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--- Paulo Colaco Dias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Mario Gouveia should perhaps read "Momentos do meu
> Passado" by Fernando de Noronha with drawings by
> Mario de Miranda, Terceiro Millennium, 2002. You
> can buy it in any good bookshop in Goa.
>
> There you go Mario, Noronha's book is for sale in
> Goa and the author is elderly but also in Goa.
> Happy reading on your next Goa holidays.
>
Mario responds:
>
Paulo,
I admire your strenuous defense of the indefensible -
the old colonial Goa, a quaint backwater caught in a
time warp pre-1961, an era long gone never to return.
I hate to have to remind such a determined Portuguese
patriot like you of this, but, the last time I
checked, the liberation of Goa is irrevocable.
>
It's time to move on, man. Isn't it a little
embarrassing to be harping on the irreversible past
like this?
>
I would love to be able to read Fernando de Noronha's
fairy tales of Goa which may have helped me understand
why some Goans like yourself and Gabriel and Bernardo
and Roland are unable to accept the reality of the
situation even 45 years after the fact, but my
education in India was unfortunately restricted to
only one European language, that of the other colony
that I was born into, which had the foresight to
voluntarily start the end of the colonial era in 1947,
English.
>
I think my next trip to Goa will leave me little time
to have a fairy tale in Portuguese read to me. I will
be basking in the warmth of friends and family,
sensing the presense of my lowly Konkani-speaking
ancestors, who didn't quite seem to appreciate the
Portuguese the way you do, and absorbing enough of the
exquisite Goan cuisine and adult beverages to last me
until my next trip.
>
