Thursday, January 21, 2010

Analect 2.643x (страстное желание)



21 January 2010. Gray and rain, and rain...

El niño, bendecido... the boy child, blessed. And a Russian woman with a guitar. Tradition of the bard (old Celtic bardos--poet, singer--from a posited Indo-European gwer--to lift up the voice, praise). Here Veronika Dolina, Beznadezhnoe moë delo... It would be sad to translate such a phrase that makes sense only in the telling. The English "without hope" so starkly definitive--whereas the Russian all internally shaped with muted o's and zh's... Mournful sounds, yet filled with possibility--if only in the telling...

Srastnoye dyelaniye... A passionate longing...

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