Abstract
‘DON'T THINK THAT I'M COMPLAINING, I'm not. I am just telling the truth, and telling the truth can't hurt anyone. And the truth is that I'm the one who is a native of Porto Alegre; you're the one who feels so proud of this city, but I'm the one who was born here. I was already living in Porto Alegre when you, the haughty son of a wealthy farmer from the southern regions near the Uruguayan border, arrived here. A long time ago, wasn't it?’—‘A Porto Alegre Story’, The Dwarf in the Television Set (1979)