Apanthropinisation

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.

Just because I can

Oh, and because I think the music is beautiful although the video is absolutely boring.

Three Word Thursday #3

And they lived happily...

"Have you heard Minnie got divorced?"

"What, again? That's hardly news anymore. That would be - what - fifth, sixth time now?"

"Sixth, but from the fifth husband. She married, and divorced, husband no.1 twice. And she's not even 30 yet. Quite an achievement, eh!"

"Opprobrious, is what I say. She collects men like other people do stamps or coins. In spite of her volgivagant roots and cynicocratical manners they keep falling for her isangelous face. And she must have ripped the poor buggers off - she seems to have gained quite a fortune from her divorces."

"Hm, having mentioned coins, did you know her last husband was quite a big gun in the numismatic circles?"

"So I've heard. And an exceedingly perspicacious guy, too. I wonder how he got involved with her in the first place."

"Well, from what I know, he had been waiting for one of his business partners in a bar when a fracas broke out between two of Minnie's quondam husbands who happened to run into each other there. He stepped in and managed to calm down the two men. Then he treated them to a drink and inquired about the reason for their hostilities. Thus he found out about Minnie and decided to seek her out and offer himself on a plate, so to speak."

"He did? He had a plan, then?"

"Yep, keep listening. One day at a supermarket he 'accidentally' hit her with his trolley. Ample apologies ensued and after displaying an enormous amount of remorse he offered to pay for her provisions and give her a ride home. She couldn't refuse such a generous offer and they ended up together and got married in just a couple of weeks."

"But... I don't understand. Why would he go to all the trouble if he knew what she was like?"

"He is heir to a huge wealth. His uncle was an eccentric British lord, outrageously rich and an author of several treatises on casuistry. The man was a widower with no offspring of his own and left him everything in his will under one proviso: that he marry a woman who had at least four husbands before him. There was no mention of a subsequent divorce, though."

This year's first

This winter has been long and harsh and I've been looking in vain for signs of spring for quite a while. However, today in the city park I found this year's first crocuses.

Hey, wait a...

Oh well, too late again...

Every cloud has a...

rainbow lining?