Dom Casmurro 134.3 · 134.3

Visão persistente

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Cá fora tinha a mesma cor escura, as mesmas asas trepidas, e posto avoasse com elas, era como se fosse fixa; eu a levava na retina, não que me encobrisse as coisas externas, mas via-as através dela, com a cor mais pálida que de costume, e sem se demorarem nada.

Outside it had the same dark color, the same trembling wings, and although it flew with them, it was as if it were fixed; I carried it in the retina, not that it hid the external things from me, but I saw them through it, with a color more pale than usual, and without lingering at all.

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The narrator describes a persistent image that colors his perception of the external world.

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The narrator describes a persistent image that overlays his vision, coloring external objects paler and not lingering.

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