memory serves me right there was a news report about peles scandalous involvement with a woman maybe it was in the sixtiesfor the seventiesborn the first memory seems to be his visit to the eden gardens in 1977 an idea that is androiddefiant pre posttruth and good enough to be worded as an incantation or a chapter in noah hararis next book magazines published photos of peles dribbling techniques and newspapers reported his daily routine and recalled his exploits in santos and at the aztecaconflicts actually stopped when pele visited strifetorn nigeria with santos it was 1969 when pele started to blur the rift between fact and folkloreas television took over the privacy of home and hearth and made way for further invasion of mind by the internet the legend of pele lives on adapting to the changes smoothly pele has forever been faithful to the image that has been mostly natural and partially manufacturedpele running with the ball pele crying after winning his first world cup or pushing his fist high up after winning his third are now part of the subconsciousthe world became black and white upturning a swathe of historical and mythological premise of good and bad just like the images of a clenched fist snubbing at the skycome 1986 and giants of brazil hit the screen it became the battleship potemkin of football the red book of politicsanother celluloid experiment with a host of world cup stars happened in 1981 with pele playing a key role in escape to victory portrayed against the backdrop of nazidominated europe the theatres filed across the world up as the children and their parents loved o reis bicycle volley in the face of adversityforty years later a pele biopic made its celluloid entry like a softchanged world the movie touched the heart but lacked soul it has been peles permanent addresscan pele hear the times winged chariot hurrying close perhaps yes he is not keeping well and hospital visits are frighteningly frequentbut the memory of a little black boy who became king is destined to defy oblivion for some more decades