Diego and Paulo, two willful, loving, leftist boys... or how to invite an unexpected little friend to celebrate a childlike loving and revolutionary life

Abstract

This is a text about love, childhood and revolution. It honours two boys who, each in his own space, shared a world by the way they affirmed their lives, in a loving and politically childlike way. The text has several sections. In the section named “Before beginning... childhood”, the readers are invented to experience a childish time of reading; in “Paulo, Che and an unexpected boy: love, childhood and revolution”, the main interlocutors are introduced; in “Some objections against a naughty and nothing holy boy”, some objections to the text’s third character introduction are con-sidered; in “Two leftist boys”, the common aspects is unfolds – politics, revolution – between the text’s two main characters; in “Two loving boys”, the common affection of these boys in their relationship with childhood is highlighted; finally, in “To finish, without stopping to start”, some other two characters’ common aspects are suggested and leave to the readers an invitation, a way to end the text: starting (always) again.