tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50069183623717242272024-03-05T18:29:55.008+02:00the floating bridge of dreamsRoxanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05650840495095863057noreply@blogger.comBlogger620125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5006918362371724227.post-68877324766357633102014-10-13T22:06:00.001+03:002014-10-13T22:06:48.594+03:00beyond the floating bridge<a href="http://s351.photobucket.com/user/floatingbridge/media/beyond1_zps9f2d2a1f.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img alt=" photo beyond1_zps9f2d2a1f.jpg" border="0" src="http://i351.photobucket.com/albums/q459/floatingbridge/beyond1_zps9f2d2a1f.jpg" /></a><br />
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<br />Roxanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05650840495095863057noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5006918362371724227.post-88320114994581900222014-09-03T21:49:00.000+03:002014-09-03T21:49:21.485+03:00Michael T. Stowers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: none;">
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />"It's these modalities which hook me. That's how it feels, like hooks with those little barbs on them that prevent the fish from unhooking itself, those 'hads' and 'shoulds' and 'woulds'. Life is, as you know, woven out of a million threads, 999,999 of which end in one of those hooks. <br /><br />...<br /><br />Time. Such issues with time. To me, you see, your assertion that the past is unredeemable is the opposite to my reality. For me, the future is the only unredeemable thing. The present is the persistence of evanescence. The past, though, is the only part we can change. And we do, all of us, all of the time. Memory is around seventy to eighty percent fabrication; we know this now. Add the rose-tinted glasses and the exponential fall off of memory and you get a situation where the past becomes more story-like than any myth."<br /><br /><br /><i>Michael T. Stowers</i><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />We would often fight about the all-time-is-unredeemable-motto of the Bridge, whose constant and passionate supporter he had been ever since he first came here, in march 2011. It deeply irritated him and time and again he would try to convince me of the contrary. His sudden death, on the 29th of August, has left this debate open (or closed it forever, it depends on how one wants to look at it). Perhaps it is exactly through this shocking disappearance that he has been proved right: the future may be the only unreedemable thing, and my memory has already begun to fashion the story of him, of our close friendship into a myth, an ever-shifting tale which has become part of my ever-shifting self.<br /><br /><br />I would like to say more, but words fail me. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The fair in the month of August brought me many
other sadnesses and exaltations. The full spectacle swelled like a symphony,
from the prelude of isolated attractions that arrived much before the others
and that indicated the general tone of the fair, like the prolonged stray notes
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The few attractions that came early encompassed, in essence, the whole
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">In the obscurity of the boulevard a tiara of colored glass would light
up toward evening, like the earth’s first constellation. Soon others would
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wander, speechless, as I had once seen, in an illustrated edition of Jules
Verne, a boy my age, leaning against the porthole of a submarine, looking
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">from: </span></span></span><br />
<pre style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">MAX BLECHER,
<i>Adventures in Immediate Unreality </i>
translated by Jeanie Han </span></span></span></pre>
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<br />Roxanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05650840495095863057noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5006918362371724227.post-52395779674949992662014-06-07T00:58:00.003+03:002014-06-07T00:58:30.693+03:00the journey<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: none;">
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<br />Roxanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05650840495095863057noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5006918362371724227.post-87650619764968356862014-05-19T22:41:00.001+03:002014-05-19T22:41:50.764+03:00the Belogradchik rocks<a href="http://s351.photobucket.com/user/floatingbridge/media/travels/fortress1_zpscd064e22.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img alt=" photo fortress1_zpscd064e22.jpg" border="0" src="http://i351.photobucket.com/albums/q459/floatingbridge/travels/fortress1_zpscd064e22.jpg" /></a>
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<br />Roxanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05650840495095863057noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5006918362371724227.post-27831361750556209242014-05-12T17:15:00.000+03:002014-05-12T17:15:08.326+03:00where sleeping beauty softly whispers in her sleep<a href="http://s351.photobucket.com/user/floatingbridge/media/sleepbeauty1_zps3b34cb8c.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img alt=" photo sleepbeauty1_zps3b34cb8c.jpg" border="0" src="http://i351.photobucket.com/albums/q459/floatingbridge/sleepbeauty1_zps3b34cb8c.jpg" /></a>
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<br />Roxanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05650840495095863057noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5006918362371724227.post-15494698562301369452014-05-03T22:43:00.000+03:002014-05-03T22:43:01.050+03:00the colour of spring<a href="http://s351.photobucket.com/user/floatingbridge/media/spring1_zpsb171348e.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img alt=" photo spring1_zpsb171348e.jpg" border="0" src="http://i351.photobucket.com/albums/q459/floatingbridge/spring1_zpsb171348e.jpg" /></a>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Yes, and in that month when Proserpine comes back, and Ceres' dead
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birds no bigger than a budding leaf dart through the singing trees,
and when odorous tar comes spongy in the streets, and boys roll
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soaking millionfooted rain, and one looks out at morning on a
stormy sky, a broken wrack of cloud; and when the mountain boy
brings water to his kinsmen laying fence, and as the wind snakes
through the grasses hears far in the valley below the long wail of
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tender exhaustless strength, and the cup of a man's heart runs over
with dateless expectancy, tongueless promise, indefinable desire.
Something gathers in the throat, something blinds him in the eyes,
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school; but the young gods loiter: they hear the reed, the
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everywhere: they dawdle, listen, fleetest when they wait, go
vaguely on to their one fixed home, because the earth is full of
ancient rumor and they cannot find the way. All of the gods have
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">from <i>Look Homeward, Angel</i>, by Thomas Wolfe</span><br />
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<br />Roxanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05650840495095863057noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5006918362371724227.post-77221498504428425072014-01-20T21:47:00.001+02:002014-01-20T21:48:26.354+02:00being there<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: none;">
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The voice of brooks that you interpret, pure explicator … The voice of trees whose rustling means what we say it means … Ah, my unknown love, this is all just us and our fantasies, all ash, trickling down the bars of our cell!</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 31.200000762939453px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">from: <i>The Book of Disquiet</i>, Fernando Pessoa</span><em style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 22.387500762939453px;"><br /></em>
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<br />Roxanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05650840495095863057noreply@blogger.com42tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5006918362371724227.post-33173238599181355952013-12-30T20:46:00.002+02:002013-12-30T20:46:57.237+02:00happy new year<a href="http://s351.photobucket.com/user/floatingbridge/media/hny_zps0ad241b5.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img alt=" photo hny_zps0ad241b5.jpg" border="0" src="http://i351.photobucket.com/albums/q459/floatingbridge/hny_zps0ad241b5.jpg" /></a><br />
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<br />Roxanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05650840495095863057noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5006918362371724227.post-23667167590081141762013-12-17T22:18:00.001+02:002013-12-17T22:19:27.653+02:00Venezia, dark & slow<a href="http://s351.photobucket.com/user/floatingbridge/media/venezia1_zpsd43e6295.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img alt=" photo venezia1_zpsd43e6295.jpg" border="0" src="http://i351.photobucket.com/albums/q459/floatingbridge/venezia1_zpsd43e6295.jpg" /></a>
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<br />Roxanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05650840495095863057noreply@blogger.com26tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5006918362371724227.post-42293513067863147252013-12-10T21:47:00.003+02:002013-12-10T21:47:53.350+02:00the last rose<br />
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<br />Roxanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05650840495095863057noreply@blogger.com26tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5006918362371724227.post-79406012621648597152013-12-01T21:38:00.000+02:002013-12-01T21:38:20.973+02:00the secret life of these stone women and men<a href="http://s351.photobucket.com/user/floatingbridge/media/italy/statue1_zps97d69253.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img alt=" photo statue1_zps97d69253.jpg" border="0" src="http://i351.photobucket.com/albums/q459/floatingbridge/italy/statue1_zps97d69253.jpg" /></a>
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<br />Roxanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05650840495095863057noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5006918362371724227.post-2145568852393056172013-11-12T14:43:00.000+02:002013-11-12T15:18:20.883+02:00november<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/floatingbridge/10818294744/" title="liye2 by floatingbridge, on Flickr"><img alt="liye2" height="539" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7299/10818294744_75c9cc2c24_o.jpg" width="800" /></a>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">People say the sea is deep —</span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">it's not as deep by half as love.</span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The sea at least still has its coasts, </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">love's farthest reaches have no shore.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">With harp in hand I'll climb the tower</span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">To empty rooms full of the moon,</span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">And strum the song of missing him.</span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">My heart and harp will break as one.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">(note: i borrowed the first 4 lines of the translation from <i>Women Writers of Traditional China</i>, while the last 4 are translated by A.Z. Foreman, i liked his version better in this case)</span></div>
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