JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER EM COPOS DESCARTÁVEIS

Jonathan Safran Foer é mesmo um sujeito inquieto. Um dia, ele estava sentado numa das mesas do restaurante de comida mexicana Chipotle sem nada para fazer e teve uma ideia: colocar pequenos textos nos copos descartáveis dos clientes a fim de distraí-los. Pois bem, a ideia foi aceita pelo restaurante norte-americano e os copos e sacolas começaram a circular nessa semana.

Os textos são assinados pelo próprio Safran Foer e por Malcolm Gladwell, Toni Morrison, George Saunders e Michael Lewis.

Será que alguma rede brasileira de comida bancaria a mesma ideia? Já pensou tomar um suco e depois ler no seu copo textos do Ricardo Lísias, Flavio Izhaki, Bernardo Carvalho e tantos outros?

Para quem não lembra, Foer é o autor dos romances Tudo se ilumina e Extremamente alto & incrivelmente perto. Também foi responsável pelo projeto do livro-objeto Tree of Codes baseado numa novela do escritor Bruno Schulz. Ele está preparando um novo romance que deve ser publicado nos Estados Unidos até o final desse ano. Vai se chamar Escape from Children's Hospital. Conta a história de um garoto de 9 anos que vive uma experiência traumática que afeta para sempre a sua vida e a vida das pessoas ao seu redor.

Abaixo tem o texto do Foer que está num dos copos da Chipotle (para quem tá morrendo de vontade de ler):

Two-Minute Personality TestBy Jonathan Safran Foer

What’s the kindest thing you almost did? Is your fear of insomnia stronger than your fear of what awoke you? Are bonsai cruel? Do you love what you love, or just the feeling? Your earliest memories: do you look though your young eyes, or look at your young self? Which feels worse: to know that there are people who do more with less talent, or that there are people with more talent? Do you walk on moving walkways? Should it make any difference that you knew it was wrong as you were doing it? Would you trade actual intelligence for the perception of being smarter? Why does it bother you when someone at the next table is having a conversation on a cell phone? How many years of your life would you trade for the greatest month of your life? What would you tell your father, if it were possible? Which is changing faster, your body, or your mind? Is it cruel to tell an old person his prognosis? Are you in any way angry at your phone? When you pass a storefront, do you look at what’s inside, look at your reflection, or neither? Is there anything you would die for if no one could ever know you died for it? If you could be assured that money wouldn’t make you any small bit happier, would you still want more money? What has been irrevocably spoiled for you? If your deepest secret became public, would you be forgiven? Is your best friend your kindest friend? Is it any way cruel to give a dog a name? Is there anything you feel a need to confess? You know it’s a “murder of crows” and a “wake of buzzards” but it’s a what of ravens, again? What is it about death that you’re afraid of? How does it make you feel to know that it’s an “unkindness of ravens”?

Imagem: reprodução do site VanityFair.

JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER EM COPOS DESCARTÁVEIS