Status Updates From بیست و یک داستان

“خانه سرباز” تا اینجا یکی از بهترین داستانها بوده. همینگوی به خوبی تونست روایتگر احساسات و حالات مختلف یک جوان با تروماهای ازاردهنده باشه؛ از طرفی وجود روحیه حمایتگری در عین آسیب‌دیدگی هم از نزدیکی عمیق همینگوی به “سرباز” هست.

He stood behind his desk in the far end of the dim room. The wife liked him. She liked the deadly serious way he received any complaints. She liked his dignity. She liked the way he wanted to serve her. She liked the way he felt about being a hotel-keeper. She liked his old, heavy face and big hands.

Just then the woman cried out. “Oh, Daddy, can’t you give her something to make her stop screaming?” asked Nick. “No. I haven’t any anæsthetic,” his father said. “But her screams are not important. I don’t hear them because they are not important.

Indian Camp

I’m getting as bored with dying as with everything else, he thought.

So this was how you died, in whispers that you did not hear.

How every one he had slept with had only made him miss her more. How what she had done could never matter since he knew he could not cure himself of loving her.

It was never what he had done, but always what he could do.

It was not her fault that when he went to her he was already over. How could a woman know that you meant nothing that you said; that you spoke only from habit and to be comfortable? After he no longer meant what he said, his lies were more successful with women than when he had told them the truth.

“Stop it. Harry, why do you have to turn into a devil now?” “I don’t like to leave anything,” the man said. “I don’t like to leave things behind.”

“Love is a dunghill,” said Harry. “And I’m the cock that gets on it to crow.”

Since the gangrene started in his right leg he had no pain and with the pain the horror had gone and all he felt now was a great tiredness and anger that this was the end of it. For this, that now was coming, he had very little curiosity. For years it had obsessed him; but now it meant nothing in itself. It was strange how easy being tired enough made it.

The snow of Kilimanjaro