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Welcome to the online journal of larvatus. Stable texts are open to the general public. Squibs and sallies, schemes and stratagems, jaunts and taunts, are restricted to friends. Please note that locked texts subject to third party copyright are provided to my friends under the doctrine of fair use, subject to implied consent by all their readers to abstain from redistribution. Reciprocal friendship shall be extended to all sane, sound, and disinterested personae. Comments and critique are always welcome. Marriage proposals and death threats shall be entertained in the order received.
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                        SAY WHAT?

                                                                                         ÇA ?
                                                                      Tristan Corbière


A treatise? You don’t say! I haven’t treated squat!
A study? Slothful wretch, my culture fetid rot.
A volume? Random heap, sheets stacked in disarray.
Good copy? Not with me enmired in the fray.

A poem? Not today, my lyre is being cleaned.
A book? Of fusty tomes far better to be weaned.
A song? Would that it were, my ear is made of tin.
Fun pastime? Sordid den, dire boredom dwells within.

A cadence? Rhythmic flow is broken by dull grind.
A product? I divide what others multiplied.
A story? Handicapped, my lame and laggard Muse.
Clear proof? My mind is fraught by grief and lit by booze.

High fashion? Wealth and style inform nowhere my dress.
Grandstanding or grand mal? My spasms fail to impress.
Evicted from the hall, I lurk behind the stage,
In transit, poised to choose: a joy house or a cage.

Too old? But to retire, my tenure won’t suffice.
Too young? My hectic life will rid me of this vice.
A sage, a slob, an ace, a master, and a clown,
A stud without a flock, a king without a crown.

THIS is without pretense, and yet a blatant pose.
It’s life and nothing but, confessed in deathless prose.
A masterpiece? Could be, I never made one yet!
A farce? A waste? A bomb? Decide and place your bet!

I bet… and I shall sign herewith my humble name;
My child shall overcome each tainted libel claim.
Through chance it will prevail, its fate a stroke of luck
Art knows me not at all — and I don’t give a fuck.

                      — traduced by MZ, 6 September 2005


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Поцелуй женщины-паука

Date: 2011-01-05 01:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rutherg.livejournal.com
Не пугайтеськ ради Бога, не пугайтесь (третий или четвертый акт "Пиковой дамы"?). Так вот, приступаю уже. Мне приснился вещий сон про такую вот особу. Она была скорее паучиха, чем женщина. Просто на спинке был узор, похожий на женское лицо. Она даже скорее была Арахна, т.е. персонаж, любимый мною с детства. Так вот: она сказала, вернее, выткала на паутине нечто, загадку, разгадав которую, я бы могла всегда жить в гармонии с самой собой. Она меня целует, -- и представьте себе! -- никаких моральных терзаний ваще, начиная с этого момента.
Механизм прост: сказано было, что я смогу брать под контроль все свои самые запретные желания. Но плата за это -- утрата способности контролировать свои самоподавляющиеся хотения тоже. То бишь, -- никаких желаний больше не испытываешь никогда. Не помню, чем кончилось. Т.е.,-- разумеется, кончилось ничем: я не разгадала. А вы?

Re: Поцелуй женщины-паука

Date: 2011-01-05 02:20 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] larvatus.livejournal.com
Memory and Habit are attributes of the Time cancer. […] They are the flying buttresses of the temple raised to commemorate the wisdom of the architect that is also the wisdom of all the sages, from Brahma to Leopardi, the wisdom that consists not in the satisfaction but in the ablation of desire:
            “In noi di cari inganni
             non che la speme, il desiderio è spento.”
— Samuel Beckett, Proust
Edited Date: 2011-01-05 02:27 am (UTC)

Re: Поцелуй женщины-паука

Date: 2011-01-05 03:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rutherg.livejournal.com
Спасибо. Очень красиво (Леопарди), хотя не поручусь, что я сильна "в раздумях ясных (увы, нет!) о том, что погасла не только надежда, но даже желанье обманов прекрасных". Слаба, поэтому, как кажется и сон. У Гончарова, кажется что-то простое: сердце, Александр, обманывается ( а м.б. любит?) до старости.

Re: Поцелуй женщины-паука

Date: 2011-01-05 09:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] larvatus.livejournal.com
There is no reason to suspect that Socrates failed at loving his sons and their mother, just because he evinced more love for truth and justice, which conveyed him to the wisdom that consists in the ablation of desire.

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