O Carteiro de Fernando Pessoa

carteiro«Concordou em fazer-se passar por Fernando Pessoa, apreciando-se depois em frente do espelho no quarto: o bigode postiço, contido e severo, os óculos que lhe davam um ar digno e harmonizado com a sofisticação própria dos intelectuais; e, por fim, enfiado na cabeça, o estimável chapéu preto, que lhe acrescentava respeito e culta superioridade. Semelhante na compostura e privilegiado na aparência, assim estava o carteiro Bernardo com a sua boa inspiração, a projectar ilusões e a permitir excitações libidinosas à senhora Ofélia.»

«O Carteiro de Fernando Pessoa», de Fernando Esteves Pinto.

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Modern life means children miss out on pleasures of reading a good book |Guardian|

Busy parents are dropping bedtime stories and teachers lack time to instil a love of reading, conference told.

A young girl reading a book

Reading for pleasure is declining among primary-age pupils, and increasing numbers of “time poor” parents are dropping the ritual of sharing bedtime stories with their children once they start school.

Research presented to the Children’s Media Conference in Sheffield last week found that, while parents read to pre-schoolers, this later tails off, and by the final year of primary school only around 2% read to their children every day. Once children can read competently, parents tend to step back, and this usually happens at the age of seven or eight.

The report, entitled Is Children’s Reading a Casualty of Modern Life?, also found that 82% of teachers blame the government’s “target-driven” education policies for the fact that fewer children are reading for pleasure.

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