[Υπνερωτομαχία δύο: and the first prize goes to...]
[Primero]
Doble: "Toda duplicación concierne al binario, a la dualidad, a la contraposición y el equilibrio activo de fuerzas. Las imágenes dobles, o la duplicación simétrica de formas y figuras simbolizan esa exacta situación. Pero la duplicación realizada sobre un eje horizontal, en la que una figura superior repite invertida una inferior, tiene un sentido más intenso que deriva del simbolismo del nivel. En los emblemas cabalísticos suele aparecer un ser cuyas dos partes se denominan Metatron la superior y Samael la inferior, de quienes se dice que son dos compañeros inseparables por toda la vida. Cabe que bajo esta alegoría se oculte el símbolo de una ambivalencia esencial de todas las cosas, o que se refiera más bien al gran mito de Géminis."
Numero Due: "Eco, reflejo, conflicto, contraposición: la inmovilidad momentánea cuando las fuerzas son iguales; corresponde al transcurso, a la línea detrás-delante. Simboliza el primero de los núcleos materiales, la naturaleza por oposición al creador, la Luna comparada con el Sol. Todo el esoterismo considera nefasto el dos. Significa así mismo la sombra y la sexuación de todo o el dualismo (Géminis), que debe interpretarse como ligación de lo mortal a lo inmortal, de lo variante a lo invariante, de lo sexual a lo asexual. Encierra a los dos antípodas (bien y mal)(vida y muerte). Es el número de la Magna Mater."
[Segundo]
First only to being born and dying too. I hate my number.
[Tercero]
We're the same, just not quite so. I guess the 2% that I'm missing is too important.
All those things I said now seem so selfish, so vane, even egocentric. But isn't love, in all its possibilities, be it brother love, friend love, parent love, man-woman love or damn fanboyism, primarily a selfish thing? Can you really say "I only think of you" without thinking of yourself?
The scary thing, the truly freaky thing is... that I think I can. I can reach a stupid state (enlightement? Buddha, is that you? Have I finally turned into the new Dalai Lama?) where I know that if I'm not any good, then ok, someone else can do it, "you'll do a better job", not what she deserves, but better than me, at least in her eyes. I call it the "if-you-see-her-say-hello" syndrome. Or maybe I should just call it The Hardest Part and get on with it...
But no. This is my story. It's my part.
I got my finger on the trigger but I'm scared shitless of what will happen if I pull. I just want to be either out of it or completely inside. Anything and anywhere but what and where I am right now.
I know I can live without any of this. But I don't want to.
[Cuarto]
Semper Eadem
«D'où vous vient, disiez-vous, cette tristesse étrange,
Montant comme la mer sur le roc noir et nu?»
- Quand notre coeur a fait une fois sa vendange
Vivre est un mal. C'est un secret de tous connu,
Une douleur très simple et non mystérieuse
Et, comme votre joie, éclatante pour tous.
Cessez donc de chercher, ô belle curieuse!
Et, bien que votre voix soit douce, taisez-vous!
Taisez-vous, ignorante! âme toujours ravie!
Bouche au rire enfantin! Plus encor que la Vie,
La Mort nous tient souvent par des liens subtils.
Laissez, laissez mon coeur s'enivrer d'un mensonge,
Plonger dans vos beaux yeux comme dans un beau songe
Et sommeiller longtemps à l'ombre de vos cils!
[Quinto]
I'll pay my time and I'll be as good as new
I'll pay my time and I'll be as good as new
They can't take me back unless I want 'em to
I can't stop here I ain't ready to unload
I can't stop here I ain't ready to unload
Riches and salvation can be waiting behind the next bend in the road
If it keeps on rainin' the levee gonna break
If it keeps on rainin' the levee gonna break
Some of these people gonna strip you of all they can take
Some people on the road carryin' everything that they own
Some people on the road carryin' everything they own
Some people got barely enough skin to cover their bones
Put on your cat clothes, mama, put on your evening dress
Put on your cat clothes, mama, put on your evening dress
Few more years of hard work, then there'll be a 1,000 years of happiness
If it keeps on rainin' the levee gonna break
If it keeps on rainin' the levee gonna break
I tried to get you to love me, but I won't repeat that mistake
I picked you up from the gutter and this is the thanks I get
I picked you up from the gutter and this is the thanks I get
You say you want me to quit ya, I told ya, 'No, not just yet.'
Well, I look in your eyes, I see nobody other than me
I look in your eyes, I see nobody other than me
I see all that I am and all I hope to be
If it keep on rainin', the levee gonna break
If it keep on rainin', the levee gonna break
Some of these people don't know which road to take
[Sexto]
Those who take any of this too seriously will be prosecuted.
[Se acabó. No hay nada aquí. Todo el mundo para su casa]
Doble: "Toda duplicación concierne al binario, a la dualidad, a la contraposición y el equilibrio activo de fuerzas. Las imágenes dobles, o la duplicación simétrica de formas y figuras simbolizan esa exacta situación. Pero la duplicación realizada sobre un eje horizontal, en la que una figura superior repite invertida una inferior, tiene un sentido más intenso que deriva del simbolismo del nivel. En los emblemas cabalísticos suele aparecer un ser cuyas dos partes se denominan Metatron la superior y Samael la inferior, de quienes se dice que son dos compañeros inseparables por toda la vida. Cabe que bajo esta alegoría se oculte el símbolo de una ambivalencia esencial de todas las cosas, o que se refiera más bien al gran mito de Géminis."
Numero Due: "Eco, reflejo, conflicto, contraposición: la inmovilidad momentánea cuando las fuerzas son iguales; corresponde al transcurso, a la línea detrás-delante. Simboliza el primero de los núcleos materiales, la naturaleza por oposición al creador, la Luna comparada con el Sol. Todo el esoterismo considera nefasto el dos. Significa así mismo la sombra y la sexuación de todo o el dualismo (Géminis), que debe interpretarse como ligación de lo mortal a lo inmortal, de lo variante a lo invariante, de lo sexual a lo asexual. Encierra a los dos antípodas (bien y mal)(vida y muerte). Es el número de la Magna Mater."
[Segundo]
First only to being born and dying too. I hate my number.
[Tercero]
We're the same, just not quite so. I guess the 2% that I'm missing is too important.
All those things I said now seem so selfish, so vane, even egocentric. But isn't love, in all its possibilities, be it brother love, friend love, parent love, man-woman love or damn fanboyism, primarily a selfish thing? Can you really say "I only think of you" without thinking of yourself?
The scary thing, the truly freaky thing is... that I think I can. I can reach a stupid state (enlightement? Buddha, is that you? Have I finally turned into the new Dalai Lama?) where I know that if I'm not any good, then ok, someone else can do it, "you'll do a better job", not what she deserves, but better than me, at least in her eyes. I call it the "if-you-see-her-say-hello" syndrome. Or maybe I should just call it The Hardest Part and get on with it...
But no. This is my story. It's my part.
I got my finger on the trigger but I'm scared shitless of what will happen if I pull. I just want to be either out of it or completely inside. Anything and anywhere but what and where I am right now.
I know I can live without any of this. But I don't want to.
[Cuarto]
Semper Eadem
«D'où vous vient, disiez-vous, cette tristesse étrange,
Montant comme la mer sur le roc noir et nu?»
- Quand notre coeur a fait une fois sa vendange
Vivre est un mal. C'est un secret de tous connu,
Une douleur très simple et non mystérieuse
Et, comme votre joie, éclatante pour tous.
Cessez donc de chercher, ô belle curieuse!
Et, bien que votre voix soit douce, taisez-vous!
Taisez-vous, ignorante! âme toujours ravie!
Bouche au rire enfantin! Plus encor que la Vie,
La Mort nous tient souvent par des liens subtils.
Laissez, laissez mon coeur s'enivrer d'un mensonge,
Plonger dans vos beaux yeux comme dans un beau songe
Et sommeiller longtemps à l'ombre de vos cils!
[Quinto]
I'll pay my time and I'll be as good as new
I'll pay my time and I'll be as good as new
They can't take me back unless I want 'em to
I can't stop here I ain't ready to unload
I can't stop here I ain't ready to unload
Riches and salvation can be waiting behind the next bend in the road
If it keeps on rainin' the levee gonna break
If it keeps on rainin' the levee gonna break
Some of these people gonna strip you of all they can take
Some people on the road carryin' everything that they own
Some people on the road carryin' everything they own
Some people got barely enough skin to cover their bones
Put on your cat clothes, mama, put on your evening dress
Put on your cat clothes, mama, put on your evening dress
Few more years of hard work, then there'll be a 1,000 years of happiness
If it keeps on rainin' the levee gonna break
If it keeps on rainin' the levee gonna break
I tried to get you to love me, but I won't repeat that mistake
I picked you up from the gutter and this is the thanks I get
I picked you up from the gutter and this is the thanks I get
You say you want me to quit ya, I told ya, 'No, not just yet.'
Well, I look in your eyes, I see nobody other than me
I look in your eyes, I see nobody other than me
I see all that I am and all I hope to be
If it keep on rainin', the levee gonna break
If it keep on rainin', the levee gonna break
Some of these people don't know which road to take
[Sexto]
Those who take any of this too seriously will be prosecuted.
[Se acabó. No hay nada aquí. Todo el mundo para su casa]