Friday, 9 October 2020
Monday, 21 September 2020
We have only come to look
Paris Door, July 29, 1984, André Kertész
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Only you
Don't know what to make of the sudden slippiness,
The blind, white, awful, inaccessible slant.
There's no getting up it by the words you know.
No getting up by elephant or wheel or shoe.
We have only come to look.
New Year On Dartmoor (1962) - Sylvia Plath (1932 - 1963)
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急につるつるになった世の中を理解できないのはきみだけ。
目鼻が無くて、真っ白で、おそろしい、近づきがたい斜面の世界。
この世界を、きみにわかる言葉を使って組み立ててみせるのは不可能だ。
ゾウや、車輪や、靴の片割れなんぞで作り上げられるものじゃない。
わたしたちはただ見に来ただけ。
シルヴィア・プラス －「ダートムーアの新年」より
吉原幸子 皆見昭 訳
From a depth
Venetian Twilight, 1896, Walter Launt Palmer (1854 - 1932)
- Watercolor, Gouache, and Crayon on Composition board -
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“ I must be a mermaid. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.”
― Anaïs Nin
”わたしは人魚になるべきだわ。深い海の底に恐怖は感じない。むしろ浅瀬の、上辺の生を怖れるの。”
ー アナイス・ニン
Saturday, 19 September 2020
That Day That Summer...
Carbonia, Cagliari, 1950, Federico Patellani. Italian (1911 - 1977)
” We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten ”
Cesare Pavese (1908 - 1950)
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” 私たちはかつての日々を憶えてはいない。私たちが思い出せるのは瞬間瞬間だけだ。
人生の真の豊かさは私たちが忘れてしまった思い出の裡に眠っている。”
チェーザレ・パヴェーゼ
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If I had to choose just one day
To last my whole life through
It would surely be that Sunday
The day that I met you
Newborn whippoorwills were calling from the hills
Summer was a-coming in but fast
Lots of daffodils were showing off their skills
Nodding all together, I could almost hear them whisper
"Go on, kiss her, go on and kiss her"
If I had to choose one moment
To live within my heart
It would be that tender moment
Recalling how we started
Darling, it would be when you smiled at me
That way, that Sunday, that summer
"That Sunday That Summer" © George David Weiss and Joe Sherman
Song by Nat 'King' Cole (1963)
Side by side ....
Two sisters, 1610-1615, Cornelis de Vos. Flemesh (ca 1584 - 1651)
Untitled (Portrait of Two Girls), 1907, Rudolf Duhrkoop. Germany (1848 - 1918)
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