tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5407783074290571587.post2957925105773615503..comments2024-02-14T14:04:43.435+01:00Comments on Martin in Broda: Über WasserleichenMartininBrodahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367467039848677931noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5407783074290571587.post-18382855395738386872009-09-18T23:04:56.858+02:002009-09-18T23:04:56.858+02:00Guten abend! Lunario is teaching me German :) I ha...Guten abend! Lunario is teaching me German :) I haven't heard that song by Pink Floyd, or anything by them (I'm embarrassed to say) but I'll check them out. Your English is great! Schlaf wohl :)Charliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09069074076672991907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5407783074290571587.post-25392819617672522222009-09-18T20:47:33.338+02:002009-09-18T20:47:33.338+02:00@Pilgrim It must been sarcasm by accident (like my...@Pilgrim It must been sarcasm by accident (like my language skills).MartininBrodahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13367467039848677931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5407783074290571587.post-57977406567515657262009-09-18T16:17:18.248+02:002009-09-18T16:17:18.248+02:00I didn´t know you could be sarcastic in english to...I didn´t know you could be sarcastic in english too! Well either you´re developing your language skills or you already mastered this.Pilgrimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10302358349617667455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5407783074290571587.post-74373582387491275812009-09-18T15:22:31.308+02:002009-09-18T15:22:31.308+02:00Hello Charlie. I would say he invented her, but so...Hello Charlie. I would say he invented her, but sometimes are inventions more true than reality I guess, although it could be Shakespeare remembered the death of Katherine Hamnet, there were rumours that she was suffering from a broken heart (but you look better here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophelia). <br />Btw I’m afraid you will find this annoying (because you’ve heard that too much), but indeed, every time when I have to say “hello Charlie” I have to remember the end of Pink Floyd’s “The Division Bell", sorry, my next answer will be more serious.<br />Steve O'Rourke: Hello?<br />Charlie: Yeah...<br />SO'R: Is that Charlie?<br />C: Yes.<br />SO'R: Hello Charlie.<br />C: [mumbles something and hangs up]<br />SO'R: Great! [hangs up].MartininBrodahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13367467039848677931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5407783074290571587.post-473666850808987812009-09-18T14:06:07.425+02:002009-09-18T14:06:07.425+02:00Beautiful pictures and poetry. I remember seeing a...Beautiful pictures and poetry. I remember seeing a photo by William Eggleston once, it's of a girl with red hair in a flowery dress laying on the ground. It reminds me of Ophelia. Did Shakespeare invent her or is there some truth to the story?Charliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09069074076672991907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5407783074290571587.post-70823244608547397522009-09-18T10:38:33.617+02:002009-09-18T10:38:33.617+02:00Thx Martin, for the link, and for the nice prayer....Thx Martin, for the link, and for the nice prayer. May God be with you. Propz PilgrimPilgrimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10302358349617667455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5407783074290571587.post-86524394926213064252009-09-18T04:16:08.738+02:002009-09-18T04:16:08.738+02:00Part 2
I was correctly reminded to indicate a lin...Part 2<br /><br />I was correctly reminded to indicate a link to the original poem, even if I know unfortunately no French, that would be then here (http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Oph%C3%A9lie/%C3%89dition_Genonceaux_1891), and speaking about links a really breath-taking good one is here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/References_to_Ophelia).<br /><br />I have also to owe the second one to know now that even James Douglas Morrison, also known as Jim Morrison, wrote a piece in this tradition. One can find the text here (http://www.people.nnov.ru/thedoors/wilderness2.htm).<br /><br />And I have to think about which constitutes the fascinating of this person, perhaps that someone is broken between an impressive other and limiting obligations and withdraws himselves into the innocent grave of childhood, I don’t know but want at least to let her speak with her own voice (William Shakespeare, Hamlet, IV, 5):<br /><br />“I hope all will be well. We must be patient; but I cannot choose but weep, to think they would lay him i' the cold ground. My brother shall know of it: and so I thank you for your good counsel. - Come, my coach! - Good night, ladies; good night, sweet ladies; good night, good night.”<br /><br />“His beard was as white as snow,<br />All flaxen was his poll;<br />He is gone, he is gone,<br />And we cast away moan.<br />God ha' mercy on his soul!<br /><br />And of all Christian souls, I pray God. God bye you!”MartininBrodahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13367467039848677931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5407783074290571587.post-82982615812973415222009-09-18T03:37:00.063+02:002009-09-18T03:37:00.063+02:00About floaters or drowned bodies
Translation - par...About floaters or drowned bodies<br />Translation - part 1<br /><br />Indeed a not poetic title, I have to confess, it was just I had today a friendly conversation, about whom? About Ophelia of course, invented shapes are simply by far more profound than pretending to be real ones sometimes (the topic was also the preparation of a literary event, so it might persisting a bit). A shape inspires a painter, the created picture a modern musician, a proof? You’re welcome:<br /><br />„And that he has seen on the water, lying in her long veils<br />White Ophelia floating, like a great lily. “<br /><br />From a poem of Arthur Rimbaud, more exactly, the end of „Ophelia“, some people say Waterhouse would have inspired him, well Waterhouse may inspire into much things, he is a great painter.<br /><br />I have to confess, this is one of the sentences, which burned themselves since a long time into my literary memory. But may we follow completely this translation (http://www.blackcatpoems.com/r/ophelia.html):<br /><br />“Ophelia<br />by Arthur Rimbaud <br /><br />translated by Oliver Bernard<br /><br /> I<br /><br />On the calm black water where the stars are sleeping<br />White Ophelia floats like a great lily;<br />Floats very slowly, lying in her long veils...<br />- In the far-off woods you can hear them sound the mort.<br /> <br />For more than a thousand years sad Ophelia<br />Has passed, a white phantom, down the long black river.<br />For more than a thousand years her sweet madness<br />Has murmured its ballad to the evening breeze.<br /> <br />The wind kisses her breasts and unfolds in a wreath<br />Her great veils rising and falling with the waters;<br />The shivering willows weep on her shoulder,<br />The rushes lean over her wide, dreaming brow.<br /> <br />The ruffled water-lilies are sighing around her;<br />At times she rouses, in a slumbering alder,<br />Some nest from which escapes a small rustle of wings;<br />A mysterious anthem falls from the golden stars.<br /><br /> II<br /><br />O pale Ophelia! beautiful as snow!<br />Yes child, you died, carried off by a river!<br />It was the winds descending from the great mountains of Norway<br />That spoke to you in low voices of better freedom.<br /> <br />It was a breath of wind, that, twisting your great hair,<br />Brought strange rumors to your dreaming mind;<br />It was your heart listening to the song of Nature<br />In the groans of the tree and the sighs of the nights;<br /> <br />It was the voice of mad seas, the great roar,<br />That shattered your child's heart, too human and too soft;<br />It was a handsome pale knight, a poor madman<br />Who one April morning sate mute at your knees!<br /> <br />Heaven! Love! Freedom! What a dream, oh poor crazed Girl!<br />You melted to him as snow does to a fire;<br />Your great visions strangled your words<br />And fearful Infinity terrified your blue eye!<br /><br /> III<br /><br />And the poet says that by starlight<br />You come seeking, in the night, the flowers that you picked<br />And that he has seen on the water, lying in her long veils<br />White Ophelia floating, like a great lily.”MartininBrodahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13367467039848677931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5407783074290571587.post-67434997179859056142009-09-18T01:57:29.445+02:002009-09-18T01:57:29.445+02:00Na ja, nun bin ich auch fertig für heute nacht, ic...Na ja, nun bin ich auch fertig für heute nacht, ich dachte, Du steckst noch im Geburtstag fest, das ist echt nett von Dir, daß Du trotzdem vorbeischaust. Nebenbei gesagt, ein wirklich gutes Album.MartininBrodahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13367467039848677931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5407783074290571587.post-6849508525462341192009-09-18T01:44:28.559+02:002009-09-18T01:44:28.559+02:00Wenn Du mir Kylie gegeben hast, brauchst Du Dich n...Wenn Du mir Kylie gegeben hast, brauchst Du Dich nicht mehr abzumühen, denn ich bin glücklich :)<br />Und wie der Zufall so will, habe ich mir gerade diese Woche nach Jahren wiedereinmal Nick Cave's "Murder Ballads" aufgelegt.Mr. Urshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00292345241591396189noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5407783074290571587.post-4145005153985549452009-09-18T00:53:25.178+02:002009-09-18T00:53:25.178+02:00I'm just writing, show me one (argh, sorry), I...I'm just writing, show me one (argh, sorry), I love it too.MartininBrodahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13367467039848677931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5407783074290571587.post-66364249251462449602009-09-18T00:43:14.158+02:002009-09-18T00:43:14.158+02:00I love Ophélie by Rimbaud. Too bad you have no lin...I love Ophélie by Rimbaud. Too bad you have no link to the french original. Propz PilgrimPilgrimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10302358349617667455noreply@blogger.com