Stoneheart
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O enredo era que todas as estátuas ganham vida e se movimentam, embora os humanos não saibam disso.
Sim. Essa é a premissa básica do enredo.
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As estátuas humanas estão envolvidas em uma longa guerra de on-off com estátuas de animais.
“A spit is a statue that the ‘maker’—sculptor, stone carver, whatever—has made to represent someone human. And because of that, while a maker works, something of that must flow into us, and fills that hole the taints have eating away inside them.”
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No início do livro, as estátuas estão em paz, mas dois garotos reais, menino e menina, são atacados por uma estátua de um animal em um museu.
Sim.
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Eles são resgatados por uma estátua de um soldado da Primeira Guerra Mundial. Eles então viajam com ele, mas não me lembro por quê.
Then the last bit of his mind that could think straight realized he was looking up at a dark statue, a soldier, a gunner in a World War One uniform, tin hat tipped down over his eyes, arms spread out against the stone, like he was resting. And over his shoulders was a waterproof cape that, for an instant, George had mistaken for wings.
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Eles definitivamente visitam algumas esfinges que são neutras na guerra animal humana, mas são muito indignas de confiança.
“’Course it is,” said the Gunner. “I said we needed to talk to the Sphinxes. Though don’t call it Cleopatra’s whatsit if it comes up in conversation. They’re a bit touchy on the subject.”
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Em um ponto, a estátua do soldado é ferida e tem uma alucinação de morrer na Batalha do Somme. Ele sobrevive no final eu acho.
He no longer thought he was in St. James’s Park. He couldn’t hear the distant growl of traffic. He heard guns rumbling in a rolling barrage, far away. And closer, he heard the flat crack and slap of rifles firing overhead in random counterpoint to the mechanical stutter of machine guns. He heard men shouting orders, he heard other men screaming for their mothers. He heard feet rushing past, he heard the crack-thump of a grenade and fewer people screaming after that.