As pessoas dizem “vai lá assistir Stardust – O Mistério da Estrela, cê vai gostar!” e Titia Batata responde “eu vou, assim que sair em dvd!”. Daí, enquanto isso pensei em ler o livro – nem tanto para comparar com o filme mas porque, bom, eu gosto de ler, num sabe? E eu gosto de Neil Gaiman, o autor.
Logo na introdução eu *tenho* que parar e comentar com alguém: o poema que inicia Stardust é o mesmo que serve de base para Howl’s Moving Castle da Diana Wynne Jones!
Go, and catch a falling star,
Get with child a mandrake root,
Tell me where all past years are,
Or who cleft the Devil’s foot,
Teach me to hear mermaids singing,
Or to keep off envy’s stinging,
And find
What wind
Serves to advance an honest mind.
If thou be’st born to strange sights,
Things invisible to see,
Ride ten thousand days and nights,
Till age snow white hairs on thee;
Thou, when thou return’st, wilt tell me
All strange wonders that befell thee,
And swear
No where
Lives a woman true, and fair.
If thou find’st one, let me know,
Such a pilgrimage were sweet;
Yet do not, I would not go,
Though at next door we might meet:
Though she were true, when you met her,
And last, till you write your letter,
Yet she
Will be
False, ere I come, to two or three.