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Thomas Mann, Aleksandr Poesjkin, Sarah Dessen, Jean Cayrol, Pierre Corneille, Hendrik van Teylingen, V. C. Andrews, Frank Gericke

De Duitse schrijver Thomas Mann werd geboren in Lübeck op 6 juni 1875. Zie ook alle tags voor Thomas Mann op dit blog.

Uit: Doktor Faustus

„Ich breche aufs neue ab, indem ich mich daran erinnere, daß ich auf das Genie und seine jedenfalls dämonisch beeinflußte Natur nur zu sprechen kam, um meinen Zweifel zu erläutern, ob ich zu meiner Aufgabe die nötige Affinität besitze. Möge denn nun gegen den Gewissensskrupel geltend gemacht sein, was immer ich dagegen ins Feld zu führen habe. Es war mir beschieden, viele Jahre meines Lebens in der vertrauten Nähe eines genialen Menschen, des Helden dieser Blätter, zu verbringen, ihn seit Kinderzeiten zu kennen, Zeuge seines Werdens, seines Schicksals zu sein und an seinem Schaffen in bescheidener Helfersrolle teilzuhaben. Die librettistische Bearbeitung von Shakespeares Komödie »Verlorene Liebesmüh«, Leverkühns mutwilligem Jugendwerk, stammt von mir, und auch auf die textliche Zubereitung der grotesken Opernsuite »Gesta Romanorum« sowie des Oratoriums »Offenbarung S. Johannis des Theologen« durfte ich Einfluß nehmen. Das ist das eine, oder es ist bereits das eine und andere. Ich bin aber ferner im Besitz von Papieren, unschätzbaren Aufzeichnungen, die der Heimgegangene mir und keinem anderen in gesunden Tagen oder, wenn ich so nicht sagen darf, in vergleichsweise und legaliter gesunden Tagen letztwillig vermacht hat, und auf die ich mich bei meiner Darstellung stützen werde, ja, aus denen ich mit gebotener Auswahl einiges direkt in dieselbe einzuschalten gedenke. Letztens und erstens aber — und diese Rechtfertigung war noch immer die gültigste, wenn nicht vor den Menschen, so doch vor Gott: ich habe ihn geliebt — mit Entsetzen und Zärtlichkeit, mit Erbarmen und hingebender Bewunderung — und wenig dabei gefragt, ob er im mindesten mir das Gefühl zurückgäbe. Das hat er nicht getan, o nein.

 

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Jon Finch als Adrian Leverkühn en Marie-Hélène Breillat als Marie Godeau;in de film uit 1982

 

In der Verschreibung der nachgelassenen Kompositionsskizzen und Tagebuchblätter drückt sich ein freundlich-sachliches, fast möchte ich sagen: gnädiges und sicherlich mich ehrendes Vertrauen in meine Gewissenhaftigkeit, Pietät und Korrektheit aus. Aber lieben? Wen hätte dieser Mann geliebt? Einst eine Frau — vielleicht. Ein Kind zuletzt — es mag sein. Einen leichtwiegenden, jeden gewinnenden Fant und Mann aller Stunden, den er dann, wahrscheinlich eben weil er ihm geneigt war, von sich schickte — und zwar in den Tod. Wem hätte er sein Herz eröffnet, wen jemals in sein Leben eingelassen? Das gab es bei Adrian nicht. Menschliche Ergebenheit nahm er hin — ich möchte schwören: oft ohne sie auch nur zu bemerken. Seine Gleichgültigkeit war so groß, daß er kaum jemals gewahr wurde, was um ihn her vorging, in welcher Gesellschaft er sich befand, und die Tatsache, daß er sehr selten einen Gesprächspartner mit Namen anredete, läßt mich vermuten, daß er den Namen nicht wußte, während doch der andere ein gutes Recht zur Annahme des Gegenteils hatte. Ich möchte seine Einsamkeit einem Abgrund vergleichen, in welchem Gefühle, die man ihm entgegenbrachte, lautlos und spurlos untergingen. Um ihn war Kälte — und wie wird mir zumute, indem ich dies Wort gebrauche, das auch er in einem ungeheuerlichen Zusammenhange einst niederschrieb! Einzelnen Vokabeln können Leben und Erfahrung einen Akzent verleihen, der sie ihrem alltäglichen Sinn völlig entfremdet und ihnen einen Schreckensnimbus verleiht, den niemand versteht, der sie nicht in ihrer fürchterlichsten Bedeutung kennengelernt hat.“

 

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Thomas Mann (6 juni 1875 – 12 augustus 1955)

 

 

De Russische dichter en schrijver Aleksandr Poesjkin werd geboren in Moskou op 6 juni 1799. Zie ook alle tags voor Aleksandr Poesjkin op dit blog.

Uit: Evgeny Onegin (Vertaald door G. R. Ledger)

Book 5

I
That year the autumn weather lingered
Over the field and around the yards,
Winter held back, Nature awaited,
In January only snow fell at last
On the third, at night. And waking early
Tatyana saw through the window clearly
The yard all covered with morning whiteness,
The flower beds, roofs, and all the fences;
On the window glass the leaves of frost,
The trees in their winter silveriness,
And cheerful magpies in the snow.
The hills all covered with the soft glow
Of winter's carpet glistening bright,
Around all was shining, all was white.


II
Winter ! The peasant breathes a sigh,
Renews his sledge, and makes his way.
His horse, snorting in the fresh snow
With a finicky trot gets along somehow.
And now the dashing kibitka flies,
In the powdery snow cutting feathery furrows.
The coachman sits huddled upon his box,
In a sheepskin coat and a scarlet sash.
A yard boy runs out, and on his sledge
His favourite 'Dasher' is the driver,
While he himself is the willing puller;
The rascal struggles with frozen hands;
What fun it is, but so painful too,
While his mother scolds him above at the window.


III
But perhaps recollection of winter's scenes
Does not arouse you, gentle reader:
It is all base, lowly, and vulgar Nature,
But not much here of refinement breathes.
Warmed by the inspiration of the Muse,
Another poet, in luxuriant gloss,
Has painted for us the first fallen snow,
And all the shades of winter's sloth.
I am sure that he more than ever enchants you,
Depicting in his flamboyant verse
The charm of a secret rendezvous,
On a sledge; yet to fight I am somewhat averse,
With him, or with that other minstrel
Of the Finnish maiden, as bright as tinsel.

 

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Aleksandr Poesjkin (6 juni 1799- 10 februari 1837) 
Cover

 

 

De Amerikaanse schrijfster Sarah Dessen werd geboren op 6 juni 1970 in Evanston, Illinois. Zie ook alle tags voor Sarah Dessen nop dit blog.

Uit: Just Listen

“I taped the commercial back in April, before anything had happened, and promptly forgot about it. A few weeks ago, it had started running, and suddenly, I was everywhere. On the rows of screens hanging over the ellipticals at the gym. On the monitor they have at the post office that's supposed to distract you from how long you've been waiting in line. And now here, on the TV in my room, as I sat at the edge of my bed, fingers clenched into my palms, trying to make myself get up and leave. "It's that time of year again...." I stared at myself on the screen as I was five months earlier, looking for any difference, some visible proof of what had happened to me. First, though, I was struck by the sheer oddness of seeing myself without benefit of a mirror or photograph. I had never gotten used to it, even after all this time. "Football games," I watched myself say. I was wearing a baby-blue cheerleader uniform, hair pulled back tight into a ponytail, and clutching a huge megaphone, the kind nobody ever used anymore, emblazoned with a K. "Study hall." Cut to me in a serious plaid skirt and brown cropped sweater, which I remembered feeling itchy and so wrong to be wearing just as it was getting warm, finally. "And, of course, social life." I leaned in, staring at the me on-screen, now outfitted in jeans and a glittery tee and seated on a bench, turning to speak this line while a group of other girls chattered silently behind me. The director, fresh-faced and just out of film school, had explained to me the concept of this, his creation. "The girl who has everything," he'd said, moving his hands in a tight, circular motion, as if that was all it took to encompass something so vast, not to mention vague. Clearly, it meant having a megaphone, some smarts, and a big group of friends. Now, I might have dwelled on the explicit irony of this last one, but the on-screen me was already moving on. "It's all happening this year," I said. Now I was in a pink gown, a sash reading HOMECOMING QUEEN stretched across my midsection as a boy in a tux stepped up beside me, extending his arm. I took it, giving him a wide smile. He was a sophomore at the local university and mostly kept to himself at the shooting, although later, as I was leaving, he'd asked for my number. How had I forgotten that?”

 

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Sarah Dessen (Evanston, 6 juni 1970)

 

 

De Franse dichter en schrijver Jean Cayrol werd geboren op 6 juni 1911 in Bordeaux. Zie ook alle tags voor Jean Cayrol op dit blog.

 

Retour

À feu et à sang
belle fille qui se repent
les oiseaux sont dans le vent
à chercher qui vous attend

À feu et à sang
les villes tendres de la mort
les hauts jardins les fruits les corps
le désastre au premier rang

À feu et à sang
sans qu’on puisse dire une prière
un fleuve qui trouve la barque éphémère
un homme haletant

À feu et à sang
la guerre comme chevreau mort
sur tes épaules et tout ce qui dort
sur la rive d’Avant

À feu et à sang
j’ai de grands vergers qui hantent le soir
j’ai de grands amis qui peuvent me voir
des plaies qui s’en vont

À feu et à sang
la porte n’est jamais fermée
entends-tu au fond de l’année
l’écho, le démon

À feu et à sang
reviens mon enfant
inlassablement.

 

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Jean Cayrol (6 juni 1911 – 10 februari 2005)

 

 

De Franse dichter en schrijver Pierre Corneille werd geboren in Rouen op 6 juni 1606. Zie ook alle tags voor Pierre Corneille op dit blog.

Uit: Le Cid

« LE COMTE
Je l’avoue entre nous, mon sang un peu trop chaud
S’est trop ému d’un mot, et l’a porté trop haut ;
Mais puisque c’en est fait, le coup est sans remède.
DON ARIAS
Qu’aux volontés du roi ce grand courage cède :
Il y prend grande part, et son cœur irrité
Agira contre vous de pleine autorité.
Aussi vous n’avez point de valable défense :
Le rang de l’offensé, la grandeur de l’offense,
Demandent des devoirs, et des soumissions
Qui passent le commun des satisfactions.
LE COMTE
Le roi peut à son gré disposer de ma vie.
DON ARIAS
De trop d’emportement votre faute est suivie.
Le roi vous aime encore ; apaisez son courroux.
Il a dit : « Je le veux ; » désobéirez-vous ?
LE COMTE
Monsieur, pour conserver tout ce que j’ai d’estime,
Désobéir un peu n’est pas un si grand crime ;
Et quelque grand qu’il soit, mes services présents
Pour le faire abolir sont plus que suffisants.
DON ARIAS
Quoi qu’on fasse d’illustre et de considérable,
Jamais à son sujet un roi n’est redevable.
Vous vous flattez beaucoup, et vous devez savoir
Que qui sert bien son roi ne fait que son devoir.
Vous vous perdrez, Monsieur, sur cette confiance. »

 

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Pierre Corneille (6 juni 1606 – 1 oktober 1684)
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De Nederlandse dichter en vertaler Hendrik van Teylingen werd geboren op 6 juni 1938 in IJmuiden. Zie ook alle tags voor Hendrik van Teylingen op ditt blog.

 

Antoine

In deze winternacht
is de gracht belegd
met een kruimige vacht
van bierschuim en licht.

Geëerde Stoffeerder,
zend thans uw borduurders.
Stuur uwe woerden
en eenden in horden.

Roep op uit de wakken.
Laat ze haast maken.
Dat al wat kan kwaken
guirlanden trappele

rondom de bijt
waarin Antoine, door de hik
van de wal gewipt,
allengs berijpt.

 

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Hendrik van Teylingen (6 juni 1938 – 25 december 1998)
IJmuiden, Het Zee-en Havenmuseum

 

 

De Amerikaanse schrijfster V. C. Andrews (eig. Cleo Virginia Andrews) werd geboren in Portsmouth op 6 juni 1923. Zie ook alle tags voor VC Andres en eveneens alle tags voor V. C. Andrews op dit blog.

Uit:Petals on the Wind

“How young we were the day we escaped. How exuberantly alive we should have felt to be freed, at last, from such a grim, lonely and stifling place. How pitifully delighted we should have been to be riding on a bus that rumbled slowly southward. But if we felt joy, we didn’t show it. We sat, all three, pale, silent, staring out the windows, very frightened by all we saw.
Free. Was ever a word more wonderful than that one? No, even though the cold and bony hands of death would reach out and drag us back, if God wasn’t up there somewhere, or maybe down here on the bus, riding with us and looking out for us. At some time in our life we had to believe in someone.
The hours passed with the miles. Our nerves grew frazzled because the bus stopped often to pick up and let off passengers. It stopped for rest breaks, for breakfast, then to pick up a single huge black lady who stood alone where a dirt road met the concrete interstate. It took her forever to pull herself onto the bus, then lug inside the many bundles she carried with her. Just as she was finally seated, we passed over the state line between Virginia and North Carolina.
Oh! The relief to be gone from that state of our imprisonment! For the first time in years, I began to relax—a little.
We three were the youngest on the bus. Chris was seventeen years old and strikingly handsome with long, waving blond hair that just touched his shoulders, then curled upward. His darkly fringed blue eyes rivaled the color of a summer sky, and he was in personality like a warm sunny day—he put on a brave face despite the bleakness of our situation. His straight and finely shaped nose had just taken on the strength and maturity that promised to make him all that our father had been—the type of man to make every woman’s heart flutter when he looked her way, or even when he didn’t. His expression was confident; he almost looked happy. If he hadn’t looked at Carrie he might have even been happy. But when he saw her sickly, pale face, he frowned and worry darkened his eyes. He began to pluck on the strings of the guitar strapped to his shoulder.”

 

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V. C. Andrews (6 juni 1923 – 19 december 1986)
Scene uit de gelijknamige film uit 2014 met Wyatt Nash (Christopher) en Rose McIver (Cathy)

 

 

De Nederlandse dichter en publicist Frank Gericke (pseudoniem van Derk Gerhardus Hoek) werd geboren in Hoogvliet op 6 juni 1887. Zie ook alle tags voor Frank Gericke op dit blog.

 

De naaister

Weken na weken, jaren na jaar, met een duldenden glimlach,
Minzaam, bescheiden en oud, komt zij en zet zich aan 't raam.
Kraaloogend volgde, uit mijn wieg, ik het bezig geheim van heur handen;
Morgen... Wie weet het hoe snel zij ook mijn doodslaken naait?
Wàt verzilvert heur taak, wàt doet haar, van 't deemstren des morgens,
IJvrend tot Helios daalt, 't zonnegoud zaamle' in heur oog?
Dieper dan 't staamrend verstand van den zinnenden dichter, den wijsgeer,
Weet zij hoe de eeuwigheid bloeit, bloeit uit een mensch en zijn taak.

 

Het renteniertje

Parkwaart stiert hij den tred: hij kiest, onder 't loof der platanen,
'T plekje dat, vroolijk en wijd, uitzicht en lommer hem biedt;
Volgt, met de baby, het meisje, en let hoe de wieletjes glijden; -
Krachtig stort de muziek volkwaart uit schaduw en tent.
Doet, in 't grauw van zijn baard, u zijn blik geen monkellach raden?
Heimelijk loert hij, en lonkt, pinkoogt en monkellacht weêr...
De ure verstilt; de kilte doorhuivert zijn leden... Zoo keert hij
Schoorvoetend weder, en steels pinkt hij uit d' ooghoek een traan.

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Frank Gericke (6 juni 1887 − 14 december 1976)
Hoogvliet, kerk

 

 Zie voor nog meer schrijvers van de 6e juni ook mijn blog van 6 juni 2015 deel 2.

Geschreven door Romenu om 18:19 Reageer op dit bericht

Dolce far niente, Groen-grijs gebied (Jesse Laport)

 

Dolce far niente

 

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Gezicht op het Kerkplein en de Sint-Eusebiuskerk te Arnhem, z.j.
door Jurriaan Marinus Beek (5 april 1879 - 15 oktober 1965)

 

 

Groen-grijs gebied

Geen heuvels; bulten
geen monumenten; panden
geen gesprekken; praatjes
geen gedoe; gedonder;

aan de Rijn maakt niemand alles mooier
maar doet niet van iets of het niets is
aan de Rijn pas je in geen enkel hokje
dan het hokje dat je bouwt

ze kunnen gedichten schrijven
verhalen verzinnen
liederen zingen
video’s maken

maar plaatsen kunnen ze ons niet

wie hier woont
pást niet in je plaatje
wie hier wonen
voldoen niet aan stigmata

dit is geen Randstad
geen periferie
dit is de Rijnstad

we zijn een groen, we zijn een grijs gebied

 

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Jesse Laport (Arnhem, 1991)
Arnhem gezien vanaf de Rijn door Abraham van der Zee (1882-1958)

 

 

Zie voor de schrijvers van de 5e juni ook mijn vorige blog van vandaag.

Geschreven door Romenu om 19:07 Reageer op dit bericht

Federico García Lorca, Adriaan Morriën, Ken Follett, Paul Farley, Geoff Dyer

De Spaanse dichter en toneelschrijver Federico Garcia Lorca werd geboren op 5 juni 1898 in Fuente Vaqueros, Granada. Zie ook alle tags voor Federico Garcia Lorca op dit blog.

 

Ballad Of The Moon

The moon came into the forge
in her bustle of flowering nard.
The little boy stares at her, stares.
The boy is staring hard.
In the shaken air
the moon moves her amrs,
and shows lubricious and pure,
her breasts of hard tin.
"Moon, moon, moon, run!
If the gypsies come,
they will use your heart
to make white necklaces and rings."
"Let me dance, my little one.
When the gypsies come,
they'll find you on the anvil
with your lively eyes closed tight.
"Moon, moon, moon, run!
I can feelheir horses come."
"Let me be, my little one,
don't step on me, all starched and white!"

Closer comes the the horseman,
drumming on the plain.
The boy is in the forge;
his eyes are closed.
Through the olive grove
come the gypsies, dream and bronze,
their heads held high,
their hooded eyes.

Oh, how the night owl calls,
calling, calling from its tree!
The moon is climbing through the sky
with the child by the hand.

They are crying in the forge,
all the gypsies, shouting, crying.
The air is veiwing all, views all.
The air is at the viewing.

 

Vertaald door Will Kirkland

 

 

Arbolé, Arbolé

Tree, tree
dry and green.

The girl with the pretty face
is out picking olives.
The wind, playboy of towers,
grabs her around the waist.
Four riders passed by
on Andalusian ponies,
with blue and green jackets
and big, dark capes.
'Come to Cordoba, muchacha.'
The girl won't listen to them.
Three young bullfighters passed,
slender in the waist,
with jackets the color of oranges
and swords of ancient silver.
'Come to Sevilla, muchacha.'
The girl won't listen to them.
When the afternoon had turned
dark brown, with scattered light,
a young man passed by, wearing
roses and myrtle of the moon.
'Come to Granada, inuchacha.'
And the girl won't listen to him.
The girl with the pretty face
keeps on picking olives
with the grey arm of the wind
wrapped around her waist.
Tree, tree
dry and green.

 

Vertaald door William Logan

 

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Federico García Lorca (5 juni 1898 – 19 augustus 1936)
Portret door Alejandro Cabeze, 2015

 

 

De Nederlandse dichter en schrijver Adriaan Morriën werd geboren op 5 juni 1912 in Amsterdam. Zie ook alle tags voor Adriaan Morriën op dit blog.

 

Zomerwind

Nog voor zonsondergang valt reeds de wind,
het land wordt diep waarin de boomen zwijgen
en de gedachten ruimte en toekomst krijgen,
voor 't open raam denkt menig moeder aan haar kind.

En in den nacht wordt 't gouden haar ontbonden
en streelen vingers een bemind gelaat;
het spel is oud waarvoor wij namen vonden
zoo zoet dat geen herinnering geheel vergaat.

In vele kamers schijnt de glans der maan
over de lichamen die zich verstrenglen;
de liefde raakt ons in 't voorbijgaan aan,
maakt ons één nacht haar uitverkoren englen.

Wie nu nog rond ziet in de leege straat
hoort hoe het loover nauwlijks leeft en fluistert,
de vogel onder maan en sterren klaagt,
de klimroos maakt het venster zoet en duister.

Straks gloort de morgen boven bosch en weiden,
het landschap waar het vee slaapt in het gras
wordt vochtig van den dauw, de vijver blinkt als glas
waarover schaduwen van wolken glijden.

Als de rivier zich rekt in 't heldre licht
en langs de wegen menschen naar de dagtaak loopen,
begint de wind opnieuw en waait den hemel open,
de boomen ruischen in het vergezicht.

 

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Adriaan Morriën (5 juni 1912 – 7 juni 2002) 

 

 

De Engelse schrijver Ken Follett werd geboren op 5 juni 1949 in Cardiff, Wales. Zie ook alle tags voor Ken Follett op dit blog.

Uit: Fall of Giants

„22 June 1911
On the day King George V was crowned at Westminster Abbey in London, Billy Williams went down the pit in Aberowen, South Wales.
The twenty-second of June, 1911, was Billy’s thirteenth birthday. He was woken by his father. Da’s technique for waking people was more effective than it was kind. He patted Billy’s cheek, in a regular rhythm, firmly and insistently. Billy was in a deep sleep, and for a second he tried to ignore it, but the patting went on relentlessly. Momentarily he felt angry; but then he remembered that he had to get up, he even wanted to get up, and he opened his eyes and sat upright with a jerk.
“Four o’clock,” Da said, then he left the room, his boots banging on the wooden staircase as he went down.
Today Billy would begin his working life by becoming an apprentice collier, as most of the men in town had done at his age. He wished he felt more like a miner. But he was determined not to make a fool of himself. David Crampton had cried on his first day down the pit, and they still called him Dai Crybaby, even though he was twenty-five and the star of the town’s rugby team.
It was the day after midsummer, and a bright early light came through the small window. Billy looked at his grandfather, lying beside him. Gramper’s eyes were open. He was always awake, whenever Billy got up; he said old people did not sleep much.
Billy got out of bed. He was wearing only his underdrawers. In cold weather he wore his shirt to bed, but Britain was enjoying a hot summer, and the nights were mild. He pulled the pot from under the bed and took off the lid.
There was no change in the size of his penis, which he called his peter. It was still the childish stub it had always been. He had hoped it might have started to grow on the night before his birthday, or perhaps that he might see just one black hair sprouting somewhere near it, but he was disappointed. His best friend, Tommy Griffiths, who had been born on the same day, was different: he had a cracked voice and a dark fuzz on his upper lip, and his peter was like a man’s. It was humiliating.
As Billy was using the pot, he looked out of the window. All he could see was the slag heap, a slate-grey mountain of tailings, waste from the coal mine, mostly shale and sandstone. This was how the world appeared on the second day of Creation, Billy thought, before God said: “Let the earth bring forth grass.” A gentle breeze wafted fine black dust off the slag on to the rows of houses.”

 

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Ken Follett (Cardiff, 5 juni 1949)

 

 

De Britse dichter en schrijver Paul Farley werd geboren op 5 juni 1965 in Liverpool. Zie ook alle tags voor Paul Farley op dit blog.

 

For St Jerome

Guardian of the date-stamp and card catalogue,
keeper of knowledge, and a staff notice-board
pinned with drunks and men who lick the atlases,
go with me while I Tipp-Ex-out the bogies
and spray Glade in the newspaper section.
Curmudgeon, teach me how to smile while fining
the sinners who have lately been in hospital,
who were struck dumb by lightning, or forgot.
Teach me to bear their crumbs and bookmarks
with the fortitude for which you are not famous:
the bus tickets, postcards, rashers of bacon
and once - give me strength - a knotted condom.
Gatekeeper, watch over books on loan;
their months of purgatory spent in bath steam
or under beds. Watch over those abandoned
on bus seats or park benches. Heal the torn.
Take them back from houses with the measles.
Inform Environmental Health at once.
And teach me to work with an abrupt demeanour,
And the martyrdom of the index, which was yours;
to speak out in the silence of your feast day
whose widespread celebration is long overdue.

 

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Paul Farley (Liverpool,. 5 juni 1965)

 

 

De Engelse schrijver Geoff Dyer werd op geboren 5 juni 1958 in Cheltenham. Zie ook alle tags voor Geoff Dyer op dit blog.

Uit: Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi

“On top of that he was supposed to make sure - at the very least - that she agreed to grant Kulchur exclusive rights to reproduce a drawing Morison had made of her, a drawing never previously published, and not even seen by anyone at Kulchur, but which, due to the fear that a rival publication might get hold of it, had acquired the status of a rare and valuable artefact. The value of any individual part of this arrangement was irrelevant. What mattered was that in marketing and publicity terms (or, from an editorial point of view, circulation and advertising) the planets were all in alignment. He had to interview her, had to come away with the picture and the right to reproduce it. Christ Almighty ... A woman pushing an all-terrain pram glanced quickly at him and looked away even more quickly. He must have been doing that thing, not talking aloud to himself but forming words with his mouth, unconsciously lip-synching the torrent of grievances that tumbled constantly through his head. He held his mouth firmly shut. He had to stop doing that. Of all the things he had to stop doing or start doing, that was right at the top of the list. But how do you stop doing something when you are completely unaware that you're doing it? Charlotte was the one who pointed it out to him, when they were still together, but he'd probably been doing it for years before that. Towards the end that's how she would refer to this habit of muted karaoke. 'That thing,' she would say. 'You're doing that thing again.' At first it had been a joke between them. Then, like everything else in a marriage, it stopped being a joke and became a bone of contention, an issue, a source of resentment, one of the many things that rendered life on Planet Jeff - as she termed the uninhabitable wasteland of their marriage - intolerable. What she never understood, he claimed, was that life on Planet Jeff was intolerable for him too, more so, in fact, than for anyone else. That, she claimed, was precisely her point.”

 

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Geoff Dyer (Cheltenham, 5 juni 1958)

 

 

Zie voor nog meer schrijvers van de 5e juni ook mijn blog van 5 juni 2017 deel 1 en eveneens deel 2.

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