Questão FC171017
Text IV In the middle of July, Roger was making his first ministerial speech. I did not need reminding, having drafted enough of them, how much speeches mattered — to parliamentary
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CEBRASPE (CESPE) · 2024
In the middle of July, Roger was making his first ministerial speech. I did not need reminding, having drafted enough of them, how much speeches mattered — to parliamentary bosses, to any kind of tycoon. Draft after draft: the search for the supreme, the impossible, the more than Flaubertian perfection; the scrutiny for any phrase that said more than it ought to say, so that each speech at the end was bound, by the law of official inexplicitness, to be more porridge-like than when it started out in its first draft. I had always hated writing drafts for other people, and nowadays got out of it. To Hector, to Douglas, it was part of the job, which they took with their usual patience, their usual lack of egotism: when a minister crossed out their sharp, clear English and went in for a literary composition of his own, they gave a wintry smile and let it stand.
C. P. Snow. Corridors of Power. London: Penguin Books, 1972, p. 31.
The text suggests that, when their original drafts were modified by a minister, Hector and Douglas would stand up to him and insist on retaining the sharp, clear English of the original.
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Comentário: A afirmação está errada porque o texto indica que Hector e Douglas aceitavam as alterações feitas pelo ministro em seus rascunhos, mesmo que isso significasse perder a clareza e precisão de suas ideias. Eles reagiam com um "sorriso invernal" e permitiam que as modificações permanecessem, o que demonstra uma atitude de conformidade e falta de resistência, ao invés de insistirem em manter a linguagem original e clara. Portanto, a ideia de que eles se oporiam às mudanças não está alinhada com o que o texto descreve.
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