Pebble on the Tongue: Fork in a Brazilian Street

A BBC reporter on the street in Brazil as national elections approached, asked a clear-eyed passerby what he made of the choice before him (the incumbent, Jair Bolsonaro, or Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva).  He replied:

             “Lula is certainly not the gateway to Paradise, but he is the way out of Hell.”

The traveler does well to demystify a fork in the road.  A path out of suffering or peril – however homely –  has much to say for it.