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90. But it seems to him, woman was always so horrible and clutching, she had such a lust for possession, a greed of self-importance in love. She wanted to have, to own, to control, to be dominant. Everything must be refered back to her, to Woman, the Great Mother for everything, out of whom proceeded everything and to whom everything must finally be rendered up. -- D. H. Lawrence [Women in Love]

-- 可怕的女人。。

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91. On the whole, he hated sex, it was such a limitation. It was sex that turned a man into a broken half of a couple, the woman into the other broken half. And he wanted to be single in himself, the woman single in her self. He wanted sex to revert to the level of the other appetites, to be regarded as a functional process, not as a fulfilment. He believed in sex marriage. But beyond this, he wanted a further conjunction, where man had being and woman had being, two pure beings, each constituting the freedom of the other, balancing each other like two poles of one force, like two angels, or two demons. -- D. H. Lawence [Women in Love]

--  two pure beings ..  two poles of one force....

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92. ‘She exults – she exults as she carries him off from me,’ Mrs Morel cried in her heart when Paul had gone. ‘She’s not like an ordinary woman, who can leave me my share in him. She wants to absorb him. She wants to draw him out and absorb him till there is nothing left of him, ever for himself. He will never be a man on his own feet – she will suck him up.’ So the mother sat, and battled and brooded bitterly. -- D.H.[Sons and lovers]

-- 婆媳关系紧张的根源，如何分享儿子？

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93.  'Wha-a-ah-h-'came a horrible choking awfully in its wild father's throat, the fearful, frenzied eye, rolling awfully in its wild fruitless search for help, passed blindly over Gerald, then up came the dark blood and mess pumping over the face of the agonised being, the tense body relaxed, the head fell aside, down the pillow.  【Women in love】

--- 描写死亡

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94. Her arms were round his neck, he kissed her and held her perfectly suspended, she was all slack and flowing in to him, and he was the firm, strong cup that receives the wines of her life. 【Women in Love】

--  cup, wine of life....

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95. It's a sort of tacit hunting in couples: the world all in couples, each couple in its own little house, watching its own little interests, and stewing in its own little privacy -- it's the most repulsive thing on earth. -- 【Women in Love】

-- 丑陋的婚姻。。

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96. So the weeks went on. Always alone, his soul oscillated, first on the side of death, then on the side of life, doggedly. The real agony was that he had nowhere to go, nothing to do, nothing to say, and was nothing himself. -- 【Women in Love】

-- 孤独的人。

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97. A young grey cat that had been sleeping on the sofa jumped down and stretched, rising on its long legs, and arching its slim back. Then it sat considering for a moment, erect and kingly. And then, like a dart, it had shot out of the room, through the open window-doors, and into the garden. -- 【Women in Love】

-- 猫

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98. She seemed to have too many teeth for her mouth, the lips curled back like a horse about to neigh and they gleamed like ivory tombstones in the flashing lights above the dance floor. -- Stephen Leather 【Hungry Ghost】

-- like a horse about neigh..  好可爱的嘴唇。。

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floraz, 呃……  好象你有不同的观点？说说看？a horse about neigh, 好美啊， 还有ivory 牙齿 -- 奇怪我怎么感觉有了口水！！！

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99. In the old age, before sex was, we were mixed, each one a mixture. The process of singling into individuality resulted in the great polarisation of sex. The womanly drew to one side, the manly to the other. But the separation was imperfect even then. And so our world-cycle passes. There is now to come to the new day, where we are beings each of us, fulfilled in difference. The man is pure man, the woman the pure woman, they are perfectly polarised. But there is no longer any of the horrible merging, mingling, self-abnegation of love. There is only the pure duality of polarisation, each one free from any contamination of the other. In each, the individual is primal, sex is subordinate, but perfectly polarised. Each has a single, separate being, with its own laws. The man has his pure freedom, the woman hers. Each acknowledges the perfection of the polarised sex-circuit. Each admits the different nature in the other.  -- D. H. Lawence [Women in Love]

-- 看罗伦斯如何解释世上男女。。问题：如何做到男女之间不相互‘污染’？

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100. The bitch-goddess, Success, was trailed by thousands of gasping dogs with lolling tongues. The one that got her first was the real dog among dogs, if you go by success! So Michaelis could keep his tail up. – D.H. Lawrence  [Lady Chaterley’s Lover]

-- 罗伦斯眼里的成功 -- 几千条哈喇着舌头、喘着粗气的狗眼中的玩意。。

这个帖子已经到了100岁了，我现在也是‘哈喇着舌头，喘着粗气了’，不过我的前方空无一物。

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Grange

Bobby's [out of the people who try to offer their services] was the most brazen, the most downright immodest......"I'm not just good at what I do. I am brilliant at what I do".....[the next day]......"Figuring that you probably threw away the letter you received from me yesterday, here it is again. Let's make money, Dave [the protagonist]".....Just as I wasn't swayed when he sent me a case of Au Bon Climat wine.....and then a week later, a case of Dom Perignon arrived......"You'll be drinking this stuff like 7-up if you let me make you some real money"....  - Temptation by Douglas Kennedy

花了3个晚上看完了这本小说，觉得内容不是很深刻，但还是可以看完。上面这段话是描写一个STOCK BROKER在主人公（一个默默无闻的作家）一夜成名以后如何锲而不舍的向他推销自己。中间有些话我没帖出来，不过这几句话应该可以勾画出这个人物的性格。

题外话，我觉得如果天天能像和汽水一样喝法国香槟也没什么意思，除非你是Madame Bollinger："I drink it when I’m happy and when I’m sad. Sometimes I drink it when I’m alone. When I have company I consider it obligatory. I trifle with it if I’m not hungry and drink it when I am. Otherwise, I never touch it—unless I’m thirsty."。当然，她是BOLLINGER的老板娘。

peaceful

我很喜欢这一句，和大家分享一下。

Smile is a curve to set everything straight.

joan00joan

原帖由 洋八路 于 2011-4-4 09:35 发表
5. Tears spilled down the man's cheeks and dropped to the moss below, where they lay un-absorbed, like pearls strewn across a blanket of emerald velvet.   -- Christopher Paolini  [Eragon] 儿童读物

-- ...

that just made me think of the below lines from a song:

Summer turned to winter
And the snow it turned to rain
And the rain turned into tears upon your face
I hardly recognize the girl you are today
And God I hope it's not too late
It's not too late

from Michael Buble's  'Lost'.

I nearly cried in my car when I heard these words, stuck in the traffic and watching the sunset after a long day from work.

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onemum

mark

拙泥

读者与作者超越时空的交流, 这可能是文学的魅力吧.

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原帖由 洋八路 于 2011-7-7 07:37 发表
99. In the old age, before sex was, we were mixed, each one a mixture. The process of singling into individuality resulted in the great polarisation of sex. The womanly drew to one side, the manly to  ...

This theory contradicts the Second Law of Thermodynamics,which basically states that the world spontaneously becomes more orderless, chaotic or mixed.( By the way, I personally validates the Second Law by observing my study desk and bedroom )

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原帖由 洋八路 于 2011-7-3 12:00 发表
95. It's a sort of tacit hunting in couples: the world all in couples, each couple in its own little house, watching its own little interests, and stewing in its own little privacy -- it's the most re ...

Is it "romantic love" itself that is repulsive or is it they way "romantic love" has been glorified and idoled and is being sold to us by Hollywood?

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今早上班途中, 车窗外 -- The sky is blue, the birds trailing, the flowers, and colours shuffling and flashing through ...车里，正好放一首歌【My Love】-- when the singer, in his masculine voice, bursts ‘WHERE THE SKIES ARE BLUE, TO SEE YOU ONCE AGAIN.. MY LOVE!’,  a dam of pleasure, hidden and nowhere a moment ago, suddenly cracks, setting free a flood of sensuous joy, striking the surface of me, in and out.....I detour, and slip with my car into a road at ease, lowering the glass, sighting and blinking at the earthy things and creatures, that flow to me….. being enchanted, and perfectly absorbed by the force of the once-a-time spontaneous beauty … I turn the volume to its peak, and let free my innate nativity, be soaked and soothed and drenched in the richest sound of blue sky, and my love….I stifle, and moderate my breath, as slowly and silently as the beauty is to last… -- it is such a rarity of my morning!   

Here is the lyric of the song, may you - my love and my friend - listen to it, first time or ever again, in the beheld moments of Australian spring --

【My Love】

by NYLEN, PER / KREUGER, DAVID BENGT / ELOFSSON, JORGEN KJELL / MAGNUSSON, PER

An empty street, an empty house
A hole inside my heart
I’m all alone, the rooms are getting smaller.
I wonder how, I wonder why, I wonder where they are
The days we had, the songs we sang together.

And all my love, I’m holding on forever
Reaching for the love that seems so far

So I say a little prayer
And hope my dreams will take me there
Where the skies are blue, to see you once again… my love.
Where the skies are blue, to see you once again… my love.
All the seas from coast to coast
To find the place I love the most
Where the fields are green, to see you once again.. my love

I try to read, I go to work
I’m laughing with my friends
But I can’t stop to keep myself from thinking.
I wonder how, I wonder why, I wonder where they are
The days we had, the songs we sang together

And all my love, I’m holding on forever
Reaching for the love that seems so far

So I say a little prayer
And hope my dreams will take me there
Where the skies are blue, to see you once again.. my love.
And the seas from coast to coast
To find the place I love the most
Where the fields are green, to see you once again…

To hold you in my arms
To promise you my love
To tell you from the heart
You’re all I’m thinking of
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101 She frowned and glared, directing her lovely eyes at her husband, but her face wore the timid, apologetic look of a dog wagging its drooping tail quickly but without much confidence. by Leo Tolstoy 【War and Peace】-- 乞求原谅。。

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102 【War and Peace】Sonya had trembled all over while Nikolay was speaking and blushed to the roots of her hair, and the colour flooded past her ears and down her neck and shoulders. by Leo Tolstoy -  激动成这样。。

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原帖由 拙泥 于 2011-9-3 03:01 发表


Is it "romantic love" itself that is repulsive or is it they way "romantic love" has been glorified and idoled and is being sold to us by Hollywood?

I think he (Lawrence) feels repulsive only to the negative side of a couple's life, which is a rather confined, pigeon-hole like dwelling; he is not in the least against the romantic element as such you have mentioned here.

now

好贴，顶。

飘啊飘

囫囵吞枣地看完了，学习！

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103 【Wuthering Heights】She drew a sigh, and stretched herself, like a child reviving, and sinking again to sleep and five minutes after I felt one little pulse at her heart, and nothing more! by Emily Bronte 她叹口气，走了。。

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104 【Wuthering Heights】My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods. Time will change it, I’m well aware, as winter changes the trees – my love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath-- a source of little visible delight, but necessary. 两种爱，一个是叶子，一个象石头，不可兼得，你说怎么办呢？

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105 【Gone with The Wind】Why, why, her mind stuttered, I believe women could manage everything in the world without men’s help – except having babies, and God knows, no woman in her right mind would have babies if she could help it. By Margaret Mitchell -- 男人就只有那么一点用处？

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106. 【War and Peace】'Who's right and wrong? No one is. Just live for the day..tomorrow you die..I could have died an hour ago. And why worry when you've only got a second to live on the scale of eternity?' by Leo Tolstoy. -- 人活一妙，不必计较?

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107 【The Rainbow】She was struggling between two worlds, her own world of young summer and flowers, and this other world of work. by D.H.Lawrence - 挣扎在两个世界 - 鲜花和面包。。