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Consider the arrangement's chief absurdity: the years that are said to make the person are precisely the years the person cannot attend. Everyone agrees these months are decisive — the attachments formed, the grammar absorbed at a speed no adult can approach, …
A conclusão do texto relaciona a inacessibilidade da primeira infância
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The complaint about air travel is always that it is uncomfortable, which is true and beside the point. What it removed was the middle. A journey used to consist mostly of the parts between the places, and those parts did the work of persuading the traveller th…
A metáfora da dívida, no fecho do texto, expressa a ideia de que
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The animals are the pretext. What the institution actually exhibits is a way of looking, and it exhibits it to children, at an age when ways of looking are still being installed. The lesson is delivered by the architecture before a single creature is seen: the…
A concessão feita pelo autor aos defensores do zoológico cumpre a função de
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A street can be read, if one is willing to be slow about it, as a document about who is expected and who is merely tolerated. The evidence is not in the buildings, which lie, but in the smaller fittings that nobody photographs: the bench with an armrest at its…
A oposição final entre dois modos de experimentar a rua serve para
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There is no dignity in the crocodile and this, I suspect, is why we cannot forgive it. Our affection for animals is calibrated to a scale we invented, on which the noble occupy the summit and the merely persistent are placed somewhere near the drains. The crea…
A crítica implícita no ensaio dirige-se
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It struck the glass at the hour when the room is brightest and the world outside is, from within, invisible. The sound was domestic rather than dramatic — a knuckle on a door — and then there was a small body on the paving with its wings not quite folded, in t…
A ironia do período final decorre de
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A garden is an argument with a landscape, conducted so slowly that both parties can pretend it is a conversation. Everything in it has been chosen, and the highest praise available to it is that the choosing should not show. We admire the border that looks as …
O pressuposto ideológico que o texto expõe é o de que
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Every civilisation with a coast has assigned the sea a character, and no two have agreed. It has been a road, a wall, a grave, a mother, an argument for God and, later, an argument against him. That the same body of water can support so many incompatible readi…
Ao afirmar que chamar o mar de cruel é "generous", o editorialista pretende
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The border is the only one nobody polices and everybody obeys. On one side of it a person is a citizen with a surname, a set of obligations and a coat; on the other, within perhaps forty paces, the same person is a body, mostly bare, arranged on a towel among …
O contraste entre a pedra e a areia, no fecho do texto, sugere que
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The machine's most consequential invention was not speed but a metaphor. It borrowed our words — memory, language, reading, decision — and returned them altered, so that within two generations people had begun to describe themselves in the borrowed vocabulary …
A sentença "A metaphor that is noticed is an ornament; a metaphor that is not noticed is a belief" organiza o ensaio porque
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The animal is now more numerous as an image than as a body, and the images are thriving. It appears on flags, on petrol brands, on the shirts of teams that have never seen a forest, and in each of these appearances it signifies power, which is a curious fate f…
A tese do texto se apoia na relação entre
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She was not, I think now, an exceptional woman. She had a habit of pausing before answering, which we took for wisdom and which may have been fatigue, and a way of writing a word on the board and then standing aside from it, as if the word were now the class's…
A assimetria que o narrador identifica como condição da profissão docente consiste em
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Out of hours the room gives itself away. Thirty chairs face one wall, and the wall faces back, and in that single asymmetry the whole argument of the place is stated without a word: attention flows in one direction and is checked from the front. The windows ar…
A expressão "two systems occupy the same air" refere-se, no texto, à coexistência entre
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Ask any adult what they retained from eleven years of formal instruction and you will be told, after some embarrassment, almost nothing: a few dates, a theorem misremembered, a poem's first line. This is routinely reported as a failure of schools. It is nothin…
Ao rejeitar a explicação corrente para o esquecimento dos conteúdos escolares, o editorial sustenta que
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What the device abolished was not distance but waiting, and waiting, it turns out, had been doing a great deal of unacknowledged work. A letter took nine days, and in those days the absent person was obliged to be imagined; one composed them, revised them, was…
A distinção entre "availability" e "presence" é mobilizada no texto para
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Before it holds anything, the desk holds a posture. Its height is not neutral; it decides where the spine will bend and for how long, and every generation that has sat at one has agreed, without discussing it, to a particular arrangement of the body called con…
A inversão apresentada no período final serve para
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We are told, usually by people who own one, that the cat is the only domestic animal to have negotiated the terms of its captivity. This is flattering to both parties and almost certainly false. What the cat has achieved is subtler and far more useful: it has …
O articulista constrói sua crítica ao
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The doll came out of the box last, after the letters, which no one had wanted to read either. Its dress had gone the colour of weak tea and one eye had ceased to close, so that it lay in the tissue with an expression of permanent, mild scepticism, as though it…
A frase "I have instead the memory of a memory, which is a different currency and buys less" sustenta no conto a ideia de que
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Nothing in the house has authority except the smallest thing in it. It cannot walk, or bargain, or name what it wants, and by these deficits it governs absolutely: a sound is emitted, and adults who negotiate contracts by day abandon their sentences mid-clause…
A substituição do verbo "learning" por "auditing", no período final, serve para
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My grandfather could estimate a horse's age by its teeth and a man's by his handshake, and he trusted the first method more. He had been among the last of a line for whom the animal was infrastructure rather than sentiment: it ploughed, it hauled, it went to w…
O paradoxo formulado pelo narrador consiste em
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The set in the corner has undergone the quietest of demotions. For a few decades it was the hearth of the house, and rooms were arranged around it as villages are arranged around a well: every chair angled towards the same rectangle, every evening subdivided b…
A oposição que organiza a argumentação do texto contrapõe
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There is no fruit more exhausted by meaning than the apple. It has been made to stand for temptation, for knowledge, for gravity, for municipal branding, for the tidy sum of a teacher's gratitude; and it has borne each assignment with the same waxy indifferenc…
A ironia central do ensaio reside em
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A child born this year will arrive with a publicist. Before the first word is spoken, several hundred images may already exist in places the child cannot reach, captioned by people who love it and did not think to ask. The affection is genuine, which is what m…
A menção ao álbum de fotografias da avó cumpre no texto a função de
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The first time I flew I was eleven, and I spent the whole descent trying to find our house. What I remember is not the view but the discovery that everything I considered enormous — the river, the bus route that took an hour, the distance between my school and…
A afirmação "I was insulted on behalf of the walking I had done" revela que o narrador
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