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habitude / répétition dans le passé

avec parfois

un effet de gros plan,

de nostalgie

 

 

 

The Guardian        Film

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://digital.guardian.co.uk/guardian/2008/12/08/pdfs/gdn_081208_ber_12_21405884.pdf

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

would > valeur itérative

 

comportement "à répétition",

caractéristique

du référent du sujet dans le passé

(ce que la personne dont on parle

avait pour habitude de faire)

 

 

 

 

"I used to sleep on the streets when Milton came with his wife.

He would take pictures, and three, four days later

he would come back and give you a copy of the picture."

A Sympathetic Lens On Ordinary People,
NYT/Le Monde,
p. 5,
29/30.6.2003.

 

 

 

 

 

The first thing I ever bought was Ride a White Swan by T Rex.

It was the first thing I had ever got for myself that wasn't a toy or a comic.

I was 13 years old and it was like buying a piece of magic.

It was as if I could begin to understand what I was living for.

I would slide the mysterious black disc out of its paper sleeve.

I would put it with unlikely care on to a soft rubbery turntable.

I would nervously drop the needle on to the edge of the disc

and hear the tantalising crackle that seemed to last an eternity

before Marc Bolan, as if from space, as if for me only,

began singing his electric folk song

that seemed to be all about swans, sex

and the strangeness and tender brilliance of being a teenager.

The magic circles: First they killed off 45s.
Now even the days of CD singles are numbered. In the future,
laments Paul Morley, pop fans will collect nothing but lists in cyberspace,
G/G2, p. 2,
1.8.2003.

 

 

 

 

 

My partner's violent outbursts became more regular.

She would smash windows, break doors, and rage at her child,

who was beginning to veer out of control.

Private lives, GE/G2, p. 11,
21.02.2003.

 

 

 

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