Explore "Mancunima: the Hero with no Character" by Mario de Andrade on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
Maanape really liked coffee and Jiguê really liked sleeping. Macunaíma wanted to pitch a papiri for the three to live in but the papiri never got done. Their group effort always petered out cause Jiguê slept all day and Maanape sat around drinking coffee. The hero got mad. He grabbed a spoon, turned it into a little critter and said:
"Now go hide in the ground coffee. When brother Maanape comes to drink some, bite his tongue!"