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"And even if he located them ten minutes later and dragged her -"
"Drug," I said.
"- back, the - what?" he said.
"Drug," I said. "You said 'dragged.'"
Ratliff looked at me a while. "For ten years now, whenever he would stop talking his-self long enough that is, and for five of them I been listening to you too, trying to learn - teach myself to say words right. And, jest when I call myself about to learn and I begin to feel a little good over it, here you come, of all people, correcting me back to what I been trying for ten years to forget."
"I'm sorry," I said. "I didn't mean it that way. It's because I like the way you say it. When you say it, 'taken' sounds a heap more took than just 'took', just like 'drug' sounds a hip more dragged than just 'dragged.'"
"And not jest you neither," Ratliff said. "Your uncle too: me saying 'dragged' and him saying 'drug' and me saying 'dragged' and him saying 'drug' again, until at last he would say, 'In a free country like this, why aint I got as much right to use your drug for my dragged as you got to use my dragged for your drug?'"
William Faulkner, 'The Town' (A Novel of the Snopes Family, Part II)
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Истинное наслаждение от литературы - купание в языке, погружение в него с головой, обсасывание каждого слова, каждой формы, каждой синтаксической конструкции. Великая литература - такая, которая даёт нам такую возможность. Надо лишь научиться читать текст...
"Drug," I said.
"- back, the - what?" he said.
"Drug," I said. "You said 'dragged.'"
Ratliff looked at me a while. "For ten years now, whenever he would stop talking his-self long enough that is, and for five of them I been listening to you too, trying to learn - teach myself to say words right. And, jest when I call myself about to learn and I begin to feel a little good over it, here you come, of all people, correcting me back to what I been trying for ten years to forget."
"I'm sorry," I said. "I didn't mean it that way. It's because I like the way you say it. When you say it, 'taken' sounds a heap more took than just 'took', just like 'drug' sounds a hip more dragged than just 'dragged.'"
"And not jest you neither," Ratliff said. "Your uncle too: me saying 'dragged' and him saying 'drug' and me saying 'dragged' and him saying 'drug' again, until at last he would say, 'In a free country like this, why aint I got as much right to use your drug for my dragged as you got to use my dragged for your drug?'"
William Faulkner, 'The Town' (A Novel of the Snopes Family, Part II)
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Истинное наслаждение от литературы - купание в языке, погружение в него с головой, обсасывание каждого слова, каждой формы, каждой синтаксической конструкции. Великая литература - такая, которая даёт нам такую возможность. Надо лишь научиться читать текст...