love

Question 1

clearance

Answer 1

Ana. A little tired. The groceries stretching out her new knit sack. She boards the tram. She places the bundle in her lap and the tram begins to move. Then she settles back in the seat trying to get comfortable. With a half-contented sigh.

Question 2

Ana.

Answer 2

A little tired.

Question 3

A little tired.

Answer 3

The groceries stretching out her new knit sack.

Question 4

A： The only thing she worried about was being careful during that dangerous hour of the
afternoon.

Answer 4

A certain hour of the afternoon is more dangerous.

Question 5

A certain hour of the afternoon is more dangerous.

Answer 5

When the house is empty and needs nothing more from me.

Question 6

A： The former youth seemed as strange to her, like a kind of illness. When a woman
matures, she will find that -

Answer 6

A legion of people. Previously invisible. They live their lives with persistence. Continuity. And joy.

Question 7

When the house is empty and needs nothing more from me.

Answer 7

The sun is high.

Question 8

The sun is high.

Answer 8

And the family members are scattered by their duties.

Question 9

And the family members are scattered by their duties.

Answer 9

The furniture is so clean.

Question 10

The furniture is so clean.

Answer 10

And my heart constricts in astonishment.

Question 11

The groceries stretching out her new knit sack.

Answer 11

She boards the tram.

Question 12

She boards the tram.

Answer 12

She places the bundle in her lap and the tram begins to move.

Question 13

She places the bundle in her lap and the tram begins to move.

Answer 13

Then she settles back in the seat trying to get comfortable.

Question 14

Then she settles back in the seat trying to get comfortable.

Answer 14

With a half-contented sigh.

Question 15

B： Just like a farmhand. She had sown the seeds from her hand, no others, but these alone.

Answer 15

The trees are growing.

Question 16

A： Don’t worry, go shopping, or go fix something. Take care of the family when they are not
there. At the end of the afternoon, when the children come home from school, they still need
her.

Answer 16

I have always needed to feel the firm root of things.

Question 17

A： The former youth seemed as strange to her, like a kind of illness. When a woman
matures, she will find that -

Answer 17

A legion of people. Previously invisible. They live their lives with persistence. Continuity. And joy.

Question 18

A: One could also live without happiness: We abolished it.

Answer 18

I used to think of the restlessness of youth as my only happiness. But now. In exchange. I am creating something at last comprehensible by my hand. An adult life. Obscurely and
silently.

Question 19

A: That’s what I want and choose.

Answer 19

Every morning. When I wake up again. I will find the furniture dusty again. And I will clean
it again.

Question 20

A： Obscurely and Silently.

Answer 20

That’s what I want and chose.

Question 21

B： The tram goes along the tracks, swaying, heading down broad avenues. Soon, a humid
breeze blows announcing the end of the unstable hour, finally.

Answer 21

There is still time to relax before Humaitá. A new community near the coast. Such a great place to live.

Question 22

A： At that moment she saw the man. He is standing at the tram stop; his hands reaching out
in front of him.

Answer 22

Is he blind?

Question 23

B： Yes, I think so.

Answer 23

What’s he doing?

Question 24

A： He is - chewing gum/

Answer 24

A blind man is chewing gum？

Question 25

B： And her body starts leaning forward/

Answer 25

The chewing motion makes it look like he is changing between smiling and not smiling. I don't know why. Is he mocking me. My husband's cousin’s family are coming for dinner tonight.

Question 26

B （One of the passengers）: Are you ok, Madam?

Answer 26

Oh. Sorry. I just. I. I don’t. I. I don’t know. I just. I. I'm ok.

Question 27

B: （One of the passengers）： Emm, It's dripping.

Answer 27

Oh. Don’t worry. Thank you. That's ok.

Question 28

A： Like a strange song, the world started up again all around. But the damage was done.

Answer 28

I don’t remember. Why am I here.

Question 29

B： A strange feeling caught Ana. Suddenly, she doesn’t know what to do with the groceries on her lap. The knit mesh is rough between her fingers, not as intimate as when she made it.

Answer 29

No. No. No. I have so much to do. I remember I make plans for every day. I remember the eggs and bread and cheese in the fridge. The jams and onions in the cabinet. I remember the building superintendent singing from the window and my son needing a new school uniform. I remember separating each person's clothes from the others and folding them. I remember choosing the evening movie from the newspaper. I remember the electricity bill. The flat loan. The pension insurance. The Christmas holidays. Everything is wrought in such a way that one day follows another. I try so hard to have a pacified life. I take such care for it not to explode. Have I forgotten that there are blind people in the world. Who don’t need to follow the rule set by the gaze of others.

Question 30

B： Compassion for whom? the blind？ Or for herself?

Answer 30

For the blind. Everyone lacks compassion for the blind. The heat has become more stifling. And everything has gained strength and louder voices. On the square. A revolution is about to break out. The sewer grates are dry. And the air dusty. The yolks are running. Everyone on the street is in peril. And everything is turning hostile and rotting. Next to me. There is a lady in blue. She looks exhausted. On the sidewalk. A woman shoving her son. 2 lovers interlacing their fingers. Smiling. Where is the blind man.

Question 31

B: She had fallen into an excruciating benevolence！

Answer 31

Through this compassion. There appeared a life full of sweet nausea. Why do I feel nauseous.

Question 32

A： She realizes she is long past her stop. Where is she？ Ana doesn’t know. She's never been here before.

Answer 32

The Botanical Gardens.

Question 33

A：Her children snapped to mind and made her stumble home.

Answer 33

What was happening?

Question 34

A：Her soul pounding in her chest, Her compassion for the blind man was as violent as an agony, but the world seemed to be hers: dirty, perishable, hers. She opened her front door. The living room was large, square, the doorknobs were gleaming spotlessly, the windowpanes gleaming, the lamp gleaming — what new land is this?

Answer 34

I loved the world. Loved what I created. I loved with nausea. Like the oysters. With that vague sickly feeling I always got when nearing the truth. Warning me. Life is horrible. What should I do if I heeded the call of that blind man. I would go alone. There were places poor and rich that needed me. I also needed them. I’m scared. I don't know what to do with this man-made illusion. There's only an illusion of happiness in this house. A fake heaven. Not worth comparing to hell.

Question 35

A： You’re crazy.

Answer 35

I need someone to hold my hand. I need someone to hold my hand after a long. Exhausting day. I need it. Every day. Every day is the same. Every day of my life is the same. And I was fine. I was full. And I liked it. Now. It’s like I need a clean knit to hold something that is mine. Familiar and coherent. I can't do without it. Sometimes I can feel myself pulled apart. Stretched out. Like a woven mesh pocket. To be filled. Held. Tied down. Use me. Drain me of energy I don’t even have. Don't let me breathe relief. Sometimes it's not good to be imaginative. Is it. You should love harder. Love more regularly. And push that nausea down. It’s easier to just look at what's in front of you. I think that's love. Isn't it.