The End of the Tour: monólogos para practicar shadowing
16 monólogos de The End of the Tour. Audio original, frase por frase, con una pausa para repetirla.
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- 2Shadowing: repite cada frase
- 3A ciegas: escucha y luego mira el texto
- B27 frases
The thing about the tour is, yes, I would like to get laid off of it a couple of times.
On wanting to be wantedThe End of the Tour · 2015He stages a fantasy of being chosen without asking, and the passivity says more than the desire. - C113 frases
Yes, you're performing muscular movements with your hand as you're jerking off.
The pleasure analogyThe End of the Tour · 2015He builds an argument out of the body and the dinner table, so the abstract claim lands as a joke. - B25 frases
I just think it's hard to cast that role, you know, to fill it when you know it's gonna be like 30 to 40 years.
On casting a spouseThe End of the Tour · 2015He piles one metaphor on another until the impossibility of marriage sounds almost reasonable. - B14 frases
Okay? I would do it in a heartbeat. Good.
Terrified but willingThe End of the Tour · 2015He confesses a week of trauma and the same eagerness in one breath, which is the whole man. - B29 frases
In Tucson. It was, like, a hundred degrees all the time.
The bandanna explainedThe End of the Tour · 2015Wallace turns a silly accessory into an honest picture of his anxiety. - B213 frases
I was a towel boy at this chichi health club.
The towel boy storyThe End of the Tour · 2015He lines up prestige and humiliation until the joke lands on himself. - B214 frases
It's the only thing that I'd gotten any, like, food pellets from the universe for.
Trapped by his writingThe End of the Tour · 2015He narrates depression and self-destructive coping as comedy, which makes it land harder. - B28 frases
I couldn't be regular old Dave Wallace...
How the pen name cameThe End of the Tour · 2015He recounts a plain moment as if it were lore, and the deadpan makes it funny. - B15 frases
I tell you what. I think that having an audience...
On having an audienceThe End of the Tour · 2015He strips the thrill of an audience down to a plain mammal level and dares to say it. - C17 frases
I think that if there's a sort of sadness for people under 45, it has something to do with pleasure
On a generation's emptinessThe End of the Tour · 2015He turns a vague cultural sadness into a concrete claim about pleasure and achievement. - C18 frases
When you're used to doing heavy-duty literary stuff that doesn't sell well, being human animals with egos,
The paradox of selling wellThe End of the Tour · 2015He builds a tight no-win argument about success, and the logic itself is the punchline. - C15 frases
If we had done this by the mail, if I had access to my library, if I could look stuff up...
On rewriting his own quotesThe End of the Tour · 2015Three stacked ifs build to a confession: he is smart only when alone. - B26 frases
I'm gonna have to decompress from all this attention, because it's like gettin'...
On coming down from attentionThe End of the Tour · 2015He compares attention to a drug, then lands on being alone with paper. - B26 frases
What it was, was a 28-year-old person...
On the pink roomThe End of the Tour · 2015He turns a breakdown into a pink room with a drain, calm and chilling. - C15 frases
There's a thing in the book about how when somebody leaps from a burning skyscraper,
On leaping from a burning towerThe End of the Tour · 2015The skyscraper image makes the logic of despair undeniable. - B114 frases
I tend to do, like, the jerk, the swim.
On dancing at a Baptist churchThe End of the Tour · 2015He makes Baptist disco sound both corny and free.