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انجمن مترجمان زبان انگلیسی Write for you , from life time to time which takes me in its bitter and sweet embrace and dose not leave me , i love life with its problems so that loving GOD. |
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یک شنبه 14 مهر 1392برچسب:, :: 8:15 :: نويسنده : saeid
In the nbame of GOD
The Bet (Anton Chekove)
It was a dark autumn night and the old banker was roaming side to side of his study, recalling in hid mind to rejoicing at the party.There were clever persons and authority . the iscussion was aound the punishments, whicch one of them was better or wrose than another one!
Life imprisonment or capital punishment?Most of them beleved that capital punishment should be eplaced universally by life imperisonment .
I don’t agree with you remarked the host. I myself have not experinced any one of them . Neither capital punishment nor life impriaonment, but in my opinion capital punishment is more moral and human than imprisonment.
An executioner kills you instantly , life imprisonment kills gradually. Who is the more human an executioner who kills you in a few seccounds or one who kills you continuously?
They are both equally immoral . mentioned one of the guestes. Because their purpose is the same. Both take your life. This state is not GOD.
Amoung the struggling , there was a lawyer , a young man of abuot 24years old, he said : Capital punishment and life imprisonment are equally immoral but if i want to select one of them i would rather select the secound one. It is better to live somehow than not to live entirely.
In a flash the banker who was younger , lost his temper , and banged his fist on the table , and cryed out : Do you ever know what areyou talking about? It is lie. I bet you two millions yopu can not patient in a cell even for five years!
If you serious, replied the lawyer man , not only i gonna do it for five years, but also i will do it for fifteen.
Here the banker mentioned : i bet two millions. Agreed said the lawyer.
During supper the banker said to the lawyer jokingly : come to your sence my friend, before it’s too late. Two millions are nothing to me , but you will lose three or four of the best years of your life. And i pity you.
And now the banker roaming from corner to corner , recalled the utterance and asked himself : why did i bet this bet? What’s the good?he gonna lose fifteen years of his life ,accordingly i will throw out two millions. Will the people realize capital punishment is worse or better than life imprisonment ?
Anyway , the lawyer man accepted to suffer his imprisonment under the strictest observation. The condition were beneath : he would be deprived of crossing th threshold. To see living the people , to hear human voices , and to recieve the letter and newspaper . then was accepted to have musical tool , to read books, to write letters , to drink wine and smoke tobacoo. He could do the communication but only in silent. So just for communicating he could do it with a crack of the window constructed for this purpose. The condition constructed by scrutinzed deatails. By the agreement it dtarted from 12 o’clock ofNovamber 14 th, 1870, to 12 o’clcock of Novamber 14 th .
During the first year he suffered lots of from the confinement, most of the time he heard the piano’s sound. He refused to use from the wine and tobacoo. He believed that the wine excite the desire and desire is the orginal enemy of a prisoner , so smoking tobacoo was the cause of the air pollution. And he was sent so many books in the light character , with a complicated love intterest , stories of crime and fantasty , comedies and so forth.
In the secound year , he avoided from to hear piano music and drinking plenty of wine and smokicng the tobacoo. Most of the people had imagined that he is drinking , eating and laying onhis bed all of the time.
In the second half of the sixth year he began sacrificly to study languages , philosophy , history. He had done these jobs hardly and the banker had not leisure time to buy ooks for him. In the space of rour yeras , he bought six hundered volumes books. It was while that kindness lasted that the banker received a letter from the prisoner : my darling prison’s officer , i’m writing these lines in six languages . Exhibit them to experts and outstanding persons. Let them read them. If they don’t find even one mistake , i appeal from you to give order two fires. By the noise i shall undersatnd that my efforts have not been usless.if you imagine what kind of sensation i find when i can speak and understabd in six languages. The prisoner desire was fulfilled. The banker to ordered two shots fire.
After the ten years , he sat unstirableand immovable behind the table and study only his statement. It was the cause of the banker surprising , because a person who has spent for years of his time for studying six hundered books , right now is spending just one year to study one book. After that the new testament replaced by the other books, such as theology and religious.
During the last two years of his confinement he read the extraordinary amount , quite accidently and haphazard. Now he would apply himself to the natural sciences. He would read the books of Bylon & shakespeare. He read as thuogh he were swimming in the sea amoung broken pieces of wrekage.
So the banker remmembered all this and thuoght:tomorrow at 12 oclock he receives his freedom, i shall have to pay him two millions. If i pay him i will ruin forever...
The banker had lost everything. Gambling on the stock exchange, risky speculation and the recklessness, that he could not rid himself even in old ages.
That hateful bet was whispering in his ears , and was clutching the old man. Why didn’t the man die? He gonna take my last life , enjoyment , and i shall hear some hilarious words from him every day. I’m pity on you , let me help you. The only way escape from bankruptcy is that the man should die.
The clock had just struck three. The banker was listening every one was asleep, all of trees were frozen . he did try that to make any noise. Then , he pulled out the keys from his pocket which had not been used during the fifteen years in the sack of opening the door. Put on his overcoat and went out of the house. The Weather was very cold, could not see neither the ground,nor the white statues, nor the garden wing, nor the trees.
Approaching the garden wings and called the watchnan, there was no answer. The weather was so much cold that he had gone to the shelter.
The old banker thought with himself, if i have the courage to fulfill my determination, definitly the watchman will get into suspicion.
In the darkness he scrabbled for his steps and the door and entered to the hall of the garden wing and scratch a match. There was no any body, anyone’s bed, with any clothes.stood there.for sometimes he knocked the window.there was no answer.
In the prisoner’s room a candle was burning slowly. The prisoner himself had sat on the table. Only his back, the hair on his head and his hands were visible. Open books were spread on the table. Fifeen years confinement had taught him to sit montionless. Any way he decided to enter.
After that he approach gradually him, there was a man but unlike to a human. When he touched , he had been like a skelton. The colour of his face was like yellow.
Poor evill, thought the old banker with himself. Probably he had been dreaming two millions. To take this half - dead body on the bed and suffocate him with a cushion. But first let us to read his paper :
He started to read it : tomorrow at 12 o’cclock midnight, i gonna get my freedom and mix with people,but befor i leave this room and see the sun, it necessary to say a few words to you. On my own clear conscinece , and before GOD who sees me , l have to mention that i dislike freedom,the life, the health, cand everythings that your books call blessing of the world.
For fifteen years i have studied earthly life. True , i saw neither the earth nor the people, but in your books i drank fragrant wine, hunted deer and wild animals in the jungels. In your books i climbed up the pinnacle of ELBORZ and saw how the sun is raising in the morning and is setting in the evening. And saw the ocean , the mountain ridges with a purple gold. And i saw from there how the clouds were dividing togather above of me.i saw the green jungels, fields, rivers , lakes,cities. I touches the wings of beautiful devils who came flying to me to speakof GOD...
Your books gae me wisdom. All that delightful human thaught created in the centries is compressed to a little lump in my skull. Everything is discarded, frail ,visionary and delusive as a mirage. Thaught you be prode and wise and beautiul, but finally you gonna die like the face of the earth like micce underground.
You are crazy and gone the wrong way. You have worn the sheeps’ clothes in the wolves’ skin. You would surprised and enthusiastic if the fruits of the orange and appel’s trees had born frogs and lizards. Or not if the roses’ perfume had been horses’ sweat.
Now i show you my humility indeed , but i belittle two millions which i dreamed in the paradise . i shall come out from here five minutes before the stipulated, so i shall violate the agreement.
Upon reading the letter ,the old banker put it on the table, kissing the head of the lawyer man wnd started to weep. He went out from the wing , he had not remebered by that time to have sense of the humility like this. Coming back home, lay bown on his bed , so tears didn’t let him to have a calm sleep.
The next morning the watch man came and said him that they had seen the prisoner climd through the window . he had gone and disappear. Immediately, the banker followed the watchman and designed the escape of the prisoner. After thet he intrrupted to exhibit the paper to anyone, and louked it for everlasting.
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درباره وبلاگ  neither i poet which make poem nor prophet so that miracle , i'm simple as simple as you with so much sins ,so give me right to have some mistake , to have some sins and to have a selection for my living , then in every step , i must think about my creature and deny evil who is always overcom by GOD آخرین مطالب پيوندها
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