最近、トップレベルの予備校の夏休みの読書課題リストを見ました。そう、『老人と海』はそのリストの一つに載っていました。
告白しますと、私は「仕事で」本を読んでいます。最近は、ほとんどすべての本をiPadのKindleアプリで読んでいます。それは…仕事です。もちろん、楽しんでいます。本を読むことは大好きです。でも、iPadで本を読むのは、仕事として/仕事のためにやっていることです。
しかし、映画を見た後、古いハードカバーのグレアム・グリーンの小説を取り出し、(残念ながらあまり使わない)読書用の椅子のそばに置きました。タイマーをセットして、決められた時間だけ読みました。
これを続けられるかどうかはまだわかりませんが、そのグレアム・グリーンの小説は確実に読み終えるつもりです。そして、もしそのリストに載っている読んでいない本に取り掛かるなら、ハードカバー版を購入し、読書用の椅子のそばに置き、自分なりの読書の儀式に従おうと思っています。
まさかアクション映画が、私たちを偉大な生涯の読書リストに誘うとは、誰が予想したでしょうか?
検索してみたら、これが100冊のリストかもしれない。少なくとも映画で言及された3冊は含まれている:
The top 100 books of all time - Take a look at a list of the top 100 books of all time, nominated by writers from around the world, from Things Fall Apart to Mrs Dalloway, and from Pride and Prejudice to Don Quixote.
(「史上最高の100冊――世界中の作家が選んだ「史上最高の100冊」をご覧ください。『崩れゆく絆』から『ダロウェイ夫人』まで、そして『高慢と偏見』から『ドン・キホーテ』まで。」
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/may/08/books.booksnews [英語])
世界中の作家が推薦した歴代100冊のリストを見てみよう…
I know the event has already ended, but I just now found the time to combine the pictures with my thoughts.
Two of my favorite characters were featured at the event, so it felt like a belated birthday present to me.
Google translated the event pages this way…
Pictures are from the official X-page of the game
Yoichi
The story starts with MC greeting Yoichi very enthusiastically when he returns from archery practice. She said she would like to see how he shoots arrows and how good he looks when he is focused…
Oh… so shy all of a sudden…
So… They return to his room, and MC notices an invitation to an archery competition. Yoichi is not happy about this, but MC said she would like to see him shoot (again), and he reluctantly agrees.
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They went to another region for this competition.
The mayor greets them at his room. I don't really remember how they called him in the game, so I use this word.
The mayor said that if Yoichi is already here, they will start the competition earlier… more precisely, today. MC thinks that this is a really strange suggestion. Yoichi is tired, he has just arrived from a long journey… But if he agrees, maybe it's not so bad…
They went to the training place. But the other participants won't let him train, saying it's already too crowded, so there's no room for him.
I love backgrounds in this game...
Yoichi brings the MC to the bench, and finally she asks him… why do they behave like that. And he explains that in this region, people don't really like Yoshitsune and Yoichi, as his general, is also out of favor. Just political issues. MC is very angry because people judge Yoichi not for who he is, but for his connections.
Yoichi said that if it would only upset her, he would rather to leave this place. He only agreed to participate because he thought it would make her happy. He went to inform the mayor of his decision.
MC is alone in the garden. Some guys from the earlier came up to her and started making jokes about Yoichi. She defends him very passionately. They said she should be with them instead, and even dared to take her hand. But our hero came back and put them back in their place.
After all he decided to participate in order to prove that he was a better archerer than them, even in such a tired state.
Of course, he won! It's Yoichi!
So, in the evening, they discussed recent events, and Yoichi pointed out...
I don't remember him ever calling her "princess"… Not my thing, but I don't mind if he likes it…
And she thinks that maybe she's not as pacifist as she thought she was.
My anger would boil like a volcano. And, of course, it would have found a way out. Usually, I really respect personal space and don't touch others without their consent. But in this situation, I would fight with everything I have… nails, elbows, even teeth. How dare they even think badly of him! And I'm not even dating him…
Actually, now that I think about it, there were no flowers in this story… So… I'm a little confused about the title of the event…
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