viernes, julio 29, 2005

Next time someone says they're gonna get medieval on your ass...

You might think twice about whether they mean to torture you or, rather $%#^@! you to death. Ah yes, we like to feel as if the human race is advancing, moving towards some ultimate perfection (just in case you had your doubts, we're not). I am eternally amused by the fact that absolutely nothing, NOTHING has changed in the basic fabric of human nature over the past 500 years. Sure we have different ways to interact, but in essence we are still the same animals, muddling our way through darkness, desire, the economics of power and tradition, and human mortality. In fact I was just musing with Jenny about how the internet in some ways, sends us back hundreds of years in that it creates the need for epistolary relationships, under the guise of instant gratification, it really allays all real gratification to a purely ideal sphere... Anyhow, no need for me to wax poetic here, because it has already been done, and for the Spanish deprived, well, I'm sorry, but we all know my life is a schism, after all. These were traditional poems that made me laugh out loud, and we young'uns get accused of our literature being pornographic... let's just recall the Cancionero tradicional circa 1500, shall we?

On insomnia: (for Sole?)
La niña que amores ha,
sola ¿cómo dormirá?


On infidelity: (funny how some things never change)
¡Cucú, cucú, cucú!
Guarda no lo seas tú.

Compadre, debes saber
que la más buena mujer
rabia siempre por joder.
Harta bien la tuya tú.

Compadre, has de guardar
para nunca encornudar;
si tu mujer sale a mear
sal junto con ella tú.

[Juan de Encina]

On heartbreak and absence: (my oh-so-typical script)
¿Dónde estás que non te veo?
¿Qué's de ti, esperanza mía?
Que a mí, que verte deseo
mil años se me faze un día.

[Cancionero de Colombia]


On aging: (please don't let me ever be the "older" woman...)
¡Allá iras, doña vieja
con tu pelleja!

Sospira como mozuela
dice que amor la desvela
non tiene diente ni muela,
rumia, al comer, como una oveja.
¡Allá irás, doña vieja!

[Cancionero de Colombia]

4 Comments:

Blogger Solentiname said...

Muy agradecida con la dedicatoria! No, si dormir sola no es hazaña... acompañada y dormir... eso es más bien desperdicio, pero me tiene con falta de sueño las ansias de qué irá a pasar.

10:01 a.m.  
Blogger ilana said...

je je. living viacariously, don't mind me. tendré que escribir un cuento semi-erótico esta noche para "competir" o para entretenerme al menos.

9:27 p.m.  
Blogger L. YURÉ said...

Un final positivo de la frase con que titulas tu "post" sería: "...on your ass... espero que sea tu proctólogo". //"Romeo, Romeo ¿dónde estás que no te veo?" me suena similar a la penúltima cita que engalana tu escrito de hoy.

6:27 a.m.  
Blogger ilana said...

ja ja! Creo que los hombres (con buena razón) temen más al proctólogo que nosotras...

8:57 a.m.  

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