25 de março de 2007

Não sei lá muita coisa sobre o Oscar, mas gostei de um filme: O labirinto de Fauno.

Como muita gente me escreveu pedindo o trecho original do romance de Evelyn Waugh, reproduzo-o abaixo. Respondendo ainda: o livro foi publicado em 1945 pela Chapman & Hall. Mais tarde os direitos foram adquiridos pela gigantesca Penguin Books.


To be married, soon and splendidly, was the aim of all her friends. If she looked
further than the wedding, it was to see marriage as the beginning of individual
existence; the skirmish where one gained one's spurs, from which one set out on the true quests of life.
She outshone by far all the girls of her age, but she knew that, in that little world
within a world which she inhabited, there were certain grave disabilities from which she suffered. On the sofas against the wall where the old people counted up the points, there were things against her. There was the scandal of her father; that slight, inherited stain upon her brightness that seemed deepened by something in her own way of life - waywardness and wilfulness, a less disciplined habit than most of her contemporaries; but for that, who knows?...

Trecho de BRIDESHEAD REVISITED - THE SACRED AND PROFANE MEMORIES
OF CAPTAIN CHARLES RYDER, de Evelyn Waugh.

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