【有声英语文学名著】不会发生在这里（8）

Chapter 8 I don't pretend to be a very educated man, except maybe educated in the heart, and in being able to feel for the sorrows and fear of every ornery fellow human being. Still and all, I've read the Bible through, from kiver to kiver, like my w

【有声英语文学名著】不会发生在这里（6）

It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis Chapter 6 Id rather follow a wild-eyed anarchist like Em Goldman, if theyd bring more johnnycake and beans and spuds into the humble cabin of the Common Man, than a twenty-four-carat, college-graduate, ex-cabine

【有声英语文学名著】不会发生在这里（5）

It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis Chapter 5 I know the Press only too well. Almost all editors hide away in spider-dens, men without thought of Family or Public Interest or the humble delights of jaunts out-of-doors, plotting how they can put ov

【有声英语文学名著】不会发生在这里（4）

It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis Chapter 4 All this June week, Doremus was waiting for 2 P.M. on Saturday, the divinely appointed hour of the weekly prophetic broadcast by Bishop Paul Peter Prang. Now, six weeks before the 1936 national convent

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in their ever present knapsacks which will always be a part of their bodies. These men of all nations travel at that early evening hour, six oclock, when there is the light of the solitary. It is an anonymous time, most of the city is going home. The

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IV South Cairo 1930-1938 THERE is, after Herodotus, little interest by the Western world towards the desert for hundreds of years. From 425 B.C. to the beginning of the twentieth century there is an averting of eyes. Silence. The nineteenth century w

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Nothing would protect them then, the brown river thin as silk against metals that ripped through it. He turned from that. He knew the trick of quick sleep against this one who had her own rivers and was lost from them. Yes, Caravaggio would explain t

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Most of all she wished for a river they could swim in. There was a formality in swimming which she assumed was like being in a ballroom. But he had a different sense of rivers, had entered the Moro in silence and pulled the harness of cables attached

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She lies there irritated at his self-sufficiency, his ability to turn so easily away from the world. She wants a tin roof for the rain, two poplar trees to shiver outside her window, a noise she can sleep against, sleeping trees and sleeping roofs th

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She will stare at the word in a novel, lift it off the book and carry it to a dictionary. Beholden. To be under obligation. And he, she knows, never allowed that. If she crosses the two hundred yards of dark garden to him it is her choice, and she mi

【有声英语文学名著】英国病人 63

She folds her paisley dress and places it on top of her tennis shoes. The tent and the dark wood surround them. They are only a step past the comfort she has given others in the temporary hospitals in Ortona or Monterchi. Her body for last warmth, he

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At two or three in the morning, after leaving the Englishman, she walks through the garden towards the sappers hurricane lamp, Absolute darkness between her and the light.but she knows every shrub and bush in her pathSometimes she cups a hand over th

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Hes twenty-six years old. The British army teaches him the skills and the Americans teach him further skills and the team of sappers are given lectures, are decorated and sent off into the rich hills. You are being used, boyo, as the Welsh say. Im no

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I mean, she may not be smarter than you. But isnt it important for you to think she is smarter than you in order to fall in love? Think now. She can be obsessed by the Englishman because he knows more. Were in a huge field when we talk to that guy. W

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and they moved in the limited space between the bed and the wall, between bed and door, between the bed and the window alcove that Kip sat within. Every now and then as they turned she would see his face. Kip watched the large shadows slide over the

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There was no light with him as he ran along the dark hall. He scooped up the satchel, was out of the house and racing down the thirty-six chapel steps to the road, just running, cancelling the thought of exhaustion from his body. There was out of the

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Then kip turned his head suddenly knowing everything as he heard the sound, certain of it. He had looked back at them and for the first time in his life liedIts all right, it wasnt a mine. That seemed to come from a cleared areaprepared to wait till

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Kip took off his boots, tied the laces together and slung them over his shoulder as he went upstairs. It had started to rain and he needed a tarpaulin for his tent. From the hall he saw the light still on in the English patients room. Hanna sat in th

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He wouldnt hear Kips silent walk. The sapper sat in the well of the window again. If he could walk across the room and touch her he would be sane. But between them lay a treacherous and complex journey. It was a very wide world. And the Englishman wo

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He had to remove it, or she would be with him each time he approached a fuze. He would be pregnant with her. When he worked, clarity and music filled him, the human world extinguished. Now she was within him or on his shoulder, the way he had once se