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Think of my melancholy, when I came all the way from a far country to this island beyond the sea. I didn’t know whether it was night or day. The island was sleeping surrounded by fog.
Then the sun was gradually getting up. And I found myself caged up in some kind of facilities. There were a lot of penguins in the island.
I spoke to one of the penguins,
"Where am I?"
He looked at me with a merciful eye, and replied,
“I don’t know. But we are not in Antarctica…. Actually, we are in an aquarium.”
I asked,
“Why not try to escape?”
He said,
“Stop talking nonsense. This is a good place, nice and cozy. We are free from any danger.
Above all things, we have no worries of meal.”
Alas! This temptation might have been the true. I felt something was faltering in my mind.
But, even though, my natural tendency that was born and brought up in the wild nature
persistently cried out, “NO!”
A news headline, 15th May, 2012
“Fugitive penguin still at large in Tokyo Bay – confirmed by video”
http://lang-8.com/144961/journals/1478824/Fugitive-penguin-still-at-large-in-Tokyo-Bay-%25E2%2580%2593-confirmed-by-video
http://www.aozora.gr.jp/cards/000035/files/1579_19977.html (adaptation)
Then the sun was gradually getting up. And I found myself caged up in some kind of facilities. There were a lot of penguins in the island.
I spoke to one of the penguins,
"Where am I?"
He looked at me with a merciful eye, and replied,
“I don’t know. But we are not in Antarctica…. Actually, we are in an aquarium.”
I asked,
“Why not try to escape?”
He said,
“Stop talking nonsense. This is a good place, nice and cozy. We are free from any danger.
Above all things, we have no worries of meal.”
Alas! This temptation might have been the true. I felt something was faltering in my mind.
But, even though, my natural tendency that was born and brought up in the wild nature
persistently cried out, “NO!”
A news headline, 15th May, 2012
“Fugitive penguin still at large in Tokyo Bay – confirmed by video”
http://lang-8.com/144961/journals/1478824/Fugitive-penguin-still-at-large-in-Tokyo-Bay-%25E2%2580%2593-confirmed-by-video
http://www.aozora.gr.jp/cards/000035/files/1579_19977.html (adaptation)
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Then the sun was gradually getting rose up.
There were a lot of penguins on that island.
“Why won't you try to escape?”
The temptation of escaping might have been the better choice.
I felt as if something was faltering in my mind.
Great job~!
Stop talking nonsense.はこれにも使えるのね。
Alasも使ってみたいと思ってたの。なるほど！
http://www.aozora.gr.jp/cards/000035/files/1579_19977.html
これをコピペすると飛びます。
The island was sleeping, encased by a heavy fog.
Then the sun started to gradually rise.
And I found myself caged up in some kind of building.
Facilities doesn't fit this well.
There were a lot of penguins on the island.
He looked at me with sadly, and replied,
What do you mean merciful eye? I think that since they have the same fate we wouldn't use merciful. Merciful would be used when one is the captor...
“Why doesn't anyone try to escape?”
Most of all, we don't have to worry about where our next meal is coming from.”
Alas!
This seems a little strange here. What do you mean?
Staying in the aquarium might have been the wiser choice, but something was missing.
I felt something was faltering in my mind.
I changed this by combining your meaning with other sentences.
Even so, I continued to have recurring thoughts of my life in the wild. (My mind constantly told me not to give into the temptation of an easy life.)
*“Fugitive penguin still at large in Tokyo Bay" , May 15, 2012 (with video)
The island was sleeping, encased by a heavy fog.
Gradually, the sun rose.
And I found myself in some kind of building.
There were a lot of penguins on the island.
He looked at me sympathetically and replied,
You have the same fate. A captor is merciful.
“Why doesn't anyone try to escape?”
Most importantly, we don't have to worry about where our next meal is coming from.”
Alas!
A little strange here.
The temptation of an easy life might have been the easier choice.
But something seemed wrong.
Perhaps due to my natural instinct, memories of my old life in the wild recurrently flashed through my mind.
“Fugitive penguin still at large in Tokyo Bay”, May 15, 2012
He was known for his decadent lifestyle in spite of the fact that he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth.They say he chose an easy life in the name of art.
I think he might have been a fugitive penguin.
Dazai Osamu June 19, 1909 – June 13, 1948) was a Japanese author who is considered one of the foremost fiction writers of 20th-century Japan.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osamu_Dazai
That is great!