Gorge [Hood River, Oregon]: photo by bnzai9, 2 July 2017
Asperatus clouds, Schiehallion, Perthshire, Scotland: photo by Ken Prior, 2007
César Vallejo: The Vedic Fibre
If it rained tonight, I'd withdraw from here
a thousand years.
No, a hundred, no more.
As if nothing had occurred
I'd believe I were
in a state of becoming, still.
Or without a mother, without
a lover, without
the unending feeling
for a pulse
on a night like this, I'd be
combing the Vedic fibre,
the Vedic wool, diabolical
indication, having pinched
by the nostrils
the two clappers hidden
inside a single bell.
Toting up my life
or claiming I've never been born
won't release me.
What hasn't yet come along won't, but
what's already come and gone,
but what's already come and gone.
Waterspout, seen from Clifton, Woolongong, New South Wales: photo by dirtymouse, 22 April 2007
Trilce XXXIII
Si lloviera esta noche, retiraríame
de aquí a mil años.
Mejor a cien no más.
Como si nada hubiese ocurrido, haría
la cuenta de que vengo todavía.
O sin madre, sin amada, sin porfía
de agacharme a aguaitar al fondo, a puro
pulso,
esta noche así, estaría escarmenando
la fibra védica,
la lana védica de mi fin final, hilo
del diantre, traza de haber tenido
por las narices
a dos badajos inacordes de tiempo
en una misma campana.
Haga la cuenta de mi vida
o haga la cuenta de no haber aún nacido
no alcanzaré a librarme.
No será lo que aún no haya venido, sino
lo que ha llegado y ya se ha ido,
sino lo que ha llegado y ya se ha ido.
César Vallejo (1892-1938): Trilce XXXIII from Trilce (1922), English version TC
If it rained tonight, I'd withdraw from here
a thousand years.
No, a hundred, no more.
As if nothing had occurred
I'd believe I were
in a state of becoming, still.
Or without a mother, without
a lover, without
the unending feeling
for a pulse
on a night like this, I'd be
combing the Vedic fibre,
the Vedic wool, diabolical
indication, having pinched
by the nostrils
the two clappers hidden
inside a single bell.
Toting up my life
or claiming I've never been born
won't release me.
What hasn't yet come along won't, but
what's already come and gone,
but what's already come and gone.
Waterspout, seen from Clifton, Woolongong, New South Wales: photo by dirtymouse, 22 April 2007
Si lloviera esta noche, retiraríame
de aquí a mil años.
Mejor a cien no más.
Como si nada hubiese ocurrido, haría
la cuenta de que vengo todavía.
O sin madre, sin amada, sin porfía
de agacharme a aguaitar al fondo, a puro
pulso,
esta noche así, estaría escarmenando
la fibra védica,
la lana védica de mi fin final, hilo
del diantre, traza de haber tenido
por las narices
a dos badajos inacordes de tiempo
en una misma campana.
Haga la cuenta de mi vida
o haga la cuenta de no haber aún nacido
no alcanzaré a librarme.
No será lo que aún no haya venido, sino
lo que ha llegado y ya se ha ido,
sino lo que ha llegado y ya se ha ido.
César Vallejo (1892-1938): Trilce XXXIII from Trilce (1922), English version TC
Tornado waterspout near Cape Formentor, Mallorca: photo by Julian Kupfer, 2006
Jet
It scares me, Sweet Lord, this brutal jet
of sweetness, it scares
me. This house gives me a perfect
wholeness, a perfect sense of knowing
where not to be.
Let us not go in. It scares me, this
minute by minute retracing
of my steps, over destroyed bridges.
Sweet Lord, I can't
continue. Brave sad skeleton singer.
It's what's inside the haunted house, the deadly
quicksilver, that seals
my veins with lead
in the arid afternoon.
The jet doesn't know how we
can go on. It terrifies me. Valor but
a memory, I do not continue. Sad ruby red skeleton, just whistle, just whistle.
It scares me, Sweet Lord, this brutal jet
of sweetness, it scares
me. This house gives me a perfect
wholeness, a perfect sense of knowing
where not to be.
Let us not go in. It scares me, this
minute by minute retracing
of my steps, over destroyed bridges.
Sweet Lord, I can't
continue. Brave sad skeleton singer.
It's what's inside the haunted house, the deadly
quicksilver, that seals
my veins with lead
in the arid afternoon.
The jet doesn't know how we
can go on. It terrifies me. Valor but
a memory, I do not continue. Sad ruby red skeleton, just whistle, just whistle.
Trombe marine a rion antirion (Grèce): photo by Bruno Arnaud, 15 December 2007
Trilce XXVII
Me da miedo ese chorro,
buen recuerdo, señor fuerte, implacable
cruel dulzor. Me da miedo.
Esta casa me da entero bien, entero
lugar para este no saber dónde estar.
No entremos. Me da miedo este favor
de tornar por minutos, por puentes volados.
Yo no avanzo, señor dulce,
recuerdo valeroso, triste
esqueleto cantor.
Qué contenido, el de esta casa encantada,
me da muertes de azogue, y obtura
con plomo mis tomas
a la seca actualidad.
El chorro que no sabe a cómo vamos,
dame miedo, pavor.
Recuerdo valeroso, yo no avanzo.
Rubio y triste esqueleto, silba, silba.
César Vallejo (1892-1938): Trilce XXVII from Trilce (1922), English version TC
Waterspouts in the Bahamas Islands: photo by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, n.d.
Got your glasses? The #greatamericaneclipse is almost here Photo @olsongetty: image via Getty Images News @GettyImagesNews, 20 August 2017
Replying to @TaylorViydoKGW: image via Taylor Viydo @TaylorViydoKGW, 17 August 2017
In
America we have Marxism being taught in our schools and communities.
Berkeley is a ground zero for the Marxist Movement and we need to speak
out and say NO to Marxism. This event is our chance to speak out and
expose the plan of purging our nation from a free nation to a communist
nation. We will not tolerate this in America. So we are asking people to
come stand against Marxism.
-- Facebook
announcement by Amber Cummings [aka Based Tranny], Organizer, August 27
No to Marxism in America March and Rally in Berkeley
Summer [Oregon]: photo by bnzai9, 18 September 2015
This farmer right outside of Madras is ready to cash in on the #OReclipse: image via Taylor Viydo @TaylorViydoKGW, 17 August 2017
#OReclipse traffic backed up for 15 miles on HWY 26, all the way to Prineville now. Photos from our fish and wildlife plane.: image via Oregon State Police @ORStatePolice, 17 August 2017
#OReclipse traffic backed up for 15 miles on HWY 26, all the way to Prineville now. Photos from our fish and wildlife plane.: image via Oregon State Police @ORStatePolice, 17 August 2017
HWY 26 east of Prineville is at a standstill from #OReclipse travelers. 8 mile backup. #knowbeforeyougo.: image via Oregon State Police @ORStatePolice, 17 August 2017
HWY 26 east of Prineville is at a standstill from #OReclipse travelers. 8 mile backup. #knowbeforeyougo.: image via Oregon State Police @ORStatePolice, 17 August 2017
i was excited for the solar eclipse but this made me so sad: image via tiffany @tiffauy, 17 August 2017
DurhamWWP-0379.jpg: photo by Rodney Dunning, 14 August 2017
DurhamWWP-0379.jpg: photo by Rodney Dunning, 14 August 2017
DurhamWWP-0379.jpg: photo by Rodney Dunning, 14 August 2017
Karl Marx: Address of the International Working Men's Association to Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America
Composed by Karl Marx between November 22 and 29, 1864. Presented to U.S. Ambassador Charles Francis Adams January 28, 1865. First Published in The Bee-Hive Newspaper, No. 169, November 7, 1865.
Sir:
We congratulate the American people upon your re-election by a
large majority. If resistance to the Slave Power was the reserved watchword
of your first election, the triumphant war cry of your re-election is Death
to Slavery.
From the commencement of the titanic American strife the workingmen
of Europe felt instinctively that the star-spangled banner carried the
destiny of their class. The contest for the territories which opened the
dire epopee, was it not to decide whether the virgin soil of immense tracts
should be wedded to the labor of the emigrant or prostituted by the tramp
of the slave driver?
When an oligarchy of 300,000 slaveholders dared to inscribe, for
the first time in the annals of the world, "slavery" on the banner of Armed
Revolt, when on the very spots where hardly a century ago the idea of one
great Democratic Republic had first sprung up, whence the first Declaration
of the Rights of Man was issued, and the first impulse given to the European
revolution of the eighteenth century; when on those very spots counterrevolution,
with systematic thoroughness, gloried in rescinding "the ideas entertained
at the time of the formation of the old constitution", and maintained slavery
to be "a beneficent institution", indeed, the old solution of the great
problem of "the relation of capital to labor", and cynically proclaimed
property in man "the cornerstone of the new edifice" — then the working
classes of Europe understood at once, even before the fanatic partisanship
of the upper classes for the Confederate gentry had given its dismal warning,
that the slaveholders' rebellion was to sound the tocsin for a general
holy crusade of property against labor, and that for the men of labor,
with their hopes for the future, even their past conquests were at stake
in that tremendous conflict on the other side of the Atlantic. Everywhere
they bore therefore patiently the hardships imposed upon them by the cotton
crisis, opposed enthusiastically the proslavery intervention of their betters
— and, from most parts of Europe, contributed their quota of blood to
the good cause.
While the workingmen, the true political powers of the North,
allowed slavery to defile their own republic, while before the Negro, mastered
and sold without his concurrence, they boasted it the highest prerogative
of the white-skinned laborer to sell himself and choose his own master,
they were unable to attain the true freedom of labor, or to support their
European brethren in their struggle for emancipation; but this barrier
to progress has been swept off by the red sea of civil war.
The workingmen of Europe feel sure that, as the American War of
Independence initiated a new era of ascendancy for the middle class, so
the American Antislavery War will do for the working classes. They consider
it an earnest of the epoch to come that it fell to the lot of Abraham Lincoln,
the single-minded son of the working class, to lead his country through
the matchless struggle for the rescue of an enchained race and the reconstruction
of a social world.
Signed on behalf of the International Workingmen's Association, the
Central Council:
Longmaid, Worley, Whitlock, Fox, Blackmore, Hartwell, Pidgeon,
Lucraft, Weston, Dell, Nieass, Shaw, Lake, Buckley, Osbourne, Howell, Carter,
Wheeler, Stainsby, Morgan, Grossmith, Dick, Denoual, Jourdain, Morrissot,
Leroux, Bordage, Bocquet, Talandier, Dupont, L.Wolff, Aldovrandi, Lama,
Solustri, Nusperli, Eccarius, Wolff, Lessner, Pfander, Lochner, Kaub, Bolleter,
Rybczinski, Hansen, Schantzenbach, Smales, Cornelius, Petersen, Otto, Bagnagatti,
Setacci;
George Odger, President of the Council; P.V. Lubez, Corresponding
Secretary for France; Karl Marx, Corresponding Secretary for Germany; G.P.
Fontana, Corresponding Secretary for Italy; J.E. Holtorp, Corresponding
Secretary for Poland; H.F. Jung, Corresponding Secretary for Switzerland;
William R. Cremer, Honorary General Secretary.
18 Greek Street, Soho.
capitalism leads directly - grotesquely - to alienation - SF 2004: photo by Bill Dane, 'art-world' miss us, 17 August 2017
Ambassador Adams Replies
Legation of the United States
London, 28th January, 1865
London, 28th January, 1865
Sir:
I am directed to inform you that the address of the Central Council
of your Association, which was duly transmitted through this Legation to
the President of the United [States], has been received by him.
So far as the sentiments expressed by it are personal, they are
accepted by him with a sincere and anxious desire that he may be able to
prove himself not unworthy of the confidence which has been recently extended
to him by his fellow citizens and by so many of the friends of humanity
and progress throughout the world.
The Government of the United States has a clear consciousness
that its policy neither is nor could be reactionary, but at the same time
it adheres to the course which it adopted at the beginning, of abstaining
everywhere from propagandism and unlawful intervention. It strives to do
equal and exact justice to all states and to all men and it relies upon
the beneficial results of that effort for support at home and for respect
and good will throughout the world.
Nations do not exist for themselves alone, but to promote the
welfare and happiness of mankind by benevolent intercourse and example.
It is in this relation that the United States regard their cause in the
present conflict with slavery, maintaining insurgence as the cause of human
nature, and they derive new encouragements to persevere from the testimony
of the workingmen of Europe that the national attitude is favored with
their enlightened approval and earnest sympathies.
I have the honor to be, sir, your obedient servant,
Charles Francis Adams
Amber Cummings, or Based Tranny, pictured here at the March 4 rally in Berkeley, is organizing the Aug. 27 Berkeley event. Photo: Daniel McPartlan: image via Berkeleyside, 17 August 2017
Squirrel [Pacific Beach, Washington Peninsula]: photo by bnzai9, 31 January 2015
Kyle Chapman from San Francisco (aka Based Stickman) became an internet celebrity on the far right after he beat people with a stick at the March 4 rally in Berkeley. Photo: Daniel McPartlan: image via Berkeleyside, 18 August 2017
Untitled: photo by Tom Olson, 19 May 2017
Untitled: photo by Tom Olson, 19 May 2017
Untitled: photo by Tom Olson, 19 May 2017
Untitled: photo by Tom Olson, 19 May 2017
Untitled: photo by Tom Olson, 19 May 2017
Untitled: photo by Tom Olson, 19 May 2017
Broken Rifle
#12: photo by Sirawit Kuwawattanont, 7 August 2017
#12: photo by Sirawit Kuwawattanont, 7 August 2017
#12: photo by Sirawit Kuwawattanont, 7 August 2017
Untitled [Brazil]: photo by Gustavo Gomes, 31 May 2017
Spring Girl [Lodz]: photo by Piotr Debinski, 28 February 2011
Spring Girl [Lodz]: photo by Piotr Debinski, 28 February 2011
Spring Girl [Lodz]: photo by Piotr Debinski, 28 February 2011
Untitled [Bath, England]: photo by Jodi Rogers, 17 July 2017
Untitled [Bath, England]: photo by Jodi Rogers, 17 July 2017
Untitled [Bath, England]: photo by Jodi Rogers, 17 July 2017
Shawls [Istanbul]: photo by Tetyana Bunyak, 20 October 2012
Shawls [Istanbul]: photo by Tetyana Bunyak, 20 October 2012
Shawls [Istanbul]: photo by Tetyana Bunyak, 20 October 2012
Untitled [Chennai]: photo by Viduthalai Mani Dharmaraj, 14 August 2017
Untitled [Chennai]: photo by Viduthalai Mani Dharmaraj, 14 August 2017
Untitled [Chennai]: photo by Viduthalai Mani Dharmaraj, 14 August 2017
Untitled [Chennai]: photo by Viduthalai Mani Dharmaraj, 12 August 2017
Untitled [Chennai]: photo by Viduthalai Mani Dharmaraj, 12 August 2017
Untitled [Chennai]: photo by Viduthalai Mani Dharmaraj, 12 August 2017
Der junge Karl Marx. Karl-Marx-Allee, Berlin."Kino International" spiegelt sich im "Cafe Moskau".: photo by thewhitewolf72, 8 March 2017
Der junge Karl Marx. Karl-Marx-Allee, Berlin."Kino International" spiegelt sich im "Cafe Moskau".: photo by thewhitewolf72, 8 March 2017
Der junge Karl Marx. Karl-Marx-Allee, Berlin."Kino International" spiegelt sich im "Cafe Moskau".: photo by thewhitewolf72, 8 March 2017
Karl-Marx-Allee #5. Berlin, Friedrichshain.: photo by Alexander Rentsch, 3 April 2015
Karl-Marx-Allee #1. Berlin, Friedrichshain.: photo by Alexander Rentsch, 27 November 2013
Karl-Marx-Allee #3. Berlin, Friedrichshain.: photo by Alexander Rentsch, 5 January 2015
Karl-Marx-Allee #III. Berlin, Friedrichshain.: photo by Alexander Rentsch, 27 January 2015
Karl-Marx-Strasse. Berlin-Neukölln 02-2014.: photo by S. Dekind, 16 February 2014
'Teatro Karl Marx' in La Habana-Miramar (1949), formerly known as 'Charles Chaplin' and 'Teatro Blanquita' and renamed after the Cuban Revolution of 1959. In the foreground a Chevrolet Bel Air, built around 1954.: photo by berny-s, 10 April 2012
'Teatro Karl Marx' in La Habana-Miramar (1949), formerly known as 'Charles Chaplin' and 'Teatro Blanquita' and renamed after the Cuban Revolution of 1959. In the foreground a Chevrolet Bel Air, built around 1954.: photo by berny-s, 10 April 2012
'Teatro Karl Marx' in La Habana-Miramar (1949), formerly known as 'Charles Chaplin' and 'Teatro Blanquita' and renamed after the Cuban Revolution of 1959. In the foreground a Chevrolet Bel Air, built around 1954.: photo by berny-s, 10 April 2012
These people jumped into @mgalinsk establishing shot for #Durham memorial coming down. These are bizarre times.: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 20 August 2017
Lest
one think the marchers all #men. Maybe missed it, but not element we
picked up from #male photogs. #Charlottesville Photo @evelynpix @wpowdc: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 18 August 2017
Hundreds of alt-right and neo-nazis rallying in Berkeley right now. Police checking people for weapons.: image via Shane Bauer Verified account @shane_bauer, 15 April 2017
Berkeley.: image via Shane Bauer Verified account @shane_bauer, 15 April 2017
Berkeley.: image via Shane Bauer Verified account @shane_bauer, 15 April 2017
Militias,
alt-right, nazis etc won today in Berkeley. They outnumbered the
opposition, pushed it back, and held downtown. Today's America.: image via Shane Bauer Verified account @shane_bauer, 15 April 2017
This guy just went "on the record" to say "black people are inferior to whites, genetically". #PatriotsDay #Berkeley: image via Shane Bauer Verified account @shane_bauer, 15 April 2017
A white nationalist punches her in the face. Then they come after her and her family. Still no charges from police.: image via Shane Bauer @shane_bauer, 27 April 2017
A video of Nathan Damigo (top) and Emily Rose Marshall (below) during the street fighting in Berkeley on April 15 went viral: photo by Stephen Lam/Reuters via ZUMA Press 15 April 2017
#RichardSpencer in civilian clothes, ringed by bodyguards. Look of elitism, in fact. Photo @petersonpixs #Charlottesville: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 19 August 2017
Though
boundlessly harmful in Trump's case, tweets are difficult to capture
and represent in legacy form. They truly haunt the ether. @CNN: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 18 August 2017
West Wing silhouette no more. The long shadow, that's another story. Photo @al_drago #BannonOut: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 18 August 2017
GAZA CITY - A Palestinian boy uses a fishing net in Gaza City. Photo @mohmdabed #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 16 August 2017
#Haiti A boy looks at the houses on the mountain in Jalousie neighborhood, in Port-au-Prince. Photo @hectorretamal #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 17 August 2017
#Indonesia People climb greased poles, on which prizes and flags are
attached, to celebrate Indonesia's Independence Day in Denpasar. Photo
@sonnybali: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 17 August 2017
#Afghanistan Afghan children run as they play along a dusty road on the outskirts of Jalalabad. @Noorullah700 #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 17 August 2017
#Indian
Occupied Kashmir Kashmiri villagers carry the body of slain militant
Ayub Lelhari during his funeral procession at Lelhar village. Photo
@TauseefMUSTAFA #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 17 August 2017
GAZA STRIP - Hamas guard killed in rare suicide attack in Gaza Strip. Photo @saidkhatib #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 17 August 2017
#Turkey A man with his dog protects himself from the rain at a kiosk in Istanbul's Kadikoy district. Photo @Kilicbil #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 17 August 2017
#Vietnam A fruit vendor sells green bananas in the old quarter of Hanoi.
Photo Hoang Dinh Nam #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 17 August 2017
#Libya Migrants gather at a the Illegal Immigration Authority in Tripoli ahead of being repatriated to their country of origin
Photo Mahmud Turkia: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 18 August 2017
#UK Customers shop for fabrics on a market stall at Whitechapel Market in east London. Photo @TolgaAkmen #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 18 August 2017
#Afghanistan An Afghan man uses a stick to corral his flock of domesticated pigeons atop the roof of his house near Jalalabad. @Noorullah700: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 18 August 2017
#Spain
A would-be immigrant pours water on his head to cool off after being
rescued in the waters of the Strait of Gibraltar. Photo Jorge Guerrero: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 18 August 2017
GAZA CITY - The sun sets over a Palestinian man standing on concrete blocks at the port in Gaza City. Photo @mohmdabed #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 18 August 2017
#Central African Republic Chief of antibalaka fighters Jean Agoua poses in a school of the parish of Gambo.
Photo Alexis Huguet #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 18 August 2017
#India An Indian one-horned rhinoceros wades through flood waters at the flooded Pobitora wildlife sanctuary. @BoroBiju: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 18 August 2017
#PhilippinesThe body of an alleged drug dealer killed during a police
anti-drug operation is seen on the ground in Manila. Photo @herime23
#AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 18 August 2017
What the world looks like while you're sleeping: image via Getty Images @GettyImages, 17 August 2017
A Foggy Day in London Town [South Bank, London]: photo by Becky Frances, 30 March 2017
A Foggy Day in London Town [South Bank, London]: photo by Becky Frances, 30 March 2017
A Foggy Day in London Town [South Bank, London]: photo by Becky Frances, 30 March 2017
leer a Vallejo es entrar a una fantástica espiral de asombro...great translation Tom...!!
ReplyDeleteThank you dear Sandra. In fact una fantástica espiral de asombro is a fair description of everyday life here, anymore.
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