Daring Rocket» mood http://daringrocket.com a lot goes on forever Sat, 09 Jul 2011 00:08:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Der Weg gehüllt in Schnee http://daringrocket.com/2009/10/der-weg-gehllt-in-schnee http://daringrocket.com/2009/10/der-weg-gehllt-in-schnee#comments Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:26:43 +0000 george http://daringrocket.com/?p=1816 “Fremd bin ich eingezogen,
Fremd zieh’ ich wieder aus.
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Der Weg gehüllt in Schnee.
…
Die Liebe liebt das Wandern
Gott hat sie so gemach”
…

“I came in as a stranger,
Still stranger I go out.
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The road all wrapped in snow.
…
Love loves the wandering
God has wrought it so”
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“Gute Nacht,” from Schubert’s Winterreise (1827)
Poem by Wilhelm Müller [my free translation]
Performed by Mark Padmore (tenor) and Paul Lewis (piano).

[Via Alex Ross]

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"Blind Owl" (2000), by Jim Dine

[Via NYT via MD]

]]> http://daringrocket.com/2009/01/minerva-of-our-epoch/feed 0 Retro imagination redux http://daringrocket.com/2008/05/retro-imagination-redux http://daringrocket.com/2008/05/retro-imagination-redux#comments Thu, 15 May 2008 06:44:46 +0000 george http://daringrocket.com/?p=211 If the past two days hadn’t been totally dreadful (will things be good again–soon?), I imagine (squinting) that this evening I would have been in a mood such as this:

French Chris

French Chris at the Drive-in, N.J.

Copyright © 1979 Nan Goldin

[Via Tate Modern]

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