The need for lived experience
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Eu, que havia olhado para todos, não pude resistir ao gesto da prima, e tratei de comer. Mas comi mal; estava tão contente com aquela grande dissimulação de Capitu que não vi mais nada, e, logo que almocei, corri a referir-lhe a conversa e a louvar-lhe a astúcia. Capitu sorriu de agradecida.
I, who had looked at everyone, could not resist the gesture of my cousin, and I tried to eat. But I ate badly; I was so happy with that great dissimulation of Capitu that I saw nothing more, and, as soon as I had lunch, I ran to tell her the conversation and praise her cunning. Capitu smiled thankfully.
The narrator reflects that street cries and seminary pamphlets are not enough; one must have known and suffered the cases, people, and sensations in time, otherwise everything is silent and colorless.
The narrator, having observed everyone, is compelled by his cousin's gesture to eat, but he eats poorly because he is so pleased with Capitu's successful deception. After lunch, he eagerly recounts the conversation and praises her cleverness, and Capitu smiles in gratitude.
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