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Из воспоминаний младшей из сестер Митфорд

2014-09-28 17:17:35 (читать в оригинале)

Снова про отца

After leaving Radley, Farve's dearest wish was to join the Army but he could manage only 19 marks out of 2,000, or so he told us, and he failed the entrance exam. Whether or not this unlikely score was the reason, history does not relate, but fail he certainly did and he oftn used to say to us, 'What good would Latin have been to me in the Army?'




My father… was famous for having read only one book, White Fang, which he enjoyed so much he vowed never to read another. When they were first married, my mother was shocked to realize that my father had read only one book. She persuaded him to listen to her reading aloud some classics, starting with Thomas Hardy. She chose Tess of the d’Ubervilles with its descriptions of farm and heath land, which she thought he would enjoy. When she got to the sad part, my father started crying. ‘Oh, darling, don’t cry, it’s only a story.’ ‘What,’ said my father, his sorrow turning to rage, ‘do you mean to say the damn feller made it up?’ I was born after the days of White Fang and never saw my father open a book.

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Из воспоминаний младшей из сестер Митфорд

2014-09-28 13:43:58 (читать в оригинале)

Про няню

She did not criticize us much, neither did she praise. 'No, darling, I shouldn't do that if I were you,' or 'Very nice, darling,' was as far as it went, her eyes on her needle or the iron, the regular tools of the nursery. Signs of arrogance, conceit or vanity she called 'parading about' and discouraged them with a little sniff and cough. 'It's all right, darling, no one's going to look at you,' became her standard saying when we complained that our dresses were not smart enough for a party. She carried this dictum a bit far when Diana, eighteen years old and staggeringly beautiful in her wedding dress, said, 'Oh Nanny, this hook and eye doesn't work. It looks awful.' 'It's all right, darling,' Nanny soothed, 'who's going to look at you?'

I read now about the necessity of self-esteem in children. We would have become impossibly pleased with ourselves had we been indulged with such a thing. As it was, our ups and downs were high and low enough, and Nanny sat on any ups.

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Моню не надо нюхать

2014-09-28 13:42:45 (читать в оригинале)

Правительство Кубы пообещало наказать фармацевтическую компанию Labiofam, которая в четверг представила новые одеколоны Ernesto и Hugo, названные в честь Че Гевары и Чавеса. Как сообщает ВВС, правительственное заявление было опубликовано в газете Granma. В нем затея с одеколонами была названа "серьезной ошибкой" и "безответственным деянием". "Символы Революции всегда будут священны", "Подобные инициативы всегда будут неприемлемы для нашего народа и Революционного правительства", и "За этой серьезной ошибкой последуют надлежащие меры".

25 сентября в ходе презентации новых запахов биохимик Labiofam Марио Вальдес заявил, что одеколоны были названы в честь Че и Чавеса не ради пропаганды. Компания хотела отдать им дань уважения и увековечить их имена таким вот образом. Вице-президент лаборатории Исабел Гонсалес сказала, что сами по себе одеколоны очень приятные, но и выбранные для них имена много значат для разработчиков. Семьи Чавеса и Че Гевары дали разрешение на использование их имен, заверила компания. На момент презентации Labiofam еще не создала фирменные флаконы для Ernesto и Hugo и не придумала дизайн этикеток. Видимо, и не понадобится.

В одеколоне Ernesto цитрусовые оттенки дополняют древесные, а у Hugo более мягкий и фруктовый запах с нотками манго и папайи.

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Из воспоминаний младшей из сестер Митфорд

2014-09-28 13:26:16 (читать в оригинале)

Про отца.
(Farve - отец, Muv - мать, Нэнси - старшая из сестер, писательница, которая описала их семью в паре романов, Пэм - сестра Памела)

Lunch guests were rare, but a memorable exception was the Duchess of Marlborough, the American Gladys Marie Deacon, second wife of the Ninth Duke, who came over from Blenheim Palace, the Marlboroughs' family seat. She produced a paper handkerchief, the first any of us had seen, blew her nose and stuck it into a yew hedge. My father was outraged. At lunch she asked him if he had read Elinor Glyn's Three Weeks (everyone was talking about the writer and her work at the time). Farve glared at her. 'I haven't read a book for three years,' he barked. That was the end of that subject and of the Duchess of Marlborough.

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I was too young to go on the outing to Stratford that passed into family lore, when Farve, pressed by Muv, took the older children to see Romeo and Juliet. Uncle Matthew's reaction in The Pursuit of Love is unmistakably that of Farve: 'He cried copiously and went into a furious rage because it ended badly. "All the fault of that damned padre," he kept saying on the way home, still wiping his eyes. "That blasted fella, what's 'is name, Romeo, might have known a blasted papist would mess up the whole thing. Silly old fool of a nurse too, I bet she was an R.C., dismal old bitch."'

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In his mid-thirties he went to a dentist and asked him to take out all his teeth. The dentist refused, saying it was dangerous. 'All right then,' said Farve impatiently. 'I'll go to someone who will!' An hour or so later there was not a tooth left in his head. Thereafter 'my good dentures' chewed up Muv's excellent food.

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Punctuality was drilled into us. If one of us dawdle before an outing Farve went without the laggard. Pam, daydreaming, was once left behind on a longed-for afternoon at the zoo - a lesson learned the hard way and cited again and again as a purple warning. Nancy's portrayal of Uncle Matthew standing at the front door, watch in his hand at 11.55 am, awaiting someone expected at midday, muttering to himself, 'In six minutes the damn feller will be late', is Farve exactly.

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Чеховское

2014-09-27 23:05:05 (читать в оригинале)

И вовсе она не тарарабумБия в оригинале



(это я еще кусочек про сестер Митфорд прочитала)

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