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rejectomorphNot quite a respite, but something respitish, today was slightly less torrid than yesterday. The house only got up to eighty degrees by sunset, and once I had the fan on it began to cool quickly. By midnight I should be something similar to comfortable. A good thing, too, as I'll need to catch up on the sleep I didn't get last night because the heat kept me so restless. While shopping this afternoon I went into brief trance states a few times, staring dumbly at shelves, completely at a loss as to what I had been looking for. But I managed to get through the task and return home, and I am now being rewarded with a cool breeze intermittently entering my open window.
The birds were happy that the day was less hot, too. Yesterday they fell silent well before noon and presumably went into hiding in shady spots. Today there was much chirping both morning and evening, the silence falling only on a few hours of the afternoon. But tonight is different. Though I strain to listen, I hear not a single frog or a single cricket. Aside from the occasional rustling of leaves in vagrant breezes, and the occasional barking of a dog, the only sounds are human: passing cars, the hum of air conditioners and fans, and of course my own tinnitus ringing in my ears. Still, it's not so bad when I think how the quiet is reminiscent of late autumn and early winter, and I can watch the stars and breathe the cooling air, and think about December and January.
Sunday Verse
by Goran Simic
Who wakes me when the sun kisses the frost?
Who dares force my blind seagulls to skate on the frozen sea?
I fear someone may find the reading glasses I've lost,
and use them to read me.
Like a quince that smells of autumn,
my dark pillow smells of me.
Who dares to call the morning light if stars still fall
in my little Queendom in the corner of the sky?
I am still the Queen
who chews her own chocolate army.
Soldiers' eyes are sugar cherries in my crown
that shines like a star.
Who dares open the curtains between newspaper headlines
and dream in my homeland in the shape of a balloon,
where untold questions bloom like mushrooms in the dark?
I meet millions of fugitive shoes
on my way to the night.
Hundreds of empty gloves become butterfly nets
chasing postage stamps
flown from the envelopes of those who read stars.
I ask only of curtains that they guard me from the light—
there is nothing here for those who live
where passers-by wish each other
sweet dreams and good night.
The birds were happy that the day was less hot, too. Yesterday they fell silent well before noon and presumably went into hiding in shady spots. Today there was much chirping both morning and evening, the silence falling only on a few hours of the afternoon. But tonight is different. Though I strain to listen, I hear not a single frog or a single cricket. Aside from the occasional rustling of leaves in vagrant breezes, and the occasional barking of a dog, the only sounds are human: passing cars, the hum of air conditioners and fans, and of course my own tinnitus ringing in my ears. Still, it's not so bad when I think how the quiet is reminiscent of late autumn and early winter, and I can watch the stars and breathe the cooling air, and think about December and January.
Sunday Verse
The Sleepwalker Talks to the Curtains
by Goran Simic
Who wakes me when the sun kisses the frost?
Who dares force my blind seagulls to skate on the frozen sea?
I fear someone may find the reading glasses I've lost,
and use them to read me.
Like a quince that smells of autumn,
my dark pillow smells of me.
Who dares to call the morning light if stars still fall
in my little Queendom in the corner of the sky?
I am still the Queen
who chews her own chocolate army.
Soldiers' eyes are sugar cherries in my crown
that shines like a star.
Who dares open the curtains between newspaper headlines
and dream in my homeland in the shape of a balloon,
where untold questions bloom like mushrooms in the dark?
I meet millions of fugitive shoes
on my way to the night.
Hundreds of empty gloves become butterfly nets
chasing postage stamps
flown from the envelopes of those who read stars.
I ask only of curtains that they guard me from the light—
there is nothing here for those who live
where passers-by wish each other
sweet dreams and good night.
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Date: 2015-06-16 07:29 pm (UTC)Now more than ever I need to get serious about seeing La Dolce Vita, which I never have, aside from brief clips of Ekberg in the fountain. Also 8 1/2. I'm a total pretender when it comes to knowing about Italian cinema. :D
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Date: 2015-06-16 07:57 pm (UTC)You must see La Dolce Vita! (I also highly recommend Juliet of the Sprits if you haven't seen that.) I first saw Dolce at the State Theatre in Pasadena when I was 17 (most theaters in Southern California put an age limit of 18 on the movie, probably due to a scene near the end when there is a brief side glimpse of Nadia Gray's naked breasts, but the State let anyone 16 or older in.) The movie ran for several weeks there and I went back several times, and later saw it a few more times at various revival houses.
That was the definitive movie of the era for myself and most of my friends. It showed me that movies could be much more than I had always thought they were. I bought the sound track album, and found a paperback of the screenplay in a more complete English translation than either the subtitled or the dubbed versions of the movie provided. It remains one of my half dozen favorite movies to this day.
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Date: 2015-06-16 10:05 pm (UTC)I love Giulietta, have seen it twice and own it on dvd. I'm due for a re-watch! The music is lovely. Nino Rota was brilliant, really. I like his scores even for films I've never seen. Amarcord I did see, ages ago, and particularly like that music.