Still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest
Is Love That Blind?
или
Два очень логичных мальчика говорят очень похожие и очень красивые вещи о любви.
Что появилось раньше: курица или яйцо? То есть, все эти разговоры насчет «видеть в угле сокрытый алмаз» - это замечательно, но в каких отношениях все-таки Настоящая Любовь состоит с реальностью? (Я заметила, кстати, что По-Настоящему любят обычно только Положительных Героев; ещё один повод мыть руки перед едой.)
Формулировка по-стартрековски:
(Капитана Кирка обвиняют в гибели члена экипажа; показания компьютера (запись в логе) расходятся с его собственными словами, что он поступал строго по правилам в опасной ситуации. Суд, Спока вызвали свидетелем, некая Ариэль - прокурор.)
Spock: “But the computer is inaccurate…nonetheless.”
Ariel: “Why do you say that?”
Spock: “It reports that the jettison button was pressed before the red alert.”
Ariel: “In other words, it reports that Captain Kirk was reacting to an extreme emergency that did not then exist.”
Spock: “And that is impossible.”
Ariel: “Is it? Were you watching him the exact moment he pressed the jettison button?”
Spock: “No, I was occupied.”
Spock: “The ship was already on yellow alert.”
Ariel: “Then how can you dispute the finding of the log?”
Spock: “I do not dispute it, I merely state that it is wrong.”
Ariel: “Oh? On what do you base that statement?”
Spock: “I know the captain. He is-”
Ariel (to judge): “Please instruct the witness not to speculate.”
Spock: “Lieutenant, I am half Vulcanian. Vulcians do not speculate. I speak from pure logic.”
Spock: “If I let go of a hammer on a planet that has a positive gravity, I need not see it fall to know that it has, in fact, fallen.”
Ariel: “I do not see what that has to-”
Spock: “Gentlemen, human beings have characteristics just as inanimate objects do. It is impossible for Captain Kirk to act out of panic or malice. It is not his nature.”
Ariel: “In your opinion.”
Spock looks down for a moment, the back up.
Spock: “Yes. In my opinion.”
((c) TOS «Court Martial», списано у Brittany)
Формулировка по-холмсовски:
(Холмсу только что поручили дело «Знатного клиента»: (злодей) барон Грюнер одурманил какую-то глупую девушку и хочет на ней жениться.)
(SH
"We are up against one of the worst forces of destruction in the world--that of obsessive love. She is, by Sir James' account, completely preoccupied by the rascal. Her own father cannot move her, and yet you expect me to prevail? If we believe our client, or rather his go-between, she will not hear a single word against him, she loves him so. That is, in brief, the most evil characteristic of passionate romance--the utter blindness to what is real, what is observable. If she is truly so far gone, I fear there may be nothing we can do." "The most evil characteristic, you say--I assume among many evil characteristics? I have never heard passionate romance characterized in quite so scathing terms before." Though strongly felt, my speech as a whole was delivered far more sternly than I meant it to be, I will confess. Holmes eyed me with an intently quizzical look. "Surely you are not making an effort to draw a correlation between the passionate romance, as I have termed it, of Baron Gruner's machinations, and our own relations?" "It is merely disheartening to listen to you disparage romance so thoroughly and so often," I returned tiredly, seating myself in the basket chair. "More than disheartening--discouraging." "But they are not remotely the same," he persisted, his eyes taking on a stubborn glow. "I am with you because of your observable, calculable, proven attributes. My regard is based wholly upon facts--that you are loyal, that you are courageous, that you are intelligent, that you are kind. Because it has its bedrock in established data, it is not merely unshakable, it is indisputable. I challenge anyone to prove me wrong as regards your character. Miss De Merville loves romantically--that is to say, she loves a fiction, a phantasm, and will doubtless brook no arguments to the contrary."
((c) Katie Forsythe, «The Conductor of Light»)
Thoughts, anyone?
или
Два очень логичных мальчика говорят очень похожие и очень красивые вещи о любви.
Что появилось раньше: курица или яйцо? То есть, все эти разговоры насчет «видеть в угле сокрытый алмаз» - это замечательно, но в каких отношениях все-таки Настоящая Любовь состоит с реальностью? (Я заметила, кстати, что По-Настоящему любят обычно только Положительных Героев; ещё один повод мыть руки перед едой.)
Формулировка по-стартрековски:
(Капитана Кирка обвиняют в гибели члена экипажа; показания компьютера (запись в логе) расходятся с его собственными словами, что он поступал строго по правилам в опасной ситуации. Суд, Спока вызвали свидетелем, некая Ариэль - прокурор.)
Spock: “But the computer is inaccurate…nonetheless.”
Ariel: “Why do you say that?”
Spock: “It reports that the jettison button was pressed before the red alert.”
Ariel: “In other words, it reports that Captain Kirk was reacting to an extreme emergency that did not then exist.”
Spock: “And that is impossible.”
Ariel: “Is it? Were you watching him the exact moment he pressed the jettison button?”
Spock: “No, I was occupied.”
Spock: “The ship was already on yellow alert.”
Ariel: “Then how can you dispute the finding of the log?”
Spock: “I do not dispute it, I merely state that it is wrong.”
Ariel: “Oh? On what do you base that statement?”
Spock: “I know the captain. He is-”
Ariel (to judge): “Please instruct the witness not to speculate.”
Spock: “Lieutenant, I am half Vulcanian. Vulcians do not speculate. I speak from pure logic.”
Spock: “If I let go of a hammer on a planet that has a positive gravity, I need not see it fall to know that it has, in fact, fallen.”
Ariel: “I do not see what that has to-”
Spock: “Gentlemen, human beings have characteristics just as inanimate objects do. It is impossible for Captain Kirk to act out of panic or malice. It is not his nature.”
Ariel: “In your opinion.”
Spock looks down for a moment, the back up.
Spock: “Yes. In my opinion.”
((c) TOS «Court Martial», списано у Brittany)
Формулировка по-холмсовски:
(Холмсу только что поручили дело «Знатного клиента»: (злодей) барон Грюнер одурманил какую-то глупую девушку и хочет на ней жениться.)
(SH
"We are up against one of the worst forces of destruction in the world--that of obsessive love. She is, by Sir James' account, completely preoccupied by the rascal. Her own father cannot move her, and yet you expect me to prevail? If we believe our client, or rather his go-between, she will not hear a single word against him, she loves him so. That is, in brief, the most evil characteristic of passionate romance--the utter blindness to what is real, what is observable. If she is truly so far gone, I fear there may be nothing we can do." "The most evil characteristic, you say--I assume among many evil characteristics? I have never heard passionate romance characterized in quite so scathing terms before." Though strongly felt, my speech as a whole was delivered far more sternly than I meant it to be, I will confess. Holmes eyed me with an intently quizzical look. "Surely you are not making an effort to draw a correlation between the passionate romance, as I have termed it, of Baron Gruner's machinations, and our own relations?" "It is merely disheartening to listen to you disparage romance so thoroughly and so often," I returned tiredly, seating myself in the basket chair. "More than disheartening--discouraging." "But they are not remotely the same," he persisted, his eyes taking on a stubborn glow. "I am with you because of your observable, calculable, proven attributes. My regard is based wholly upon facts--that you are loyal, that you are courageous, that you are intelligent, that you are kind. Because it has its bedrock in established data, it is not merely unshakable, it is indisputable. I challenge anyone to prove me wrong as regards your character. Miss De Merville loves romantically--that is to say, she loves a fiction, a phantasm, and will doubtless brook no arguments to the contrary."((c) Katie Forsythe, «The Conductor of Light»)
Thoughts, anyone?