Meditation on the unknown day of death in Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

[spiros]

Καθώς η Tessy μου θύμισε το αγαπημένο μου Tess of the d'Urbervilles, να και ένα απόσπασμα που μου είχε κάνει ιδιαίτερη εντύπωση όταν το διάβαζα.

She philosophically noted dates as they came past in the revolution of the year; the disastrous night of her undoing at Trantridge with its dark background of The Chase; also the dates of the baby's birth and death; also her own birthday; and every other day individualized by incidents in which she had taken some share. She suddenly thought one afternoon, when looking in the glass at her fairness, that there was yet another date, of greater importance to her than those; that of her own death, when all these charms would have disappeared; a day which lay sly and unseen among all the other days of the year, giving no sign or sound when she annually passed over it; but not the less surely there. When was it? Why did she not feel the chill of each yearly encounter with such a cold relation? She had Jeremy Taylor's thought that some time in the future those who had known her would say: "It is the ----th, the day that poor Tess Durbeyfield died"; and there would be nothing singular to their minds in the statement Of that day, doomed to be her terminus in time through all the ages, she did not know the place in month, week, season or year.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Phase the Second: Maiden no More
http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~rac101/concord/texts/tess/tess2.html

[Tess]

Αξιόλογη υπενθύμιση! Ευχαριστούμε για την λογοτεχνική αύρα…

[wings]

Eγώ, Σπύρο, δεν σχολιάζω ούτε για την αύρα ούτε για την επιλογή του θέματος της αύρας... μ' άκουσες να λέω κάτι;

[spiros]

Έχεις δίκιο... δεν με αφορά και πολύ, άκου λέει "when all these charms would have disappeared"!

[wings]

Θέλω ν' ακούσω ονοματεπώνυμο, διεύθυνση κατοικίας και πλήρεις ιδιότητες of all these charms.

[spiros]

Ay, there's the rub: you can make nothing out of nothing.

[wings]

But you can also make everything out of anything.:-))))))

[banned8]

Μα, κυριακάτικα, βρήκατε να συζητάτε για τον αρχιερέα της μοιρολατρίας και του πεσιμισμού; Υπάρχει και ο Oliver Hardy.

[wings]

Φτουυυυυυυυυυυυυυυ... μα τίποτα δεν σου παράπεσε πίσω από τούτη την εικόνα;

[banned8]

OK, το φρόντισα. Πολλά παράπεσαν.

[wings]

Μπράβο, θειούλη μου. Πολύ σ' ευχαριστώ. Γιατί νωρίτερα έκανα από συνήθεια το κλικ και δεν βρήκα τίποτα.

Πάω να δω το υπόλοιπο... καταπληκτικοί είναι!!!!!!!

Πειράζει που εγώ αγαπούσα περισσότερο τον Λόρελ;

[Frederique]

Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented, also known as Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman, Tess of the d'Urbervilles or just Tess, is a novel by Thomas Hardy, first published in 1891. It initially appeared in a censored and serialised version, published by the British illustrated newspaper, The Graphic. It is Hardy's penultimate novel, followed by Jude the Obscure. Though now considered an important work of English literature, the book received mixed reviews when it first appeared, in part because it challenged the sexual mores of Hardy's day. The original manuscript is on display at the British Library, showing that it was originally titled "Daughter of the d'Urbervilles."