كانت أذنه تسمع أكثر مما يُقال له، وكان لكلامه البطيء ظلالٌ لا من الفكر، بل من فهمٍ يتجاوز الفكر.
النص الأصلي بالإنجليزية
“His ear heard more than what was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought.”John Steinbeck — Of Mice and Men (2016)
جون ستاينبيك
مؤلف · 1902–1968. له 237 حكمة في الموقع.
الصورة: McFadden Publications, Inc.; no photographer credited; photo likely the work of Sonya Noskowiak, as Steinbeck is wearing the same clothes from her 1935 studio session that produced the work shown here: https://www.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.2006.74