On Rubem Valentim’s manifesto, albeit (not too) late

Can weeds still grow in the cracks of a manifesto, or are the words bent, twisted and used to shape a utopian construction, just like reinforced concrete? Frank Arnau, a German journalist and author of crime stories, wrote about 21 April 1960, the day Brasília was inaugurated as the new capital:

‘From north to south, from the Atlantic coast to the mountains and valleys of the endless west, people spent the night of 20 to 21 April awake. Shepherds and scholars, planters and clergy, illitera (…)