Monica P
2013-02-24, 14:50
Satt flera timmar i det ljumma vårvädret med kaffekopp och katter och en älsklingsbok. Grannens barnbarn busade med Mowgli, de andra grannarnas barnbarn sparkade boll nere på parkeringen. Det känns som om vintern är över, även om jag VET att mars och april kan bjuda på kalla överraskningar.
Jag kan inte låta bli att referera till ett stycke ur boken, på engelska, ursäkta, kanske du föredrar översättning, men jag har bara den engelska versionen.
Boken är "Watership Down" av Richard Adams. På svenska "Den långa flykten"- Det finns också en animerad version som jag såg oerhört länge sen och kommer ihåg musiken än: Bright Eyes..
Citatet som har att göra med att man kan få ett bra slut fast man gått och gruvat sig, det finns hopp, är taget från början av kapitel 12.
"To come to the end of a time of anxiety and fear! To feel the cloud that hang over us lift and disperse- the cloud that dulled the heart and made happiness no more than a memory! This at least is one joy that must have been known by almost every living creature.
Here is a boy who was waiting to be punished. But then, unexpectedly, he finds that his fault has been overlooked or forgiven and at once the world reappears in brilliant colors, full of delightful prospects. Here is a soldier who was waiting, with a heavy heart, to suffer and die in battle. But suddenly the luck has changed. There is news! The war is over and everybody bursts out singing! He will go home after all! The sparrows in the plowland were crouching in terror of the kestrel. But she has gone; and they fly pell-mell up the hedgerow, frisking, chattering and perching where they will.The bitter winter had all the country in its grip. The hares on the down, stupid and torpid with cold, were resigned to sinking further and further into the freezing heart of snow and silence. But now- who would have dreamed of it?- the thaw is trickling, the great tit is ringing his bell from the top of a bare lime tree, the earth is scented; and the hares bound and skip in the warm wind. Hopelessness and reluctance are blown away like a fog and the dumb solitude where they crept, a place desolate as a crack in the ground, opens like a rose and stretches to the hills and the sky. "
Just så har jag känt: när ett lab-besked är positivt, när ett fel på bilen inte var så farligt, ja, vid åtskilliga andra tillfällen.
Jag kan inte låta bli att referera till ett stycke ur boken, på engelska, ursäkta, kanske du föredrar översättning, men jag har bara den engelska versionen.
Boken är "Watership Down" av Richard Adams. På svenska "Den långa flykten"- Det finns också en animerad version som jag såg oerhört länge sen och kommer ihåg musiken än: Bright Eyes..
Citatet som har att göra med att man kan få ett bra slut fast man gått och gruvat sig, det finns hopp, är taget från början av kapitel 12.
"To come to the end of a time of anxiety and fear! To feel the cloud that hang over us lift and disperse- the cloud that dulled the heart and made happiness no more than a memory! This at least is one joy that must have been known by almost every living creature.
Here is a boy who was waiting to be punished. But then, unexpectedly, he finds that his fault has been overlooked or forgiven and at once the world reappears in brilliant colors, full of delightful prospects. Here is a soldier who was waiting, with a heavy heart, to suffer and die in battle. But suddenly the luck has changed. There is news! The war is over and everybody bursts out singing! He will go home after all! The sparrows in the plowland were crouching in terror of the kestrel. But she has gone; and they fly pell-mell up the hedgerow, frisking, chattering and perching where they will.The bitter winter had all the country in its grip. The hares on the down, stupid and torpid with cold, were resigned to sinking further and further into the freezing heart of snow and silence. But now- who would have dreamed of it?- the thaw is trickling, the great tit is ringing his bell from the top of a bare lime tree, the earth is scented; and the hares bound and skip in the warm wind. Hopelessness and reluctance are blown away like a fog and the dumb solitude where they crept, a place desolate as a crack in the ground, opens like a rose and stretches to the hills and the sky. "
Just så har jag känt: när ett lab-besked är positivt, när ett fel på bilen inte var så farligt, ja, vid åtskilliga andra tillfällen.