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Sunday, January 20, 2008

I have been here before...

I have been here before
but when and how I cannot tell
I know the grass beyond the door
the sweet keen smell,
the sighing sound
the lights around the shore
and you have been mine before
how long ago I may not know.
has this been thus before?
and shall not thus time's eddying flight
still with our lives
our love restore
in death's despite
and day and night yield one delight....
once more?

_.::._

Traduzido para o Portugues:

Eu já esteve aqui antes
Mas quando e como eu não posso dizer
Sei da grama além da porta
do cheiro doce vivo,
do suspiro do som
As luzes ao redor da costa
E ter sido minha antes
Há quanto tempo eu não pode saber. 
Foi assim antes? 
Não devendo, portanto, voltar no tempo 
Ainda com as nossas vidas
Nosso amor restabelecer 
apesar da morte
E dia e noite ceder um deleite ....
Mais uma vez?

 

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Monday, January 14, 2008

Chapter 17

Acho a descrição da bebida uma coisa fantástica! Marquei em vermelho só pra ir direto ao ponto...: a liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.

"um liquido que quase era, mas não muito, inteiramente distinto de chá."

After a fairly shaky start to the day, Arthur's mind was beginning to reassemble itself from the shellshocked fragments the previous day had left him with. He had found a Nutri-Matic machine which had provided him with a plastic cup filled with a liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea. The way it functioned was very interesting. When the Drink button was pressed it made an instant but highly detailed examination of the subject's taste buds, a spectroscopic analysis of the subject's metabolism and then sent tiny experimental signals down the neural pathways to the taste centres of the subject's brain to see what was likely to go down well. However, no one knew quite why it did this because it invariably delivered a cupful of liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea. The Nutri-Matic was designed and manufactured by the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation whose complaints department now covers all the major land masses of the first three planets in the Sirius Tau Star system.

Arthur drank the liquid and found it reviving. He glanced up at the screens again and watched a few more hundred miles of barren greyness slide past. It suddenly occurred to him to ask a question which had been bothering him.

"Is it safe?" he said.

source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

 

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