Sublime

Transformer le Portugal, ce petit pays impuissant, en une puissance maritime, et l’océan Atlantique, considéré jusque-là comme un obstacle, en un moyen de communication a été en substance le rêve de toute la vie de l’Infant Henrique, celui que l’Histoire a surnommé à tort et à raison le Navigateur. À tort, parce qu’en dehors d’une brève expédition

In four days, Elpidio Quirino had lost eight members of his family, including his wife, his mother-in-law, and three of his five children. A woman who saw him at the end of this remembered Quirino staggering around Manila in his undershirt, smeared with mud, a vacant stare in his eyes—a latter-day Lear.