– I’m beginning to wonder if being young is all it’s cracked up to be. We dream of youth. We remember it as a time of nightingales and valentines, and what are the facts? Maladjustement, near-idiocy, and a series of low-comedy disasters, that’s what youth is. I don’t see how anyone survives it. Now Edwina, tell me something because it’s been bothering me.
– Yes, dear?
– Why did you want a divorce?
– Oh Barnaby! It wasn’t me, it was the formula. You ought to understand that.
– Oh I understand it was the formula that brought it out.
– Brought what out?
– Some subconscious aversion to me.
– Aversion to you? I love you, you potato-head.
– How do I know there’s no buried resentment that you don’t conciously realise?
– I certainly don’t conciously realise it, and I think that’s pretty rotten of you to say that.
– Wait a minute. What about the way you kept bringing up Hank?
– Hogwash!
– Do you love him?
– Now that is ridiculous.
– You kissed him, didn’t you?
– You can’t get it out of your mind, can you?
– No, I can’t.
– Well, all right. Are you in love with this, um, whosits?
– Of course not.
– Well, you went smooching with her. On roller skates. And what was your hidden aversion or subconscious discontent, or whatever it is you want to call it, that made you go playing patty-cake with her all over town? Doing a swan dive! Acting like a…
– Well, go on.
Howard Hawks. Monkey business. Starring Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers. 1952
Ja no són dies de caminar a migdia però el sol ja picava quan he fotografiat el camp i la parra que a la tardor perfuma aqueixa avinguda. De resultes de l’entrada d’ahir amb els comentaris de l’Amelia i la Clidice, em ve a la memòria un pres polític perpetu que va dir:
[VO] Whithout some kind of loving, a man withers like a grape on a dying vine.
És a dir:
[VE] Un hombre sin amor de ninguna clase se seca como la uva en la cepa agotada.
El vídeo no resisteix el joc de les set diferències. Dues de tres: la biblioteca està més concorreguda, no hi ha estona per fer mitja.
Avui, una nova trucada als Mossos. Aquest cop no hi havia destral sinó ganivet.
PS: no són ganes d’alarmar a ningú. Només deixar constància que entre la biblioteca i el carrer només hi ha portes obertes i personal de seguretat, com a l’fnac. I que el vídeo m’ha fet gràcia, perquè ens ho prenem tot amb la mateixa calma.
Since I'm getting into early Latin poetry, I have in mind to read a bunch of Ennius. I plan to post a few fragments, with a translation, and write up short comments on aspects that intrigue me. I follow the organization and numbering of the Skutsch commentary.Ennius was born in Rudiae in 239 BC. He was Messapian by birth and perhaps partly Oscan; his si […]
Well, my classes start tomorrow, and the year is shaping up to be a fascinating, but rather intense one. I'm taking two Greek classes; in one we're reading Lyric Poetry and the other is Book 24 of the Iliad. Also on the menu is a Latin class in which we're doing Seneca's play Thyestes as well as an independent study in Sanskrit. I'm […]
Horowitz is probably my favorite classical pianist; his interpretations are at one time fiery and have sort of a nervous energy about them, and at another soft and whimsical. This, however, is not what makes him a badass.In 1988 Horowitz was nominated for (and won) a Grammy award for his recording of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23. However, he skipped o […]
In the standard numbering of Mesomedes' poems, the first two are joined. I think it's quite a beautiful poem.ἄιεδε Μοῦσα μοι φίλη,μολπῆς δ' ἐμῆς κατάρχου,αὒρη δὲ σῶν ἀπ' ἀλσέων,ἐμάς φρένας δονείτω.Καλλιόπεια σοφά,Μουσῶν προκαθαγέτι τερπῶν,καὶ σοφὲ μυστοδότα,Λατοῦς γόνε, Δήλιε Παιάν,εὐμενεῖς πάρεστέ μοι.Sing to me, beloved muse,start up my […]