My courage lasted for as long as those buttons were bright. And how does it all end? In a pigsty! p.129
2017-03-28 18:04:43夫を閉じ込め、妻をしばりつける豚小屋は地獄だが、豚小屋がなければ安心して生きられないという矛盾。豚小屋という背景設定は、引きこもりの人にとっても示唆に富んでいるかも知れない。そう思わせる次のパヴェルの吐露の場面。
2017-03-28 18:17:59They sneak out into the night. The assault on Pavel's senses is total . . . a gentle breeze, the smell of the earth, stars in the sky,
2017-03-28 18:24:11crickets and the distant barking of a dog. It is more than he can cope with. After a few deep breaths of freedom, he reels giddily.
2017-03-28 18:29:16Pavel (still delirious with freedom) This is wicked. This star-studded, rose-scented magnificence! I have no moral right to it, Praskovya.
2017-03-28 18:39:35My sins have made me an outcast on this earth, like Adam thrown out of Eden . . .
2017-03-28 18:44:08but here I am trying to sneak back past the Guardian Angel for one last little taste of Paradise.
2017-03-28 18:46:57Pavel ) I tought that in that sty I had become some sort of moral degenerate, that my soul had rotted away in the ocean of pigshit and piss
2017-03-28 18:53:32I've been swimming in since God alone knows when. But that is not true! I still have it!
2017-03-28 18:58:49Pavel ) I can't help myself. That little breeze wafting the scent of roses this way is at work on my emotions as if it were a hurricane.
2017-03-28 19:02:08Pavel ) I'm saying: Let's follow that road into the Future! A New Life. Praskovya ) What are you suggesting, Pavel? Pavel ) Escape.
2017-03-28 19:09:28Pavel ) Yes, that's right . . . the unmentionable . . . the unthinkable . . . Escape! What's the matter with you, Praskovya!
2017-03-28 19:13:55Have you been so brainwashed that you've forgotten what the world means?
2017-03-28 19:20:38Pavel ) Turn our back on the lot and walk away. Yes! Abandon everything. There must be no going back. If we go back, we'll never do it.
2017-03-28 19:26:19Pavel ) If I have, it's a divine madness because it has given me a vision of my Freedom. Yes, Praskovya!
2017-03-28 19:30:17I'd rather die in a ditch beside that road, under the stars with a clean wind in my hair,
2017-03-28 19:35:17than return to that sty and die of suffocation from pig fart. p.135
2017-03-28 19:36:03Praskovya ) Let's just turn around quietly and go home. Pavel ) Home? Don't use that word! I don't know what it means any more.
2017-03-28 19:41:47Waiting for me back there is a foul dungeon which I share with a dozen other uncouth inmates. No…no…no…I've got this far…I'm not going back.
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