Πώς θα αποδίδατε αυτή τη φράση από το On the Road του Κέρουακ;
Sal is exuberant about his new friend who had grown up “spending a third of his time in the pool hall, a third in jail and a third in the public library” (7). Dean’s mother had died early; he traveled with his father, a footloose drunkard, all over the west during his boyhood, from city to city, from skid row to skid row, and thus avoided being swallowed up by “America and its ridiculous system of order and laws” (66).
In Sal’s opinion, “all my New York friends were in the negative nightmarish position of putting down society and giving their tired bookish or political or psychoanalytical reasons, but Dean just raced in society, eager for bread and love; he didn’t care one way or another, . . .” (10).
Sal is exuberant about his new friend who had grown up “spending a third of his time in the pool hall, a third in jail and a third in the public library” (7). Dean’s mother had died early; he traveled with his father, a footloose drunkard, all over the west during his boyhood, from city to city, from skid row to skid row, and thus avoided being swallowed up by “America and its ridiculous system of order and laws” (66).
In Sal’s opinion, “all my New York friends were in the negative nightmarish position of putting down society and giving their tired bookish or political or psychoanalytical reasons, but Dean just raced in society, eager for bread and love; he didn’t care one way or another, . . .” (10).
