SOPHIE'S WORLD
(Sofies verden), by Jostein Gaarder (JG), translated from Norwegian into American by Paulette Møller (PM)Guestbook | Guestmap | Discussion forum | Inspired by...
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| CH = chapter, P = page, L = line, C = comment, N = Norwegian, T = (alternative) translation, usually closer to the original text, TTR = Two-Tier Reality (metaphysical system bridging East and West) |
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CHAPTER 24: THE ENLIGHTENMENT (PP251-266) |
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| Title: from the way needles are made to the way (T: how) cannons are founded T: cast | ||||||||
| P251 L5: Didn't you go to (the) church? C: School or church, Mom? Make your mind up! L8: What I'm wearing now T: The same as now L9(cont): Your nightgown T: nightdress C: Why is Hilde allowed to wear a nightdress, but not Sophie? L9(cont): C: Sentences missing: T: 'Mmm ... I have been in St. Mary's Church' - 'St. Mary's Church?' L12: She let (T: laid) the ring binder fall into (T: in) her lap L18: if I can take that phrase any more T: stand any more congratulations L20: fixing a great (T: making an exciting) dinner L20: get hold of T: buy L22: left T: disappeared L25: system of the dates T: dating system LL26-27: are T: were | ||||||||
| P252 L8: She jumped at every new card and birthday greeting T: Again and again she jumped when she came to the new cards and birthday greetings L10: computer program T: computer L13: On top of everything else T: To top it all L15: with T: to L18: crazy T: stupid L19: like T: almost L20: got T: came L22: was going to T: would L24: consciousness C: Then unimportant sentence omitted L27: streamer waving T: banner streaming L33: Nail-biting had never been one of Hilde's bad habits T: Hilde had never had that bad habit L35: pleased with herself right (T: superior just) now | ||||||||
| P253 L6: Raged over T: had struck L28: girl T: child L33: Wasn't it only (T: just) her father who let them know things? T: let it appear that they knew? L39: understanding C: development | ||||||||
| P254 L1: Could history simply continue to all eternity (T: indefinitely) once the last piece(s) of the jigsaw puzzle of philosophy and science had fallen into place? C: Then sentence missing: T: Or was humanity nearing the end of history? C: Basic misunderstanding of what science and philosophy are all about. The puzzle picture is not fixed and there are no 'last pieces'. When Einstein laid down his new 'pieces', the whole picture changed and some of the old 'pieces' no longer fitted. Humanity may well be nearing the end of history - at least, the history of the present world civilisation - but not because science and philosophy have 'completed the picture' L4: deforestation T: burned-down rain-forest L5: Maybe it was not so crazy to call man's thirst for knowledge a fall from grace? C: A profoundly religious notion which is profoundly depressing, not least because it encourages obscurantism and fatalism. Unfortunately, man's vaunted 'thirst for knowledge' is all too often a thinly disguised 'thirst for power' - power over nature and over other people - with no counter-balancing 'thirst for wisdom' in using that knowledge and that power L10: Happy birthday to you T: So tell me what more/else you would like L10: were done with T: had eaten L13: crazy T: strange L15: as long as he doesn't make you completely delirious T: you don't let him drive you completely crazy L16: No way T: I won't L18: Yes, if you like T: Perhaps L19: Dad had hopefully not T: Surely Dad hadn't L21: Just to make sure (T: For safety's sake), she decided not to mention the white rabbit C: 1000 thanks, Hilde L24: What? T: Yes? L26: Her mother looked at her with an enigmatic expression T: gave her a sideways look L28: you untidy scamp T: Miss Butterfingers L30: Let me think T: I don't remember L30: I may have T: I did L33: She came quickly T: Soon she was L35: Right now I can't seem to find it T: I can't find it at the moment L36: as much T: so L39: resting against her knees T: in her lap | ||||||||
| P255 L3: Happy birthday T: Congratulations on the day L4: what (T: all that) had happened the night (T: day) before L8: She had practically been in shock T: had a sort of nervous breakdown L9: put her to (T: bundled her into) bed. L11: said weakly T: stuttered L23: It was the signal for T: Now came L24: mother's sentimental flights back to (T: memories of / N: 'mimring' - misprint for 'minnering'?) her first contractions T: labour pains L34: psychiatrist T: psychologist | ||||||||
| P256 L2: More than I got last semester T: more 'very's than I got at Christmas L15: consciousness T: understanding/realisation L17: Are there that many (T: there many) frogs in the garden? C: Eh?! L18: Sophie started to (T: had to) laugh L19: persevere T: hang on LL20-21: chance T: hope L24: down T: comfortably L27: starting from scratch T: standing on bare ground L29: thinking T: oneself L30: invented T: fabricated L32: see T: follow L34: But therein also lies a built-in (T: that contains an inbuilt self-) contradiction L34: fictive T: fictional L41: It may be (T: true enough) that | ||||||||
| P257 L3: this is where T: it's on this point that L3: devise T: develop L9: compared to (T: with) the major's heavy artillery T: fire-power L9(cont): We are very likely T: I dare say we are L10: forces T: factors L10: talking dogs C: Then phrase missing: T: planes with congratulatory banners L12: stubbornness T: own will-power L17: I think I see where you're going with this T: what you mean L19: would not be T: is not L23: dual personality T: split consciousness L28: Decidedly so T: Definitely L29: attempting T: trying L31: Archimedes ... Give me a firm (T: fixed) point (on which to stand) and I will move the earth L32(cont): That's the kind of point we must find to move (T: lever) ourselves out L40: gluey T: sticky L41: done for T: lost | ||||||||
| P258 L1: facts T: information L3: so that T: before L4: we will unavoidably touch (T: cannot avoid touching) on L5: clash T: quarrel L12: grades T: marks L13: candy T: sweets L15: grades T: school report L17: are the result of T: form L22: cut T: play truant on L28: Hilde let (T: laid) the ring binder slide into (T: binder in) her lap L30: sneaky T: sly L31: what the plan was that T: what sort of plan L32: devising T: hatching L32: sneak a look T: take a peep L33: read it to the end T: read on L35: had an overview T: knew in outline L36: probably T: doubtless L37: He might dash off (T: happen to write) something L39: In a situation like that (T: Precisely in that 'happenstance'), Sophie and Alberto would have (T: and Alberto had) a certain amount of leeway T: degree of freedom L41: Hilde had an almost transfiguring conviction T: the quite clear feeling | ||||||||
| P259 L1: Still waters run deep T: Even if the sea is quite calm, it does not mean that nothing is happening down in the depths L3: Why did that idea come to her? T: But why did she think that? L4: rippled (T: broke) the surface LL5-7: T: At school, Sophie was congratulated and acclaimed, just as a birthday child should be. Perhaps she got extra-special attention because there was already so much excitement about the school reports and the soft drinks L8: The minute (T: As soon as) the teacher dismissed the class with (her) best wishes for the vacation (T: a good summer), Sophie ran (T: pelted off) home L9(cont): Joanna tried to slow her down T: hold her back L12: They were both birthday cards T: Both cards bore the message L18: Happy Birthday T: Warmest congratulations L20: Sophie was not sure how to react ... written to her too C: Then sentence missing: T: In a way, she thought, it was touching L25: next to last T: last but one L26: telling you about T: talking about L34: natural religion T: humanised Christianity | ||||||||
| P260 L1: A's T: 'very's L6: invited T: motioned L6: although a slight mist of damp raw air was coming (T: but a raw and chilly stream of air was moving) off the lake L9: get going T: start L10: philosopher T: system-builder L25: intrigued T: fascinated L29: authority T: -ties L33: he was the one who T: he had L35: clergy T: Church L39: revolutionary T: new | ||||||||
| P261 L6: Enlightenment T: philosophy L7: rational T: rationalistic L10: the British T: Englishmen L11: evident T: evidence LL10-11: "common sense" ... "what everybody knows" T: common experience LL11-12: "evident" ... "what is obvious" L16: characteristic T: prominent L17: the Age of Reason T: rationalism L18: nature was subject to reason T: rationally ordered L20: immutable T: unchanging L23: Now was the time to start 'enlightening' the masses T: Now the masses had to be 'enlightened' L23: was to be the basis T: essential L25: the fault of T: due to L26: focused on T: paid to L27: the science of pedagogy (T: pedagogy, as a science,) was founded during (T: stems from) the Enlightenment L32: huge T: great L34: 1772 T: with contributions from all ... L36: founded T: cast L38: oblige me by putting T: kindly put L42: irrationalism T: irrationality | ||||||||
| P262 L2: until the last couple of decades T: until a couple of decades ago L3: developments are T: 'progress' is L4: voiced T: put forward L9: human reason was a gift of nature rather than of religion or of "civilisation T: gift of nature, unlike religion and "civilisation" L12: proposed T: put forward L14: man ... it is civilisation which ruins him T: The evil lies in society L18: Previously, childhood had been considered merely a preparation for adult life C: An attitude still dominant today L24: religion also had to be brought into harmony with "natural" reason C: How? L26: a natural religion T: a humanised Christianity L34: very strange T: rather strange L37: religion T: Christianity | ||||||||
| P263 L1: What is that? T: Explain L7: formal T: first L10: practical T: practised L27: unhappily T: regrettably L33: anarchy T: lawlessness L35: The French Revolution in 1787 N: 1789 C: !! | ||||||||
| P264 L3: away from T: to leave L22: How shameful! T: For shame! L25: in Norway ... women did not get the right to vote until 1913 C: But much earlier than in Britain | ||||||||
| P265 L7: expression T: grimace L10: a new turn of events T: something new L10: count on T: include L18: Our descendants ... What kind of world are they inheriting from us? C: If any! L20: the mystery N: Derrick C: Mystery: Who or what is Derrick? | ||||||||