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What bores me is the mundaneness of all this—wrong word, I mean prosaicness (prosaism?), its dreariness and drabness and its predictability.
Lo que me fastidia es lo mundano que resulta todo esto —bueno, esa no es la palabra, quiero decir lo prosaico (su prosaísmo), lo aburrido, lo vulgar y lo previsible que resulta.
I couldn’t make head nor tail of it.’ And though Popov was not quite so prosaic as the great revolutionary, he had often to confess a sense of ignorance in Mrs Suvorin’s presence;
Aun sin llegar a los extremos de prosaísmo del gran revolucionario, Popov tenía que reconocer que muchas veces lo asaltaba una sensación de ignorancia en presencia de la señora Suvorin.
It happens more and more nowadays, as if the times we live in were impatient for everything to pass into the public domain and for an end to all notions of authorship, or, put less prosaically, were impatient to convert everything into rumour and proverb and legend that can be passed from mouth to mouth and from pen to pen and from screen to screen, all unconstrained by fixity, origin, permanence or ownership, all headlong, unchecked and unbridled.
Ocurre cada vez más en nuestro tiempo, como si hubiera en él prisa por que pasara todo al dominio público y ya no hubiera autorías, o, dicho con no tanto prosaísmo, por convertir todo en sólo rumor y refrán y leyenda que corran de boca en boca y de pluma en pluma y de pantalla en pantalla, todo incontrolado sin fijeza ni origen ni sujeción ni dueño, todo espoleado y desbocado y sin freno.
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