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se reencerre a resposta final que ali se oferecia

English translation: allowing the final answer that was offered there to be rejected/pushed away/aside again

19:20 Apr 15, 2012
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting / Essay on artist
Portuguese term or phrase: se reencerre a resposta final que ali se oferecia
This is in an essay by a critic on artist Milton Machado and his work "History of the Future". I'm having trouble understanding this phrase. Thanks for your help!

Como na máquina do mundo de Drummond, estamos diante de uma revelação. Mas ela não vem de repente, brotada da terra pedregosa de Minas durante uma perambulação do poeta. Seu aparecimento é laborioso, pois coincide com uma verdadeira reconstrução do dispositivo criador do mundo. Diante da possibilidade de sua súbita revelação, o artista não renuncia e parte, mãos pensas, deixando que ***se reencerre a resposta final que ali se oferecia***. Ele sabe, de saída, que não há resposta, e por isso põe a mão na massa; o pensamento força o sulco do chão de barro e revira-lhe os torrões, refaz mundo e pergunta, sabendo que terá que repetir mil vezes essa operação, cada vez um pouco diferente. O artista é a própria máquina do mundo.
Lindsay Spratt
France
Local time: 02:33
English translation:allowing the final answer that was offered there to be rejected/pushed away/aside again
Explanation:
As I understand it, Drummond in his poem refused to accept the the answers that the world around him seemed to be pushing at him: "aquele comprometimento radical com Deus, ou com um ideal político, ou social, ou intelectual, ou estético".
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Martin Riordan
Brazil
Local time: 21:33
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I went with this, thanks Martin!
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4allowing the final answer that was offered there to be rejected/pushed away/aside again
Martin Riordan
3once again rejecting the illusion of a final answer
Sheryle Oliver


  

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deixando que se reencerre a resposta final que ali se oferecia
allowing the final answer that was offered there to be rejected/pushed away/aside again


Explanation:
As I understand it, Drummond in his poem refused to accept the the answers that the world around him seemed to be pushing at him: "aquele comprometimento radical com Deus, ou com um ideal político, ou social, ou intelectual, ou estético".

Martin Riordan
Brazil
Local time: 21:33
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 20
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I went with this, thanks Martin!
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once again rejecting the illusion of a final answer


Explanation:
As the true artist knows, creation is dynamic, not static, never final.

Sheryle Oliver
Brazil
Local time: 21:33
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 4
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