Friday, 27 February 2009
That music...
As some of you have guessed correctly, the instrument in the post below is the zither and is not so rare in the Slovenian folklore. The theme is from a film, a poetic drama about impossible love (nothing new under the Sun), the title of which could be translated into Blooms in Autumn. The story is set at the beginning of 20th century and the narrator is a man who tells his story to a paucity of listeners at a tea party. He is a lawyer tired of city life, so one day he decides to visit his distant cousin who owns a farm in the hills and falls in love with his daughter. After a while he has to return but doesn't want to take the girl with him, saying she would wither in the city, not being used to its vagaries. Eventually, his feelings for the girl prevail and he decides to move to the country, buy some property and marry her. But when he visits her and passes the news, she can't stand the joy and dies in his arms.
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Such a sad movie. Zither is one of Quilly's words for next Thursday.
So is paucity. However, apanthropinization seems to be missing. Well, I guess, given the story line, that perhaps it's there after all.
She dies on his hands or in his arms?
hmmm... as far as i know, it's not the three word story time yet, or..?
i think i could slip apanthropinisation in if i really wanted...
(and thank you, quilly)
slovenians are a strange lot and, it seems, unable to produce happy endings. there is hardly a work, be it literature or film, that ends happily. we even celebrate culture day on the anniversary of a poet's death.
Just goes to show, you shouldn't wait to express your love.
As in so many things in life, to procrastinate most times doesn't payoff :)
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