Na verdade, relendo, mas desta vez em inglês. A primeira vez que li, há 20 anos, achei chato pra caramba. Desta, está sendo mais divertido. Acho que a tradução que arrumei não ajudou, ou faltava mais maturidade ao leitor, não sei ao certo.
Aí no capítulo 3, me deparo com esta passagem, que narra o primeiro encontro entre Jonathan Harker e as servas satânicas do Count Dracula, na Transilvânia. Ele escapa por muito pouco de ser mordido.
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I was afraid to raise my eyelids, but looked out and saw perfectly under the lashes. The girl went on her knees, and bent over me, simply gloating. There was a deliberate voluptuousness which was both thrilling and repulsive, and as she arched her neck she actually licked her lips like an animal, till I could see in the moonlight the moisture shining on the scarlet lips and on the red tongue as it lapped the white sharp teeth. Lower and lower went her head as the lips went below the range of my mouth and chin and seemed to fasten on my throat. Then she paused, and I could hear the churning sound of her tongue as it licked her teeth and lips, and I could feel the hot breath on my neck. Then the skin of my throat began to tingle as one’s flesh does when the hand that is to tickle it approaches nearer, nearer. I could feel the soft, shivering touch of the lips on the super sensitive skin of my throat, and the hard dents of two sharp teeth, just touching and pausing there. I closed my eyes in languorous ecstasy and waited, waited with beating heart.
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Mas, em vez de um ataque vampírico, não parece mais uma defloração?
8.10.2012
8.09.2012
Alice in Wonderland
A unidade 2 do curso sobre fantasia e ficção científica teve Alice in Wonderland como objeto de estudo. Eis o ensaio que enviei.
Está, gramaticalmente, bem pior que o primeiro, pois tive menos tempo para me dedicar a ele. Relevem, mas não deixem de apontar o que acharem muito absurdo.
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Since he can convince readers to keep accompanying him, a writer can do with words what he wants. Lewis Carroll was a mathematician in love with logic - and he soon realized that language had its own logic, quite different from usual.
The consensual and arbitrary nature of language is always at stake in Alice in Wonderland. Cleverly, Carroll chooses a child as the protagonist of his story, because to them this consensus is not natural as it would be for an adult. Maybe so, they seem to live in a wonderful world - and perhaps therefore Wonderland does not wonder Alice too much.
Falling through a rabbit-hole, Alice reacts naturally to the absurdity of the situation: "Down, down, down. There was nothing else to do, so Alice soon began talking again. 'Dinah'll miss me very much to-night, I should think! '(Dinah was the cat.)" (chapter 1). This passive reaction is repeated several times.
Later, we see how the consensual nature of language is explored through sound. In at least two occasions, Alice tries to recite popular stories, but words begin to change and the story gains new meanings - although original musicality be maintained. A similar situation occurs in Chapter 3, in confusion between tail and tale.
This reversal of logic, that words do not always mean what they say, appears in the Mad Hatter episode:
"'Then you should say what you mean,' the March Hare went on.
'I do,' Alice hastily replied; 'at least - at least I mean what I say - that's the same thing, you know.'
'Not the same thing a bit!' Said the Hatter. 'You might just as well say that "I see what I eat" is the same thing as "I eat what I see"!'"
Sounds and symbols, this is what words are. In right hands, they can become anything.
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Próxima semana, Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Está, gramaticalmente, bem pior que o primeiro, pois tive menos tempo para me dedicar a ele. Relevem, mas não deixem de apontar o que acharem muito absurdo.
***
Since he can convince readers to keep accompanying him, a writer can do with words what he wants. Lewis Carroll was a mathematician in love with logic - and he soon realized that language had its own logic, quite different from usual.
The consensual and arbitrary nature of language is always at stake in Alice in Wonderland. Cleverly, Carroll chooses a child as the protagonist of his story, because to them this consensus is not natural as it would be for an adult. Maybe so, they seem to live in a wonderful world - and perhaps therefore Wonderland does not wonder Alice too much.
Falling through a rabbit-hole, Alice reacts naturally to the absurdity of the situation: "Down, down, down. There was nothing else to do, so Alice soon began talking again. 'Dinah'll miss me very much to-night, I should think! '(Dinah was the cat.)" (chapter 1). This passive reaction is repeated several times.
Later, we see how the consensual nature of language is explored through sound. In at least two occasions, Alice tries to recite popular stories, but words begin to change and the story gains new meanings - although original musicality be maintained. A similar situation occurs in Chapter 3, in confusion between tail and tale.
This reversal of logic, that words do not always mean what they say, appears in the Mad Hatter episode:
"'Then you should say what you mean,' the March Hare went on.
'I do,' Alice hastily replied; 'at least - at least I mean what I say - that's the same thing, you know.'
'Not the same thing a bit!' Said the Hatter. 'You might just as well say that "I see what I eat" is the same thing as "I eat what I see"!'"
Sounds and symbols, this is what words are. In right hands, they can become anything.
***
Próxima semana, Bram Stoker's Dracula.
8.07.2012
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