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“We won’t ruin Mars. It’s too big and too good.” said the captain.
“You think not? We Earth Men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things. The only reason
we didn’t set up hot-dog stands in the midst of the Egyptian temple of Karnak is because it was
out of the way and served no large commercial purpose. And Egypt is a small part of Earth.
But here, this whole thing is ancient and different, and we have to set down somewhere and
start fouling it up. We’ll call the canal the Rockefeller Canal and the mountain King George
Mountain and the sea the Dupont Sea, and there’ll be Roosevelt and Lincoln and Coolidge
cities, and it won’t ever be right, when there are the proper names for these places.” BRADBURY, R. And the Moon Be Still as Bright. In: The Martian Chronicles. Londres: Harper Collins, 2014.
Nesse fragmento de um conto do autor Ray Bradbury, o personagem revela ao capitão