John Updikeの"Rabbit Redux"からの引用です。 “The Verity Press lives on order forms, tickets to fund-raising dances, political posters in the fall, high-school yearbooks in the spring, throwaway fliers for the supermarkets, junk-mail sales …
John Updikeの"Rabbit Redux"からの引用です。 “The kid says crossly, "I know, Dad," and Rabbit loses the thread of the skit a little, there has been a joke he didn't hear, whose laughter is dying.” ”息子は不機嫌に言う『わかってるよ、お父さん…
John Updikeの"Rabbit Redux"からの引用です。 "Anyway, Dad, sports are square now. Nobody does it.” 「そんなことはいいから、お父さん。今はスポーツなんてお堅いんだ。誰もしないよ」 "square" = 「堅い(真面目すぎる)」 "square"をぐぐると以下のよう…
John Updikeの"Rabbit Redux"からの引用です。 “I'd like to, Pop. You know I would.""I know, Jesus I know. I know more than you think. You're at just the age to realize your old man's not the dope you always thought he was.""The trouble is, J…
John Updikeの"Rabbit Redux"からの引用です。 “MEN emerge pale from the little printing plant at four sharp, ghosts for an instant, blinking, until the outdoor light overcomes the look of constant indoor light clinging to them.” 「男たちが4…
John Updikeの"Rabbit Redux"からの引用です。 “Who's this they?" Harry sighs into the Daiquiri foam and thinks, He's going too, they're both going. Neither makes enough sense. As his father pushes closer against him to explain, he becomes on…
John Updikeの"Rabbit Redux”からの引用です。 “A man and his son, Earl Angstrom and Harry, are among the printers released from work. The father is near retirement, a thin man with no excess left to him, his face washed empty by grievances a…
John Updikeの"Rabbit, Run"からの引用です。 “On the top of the mountain it is still broad day. Up in the sea of sky a lake of fragmented mackerel clouds drifts in one piece like a school of fish. There are only a couple cars parked around t…
John Updikeの"Rabbit, Run"からの引用です。 “The angular words walk in Harry’s head like clumsy blackbirds; he feels their possibility. Eccles doesn’t; his face is humorless and tired. His voice is false. All these people are false: except …
John Updikeの"Rabbit, Run"からの引用です。 “Does that happen often?” Mr. Springer asks. He is standing behind his wife, and his face tips forward with curiosity, his mouth a birdy black gash beneath his sandy mustache. Mrs. Springer has sa…
John Updikeの"Rabbit, Run"からの引用です。 “There is something undignified about waiting and as they mill around in the living room watching the minutes ebb in the silver-faced clock they become uncomfortably costumed children nervous for …
John Updikeの"Rabbit, Run"からの引用です。 “Eccles has arrived by some other entrance and from a far doorway beckons them. The seven of them file with Nelson into the room where the flowers wait, and take their seats on the front row. Blac…
John Updikeの”Rabbit, Run”からの引用です。 “She makes him breakfast, the cereal drowned in milk, the coffee scalded in her style. With Nelson they walk over to the apartment to get clothes for the funeral. Rabbit resents her being able to …
John Updikeの"Rabbit, Run"からの引用です。 “He goes upstairs and with intense care washes his hands and face and neck. He doesn’t dare use one of their fancy towels. Coming out with wet hands he meets Springer in the muted hallway and says…
John Updikeの"Rabbit, Run"からの引用です。 “He expects never to go to sleep and, awaking with the slant of sunshine and the noise of doors slamming downstairs, feels his body has betrayed his soul. He dresses in haste, more panicked now th…
John Updikeの"Rabbit, Run"からの引用です。 “Why, I’ve been trying to call my apartment and nobody answers and I’m kind of nervous about it. I didn’t spend last night there and I’m getting sort of a prickly feeling. I want to go home but I …
John Updikeの”Rabbit, Run”からの引用です。 “He steps into the sunshine outside the drugstore swallowing, to keep the loop from rising in his body and choking him. It’s a hot day, the first of summer; the heat comes up off the glittering pa…
John Updikeの"Rabbit, Run"からの引用です。 “When he gets to the Springers’ house Mrs. comes to the door and shuts it in his face. But he knows from the gray Buick parked outside big as a battleship that Eccles is in there and in a little w…
John Updikeの"Rabbit, Run"からの引用です。 “He had ridden one of these buses last night into Brewer and gone to Ruth’s apartment but there was no light on and nobody answered his ring, though there was a dim light behind the frosted glass …
John Updikeの"Rabbit, Run"からの引用です。 “Christian! If he’s a Christian thank God I’m not one. Christian. Kills his baby and that’s what you call him.”“He didn’t kill the baby. He wasn’t there, it was an accident.”“Well he as good as di…
John Updikeの"Rabbit, Run"からの引用です。 “He goes over to the Springers’ and the tone of the house has changed; he feels everything has been rearranged slightly to make a space into which he can fit by making himself small. Mrs. Springer…
John Updikeの"Rabbit, Run"からの引用です。 “Harry shields his eyes with his hand. They feel hot and vulnerable to light. “Thank you,” he says, and almost moans in his gratitude to this man, whom he has always despised, for making a speech …
John Updikeの"Rabbit, Run"からの引用です。 “He sits down in the great walnut-armed chair that had been his father’s and Lucy realizes with resentment that her husband is middle-aged. His hair is thinning, his skin is dry, he looks exhauste…
John Updikeの"Rabbit, Run"からの引用です。 “Sure. She can go in.”“Before or after you?”Harry hesitates, and remembers the way Mrs. Springer came and visited him on his empty planet. “She can go in before.”“Thank you. Good. Then she can go …
John Updikeの"Rabbit, Run"からの引用です。 Rabbit, Run【電子書籍】[ John Updike ]価格: 1623 円楽天で詳細を見る “ She pours a glass of milk for Nelson and pulls some leaves off of a head of lettuce and sets them on a yellow plastic plate an…
John Updikeの"Rabbit, Run"からの引用です。 “Janice closes her eyes and says, “He went to Allentown.”“What would he do there?”“He’s going to sell a car.”“Don’t be silly. Janice. Are you all right?”“What do you mean?”“Have you been drinking?…
John Updikeの"Rabbit, Run"からの引用です。 “She sits there with her face in her hands, her tears crawling out between her fingers and her sobs shaking through the apartment. She doesn’t stifle them because she wants to wake somebody; she i…
John Updikeの"Rabbit, Run"からの引用です。 “He finds his suntans and puts them on. She asks, “Why can’t you try to imagine how I feel? I’ve just had a baby.”“I can. I can but I don’t want to, it’s not the thing, the thing is how I feel. An…
John Updikeの"Rabbit, Run"からの引用です。 “It would have been easy a minute ago to get it over with but all this talk has taken the fine point off. It’s a bad contact and her stubborn limpness makes it worse; she’s killing it by making hi…
John Updikeの"Rabbit, Run"からの引用です。 “But one thing at least, his father pays some attention to Nelson, who hopefully rolls the lemon toward him. He rolls it back. “You going to be a ballplayer like your Dad?”“He can’t, Earl,” Mom in…