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|  Subject: Re: Perceval Press  Thu May 08, 2008 11:55 am | |
| Thanks for the translation, Aithne!
It's very good!
It's good I have a Spanish - Danish dictionary and can translate from Danish to English.
"Pibe" is Argentine for a little lad so "pibes" means small lads (plural).
"Mirás" means "you will" (future) view, regard, consider, look, observe, watch, take care, watch out, think over, turn against.
The Spanish word "mirar" has all those meanings. So I'm not sure which of them you should choose in the poem, Aithne.
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| | Subject: Re: Perceval Press Fri May 09, 2008 12:40 pm | |
| That's great Aithne and Vigs, I'll leave the Spanish translating up to you both. It's a big help.  And with those extra couple of words it now makes better sense.
A prose poem recently posted on PP by Baudelaire. Almost makes you wonder if it is truly about windows or the windows to the soul which are the "eyes".
| Quote: |
Les Fenêtres
Celui qui regarde du dehors à travers une fenêtre ouverte, ne voit jamais autant de choses que celui qui regarde une fenêtre fermée. Il n'est pas d'objet plus profond, plus mystérieux, plus fécond, plus ténébreux, plus éblouissant qu'une fenêtre éclairée d'une chandelle. Ce qu'on peut voir au soleil est toujours moins intéressant que ce qui se passe derrière une vitre. Dans ce trou noir ou lumineux vit la vie, rêve la vie, souffre la vie.
Par-delà des vagues de toits, j'aperçois une femme mûre, ridée déjà, pauvre, toujours penchée sur quelque chose, et qui ne sort jamais. Avec son visage, avec son vêtement, avec son geste, avec presque rien, j'ai refait l'histoire de cette femme, ou plutôt sa légende, et quelquefois je me la raconte à moi-même en pleurant.
Si c'eût été un pauvre vieux homme, j'aurais refait la sienne tout aussi aisément.
Et je me couche, fier d'avoir vécu et souffert dans d'autres que moi-même.
Peut-être me direz-vous: "Es-tu sûr que cette légende soit la vraie?" Qu'importe ce que peut être la réalité placée hors de moi, si elle m'a aidé à vivre, à sentir que je suis et ce que je suis?
-Charles Baudelaire (1821- 1867)
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And here I have translated into English:
One who looks from outside through an open window, never sees as many things as one who looks through a closed window. There is nothing more profound, more mysterious, more plentiful, more ominous, more alluring than a window lit by a candle. That which we see in daylight is always less interesting than what happens on the other side of the glass. In this blackness or lightness life lives, life dreams, life suffers.
Over the wave of roofs, I notice a mature woman, already wrinkled, poor, always bending over something and who never goes out. From her face, her clothing, her gestures, with almost nothing, I have created this woman’s story, or rather her legend, and often crying I recount it to myself.
If it had been an old man I could have created his just as easily.
And I go to bed proud having lived and suffered another’s besides myself.
Perhaps you will say to me: “Are you sure this legend is true?” Does it matter what reality is outside of me if it has helped me to live, to feel that I am and what I am?
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| | Subject: Re: Perceval Press Fri May 09, 2008 9:01 pm | |
| Ah who wants to start a new thread: 'recipes Viggo would like'? 
Could we start with the one on PP home page? Maybe he is so tired of filming and being away from home he needs a little domesticity in his life. Viggo you're a god!
(betcha it's related to that damn soccer team SL  )
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| | Subject: Re: Perceval Press Wed May 28, 2008 1:22 pm | |
| While Viggo exhibits in Iceland interesting to note that Georg Gudni is currently exhibiting in New York. 
You may or may not know that a couple of years ago Viggo and Georg had a joint exhibit in Los Angeles. Perceval Press also published a wonderful book titled 'Strange Familiar' of his paintings and drawings which you can read about here: http://www.percevalpress.com/gudni.html?-session=pp_sc:415DA3460ce480EE68RRm3ACDA3A
I have this book and would like to share that it is a book I pick up often off my coffee table. Viggo also has included a very thought provoking text in this book which is a nice backdrop for the books' art.
Here from Iceland Review Online
| Quote: | More North Gallery Opens in Tribeca, New York
More North, a major new gallery space in Tribeca, New York, opened on Thursday. The inaugural exhibition features the “haunting landscapes” of critically-acclaimed Icelandic artist Georg Gudni, running from May 10 to July 12.
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Speaking of Gudni’s work, art critic Jon Proppe commented, “Only a very insensitive viewer could fail to experience the magic in Gudni’s painting, even when the subject is not the great and awe-inspiring natural formations that Icelanders never tire of showing to visitors from abroad: the waterfalls, volcanoes and moss-covered lava fields.”
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Imagine what a treat it must have been to see the exhibit at the Track 16 gallery together Viggo's wonderful photographs. 
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| | Subject: Re: Perceval Press Wed May 28, 2008 3:04 pm | |
| Thanks to Emeraude for passing on a link to some photos of Viggo, Gudni and even one of his paintings, from the Strange Familiar opening:
http://www.artistinterviews.com/news-viggomortensen.htm
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| | Subject: Re: Perceval Press Wed May 28, 2008 6:48 pm | |
| Thanks for everything you have posted for us, Kal!
Yes, let's make a thread with "Viggo dishes and things to drink"!!
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| | Subject: Re: Perceval Press Tue Jul 01, 2008 3:42 pm | |
| Besides up and coming movies, some things to look forward to from Perceval Press home page:
| Quote: | Perceval Press has a number of books presently in various stages of planning, editing, and design. Some are more complicated to put together than others, and will take longer to complete and prepare for printing. Among the projects that we are involved with and are considering for publication in the coming year are books by Layla Mackay (an artist from New Zealand), Sara Solati (a writer from Iran), ), a third installment from Mike Davis (whose Land of the Lost Mammoths and Pirates, Bats and Dragons we previously published), an anthology of new Argentine poetry, and a book about the painter Minerva Chapman. Next from Perceval, to be released at summer's end, will be photographer Robert Whitman's Mostly People, a new poetry collection from California poet Scott Wannberg, Otra Isla Para Miguel (our second book from Cuban artist Henry Eric), as well as The Future States Atlas, from artist Dan Mills. We thank you for your interest, patience, and patronage.
-Viggo Mortensen.
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| | Subject: Re: Perceval Press Mon Jul 14, 2008 11:52 pm | |
| Once again Perceval Press home page features a quote from Marcel Proust:
Sans doute peu de personnes comprennent le caractère purement subjectif du phénomène qu'est l'amour, et la sorte de création que c'est d'une personne supplémentaire, distincte de celle qui porte le même nom dans le monde, et dont la plupart des éléments sont tirés de nous-mêmes. -Marcel Proust
Wow it's a humdinger to translate.  But I gave it a shot without trying to infuse it with my own interpretations. Not sure if I managed it. 
"No doubt few people understand the purely subjective nature of the phenomenon which is love, the kind of creation that it makes of that other additional person, distinct (changed? apart?) from that which the world knows him (her), and of which most of their elements are actually drawn from our own selves."
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| | Subject: Re: Perceval Press Tue Jul 15, 2008 2:20 am | |
| Proust's quote has a bit of ring to it that sounded familiar. Then it occurred to me and I scrolled down to the bottom of PP's home page.
| Quote: | | L'une des clés d'une relation amoureuse est de respecter la maladie que l'autre porte en lui. |
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| | Subject: Re: Perceval Press Wed Jul 16, 2008 1:49 pm | |
| Love is just an illusion (delusion) then? Self-deluding?
Is it me or is this is a very bleak outlook on one of the most vital and wonderful of human emotions? 
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