>Eugene attends the boulevard,
and there at large he goes patrolling
until Breguet's unsleeping chime
advises him of dinnertime.< I, xv. courtesy of Charles Johnston.
It's part of what makes Pushkin so modern ~ just turn the dandy into today's
jeunesse (a)dorée.... It would be interesting to trawl through the European
(and English, too ;-)) poetry of the period for brand tips, there could be a
book in the making there. Perhaps if more poets of today let themselves be
sponsored & shoved in such references, that whole accessibility problem that
has been raised recently here might be solved: you know, people don't want
to understand, they want to recognize...
Cheers
Martin
SCORPION
Faced by that exceeding precision
(with the insight,
for love of the Real?)
the metallic mirror
of a lake deludes.
One knows moreover
of a trace of murk.
Loss loss. Scorpion.
I heard it
say to the fish:
what is it that stings us?
I can see wave, cloud;
I can see ashes swarming.
Dip the bird's ripped-out
quill in the moist
decay. It writes
what is after us.
Ernst Meister 1960
M.J.Walker
Lagorce
F-07150
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kari Foster" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 8:43 AM
Subject: Eugene Onegin
> Sorry this question has nothing to do with Iceland (I'm rather enjoying
> that thread); does anyone have a copy of Onegin to hand?
> I've lost mine and want to check something. Have just come across
> an advertisement for Breguet watches which claims that their product
> was endorsed by Pushkin himself. The quote they give is:
>
> "A dandy on the boulevards...
> strolling at leisure
> until his Breguet, ever vigilant,
> reminds him it is midday."
>
> I don't recall that part at all. They don't give a stanza number, but if
> it's there it must be somewhere early on.
>
> I find this strangely disturbing... we are now accustomed to products
> being touted in films, even by fairly "serious" directors, but to think
> this sort of thing was already going on in 1829.......
>
> Kari
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