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PAGE 10 (Four panels)

Panel 1: Still in the same apartment where the interview is taking place, but Eliza is now on tiptoes taking a heavy book down from a a high shelf.

Unseen interviewer (1): Seriously, aren’t you afraid?

Translation (1): Falando sério, vocês não têm medo?

Eliza (2): I have something to make the fear go away. Have you heard of the Roman poet Lucretius?

Translation (2): Tenho algo que faz o medo ir embora. Você já ouviu falar do poeta romano Lucrécio?

Panel 2: Close-up around some text, the following lines from Lucretius’s De rerum natura, set in a very old typeface or (better if possible) as medieval manuscript: “respice item quam nil ad nos ante acta vetustas/temporis aeterni fuerit, quam nascimur ante./hoc igitur speculum nobis natura futuri/temporis exponit post mortem denique nostram.”

CAPTION – ELIZA NARRATING (3): He explains that we didn’t exist for an eternity before being born, and that wasn’t bad. So why should it be bad once we stop existing?

Translation (3): Ele explica que nós não existíamos por uma eternidade antes de termos nascido, e isto não era algo ruim. Então por que seria ruim deixarmos de existir?

Panel 3: Eliza, now sitting cross-legged in her big wicker chair. She has the large book she brought down in Panel 1 resting open on her lap. She’s pointing down at something on a page.

Unseen interviewer (4): And you buy that?

Comment (4): “And you buy that?” is an idiom in American English, the literal meaning of which is “Do you really believe that?”

Translation (4): Unseen interviewer (4): E você concorda com isso?

Eliza (5): It’s what David Hume told James Boswell as Hume was wasting away, about to die. But Hume was calm and even told jokes.

Translation (5): É o que David Hume disse a James Boswell quando estava se deteriorando, à beira da morte. Mas Hume manteve a calma e até contou piadas.

Panel 4: Eliza looking down at the page of the book open on her lap, reading.

Eliza (6): From Boswell’s account: “I asked him if the thought of annihilation never gave him any uneasiness. He said not the least; no more than the thought that he had not been, as Lucretius observes.”

Comment (6): Eliza is quoting from a real literary work, James Bosewell’s Life of Johnson. If there is a public domain version of the Life in your target language, you are encouraged to substitute its text for your own translation.

Translation (6): Segundo o relato de Boswell: “Perguntei a ele se ele achava que a aniquilação nunca havia causado qualquer tipo de desconforto a ele. Ele disse que de forma alguma; não mais do que a ideia de que ele não tivesse acontecido, conforme observa Lucrécio”.

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Panel 1: Eliza in her wicker chair, being interviewed. She looks like she’s listening intently to to the interviewer’s question.

Unseen interviewer (1): I suppose I can understand your interest in…unusual experiences, but still, this would be your last such experience.

Translation (1): Eu suponho que poderia compreender seu interesse por… experiências inusitadas, mas ainda assim, essa seria sua última experiência do gênero.

Eliza (2): That’s right.

Translation (2): Está correto.

Panel 2: Eliza stretched out on her wicker chair, one leg extended long, her hand settled between her legs.

Eliza (3): But perhaps instead of a long string of experiences, a string that’s just going to diminish in quality as I get older and older, I might want to have one experience that surpasses them all.

Translation (3): Mas talvez, em vez de uma longa sequência de experiências, uma sequência que vai apenas piorar em termos de qualidade à medida que eu envelhecer cada vez mais, eu posso preferir uma única experiência que supere todas as demais.

Panel 3: Close-up on Eliza’s face. Her eyes are closed.

Eliza (4): It sort of gets me hot just thinking about it.

Comment (4): “Gets me hot” is a colloquial expression meaning “causing me to be sexually aroused.”

Translation (4); Chega a me excitar o simples fato de pensar nisto.

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PAGE 8 (Four panels)

Panel 1: Identical panel to Page 4, Panel 2 above, except that one of the young women participating in the ritual of drawing has had a circle drawn around her head. An arrow is additionally drawn pointing to the circle.

CAPTION – PSEUDO-NARRATION (1): In a stroke of amazing luck, researchers were able to find one of the original native women filmed by the Scelleratini brothers and interview her on camera.

Translation (1): Em um lance de absoluta sorte, os pesquisadores conseguiram localizar uma das nativas originalmente filmadas pelos irmãos Scelleratini e a entrevistaram em vídeo.

Panel 2: The girl from Panel 1, now an ancient, withered old woman of about 95 (“The Ancient.”) She is sitting in a simple chair and is dressed in a plain gray cotton dress.

The Ancient (2): Ketiap sembilan belas tahun, sang dewa akan datang dari kedalaman. Jika kami memberikan pengantin untuknya, ia akan memberkati para penduduk dengan kesehatan yang baik dan ikan yang melimpah.

SUBTITLE – TRANSLATING THE ANCIENT (3): Every nineteen years, the god would come from the depths. If we gave him brides, he would bless our people with good health and abundant fish.

Note (3): If the target language is Bahasa Indonesia, a translation of (3) should be omitted.

Translation (3): A cada dezenove anos, o deus emerge das profundezas. Se oferecemos noivas a ele, ele abençoa nosso povo com boa saúde peixes em abundância.

Panel 3: Same as Panel 2, but a slightly different pose.

Unseen Interviewer (out-of-panel balloon) (4): Apakah ada gadis yang takut terpilih?

The Ancient (5): Tidak ada yang takut. Kami semua ingin dipilih.

SUBTITLE – TRANSLATING THE UNSEEN INTERVIEWER (6): Were any of the girls afraid of being chosen?

Note (6): If the target language is Bahasa Indonesia, a translation of (6) should be omitted.

Translation (6): Alguma das jovens tinha medo de ser escolhida?

SUBTITLE – TRANSLATING THE ANCIENT (7): No one was afraid. We all wanted to be chosen.

Note (7); If the target language is Bahasa Indonesia, a translation of (7) should be omittted.

Translation (7): Ninguém tinha medo. Todas queríamos ser a escolhida.

Panel 4: Same as Panel 3, but a slightly different pose.

The Ancient (8): Dewa dari kedalaman akan mencintai pengantinnya dengan cinta yang jauh melebihi cinta yang dapat diberikan pria mana pun kepada seorang wanita. Ini membuatnya layak untuk dilakukan, sekalipun sang dewa akan memakanmu.

SUBTITLE – TRANSLATING THE ANCIENT (9): The god of the depths would love his brides with a love far surpassing that which any man could show a woman. That made it worthwhile, even if he would eat you.

Note (9): If the target language is Bahasa Indonesia, a translation of (9) should be omitted.

Translation (9): O deus das profundezas amava suas noivas com um amor que ia muito além do amor que qualquer homem poderia dar a elas. Isto fazia o desafio valer a pena, mesmo sabendo que ele comeria a noiva depois.

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