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Antonio Lobo Antunes

Antonio Lobo Antunes Writes a chronicle, which he claims is about Nothing that, for us, ( Nothing ) encompasses a mountain of words reflecting the need of the needs ofman Antonio protested against the Portuguese wars in Africa “ He was an officer in the army” sending innocent farm boys from the interior of Portugal who could hardly write and read, fighting for a corrupt colonial power. so many of them died for a lost business opportunity for the powerful For parents, a faded photograph of a soldier, a medal for bravery, a letter written by an employee with a Remington typewriter, hastily written as the writer had to send a hundred messages more before the end of the end of a long working day Antonia, yes, to be a collegian, although I am not is a practicing psychiatrist, or was a shrink, I refuse to spell the Psych again, is in his delusion why he refuses to stop smoking Here we go again, me noticing things of no consequence I have read one of his books. “Memoria de Elefante.” in Portuguese, a struggle, and as a not an academic I did not know the Luso language was so rich. Lately, he, on my FB page, write about life and also about the thing he has written in his novels One of these things is about obese diabetes people and I feel he does not understand how extremely difficult it is for a diabetic person to stay slim. However, he is a wise person with few vices, except from his smoking, his humor, or his contagious laughter and as a great man, he has many flaws But I am not sure if his academic knowledge will not collide my ironic skepticism.

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