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От : Alexander Koryagin 2:221/360 16 янв 25 13:19:22
К : Gleb Hlebov 16 янв 25 14:21:01
Тема : English folklore
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Hi, Gleb Hlebov!
I read your message from 15.01.2025 12:25
AK>> In Russian folklore we have a beast with three heads. In England
AK>> there are probably ones which have head and three bodies:
GH> "... which have one head and..."
AK>> The day has been so full of fret and care, and our hearts have
AK>> been so full of evil and of bitter thoughts, and the world has
AK>> seemed so hard and wrong to us. Then Night, like some great loving
AK>> mother, gently lays her hand upon our fevered head, and turns our
AK>> little tear-stained faces up to hers, and smiles; and, though she
AK>> does not speak, we know what she would say, and lay our hot
AK>> flushed cheek against her bosom, and the pain is gone. [...]
GH> This short passage feels quite like a piece of poetry, you may
GH> think of it this way. However, there seems to be a certain logic to
GH> that: only one head at a time that she`d lay her hand on, hence a
GH> singular "our head".
GH> The same with "our cheek", too, probably.
GH> As with turning "our little tear-stained faces up to hers", it is
GH> an immediate action that can be performed simultaneously by all of
GH> the partakers, no matter how many or few. Well, assuming it`s not a
GH> single-head-multi-face type of monster.
The author should had been consistent -- he should had written "and
turns our little tear-stained FACE and SMILE up to hers" ;-) .
Bye, Gleb!
Alexander Koryagin
english_tutor 2025
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