Who´s Mr. Hyde?

Donde se intenta conocer la identidad de ese tal Mr. Hyde, sin que nadie pueda aportar mayores datos.

Al final se aclara sobre Damon and Pythias y en vocabulario vemos citadel, boisterous, rambling, chuckled, fanciful. Del clásico de Robert L. Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

 

That was the amount of information that the lawyer carried back with him to the great, dark bed on which he tossed to and fro, until the small hours of the morning began to grow…

Stevenson con su esposa y familia en Vailima, Samoa

Paragraphs

With that he blew out his candle, put on a great-coat, and set forth in the direction of Cavendish Square, that citadel of medicine, where his friend, the great Dr. Lanyon, had his house and received his crowding patients. "If anyone knows, it will be Lanyon," he had thought.

The solemn butler knew and welcomed him; he was subjected to no stage of delay, but ushered direct from the door to the dining-room where Dr. Lanyon sat alone over his wine. This was a hearty, healthy, dapper, red-faced gentleman, with a shock of hair prematurely white, and a boisterous and decided manner. At sight of Mr. Utterson, he sprang up from his chair and welcomed him with both hands. The geniality, as was the way of the man, was somewhat theatrical to the eye; but it reposed on genuine feeling. For these two were old friends, old mates both at school and college, both thorough respecters of themselves and of each other, and, what does not always follow, men who thoroughly enjoyed each other's company.

After a little rambling talk, the lawyer led up to the subject which so disagreeably pre-occupied his mind.

"I suppose, Lanyon," said he "you and I must be the two oldest friends that Henry Jekyll has?"

"I wish the friends were younger," chuckled Dr. Lanyon. "But I suppose we are. And what of that? I see little of him now."

"Indeed?" said Utterson. "I thought you had a bond of common interest."

"We had," was the reply. "But it is more than ten years since Henry Jekyll became too fanciful for me. He began to go wrong, wrong in mind; and though of course I continue to take an interest in him for old sake's sake, as they say, I see and I have seen devilish little of the man. Such unscientific stupid talk," added the doctor, flushing suddenly purple, "would have estranged Damon and Pythias."

This little spirit of temper was somewhat of a relief to Mr. Utterson. "They have only differed on some point of science," he thought; and being a man of no scientific passions (except in the matter of conveyancing), he even added: "It is nothing worse than that!" He gave his friend a few seconds to recover his composure, and then approached the question he had come to put. "Did you ever come across a protégé of his—one Hyde?" he asked.

"Hyde?" repeated Lanyon. "No. Never heard of him. Since my time."

That was the amount of information that the lawyer carried back with him to the great, dark bed on which he tossed to and fro, until the small hours of the morning began to grow large. It was a night of little ease to his toiling mind, toiling in mere darkness and besieged by questions… (Paragraphs from Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert L. Stevenson.)

Para saber

En los escritos griegos Damon y Pythias es una leyenda que rodea el ideal Pitagórico de la amistad. Pythias es acusado de complotar contra Dionisio, el rey de Sicilia y solicita que se le permita despedirse de su familia, dejando a su amigo, Damon, como garantía de que volverá. Si Pythias no vuelve Damon será ejecutado. Pythias retorna a enfrentar la ejecución, para asombro de Dionisio, quien debido a la sincera amistad los deja libres a ambos.

Vocabulario

Citadel: a strong castle in or near a city, where people can shelter from danger, especially during a war:

The town has a 14th century citadel overlooking the river.

Boisterous: noisy, energetic, and rough.

Rambling: too long and confused:

… a long rambling speech.

Chuckled: to laugh quietly:

She was chuckling as she read the letter.

Fanciful: fantastic, insane, bizarre.

De la web

Damon and Pythias & the Test of Friendship, un video sencillo con una pregunta al final: ¿Qué estarías dispuesto a hacer por un amigo?

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