Clarice Lispector, renowned brazilian writer and poetress, with simple phrases wrote a little masterpiece. The phrases (a version into English) she used are shown below, but not in order. Once you realized the proper order youīll find out the beauty of what she wrote because, if you read it downwards, itīs the end of a love affair, and if you read it upwards, itīs a confession of a great passion. Can you just rearrange the phrases below to achieve this? You canīt add anything and the punctuations already made belong to the phrases where they are. All the initials I capitalized deliberately to make it not too easy, but in the original only those who start a phrase are capitalized.
I still want you, as I always did.
I`m sure that
I feel inside that
I already forgot you!
I`ll be lying if I say that
And Iīll never use again the phrase
Nothing was in vain.
Sorry, but I must tell you the truth:
You donīt mean anything to me.
I love you!
I couldnīt ever say that
Itīs too late...
I donīt love you anymore.
I preserve a great love.
I feel more and more that
Though I categorized the different phrases, I'm still not sure how to
make everything read negative downwards and positive upwards. The
way I originally pictured it was that phrases like "You don't mean
anything to me." wouldn't fit in a confession of a passion, therefore
such negative phrases would be "canceled" by phrases like "I'll be
lying if I said that".
But the central problem I'm encountering is that there are more of the
negative (N) phrases than there are canceling (NI) phrases.
Likewise, there are more positive phrases (P) than can be canceled by
the NI phrases.
Am I missing something?
Also, a little clarification please:
Are we allowed to put more than one of these phrases in the same line? For example, is the following line allowed?
I couldn't ever say that it's too late...
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Posted by Tristan
on 2005-09-13 05:36:04 |
hint?
