>I enjoyed the off kilter feeling of this Dave, and the accumulation of
>images..... and Erminia's translation too, which seems to me very
successful.
> Thanks for brightening up a cheerless Saturday both of you
What I thought of, Liz, in doing the version, was Malcolm Lowry's 'Under the
Volcano', in the sense of it deploying the notion of inner disorder as a
metaphor for a civilization that was itself going mad, i.e. WWII. So the
'dissolving images' attempt to mirror the breakdown of the world that was
about to happen.
Glad it cheered up your Saturday!
Best
Dave
David Bircumshaw
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The south wind kicks like a man in his sleep
>as stone falls, your heavy-centered laughter
>twists a trembling needle
>out of true
I enjoyed the off kilter feeling of this Dave, and the accumulation of
images..... and Erminia's translation too, which seems to me very
successful.
Thanks for brightening up a cheerless Saturday both of you (I tried to go
for a swim but a gala had taken over the pool and I was forced to simply
come
home in the battering hail. What a weekend!) If England were under
another
sky it simply wouldnt be England of course, all the same Italy sounds very
tempting right now!
Liz
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