A obsessão materna
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Fora, vivia com o espírito no menino; em casa, com os olhos, a observá -lo, a mirá -lo, a perguntar -lhe donde vinha, e por que é que eu estava tão inteiramente nele, e várias outras tolices sem palavras, mas pensadas ou deliradas a cada instante.
Outside, she lived with her spirit in the boy; at home, with her eyes, observing him, gazing at him, asking him where he came from, and why it was that I was so entirely in him, and several other follies without words, but thought or delirious at each moment.
The narrator describes his mother's obsessive thoughts about a boy.
The narrator describes his mother's obsessive preoccupation with a boy, both in her thoughts and in her constant visual attention, questioning his origins and her own absorption in him, with unspoken but incessant musings.
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