“When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear os childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”

“They accuse us of arrested development because we have not lost a taste we had in childhood. But surely arrested development consists not in refusing to lose old things but in failing to add new things? I now like hock, which I am sure I should not have liked as a child. But I still like lemon-squash. I call this growth or development because I have enriched: where I formerly had only one pleasure, I now have two. But if I had to lose the taste for lemon-squash before I acquired the taste for hock, that would not be growth but simple change. I now enjoy Tolstoy and Jane Austen and Trollope, as well as fairy tales and I call that growth: if I had to lose the fairy tales in order to acquire the novelists, I would not say that I had grown but only that I had changed.”

Podia ser a profissão-de-fé (ainda se diz isso?) deste inconstante bloguinho, não fosse o fato de que eu ainda gosto mais de lemon-squash que de hock.