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 23: BJERKELY (PP238-250) |
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| P238 L3: Broad rays of morning sun lit up the room T: Almost a whole wall was lit up by the morning sun L7: Way back T: Back L8: 15th birthday T: 15 years L12: Furthermore, it was T: It was also L17: behind T: and | ||||||||
| P239 L6: forlorn T: standing alone L11: Bjerkely C: ly = lee = shelter L19: bursts of thunder T: thunderclaps L23: turn (T: an ugly) yellow L29: dresser T: chest of drawers L34: mousy T: dull/inexpressive L37: really (T: really quite) green | ||||||||
| P240 L5: significant T: big L8: Hilde was so proud T: had been almost as proud as him L18: Through the years T: As she grew up L26: that had been so very secret T: there had been so much secrecy about L41: with pastry T: buns and lemonade L41(cont): and a Norwegian flag C: Typically Scandinavian: the flag represents the people rather than the state | ||||||||
| P241 L1: quietly T: softly L8: fuss T: talk L16: poetry C: ?! L18: like T: as L19: Grundtvig C: 19th C. Danish founder of Folk High Schools, inexpensive private residential colleges, originally for ordinary young men and women living in the countryside. Folk High Schools have become an integral part of cultural life throughout Scandinavia L34: probably T: presumably | ||||||||
| P242 L4: (T: She bounced on the bed) With surprise, (T: when) she read L11: the joker T: rascal L12: really taken her by surprise T: literally caught her in bed L29: strange T: mysterious L31: It's That Rabbit Again! | ||||||||
| P243 L2: deeper into the fur C: Or further into the deep? L14: half an hour T: an hour L15: thank goodness T: fortunately L15: right now T: just now L27: someplace T: somewhere else | ||||||||
| P244 L1: Hilde heard her mother's footsteps (T: a sound) on the stairs. T: It must be her mother coming up with the birthday tray L4: Happy birthday T: Hurrah for you completing your year, you we congratulate L11: Uh-huh N: Mmmm L15: You can see I'm reading T: occupied/busy C: Mothers of teenage girls seem to have a hard time in Norway L24: You're in a complete daze T: quite confused L27: shrimp salad C: Not in original text; birthday present from PM? L27: soda T: pop, soft drink L28: small package (T: on the tray) Her mother stood awkwardly ... with a flag (T: But having only two hands, she had stuck the Norwegian flag) under one arm L30: thanks a lot T: 1000 thanks L31: You don't have to go to school till (T: You don't have to be in church before) one o'clock C: Delightfully idiomatic Norwegian remark meaning roughly 'Wakey! Wakey!' In China they say: 'Please no hurry, sampan leave tomorrow'. And the Italians say: 'Beh, se non è vero, è ben trovato'. Anyway, the verbal slap brings Hilde back to reality (whatever that may be) L32(cont): Not until now did Hilde remember (T: At last H. realised) where she was L34: absorbed in this C: Then missing passage: T: She pointed at the ring binder. 'It's from Dad' L39: history of T: book on L40: the package from me T: my present | ||||||||
| P245 L1: Thank you very much T: 1000 thanks L2: Hilde N: Sofie C: !! L2(cont): got out of bed T: jumped up L4: I have to get back to the book T: Now you can go C: Poor Mom! L8: I have to get to work T: the office L9: on a hanger T: hanging up L12: rock T: hill L14: shivered T: started/jumped L15: let T: get ... to L18: giant T: great L35: (Berkeley) denied existence of a material world beyond the human mind C: Yes and no. TTR 'secondary reality', the material world as we perceive it, is - in a sense - part of the human mind, which has no spatial bounds; however, we perceive only an infinitesimal part of the infinite objective universe (TTR 'primary reality'). L36: Our sense perceptions proceed (T: derive) from God C: Then sentence missing: T: Berkeley is also famous for his criticism of abstract general ideas | ||||||||
| P246 L6: Hilde's father was responsible for her 'sense perceptions' T: Her sense perceptions were produced by L9: smiled T: laughed L10: discovers the reflection of a girl T: sees a girl in a mirror L14: made its way T: ended up L17: (T: For her,) It must all seem quite inscrutable T: inexplicable L23: soda T: pop L23: her roll T: with shrimp salad C: Aha! L37: Imagine being T: How was it possible to be | ||||||||
| P247 L33: Hilde, like Sophie, was elevated to the celestial spheres T: Hilde felt herself (being) lifted up into space | ||||||||
| P248 L5: the most giddying (T: dizzying/making-head-swim) passage L5: But (T: at the same time) it was nevertheless (T: also) the simplest L7: a divine mystery that everyone shares T: is part of L9: everyone can read what they like into the word 'divine' C: Or just leave it out L14: she flung the bedclothes angrily aside, got up T: she sprang up angrily from the bed L21: over and over T: several times L28: liked getting T: was glad to have L30: She now saw Jesus and Christianity in a completely new light T: By the time she had finished reading the course-letter, her father had given her a completely new perspective on J. and C. | ||||||||
| P249 L13: time T: clock L15: cut school T: missed church LL16-17: But it did mean ... well-wishers T: But there was something about the birthday itself that irritated her. She had also cheated herself out of many congratulations. Oh well, there had really been no shortage of that sort of thing L18: Soon she found herself receiving (T: had to listen to) a long sermon T: just the same L18(cont): Alberto had no problem (T: no big problems) slipping into the role of a medieval priest T: a priest L25: Society for the Protection (C: Promotion?) of Men L28: practical T: down to earth L29: in the (T: Book Club's) encyclopedia L30: scandalous T: shameful L32: C: Without 'apparently' and 'apparently', apparently L36: Sacred (T: Holy) Wisdom L36(cont): But there was nothing (T: A capital (Bulgaria - Sofia) and innumerable queens were named after this 'wisdom', but there wasn't a word) about it(s) being female L38: Sophie had revealed herself to Hilde T: Hilde's 'inner eye' L39(cont): She was picturing the girl with the straight (T: the black) hair all the time | ||||||||
| P250 L1: most of the morning T: almost the whole night C: Shocking! L10: had Hilde stood T: had not Hilde herself stood L11: behind the glass T: in the mirror L15: Sophie really existed (T: in there) somewhere L24: not there T: gone L27: Sophie had apparently (T: evidently) dreamed that Hilde's father came home T: about Hilde's father coming home L28: a week to go before that happened T: till then L32: Hilde knew (T: with conviction) that Sophie ... really existed. | ||||||||