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Juliet, consigue ver las estrellas

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Conseguir + inf means "to manage to" right? So this means Juliet, manages to see the stars? Gracias.

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updated Apr 26, 2010
posted by jeezzle

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I have to make a separate answer to reply to your comment on my opinion that Juliet is a true naïf.

I don't know the whole story, song, whatever, but that paragraph does not seem to be describing a regular person in love.

Juliet seems to be a very special person, a bit like one of García Márquez's or Isabel Allende's characters.

She's beyond being a regular woman - or perhaps she's "unpolluted" because she has no one to teach her how to be a woman. But she can do wondrous things. Her life is pure light, even when it's dark and cloudy.

I don't get the impression that she happens to feel like that because she's in love. She just IS like that.

But hey, maybe I'm just on a weird mood today. cool smile

updated Apr 26, 2010
posted by Gekkosan
I guess I can see that. - jeezzle, Apr 26, 2010
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Sorry, I added the comma. Here is the context.

Juliet consigue ver las estrellas detrás de las nubes.

Juliet puede sentir los olores del arco iris. Juliet consigue hacer de la noche un nuevo amanecer. Juliet siempre jugando con la luz

Juliet hace diez años que nació en el barrio Lavapiés. Juliet no tiene a nadie que le enseñe a ser mujer. Juliet no deja de reírse si se pone triste le pide al sol que diga Juliet, quién se ha creído usted que es saliendo a la calle sin la sonrisa de Juliet?

I think it means that she is able to see the stars under the clouds and the fact that they use conseguir means like "she can do this thing that is unusual, in that she can see the stars under the clouds.

updated Apr 26, 2010
posted by jeezzle
"Detrás" is more like "behind" the clouds. - --Mariana--, Apr 26, 2010
Agreed. "Juliet is able to see the stars behind the clouds". Strikes me as an irrepressible optimist, a true "naïf" - Gekkosan, Apr 26, 2010
Doh. I'm always confusing detrás or tras with abajo or bajo. Good gravy. - jeezzle, Apr 26, 2010
Naif? Being an optimist doesn't mean that you are naive dude, have you never been in love? Sometimes you CAN see the stars behind the clouds. - jeezzle, Apr 26, 2010
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I don't know the whole context, but to me, the comma after Juliet would indicate that it's imperative mood. However, I may be wrong, so let's wait for someone to confirm smile

updated Apr 26, 2010
posted by Issabela