Re: [escepticos] Nuevo libro de interés

[Adela <torresad@...>]

breixo wrote:

> Segun mis datos es el numero 16, con titulo "Un mar obscuro como el
> Oporto" y titulo original "The Wine Dark Sea"
>
> >Morwen, leyendo y releyendo ávidamente toda la saga Aubrey/Maturin y
> >disfrutándola cada día más.
>
> ¡¡Pues este es flojucho!!
>     Saludso

O'Brian no es uniformemente brillante, ni en cada libro ni en toda la saga.
Pero en todos sus libros encuentras momentos impagables, sea en descripciones,
o en su muy particular humor seco...

"They also had one interesting case of a sailor who, less sure-footed by land
than by sea, had fallen on to the pointed end of a cut bamboo, which let air
into the cavity of his thorax, into his pleura, with the strangest effect on
one lung. This they discussed at length, in Latin, to the great satisfaction
of the sick-berth, where heads turned gravely from one speaker to the other,
nodding from time to time, while the patient himself looked modestly down and
Padeen Colman, Dr Maturin's almost monoglot Irish servant and loblolly-boy,
wore his Mass-going reverential face."

. . .

"It was indeed a lurid and portentous sight, the sky quite hidden and the
diffused glow, now more orange than umber, showed an irregularly turbulent sea
flecked as far as the eye could see (which was not much above three miles)
with broken water that should have been white and that in fact had taken on an
unpleasant acid greenish tinge, most evident in the frigate's leeward bow-wave
-- an irregular bow-wave too, for now, although the swell was still very much
present, rolling strongly from the north-east, the series of crests was
interrupted by innumerable cross-seas.
They stood in silence; and all along the gangway and on the forecastle there
were little groups of seamen, gazing in the same attentive way, with a few low
murmured words."

Morwen


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Adela Torres
OSU, Corvallis, OR
USA
http://daurmith.blogspot.com