お花はんさんの おぼえた日記 - 2023年10月8日(日)

Peter and Wendy
CHAPTER I
PETER BREAKS THROUGH
All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up,
and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old
she was playing in a garden, and she plucked another flower and ran with
it to her mother. I suppose she must have looked rather delightful, for Mrs.
Darling put her hand to her heart and cried, 'Oh, why can't you remain like
this for ever!' This was all that passed between them on the subject, but
henceforth Wendy knew that she must grow up.
You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.
Of course they lived at 14, and until Wendy came her mother was the chief
one.
She was a lovely lady, with a romantic mind and such a sweet mocking mouth.
Her romantic mind was like the tiny boxes, one within the other, that come from
the puzzling East, however many you discover there is always one more; and her
sweet mocking mouth had one kiss on it that Wendy could never get, though there
it was, perfectly conspicuous in the right-hand corner.
＜BBCニュース10月７日＞
Narges Mohammadi: Iranian woman jailed for rights work wins
Nobel Peace prize
ナルゲス　モハンマディ　人権活動で服役中のイランの女性がノーベル平和賞
要旨
51歳の彼女はイランで女性抑圧の中、女性の権利主張のため戦い続け、31年間
投獄されているなど多大な人生のコストを払っている。欧米の首脳も祝辞を送り、
ノーベル委員会も彼女を釈放して表彰式に出席させるよう求めているが、実現し
そうにない。イランでは人権抑圧に対して大規模なデモが起こったが、当局の
弾圧で活動は下火になっている。また、投獄された女性に対する暴行も横行して
いる。
Imprisoned Iranian human rights activist Narges Mohammadi has won
the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize.
Announcing the decision, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said Ms
Mohammadi, 51, was honoured for her fight against the oppression of
women in Iran.
Her struggle has come at a "tremendous personal cost", committee
chairwoman Berit Reiss-Andersen said.
Ms Mohammadi is currently serving a 10-year jail term in Iran's notorious
Evin prison in the capital, Tehran.
Iran's foreign ministry said the award was "biased" and in line with "the
interventionist and anti-Iran policies of some European countries".
US President Joe Biden called on the Iranian government to free Ms Mohammadi
as he praised her "unshakeable courage", while French President Emmanuel
Macron said she was a "freedom fighter".
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