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furrryБоже мой, "Последний Самурай", помимо всего прочего, кладезь великолепных цитат - о которых я бы иначе никогда не узнала. Мне сегодня очень не хотелось напрягаться - что в отношении именно этой книги звучит практически кощунственно - и я продолжила чтение не оригинала, а перевода Грызуновой, который едва ли не лучше оригинального текста. И если оригинального текста я за неделю прочитала 30 страниц, то в переводе приближаюсь к финалу - и вот вам немного сокровищ:
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"The distance is commonly very great between actual performances and speculative possibility. It is natural to suppose that as much as has been done to-day may be done to-morrow; but on the morrow some difficulty emerges, or some external impediment obstructs. Indolence, interruption, business, and pleasure, all take their turns of retardation; and every long work is lengthened by a thousand causes that can, and ten thousand that cannot, be recounted. Perhaps no extensive and multifarious performance was ever affected within the term originally fixed in the undertaker's mind. He that runs against Time has an antagonist not subject to casualties."
Samuel Johnson: Pope (Lives of the Poets)
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Бенедикт Спиноза. «Этика, изложенная геометрическим способом», III, теорема 55: «Если душа воображает свою неспособность, она тем самым подвергается неудовольствию» (Cum mens suam impotentiam imaginatur, eo ipso contristatur).
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"The distance is commonly very great between actual performances and speculative possibility. It is natural to suppose that as much as has been done to-day may be done to-morrow; but on the morrow some difficulty emerges, or some external impediment obstructs. Indolence, interruption, business, and pleasure, all take their turns of retardation; and every long work is lengthened by a thousand causes that can, and ten thousand that cannot, be recounted. Perhaps no extensive and multifarious performance was ever affected within the term originally fixed in the undertaker's mind. He that runs against Time has an antagonist not subject to casualties."
Samuel Johnson: Pope (Lives of the Poets)
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Бенедикт Спиноза. «Этика, изложенная геометрическим способом», III, теорема 55: «Если душа воображает свою неспособность, она тем самым подвергается неудовольствию» (Cum mens suam impotentiam imaginatur, eo ipso contristatur).