Wondering if I am really going to use this site. Mobile phone is still not found – mysterious. Could still be used for notes on translations, reflections, etc. Ionos have increased the monthly charge to £12.
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Mahler – His Time Has Come
Leonard Bernstein, writing in 1967: What was this duple vision of Mahler’s? A vision of his world, crumbling in corruption beneath its smug surface, fulsome, hypocritical, prosperous, sure of its terrestrial immortality, yet bereft of its faith in spiritual immortality. The music is almost cruel in its revelations: it is like a camera that has …
Ekelöf – 2
I started a new web page, or site, with the description: “A place to edit, explore, discuss and present my new translations, mainly of poetry.” Time will tell if this can be developed into something useful. I parked it in the subdomain I was reserving for a WordPress installation, but it doesn’t really matter. At …
Ekelöf
Ett stort kålhuvud tänker, men inte på kålsoppa: Det tänker på Afrikas milda frikadeller hoppande lätt över savannen A big head of cabbage thinks, but not about cabbage soup: It thinks about Africa’s gentle meatballs hopping lightly over the savannah I would like to translate some poems by Ekelöf, but am uncertain about …