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“I always laid vegetables out in a circle, each <strong>with</strong> its own section a slice of pie.<br />

There were five slices: red cabbage, onions, leeks, carrots and turnips. … The<br />

man tapped his finger on the table. ‘Are they laid out in order in which they will<br />

go into the soup?’ ... ‘I see you have separated the whites’, he said, indicating the<br />

turnips and onions. ‘And then the orange and the purple, they do not sit together.<br />

Why is that? ... ‘The colours fight when they are side by side, sir’"<br />

(CHEVALIER: 2000, 05).<br />

O discurso simples e evidente de Griet é rico <strong>em</strong> reveladores detalhes. Ao saber<br />

que o hom<strong>em</strong> que a havia entrevistado era o autor de um quadro que ela já havia<br />

apreciado <strong>em</strong> uma exposição na Casa da Câmara, Griet mostra novamente sua<br />

sensibilidade artística ao recordar com o pai cego os detalhes do famoso quadro<br />

View of Delft:<br />

"’Do you r<strong>em</strong><strong>em</strong>ber the painting we saw in the Town Hall a few years ago? It<br />

was a view of Delft, from the Rotterdam and Schiedam Gates. With the sky that<br />

took up so much of the painting, and the sunlight on some of the buildings.’ …<br />

‘And the paint had sand in it to make the brickwork and the roofs look rough.<br />

And there were long shadows in the water, and tiny people on the shore nearest<br />

us.’ ‘That's the one.’ …‘I r<strong>em</strong><strong>em</strong>bered it well, r<strong>em</strong><strong>em</strong>bered thinking that I had<br />

stood at that very spot many times and never seen Delft the way the painter had”<br />

(07-08).<br />

No dia a seguir a visita do pintor, a jov<strong>em</strong> muda-se para a casa da família<br />

Vermeer e, ao caminhar pelas ruas de Delft, (que fica a apenas dez minutos de sua<br />

casa) no Canto dos Papistas, explica como nunca tinha estado naquela zona, onde<br />

vivia na época a minoria católica, introduzindo a questão das diferenças<br />

religiosas, um mundo totalmente estranho para Griet, ao mesmo t<strong>em</strong>po que nos<br />

descreve as cores do início da manhã, revelando uma sensibilidade para as cores:<br />

“… The morning was still cool, the sky a flat grey-white pulled close over Delft<br />

like a sheet, the summer sun not yet high enough to burn it away. The canal I<br />

walked along was a mirror of white light tinged <strong>with</strong> green. As the sun grew<br />

brighter the canal would darken to the colour of moss” (12).<br />

Na sua nova casa, Griet vai encontrar poucos amigos. A outra criada, Tanneke,<br />

aproxima-se da jov<strong>em</strong> e repele-a consoante o seu humor, vendo Griet como uma<br />

ameaça. Tanneke já havia posado, quando mais jov<strong>em</strong>, para o quadro The<br />

Milkmaid, feito de que se orgulhava. Entre os cinco filhos do casal, há uma

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