Clarice Lispector Excerpt
Level: Advanced
Topic: A famous excerpt from the expressive prose of Clarice Lispector
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Neloa en heodom i ansau de "ia". Pogai i ilaluan u neliu pogai eta a elemi i favi. Mai notam notam-rasuir i dami notam-rasuir de notam-rasuir su i dami sunya lirul su i dami "ia". Nolili i dami. Nim i ilianum ca i dami, mai i ilian ca a heoloa ansaum. Bi iloi sunya i tohbian, nim i do e yugai netam anja mir anse. Lilon i dami ilace en nim, su i damium daco, i anlaro i roudi. Canon i do i ansau en ansau, daehun i ilwol i dateli notam i dateli? Daehun noi oimel i damium, noli bi el. A i iliro a elori. A i tohvi a elireva. Tor eodyel: o nim i roudi ilwol ca nim i roudi.
from A Hora da Estrela
Tips
a...a... = is/are (copula)
a [subject] i [verb] e [direct object]
-um = negation
bi el = hereby (performative — the utterance enacts what it says)
anlaro = continue, still
ansau = start
daco = answer
dami = exist, there is
dateli = situation, to happen
de = from, of
elemi = life
elireva = true, accurate
elori = act, active
eodyel = together, as one
favi = birth
heodom = the world
heoloa = universe
ilace = question, ask
ilian = know
iliro = think
ilwol = thing
oimel = story
netam = only
neloa = everything, everyone
nolili = forever
notam = first
pogai = atom
rasuir = history
roudi = write
sunya = 0/10
tohbian = confusion
tohvi = feeling
tor = two
yugai = easy