Unit 2 Dick’s Hotel
When Dick Russel retired, he decided to buy a small but pleasant hotel at the side of a busy road which went from other big city to another. Business was always very good there, because plenty of people who were traveling in motor-cars used to stop at the hotel, have a good dinner and spend the night.
Then one year the government decided to build a new and much bigger road, which would run between the same two cities, but would be several kilometers further to the east.
Dick was afraid that this new road would be very bad for business at his hotel, and as soon as it was ready, he began to complain to all his friends and neighbors about the business it was taking away from him, because so many cars now used this new, faster road instead of the older one which his hotel was on.
At first, Dick’s friends and neighbors listened to him kindly and said that they were very sorry to hear about it; but after a few weeks, they became rather tired of his continual complaining.
At last one of his neighbors said to him, ‘ But, Dick, what are you complaining about? I still see a big notice outside your gate every night which says Full Up.’
‘Oh、I know,’ answered Dick, ‘ but that’s nothing. Before the government built the new road, we used to refuse thirty or forty travellers every evening after my hotel was full up; but now we don’t refuse more than ten or twelve.’
昨日の「光る君へ」に道隆妻の歌が詠まれるシーンがありました。
~忘れじの ゆくすゑまでは かたければ
今日をかぎりの いのちともがな~
儀同三司母
現代語訳
いつまでも忘れまいとおっしゃる、その将来までかわりのないことはむずかしいから、そのお言葉をうけたまわった今日をかぎりに死んでしまいたいものでございますよ。
新古今和歌集 「中関白かよひそめ侍りけるころ」
「光る君へ」で道隆は糖尿病の症状に苦しんだ晩年だったと描かれていました。
実資役の秋山竜次さんの日焼け顔が目立ち、愚痴を言うたびに妻から日記に書くよう諫められ るのが可笑しく笑っています。
中関白は「なかのかんぱく」と呼び、道高を祖とする一族の呼称だったんですね。ドラマではあまりよく描かれていませんね。
これから物語は佳境に。
おおまかなストーリーはわかっていたとしても描き型が面白い。
なるほどと思ったり、え？と思ったり。
役者さんの演技にも注目ですね。
藤原彰子と紫式部の御対面が楽しみです。
物語の最後の「オチ」がよくわからへんがなぁ。
当時は、砂糖のような糖分の多いものはなかったかと思います。お酒が原因らしいですが、それほど飲めば肝臓が先に機能不全になるかと思いますが。
体格ブラザーズ、太鼓腹でお腹ポンポンに繋がって笑えます。
今朝もまた、長文の英語話と ”光る君へ ”の道隆妻が読んだ歌の日記の
アップを有難うございます。
退職後のお金の活用の仕方、色々あるんですね。