The Life, the Universe, and Everything
Boris Pasternak (1890 – 1960)
A song from the film “Fate’s Irony”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjRbmBXywH4
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There’ll be no one in the house
Save for twilight. All alone,
Winter’s day seen in the space that’s
Made by curtains left undrawn.
Only flash-past of the wet white
Snowflake clusters, glimpsed and gone.
Only roofs and snows, and save for
Roofs and snow – no one at home.
Once more, frost [...]
“Marginalia
Sometimes the notes are ferocious,
skirmishes against the author
raging along the borders of every page
in tiny black script.
If I could just get my hands on you,
Kierkegaard, or Conor Cruise O’Brien,
they seem to say,
I would bolt the door and beat some logic into your head.
Other comments are more offhand, dismissive -
“Nonsense.” “Please!” “HA!!” -
that kind of thing.
I [...]
“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
“Remembering is only a new form of suffering.”
“I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination.”
“Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man’s physical means to express itself, and with the analytical [...]
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