Lessons in... 𝚜𝚖𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐

𝙇𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝘾𝙝𝙚𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙮 (miniserial, 2023, o producție Apple TV)

Imagini din episodul al treilea, care este narat de câinele Six-Thirty, un Goldendoodle tare simpatic. În această scenă, Six-Thirty și Elizabeth Zott, iubita și colega chimistului Calvin Evans, se află în laboratorul de la Hastings Research Institute, în care Elizabeth și Calvin își desfășuraseră cercetările, laborator golit între timp de echipamente și aseptizat.

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Serialul este ecranizarea cărții omonime, de Bonnie Garmus.

Vezi pagina de Wikipedia dedicată cărții.

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Iată și pasajul din carte care corespunde scenei din serial:

“The only place left to go was Calvin’s lab.

“This might kill me,” she whispered to Six-Thirty as they stood in front of Calvin’s door. The dog pressed his head into her thigh, begging her to go no farther, but she opened the door anyway, and they both stepped through. The scent of cleaning fluid hit them like a locomotive.”

Humans were strange, Six-Thirty thought, the way they constantly battled dirt in their aboveground world, but after death willingly entombed themselves in it. At the funeral, he couldn’t believe the amount of dirt needed to cover Calvin’s coffin, and when he saw the size of the shovel, he’d wondered if he should offer the help of his back legs to fill the hole. And now dirt was again the issue, but in the wrong direction. Every last trace of Calvin had been scrubbed away. He watched as she stood in the middle of the room, her face blank with shock.

(cap. 12: “Calvin’s Parting Gift”, Lessons in chemistry, Doubleday Canada, Penguin Random House, 2022)