Dedicatória

Aos meus avós paternos, Ventura e Lola (in memoriam). Aos meus avós maternos, Laurindo (in memoriam) e Maria. Eles são verdadeiros pais e mães com açúcar.

Ao meu pequeno Miguel, com imenso amor.

Jarndyce and Jarndyce drones one. This scarecrow of a suit has, in course of time, become so complicated that no man alive knows what it means. The parties to it understand it least, but it has been observed that no two Chancery lawyers can talk about it for five minutes without coming to total disagreement as to all the premises.

Innumerable children have been born into the cause; innumerable young people have married into it; innumerable old people have died out of it.

Charles Dickens

Não importa ao tempo o minuto que passa, mas o …