British humour

Now, a text that would supply British humour with a lot of ammunition to ridicule us. Look at it paragraph by paragraph:
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"Devo dizer...".

Oh, this must be a very important theoretician. He hesitated twice before accepting an invitation to write about the constitution of political modernity.

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"Segundo, ..."

He is going to talk about the constitution of political modernity but what he would like to do is to talk about all kinds of different things, such as private property, ethics and deonthology, utilitarian economics...

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"E se for fundamentado..."

... and also property rights, clean air, economic regulation, hierarchy of needs, economic prohibition, cost internalization, marginal quantities ... he even wants to talk about "damnum absque injuria". What an impressive man this is!

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"E sobre a economia austríaca..."

I am amazed. This man also wants to talk about Austrian economics. He relates it to Copernican and Ptolomaic astronomy and to Newtonian physics. Fantastic. How about that? Did you know that Austrian economics was related to astronomy and physics? Oh, he has now gone wild quoting famous people: Leibniz, Hume, Aristotles, Rousseau, Hegel, Marx.. Is anybody out there who can stop him?

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"No entanto..."

Thanks God! Ooff! He has now accepted the invitation to write about the constitution of political modernity in quite humble terms.

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"Começo por deixar três notas. A primeira..."

Wait a minute. Not yet. He is going to state three preliminary notes. And the first is that his PC has no accents. How could we have read him so far without noticing it? This man is a true genius!

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"A segunda..."

He is now telling us that his topic has been dominated by a bunch of amateurs...

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"A terceira..."

Oh, give me a pencil and a piece of paper! Fast! He is now indicating the reading list. Wow, I like this one: Otto Brunner's Land und Herrschaft. Grundfragen Der Territorialen Verfassungsgeschichte Osterreichs im Mittelalter. How great this book should be! Have you read it before?

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"O problema..."

He is now stating his problem. As the Portuguese people like to say "já não era sem tempo...".

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"O constitucionalismo ..."

He is now discussing the meaning of words. I enjoy that game... those subtleties...

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"Não estou com isto..."

Did you know this man does not support neutrality which he considers to be a false virtue? I didn't know.

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"Um apontamento metodológico..."

He is talking about method now. I am a little worried that we are getting close to the end of the text and he didn't address his topic yet...

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"Além do mais..."

Oh, I am really disappointed! He is telling us now that we are not here discussing political ideas, but only some kind of politically imaginary sort of thing. I thought we were discussing political ideas, namely, the constitution of political modernity...

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"Só uma leitura..."

I can't believe it. This fantastic man is now suggesting us that only after a cross-sectional, diversified, dense, ample study - that is when we reach nintey-two years of age-, we can get an answer to his topic.

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"A 'constituição'..."

Shee...! He seems to be getting closer now. He is talking about the medieval political constitution...

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"O aspecto..."

He is getting closer and closer to his topic, just a few centuries away....

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"A viragem..."

Be patient. He will get to the topic - the constitution of political modernity. He is now at the turning point...

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"Do ponto de vista..."

Shit! He decided to talk about absolutism instead...

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"Outra história..."

Oh my God, oh my God! Bingo! He got it! Superb! Marvellous! Extraordinaire! A Nobel prize deserving conclusion proper of a genius: political modernity started in the seventeenth century! This is the thought that will make us look at the World differently in this third millenium. Fantastic!