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Tough Way

Publicado em 09/09/2020

It’s a club that puts on shows, and you never really know what the show is going to be. In this specific case they brought out a young man who was in a leotard body suit, who, to me, I would diagnose him as a thalidomide baby. And he was blind as well, but he sang like Pavarotti. And while he was singing — I forget the song, it was like a ‘God Bless America’-type song — there was a woman who was in a thong bikini, who was large, performing sex acts on him while he was singing. Interesting, because I was with Mr. Trump at the time. It was not really a place I expected to be with him at. He looked over to me when he was finished, and I’ll never forget this, he looked me right in the face. He goes, ‘That’s a tough way to make a living.’

—Michael Cohen (Nota de rodapé 1823, descrevendo o clube The Act, no relatório do comité do senado sobre a interferência russa nas eleições dos EUA.)

Antes Disso

Publicado em 18/08/2020

— Ela dizia que queria descansar no meu ombro e ser leve como um pássaro. Achei que era poético. E excelente, caramba, mesmo do que um tipo precisa. Nunca gramei pegajosas.
O homem fez uma pausa. Paul ficava sempre feliz por fornecer a deixa.
— Mas não resultou?
— Dois problemas. — O tipo inspirou e depois soprou o fumo no ar perfumado. — Número um, os pássaros batem a asa, não batem? É da natureza dos pássaros, não é? E número dois, antes disso cagam-nos sempre no ombro.

—Julian Barnes, A Única História