Discovering how old propaganda is hard to escape
Camões’ tomb is empty. Portugal’s great poet has a couple of monumental tombs, and his remains are in neither. For years I wondered if his ghost walked the world in a shadow of sadness- simply reminding today’s Portuguese of a legacy we could never live up to. If you grew up Portuguese, then you probably suffered from the following thought at some point: Wow, Portugal was once a mighty empire, with a footprint on four continents. You probably had pangs of nostalgia and a mix