In the beginning was the Word.

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A benefício de certos governantes alheios à subtileza:

“Many people know Mr. Bernard Shaw chiefly as a man who would write a very long preface even to a very short play. And there is truth in the idea; he is indeed a very prefatory sort of person. He always gives the explanation before the incident; but so, for the matter of that, does the Gospel of St. John. For Bernard Shaw, as for the mystics, Christian and heathen (and Shaw is best described as a heathen mystic), the philosophy of facts is anterior to the fact themselves. In due time we come to the fact, the incarnation; but in the beginning was the Word."

G.K. Chesterton (in “George Bernard Shaw”, John Lane Company, New York, 1909)

José Luís Moura Jacinto