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Cold Comfort Farm

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“Por Dios, D. H. Lawrence tenía razón cuando dijo que debe haber una tensión estomacal muda, oscura, aburrida y amarga entre un hombre y una mujer, y ¿de qué otro modo podría lograrse esto sino en la larga monotonía del matrimonio?”

Stella Gibbons libro Cold Comfort Farm

«By god, D. H. Lawrence was right when he had said there must be a dumb, dark, dull, bitter belly-tension between a man and a woman, and how else could this be achieved save in the long monotony of marriage?»
Cold Comfort Farm
Fuente: Capítulo 20.

“Flora heredó de su padre, no obstante, una voluntad fuerte, y de su madre un tobillo delgado. Lo único que no se había visto afectado por tomar siempre su propio camino ni otro por los violentos deportes atléticos en los que se había visto obligada a participar, pero se dio cuenta de que ninguno de los dos era adecuado como material para ganarse el sustento.”

Stella Gibbons libro Cold Comfort Farm

Cold Comfort Farm
Original: «Flora inherited, however, from her father a strong will and from her mother a slender ankle. The one had not been impaired by always having her own way nor the other by the violent athletic sports in which she had been compelled to take part, but she realized that neither was adequate as an equipment for earning her keep.»
Fuente: Capítulo 1.

“La educación otorgada a Flora Poste por sus padres había sido costosa, atlética y prolongada; y cuando murieron con unas pocas semanas de separación durante la epidemia anual de la gripe o gripe española, que ocurrió en su vigésimo año, descubrió que poseía todo el arte y la gracia, excepto la de ganarse la vida.”

Stella Gibbons libro Cold Comfort Farm

Cold Comfort Farm
Original: «The education bestowed on Flora Poste by her parents had been expensive, athletic and prolonged; and when they died within a few weeks of one another during the annual epidemic of the influenza or Spanish Plague which occurred in her twentieth year, she was discovered to possess every art and grace save that of earning her own living.»
Fuente: Capítulo 1.

“La vida de un periodista es pobre, desagradable, brutal y breve. Así que es su estilo.”

Stella Gibbons libro Cold Comfort Farm

Cifrado en Thomas Hobbes: "the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short", in Leviathan (1651), Parte I, Capítulo 13.
Cold Comfort Farm
Original: «The life of a journalist is poor, nasty, brutish and short. So is his style.»
Fuente: Prefacio.

Stella Gibbons: Frases en inglés

“One of the disadvantages of almost universal education was the fact that all kinds of persons acquired a familiarity with one's favorite writers. It gave one a curious feeling; it was like seeing a drunken stranger wrapped in one's dressing gown.”

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“I saw something nasty in the woodshed.”

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“She liked Victorian novels. They were the only kind of novel you could read while eating an apple.”

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“That would be delightful,' agreed Flora, thinking how nasty and boring it would be.”

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“Mary, you know I hate parties. My idea of hell is a very large party in a cold room where everybody has to play hockey properly.”

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“Like all really strong-minded women, on whom everybody flops, she adored being bossed about. It was so restful.”

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“Surely she had endured enough for one evening without having to listen to intelligent conversation?”

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“Flora inherited, however, from her father a strong will and from her mother a slender ankle. The one had not been impaired by always having her own way nor the other by the violent athletic sports in which she had been compelled to take part, but she realized that neither was adequate as an equipment for earning her keep.”

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Fuente: Cold Comfort Farm (1932), Chapter 1.

“By god, D. H. Lawrence was right when he had said there must be a dumb, dark, dull, bitter belly-tension between a man and a woman, and how else could this be achieved save in the long monotony of marriage?”

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Fuente: Cold Comfort Farm (1932), Chapter 20.

“The life of a journalist is poor, nasty, brutish and short. So is his style.”

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Stella Gibbons libro Cold Comfort Farm

Foreword.
Cf. Thomas Hobbes — "the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short", in Leviathan (1651), Pt. I, Ch. 13.
Cold Comfort Farm (1932)