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sweet, sweet soma

Spanish translation: Dulce, dulce soma

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English term or phrase:Sweet, sweet soma
Spanish translation:Dulce, dulce soma
Entered by: Monika Jakacka Márquez

16:52 Sep 21, 2007
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English term or phrase: sweet, sweet soma
If the craziness of the first hour was the stuff of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," the next several hours were Huxley's **sweet, sweet soma**.

¿Existe alguna traducción para este título de Huxley en español?
Mercedes Alonso Negre
Spain
dulce, dulce soma [de "Un mundo feliz"]
Explanation:
Se refiere a "Un mundo feliz" (A brave new world) de Aldous Huxley.

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Un_mundo_feliz

"[...]y porque en caso de sentirse mal tienen a su disposición el soma, una droga que es entregada por el Estado"

especially the use of soma, a powerful drug taken to escape pain and bad memories through hallucinatory fantasies


Un saludo
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Narcis Lozano Drago
Spain
Local time: 01:09
Grading comment
muchas gracias, Narcis
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4 +7dulce, dulce soma [de "Un mundo feliz"]
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dulce, dulce soma [de "Un mundo feliz"]


Explanation:
Se refiere a "Un mundo feliz" (A brave new world) de Aldous Huxley.

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Un_mundo_feliz

"[...]y porque en caso de sentirse mal tienen a su disposición el soma, una droga que es entregada por el Estado"

especially the use of soma, a powerful drug taken to escape pain and bad memories through hallucinatory fantasies


Un saludo

Narcis Lozano Drago
Spain
Local time: 01:09
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PRO pts in category: 56
Grading comment
muchas gracias, Narcis

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Pamela Luengas
1 min
  -> ¡Gracias, Pamela!
agree  Carmen Quiñones
4 mins
  -> ¡Gracias, Carmen!
agree  Darío Giménez
44 mins
  -> ¡Gracias, emege!
agree  David Girón Béjar
48 mins
  -> Gràcies, David!
agree  clessidra: clessidra
1 hr
  -> ¡Gracias, clessidra!
agree  moken: Yo diría "soma dulcísimo". El inglés no tiene este mecanismo para dar énfasis, de ahí la repetición de la palabra "dulce". :O) :O)
1 hr
  -> También. ¡Gracias, Álvaro!
agree  German Gonzalez
1 hr
  -> ¡Gracias, Germán!
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