(UFRGS - 2018)TEXTO PARA A PRXIMA QUESTO:A(s) ques

(UFRGS - 2018)

TEXTO PARA A PRÓXIMA QUESTÃO:

A(s) questão(ões) a seguir está(ão) relacionada(s) ao texto abaixo.

 

So here I am, upside down in a woman. Arms patiently crossed, waiting, waiting and wondering who I'm in, ¹what I’m in for. My eyes close nostalgically when I remember how I once drifted in my translucent body bag, floated dreamily in the bubble of my thoughts through my ²private ocean in slowmotion somersaults, colliding gently against the ³transparent bounds of my confinement, the confiding membrane that vibrated with, even as it muffled, the voices of conspirators in a ⁴vile enterprise. That was in my careless youth. Now, fully inverted, not an inch of space to myself, knees crammed against belly, my thoughts as well as my head are fully engaged. I’ve no choice, my ear is pressed all day and night against the ⁵bloody walls. I listen, make mental notes, and I’m troubled. I’m hearing pillow talk of deadly intent and I’m terrified by what awaits me, by what might ⁶draw me in.

I’m immersed in abstractions, and only the proliferating relations between them create the illusion of a known world. When I hear "blue," which I’ve never seen, I imagine some kind of mental event that's fairly close to "green"—which I’ve never seen. I count myself an innocent, ⁷unburdened by allegiances and obligations, a free spirit, despite my ⁸meagre living room. No one to contradict or reprimand me, no name or previous address, no religion, no debts, no enemies. My appointment diary, if it existed, notes only my forthcoming birthday. I am, or I was, despite what the geneticists are now saying, a blank slate. ⁹But a slippery, porous slate no school-room or cottage roof could find use for, a slate that writes upon itself as it grows by the day and becomes less blank. I count myself an innocent, but it seems I'm party to a plot. My mother, bless her ¹⁰unceasing, loudly squelching heart, seems to be involved.

 

In: McEWAN, Ian. Nutshell: a novel. New York: Nan A. Talese / Doubleday, 2016. p. 1-2.

 

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