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>In lieu of learning Portuguese, I peppered Costa Lima with questions about his other books, and when that process exhausted itself, I managed to persuade a University here in Australia to bring Costa Lima out from Brazil for a symposium dedicated to his work. But really it was an excuse to meet him in person and to continue the interrogation about his works and ideas.

I did this too! But with Sting. Which I guess symbolises all that is different, and the same, about the two of us.

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further: this was at the time Sting was trying to 'save' the Brazilian Amazon.

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Sting has been referred to as the Costa Lima of popular music.

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