She meets him in his office, interviews him, and is about to leave when he locks the door and kisses her. Soon afterwards, her boss sends Linda to interview a promising politician named Jacob who also happens to be an ex-boyfriend from her school days. The conversation leads Linda to believe that she is moving towards the apathy stage of depression. Linda talks to her friend about her depression and discovers that she is taking medication and feels fine now. Her friend takes her to a visually unappealing Japanese restaurant with excellent food. One day, she has lunch with a friend who suffers from depression. Still, she feels that she needs a change. She has a loving and rich husband, two adorable children, and is a journalist at a well-respected Swiss newspaper. The narrative, told in the first-person perspective of Linda, begins with Linda telling readers how unfulfilled she is by her current existence even though, by society’s standards, she has the perfect life. Arrow Books (Penguin Random House UK), 2015. The following version of the book was used to create this study guide: Coelho, Paulo.
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She agrees to electrocute Victor in her lab. She doesn’t want to, but he manipulates her by telling her what Eli has done. Victor doesn’t want to be outdone and wants to try his death again immediately. His body can now heal itself, almost instantly, from any wound. Victor brings him back with three epipens and chest compressions. He dies in an ice bath in the bathroom of the boys’ apartment. Eli ends up getting scared and calls an ambulance before Victor dies. Victor takes a lethal dose of pain pills chased by whiskey. When Eli tells him everything he has discovered, Victor wants to be a test subject. Victor does not want to be left behind or the sidekick in Eli’s research, which could be groundbreaking. He tries to find other commonalities between them. After much study, Eli deduces people who reportedly have super powers have recovered from near death experiences. Eli decides on one that will be life-changing for the two friends…EO’s (ExtraOrdinaries, basically superheroes). Victor and Eli choose their senior thesis topics. Victor is fascinated by and jealous of Eli and the ease with which he moves through life. He reveals his father was a minister and shows Victor the scars on his back from beatings when he was younger. But Victor can tell there’s something dark underneath the all-American façade. Eli is charming, good-looking, and popular. At the same time, there is general consensus that the PAEG laid the groundwork for the long period of high economic growth that Brazil experienced in the late 1960s and 1970s (Lara Resende 1992 Biderman, Cozac and Rego 1996). In comparison with most Brazilian stabilization plans, the PAEG is known as an anomaly because of its perceived austerity and monetarist orthodoxy (Skidmore 1988 Lara Resende 1992 Biderman, Cozac and Rego 1996). The PAEG 1 was a major episode in Brazil’s economic history and has been much debated among economists both within and outside Brazil (Fishlow 1973 Friedman 1974 Simonsen 1995 Biderman, Cozac and Rego 1996 Mantega and Rego 1999). This chapter considers Brazil’s 1964-67 Plano de Ação Econômico do Governo (Plan of Government Economic Action, or PAEG) as an example of institutional syncretism. |