Dom Casmurro — Chapter 8, passage by passage
The original Portuguese with a word-by-word English interlinear. Tap any passage.
- 8.1 But it is time to return to that November afternoon, — It is time to return
- 8.2 a clear and cool afternoon, peaceful — A clear and cool afternoon
- 8.3 like our house and the stretch — Like our house
- 8.4 of the street where we lived. — The street where we lived
- 8.5 Truly it was the beginning of my life; — The beginning of my life
- 8.6 everything that had happened before was like — All that had gone before
- 8.7 the painting and dressing of the people — Painting and dressing the cast
- 8.8 who were to come on stage, — Due to come on stage
- 8.9 the lighting of the lamps, the readying of the fiddles, the symphony... — The lights, the fiddles, the symphony
- 8.10 Now it was that I was going to begin my opera. — Now my opera would begin
- 8.11 "Life is an opera," — Life is an opera
- 8.12 an old Italian tenor used to tell me, — An old Italian tenor
- 8.13 who lived and died here... — Who lived and died here
- 8.14 And one day he explained the definition to me, — He explained the definition
- 8.15 in such a way that he made me believe it... — He made me believe it
- 8.16 Perhaps it is worth giving it; — Perhaps worth telling
- 8.17 it is only a chapter. — It is only a chapter
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