09/01/06 01:00:16
大学卒業かかってます。助けてください。
David lodge の The art of fiction という本の一部です。
This picture, I say seemed to consider itself the queen of the collection.
It represented to considerably larger ,I tought ,than the life .
I calculated that this lady,put into a scale of magnitude suitable for the reception of a commodity of bulk, would infallibly turn from fourteen to sixteen stone.
She was, indeed , extremely well fed; very much butcher's meet－to say nothing of bread, vegetables, and liquids－must she have consumed to attain
that breadth and height, that wealth of muscle ,that affluence of flesh.
She lay halfreclined on a couch―ｗｈｙ, it would be difficult to say; broad daylight blazed round her.
She appeared in hearty health, strong enough to do the work of two plain cooks; she could not plead a week spine; she ought to have been standing, or at least sitting bolt upright.
She had no business to lounge awey the noon on a sofa.
She ought likewise to have worn decent garments－a gown covering her properly, which was not the case.
Out of abundance of material－seven-and-twenty yards, I should say,of drapery－she managed to make inefficient raiment.
then for the wretched untidiness surrounding her there could be no excuse.
Pots and pans－perhaps I ought to say vases and goblets－were rolled here and there on the foreground;
a perfect rubbish of flowers was mixed amongst them, and an absurd and disorderly mass of cortain upholstery smothered the couch and cumbered the floor.
On referring to the catalogue, I found that this notable production bore the name "Cleopatra".
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