Night, street and streetlight, drugstore,
The purposeless, half-dim, drab light.
For all the use live on a quarter century –
Nothing will change. There’s no way out.
–
You’ll die – and start all over, live twice,
Everything repeats itself, just as it was:
Night, the canal’s rippled icy surface,
The drugstore, the street, and streetlight.
Hi there! I’m addressing mostly to bilingual subscribers. I would like you to evaluate my humble translation of Aleksander Blok’s poem. Criticism/encouragements/suggestions are welcome.
My translation:
The night. The street. The lamp. The drugstore.
The light is dull and of no use.
It stays the same no matter how more
You live your life – no way to choose.
You end your life and start another.
It’ll be the same like was before
The lamp. The light. The icy puddle.
The night. The street. The chemist's store.
Original:
Ночь, улица, фонарь, аптека,
Бессмысленный и тусклый свет.
Живи еще хоть четверть века -
Все будет так. Исхода нет.
Умрешь - начнешь опять сначала
И повторится все, как встарь:
Ночь, ледяная рябь канала,
Аптека, улица, фонарь.
Other person’s translation:
A night, a street, a lamp, a drugstore,
A meaningless and dismal light.
A quarter century outpours –
It’s all the same. No chance of flight.
You’d die and rise anew, begotten.
All would repeat as ever might:
The street, the icy rippled water,
The store, the lamp, the lonely night.
Translation on poemshunter.com
Night, streets, the lantern, the drugstore,
The meaningless and dusky light.
A quarter of the century more -
All fall the same into your sight!
You died - as it was before -
You have the former way to start:
The streets, the lantern, the drugstore,
Swell of the canal in the night.
So idle was this day of spring
Spent near window clad in dirt:
My wife was bored, tried to sing,
Behind the wall, as captive bird.
So, I collected frigidly
My memories, just one by one;
And it was mercilessly clear:
My life popped noise and now it’s gone.
More thoughts, more arguments will breed,
They’ll be all darkness and all bore;
Why lower the curtains, what’s the need?
Light left my heart long time before.
Original
Весенний день прошел без дела
У неумытого окна:
Скучала за стеной и пела,
Как птица пленная, жена.
Я, не спеша, собрал бесстрастно
Воспоминанья и дела;
И стало беспощадно ясно:
Жизнь прошумела и ушла.
Еще вернутся мысли, споры,
Но будет скучно и темно;
К чему спускать на окнах шторы?
День догорел в душе давно.
1909
This might be a stupid question, but do the staffs in the museum speak English? It seems like a small museum and almost all reviews are in Russian. I really want to visit there because Blok is one of my favorite poets, but I speak only a small amount of Russian.
Based on my own experience, I have noticed that the anima is more likely to affect men. And this influence is stronger. That is, it is not difficult for women (at least in my environment) to cheer up a man with one conversation. In addition, it was often the anima that was the source of inspiration for men (Russian writer Alexander Blok, for example). But personally, it seems to me that this does not happen with women, that the animus does not work that way.
So my question is, how often does the animus and its projection affect women? Is the mechanism of this influence different? Does it have the same beneficial effects as the anima has on men? Are girls more restrained in this regard?
It is noteworthy that I know the writings of the Jungians on this subject, but I would like to hear personal experience
Bely, Andrei.
Petersburg. Third-greatest masterpiece of 20th century prose. A splendid fantasy.
Blok, Alexander. A favorite between the ages of 10 and 15, and thereafter. Passionately fond of his lyrics, but his long pieces are weak.
The Twelve. Dreadful. Self-consciously couched in a phony "primitive" tone, with a pink cardboard Jesus Christ glued on at the end.
Bryusov, Valery. Indifferent to his works.
Chekhov, Anton. A favorite between the ages of 10 and 15, and thereafter. Talent, but not genius. Love him dearly, but cannot rationalize that feeling.
Chernyshevsky, Nikolai. His fate is moving, but his works are risible.
Dostoevsky, Fyodor. Dislike him. A cheap sensationalist, clumsy and vulgar. A prophet, a claptrap journalist and a slapdash comedian. Some of his scenes are extraordinarily amusing. Nobody takes his reactionary journalism seriously.
The Double. His best work, though an obvious and shameless imitation of Gogol's "Nose."
The Brothers Karamazov. Dislike it intensely.
Crime and Punishment. Dislike it intensely. Ghastly rigmarole.
Gogol, Nikolai. Nobody takes his mystical didacticism seriously. At his worst, as in his Ukrainian stuff, he is a worthless writer; at his best, he is incomparable and inimitable. Loathe his moralistic slant, am depressed and puzzled by his inability to describe young women, deplore his obsession with religion.
Ilf and Petrov. Two wonderfully gifted writers. Absolutely first-rate fiction.
Mandelshtam, Osip. A wonderful poet, the greatest in Soviet Russia. His poems are admirable specimens of the human mind at its deepest and highest. Not as good as Blok. His tragic fate makes his poetry seem greater than it actually is.
Odoevsky, Vladimir. Indifferent to his works.
Yury Olesha. Some absolutely first-rate fiction.
Pasternak, Boris. An excellent poet, but a poor novelist.
Doctor Zhivago. Detest it. Melodramatic and vilely written. To consider it a masterpiece is an absurd delusion. Pro-Bolshevist, historically false. A sorry thing, clumsy, trivial, melodramatic, with stock situations and trite coincidences.
Pushkin, Alexander. A favorite between the ages of 20 and 40, and thereafter. A genius.
Tolstoy, Aleksey. A writer of some talent with two or three science fiction stories or novels which are memorable.
Tolstoy, Leo. A favorite between the ages of 10 and 15, and thereafter. Read complete works between 14 and 15.
... keep reading on reddit ➡I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
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Day Nine, which informs the Haruspicus that there is a battle for the Order and ancestral lands ahead of him.
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“The town is alive. It has a head, a heart, stomach and womb. It has a memory. It breathes. It thinks. It can be frightened. Perhaps it even loves? I want to live in a world of living towns. I want to walk on soil that shifts underneath your feet.” - "Aglaja Lilich’s letter. On the beings of a higher kind”. Letter [8].
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The military has arrived. The General seems to be set up in the Town Council, so I’ll be heading there after this morning’s mime performance.
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I meet with General Blok, and in dialogue, I learn that Artemiy left the town originally at sixteen. I don’t think I’d ever noticed that exact detail. I am directed to the Abattoir. My computer is being annoying and loud again. Restarting, I guess. Sometimes loading a save fixes it, but usually, it starts up again quickly. I think that’ll be my third time rebooting today.
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It’s almost relaxing (well, comparatively with my first playthrough) to walk around and not have to worry much about getting shot at or having fire blasted at me. I’ll be making my rounds. Julia: fine. Lara: still sick, obviously. An Executor outside the Clot tells me that Vlad is dead. I knew this already, of course, but it’s nice to know for sure.
I notice that my health is pretty low. I’m alright on rations, so I’ll be prowling around looking for bandages and tourniquets at the appropriate shops. My PC still struggles terribly, and it makes its’ awful noises. I feel like this might have something to do with the sanitary personnel and their flamethrowers. The first pharmacy I stop in ha
... keep reading on reddit ➡Alot of great jokes get posted here! However just because you have a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke.
THIS IS NOT ABOUT NSFW, THIS IS ABOUT LONG JOKES, BLONDE JOKES, SEXUAL JOKES, KNOCK KNOCK JOKES, POLITICAL JOKES, ETC BEING POSTED IN A DAD JOKE SUB
Try telling these sexual jokes that get posted here, to your kid and see how your spouse likes it.. if that goes well, Try telling one of your friends kid about your sex life being like Coca cola, first it was normal, than light and now zero , and see if the parents are OK with you telling their kid the "dad joke"
I'm not even referencing the NSFW, I'm saying Dad jokes are corny, and sometimes painful, not sexual
So check out r/jokes for all types of jokes
r/unclejokes for dirty jokes
r/3amjokes for real weird and alot of OC
r/cleandadjokes If your really sick of seeing not dad jokes in r/dadjokes
Punchline !
Edit: this is not a post about NSFW , This is about jokes, knock knock jokes, blonde jokes, political jokes etc being posted in a dad joke sub
Edit 2: don't touch the thermostat
Do your worst!
How the hell am I suppose to know when it’s raining in Sweden?
Ants don’t even have the concept fathers, let alone a good dad joke. Keep r/ants out of my r/dadjokes.
But no, seriously. I understand rule 7 is great to have intelligent discussion, but sometimes it feels like 1 in 10 posts here is someone getting upset about the jokes on this sub. Let the mods deal with it, they regulate the sub.
They were cooked in Greece.
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
He lost May
Now that I listen to albums, I hardly ever leave the house.
Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?
Two muffins are in an oven, one muffin looks at the other and says "is it just me, or is it hot in here?"
Then the other muffin says "AHH, TALKING MUFFIN!!!"
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
It really does, I swear!
We told her she can lean on us for support. Although, we are going to have to change her driver's license, her height is going down by a foot. I don't want to go too far out on a limb here but it better not be a hack job.
And now I’m cannelloni
Because she wanted to see the task manager.
But that’s comparing apples to oranges
And boy are my arms legs.
Put it on my bill
Heard they've been doing some shady business.
but then I remembered it was ground this morning.
Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me that my jokes aren't stale
Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments
They’re on standbi
A play on words.
Calcium, nickel, neon
