generous and warming but not one sent directly from God. Alas the search continues..."
Now the twist: The essay above was actually written about the unveiling of the derriere of one of the reigning Novella Queens of Brasil, Juliana Paes (who is the cultural equivalent of Halle Barry and J-Lo rolled into one!), in Playboy magazine. Just replace all the references to wine with "derriere" and to the cellar with "Novella" (prime time soap opera) and you get the original. But you DO get the point, yes?
Cheers, Robertinho
- winoweenie - 06-01-2004
Think maybe I drank that sometime over the weekend. WW [img]http://wines.com/ubb2/wink.gif[/img]
- Georgie - 06-02-2004
I don't think it was quite that old, WW.
- Bucko - 06-02-2004
WW has underwear older than that girl!