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martes, 7 de octubre de 2025

Things fall apart - Then wives into hyenas growing...

 (En la época del Romanticismo, la Revolución Francesa causó un trauma colectivo comparable al 11-S o a la pandemia del COVID. Las hienas son matriarcales, y las hembras de la especie tienen el clítoris tan grande que normalmente se confunde con un pene.)

Versión original (Schiller):

Freiheit und Gleichheit! hört man schallen; ...

Die Straßen füllen sich, die Hallen,

Und Würgerbanden ziehn umher.

Da werden Weiber zu Hyänen
und treiben mit Entsetzen Scherz;
Noch zuckend, mit des Panthers Zähnen,
zerreißen sie des Feindes Herz.

Nichts Heiliges ist mehr, es lösen

sich alle Bande frommer Scheu;
Der Gute räumt den Platz dem Bösen,
und alle Laster walten frei.

Weh denen, die dem Ewigblinden
Des Lichtes Himmelsfackel leihn!

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Sie strahlt ihm nicht, sie kann nur zünden

Traducción literal de Sandra Dermark:

¡Libertad! ¡Igualdad! (pero no Fraternidad),

se oye gritar,

las calles se llenan, y los lugares públicos,

y bandas de estranguladores campean por doquier.

Entonces las féminas se convierten en hienas,

y hacen diversión del horror,

y, aún palpitante, con colmillos de pantera,

le arrancan al enemigo el corazón del pecho.

Nada es sagrado más, se disuelven

todos los lazos de las buenas intenciones.

El bien le cede su lugar al mal,

y todos los vicios andan sueltos.

¡Ay de quien a los eternamente ciegos

les presta la tea celestial de las Luces!

No les puede iluminar, sólo prender fuego.

Versión española (Katharina Busemann, Daniela Lippert y Maria Elena Pàmies i Arribas):

¡Libertad! ¡Igualdad! se oye resonar,

las calles se llenan, y los edificios públicos,

rondan sin rumbo bandas de asesinos,

Y las mujeres se convierten en hienas

y se divierten con el horror,

y desgarran con dientes de pantera,

aún palpitante, el corazón del enemigo.

Ya no hay nada sagrado, se rompen

todos los lazos impuestos por el temor reverencial,

el bueno cede su sitio al malvado,

y todos los vicios imperan a sus anchas.

Ay de aquellos que presten al irremediablemente ciego

la antorcha celestial de la luz!

Porque ella no le va a iluminar, sólo podrá prender fuego...

Version française (Émile Deschamps):

Un cri de toutes parts s’élève : Égalité !
Liberté !… chacun s’arme ou fuit épouvanté.

les femmes
avec les dents du tigre insultent, sans pitié,
le cœur de l’ennemi déjà mort à moitié,
Et du rire d’un monstre avec l’horreur se jouent.
de l’austère pudeur les liens se dénouent ...

Oh ! ne prodiguons point, par un jeu criminel,
Les célestes clartés à l’Aveugle Éternel ;

Leur flambeau l’aide au mal, et d’une main hardie
Au lieu de la lumière, il répand l’incendie !

English version (Marianna Wertz):

Liberty, Equality! Men hear sounding ...

The streets and halls are all abounding,
And roving, draw the murd’ring swarms;
Then wives into hyenas growing
Do make with horror jester’s art,

Still quiv’ring, panther’s teeth employing,
They rip apart the enemy’s heart.
Naught holy is there more, and cleaving
Are bonds of pious modesty,
The good its place to bad is leaving,
And all the vices govern free.

Woe’s them, who heaven’s torch of lighting
Unto the ever-blind do lend!
It lights them not, ’tis but igniting

THE SECOND COMING, YEATS (Compare!)

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere   

The ceremony of innocence is drowned;

The best lack all conviction, while the worst   

Are full of passionate intensity.

Traducción (literal), Sandra Dermark

Todo se desmorona, el centro no puede aguantar,

la anarquía pura se desata sobre el mundo,

la marea sangrienta se desata, y, por doquier,

la ceremonia de la inocencia se ahoga.

Los mejores carecen de toda convicción, mientras los peores

están llenos de apasionada intensidad.

domingo, 4 de abril de 2021

LES MIS+OTHELLO=BETWEEN THE VELVET LIES (More updates)

 On the day Éponine Thénardier lost her maidenhead, it was not with the one she actually loved.

"Popped your cherry like bubblewrap, and you're still pining for...? What does this guy have that I fricking don't? Anyway, I'll hide your little bloody secret, washing these sheets as clean as a whistle, and I swear by what I love the most (here, he clutches the package between his thighs) that you'll have your man, if I can never be the kind you like to... Should I ever leave a friend in need without even advice? Right, 'Ponine? I swear by my cock and balls that you'll get things your way!"

Her breathing steadies as he clasps her once more. As the blood on the sheets begins to dry. Like a stray cat, she rubs her face against his chest, desperate for affection.
"Fudge," he swallows an F-bob-omb, unwrapping himself from her waist. "Whatsapp her guardian, 'Ponine. Right now. Shock the old codger."
Rising up and producing her phone, she scrolls down to LEBLANC on her list of contacts, while thinking of how to put it into words...

After a while, she types NORWEGIAN WOOD, then the enter key, hoping this gentleman will understand the Beatles reference. A response appears from Leblanc: "Could you please relate what do you mean by that?" Even though the old blighter erased the Thénardiers from the list of contacts, he does not know her number now that she has a phone of her own.
Éponine is quick to come up with a riposte: "AND WHEN I AWOKE I WAS ALONE; THIS BIRD HAS..." Now he will get the cue.
What did you type? 'Parnasse asks her, elbowing her in the false ribs right under the sports bra; in response, the Thénardier firstborn whistles the tune to Norwegian Wood as she winks an eye. He just stares at her, puzzled. "Beatles. A song about a bird, you know, a girl, whom a guy finds out has disappeared from their home in the night. Just like the old snowy owl will find his li'l skylark tonight..."

So this is a bunny for an Othello fushion I have only with my Mizzie babies - a postmodern Mariusette-Montponine AU (plus Valvert, plus Courfsette friendly! -maybe some Enjoltaire in the wings?-) including a Cyrano de Courfeyrac scenario and so forth... 

This is from the aforementioned Othello Les Mis fusion - starts out as a Cyrano de Courfeyrac story, but then takes a darker turn with Marius being duped into hating Cosette ... Courf' as Cassio, 'Parnasse as Iago, Éponine doubling as Emilia and Roderigo, Enj as the visiting dignitary... and some Valvert as Cosette's two dads spring to reaction in the first act. All done in a style mashing up Wes Anderson and Quentin Tarantino with 1990s Basque films like Airbag, Acción Mutante, or The Day of the Beast (for instance, a water-and-vodka Russian roulette of shots, the vodka shots laced with crystal meth, appears as a plot point). Norwegian Wood acts as a leitmotif throughout the story, as does the poem "The Second Coming" which Marius is analysing for Verse Translation class :* Titles of chapters will come from both the song and the poem - and other lyrics:

THE GREAT PRETENDER
****
RAPUNZEL, RAPUNZEL...
THE STAR OF THE MASQUERADE
SOME LIGHT CAN NEVER BE SEEN
LIKE THE EYES OF A CAT IN THE BLACK AND BLUE
ISN'T IT GOOD, NORWEGIAN WOOD?
NOT THE SAME WITHOUT A GUN
HIDE IN THE SUN TILL YOU SEE THE LIGHT
WHAT'S BECOMING OF ME?
THE BLOOD-DIMMED TIDE IS LOOSED
THE CEREMONY OF INNOCENCE IS DROWNED
THE BEST LACK ALL CONVICTION
FULL OF PASSIONATE INTENSITY
A TRUTH AS HARD AS STEEL
OUT OF SPIRITUS MUNDI
OR SHOULD I SAY SHE ONCE HAD ME?

PS. The film Courfeyrac takes Marius and Cosette to see/gets tickets for them is based on Episode 15 of Vampire Princess Miyu "Dreams of a Mermaid" - its in-universe title is What Do Mermaids Dream Of?

Last year in April, exactly one year from now, I wrote:
For my Les Mis/Othello fusion, I am finding out in which ways a person can absorb meth into their system (it's plot relevant ;))
I FOUND OUT: The "ice" is soluble and then (to affect an individual person) can be either drunk or injected - I am in favour of the former, because otherwise Courf may feel the pinprick into the vein (ditto for a shove up the khyber, for the rectal route guarantees 100% absorption; hehe)... a poisoned drink is more classic and hurts little to nothing, plus meth is very gradually metabolised, so the symptoms would last for at most half a day!
(After typing this, I decided for Courfeyrac swallowing the meth in a spiked drink during the roulette game - of course the roulette is rigged!)

martes, 8 de enero de 2019

BETWEEN THE VELVET LIES - LES MIS*OTHELLO FUSION

On the day Éponine Thénardier lost her maidenhead, it was not with the one she actually loved.
"Popped your cherry like bubblewrap, and you're still pining for...? What does this guy have that I fricking don't? Anyway, I'll hide your little bloody secret, washing these sheets as clean as a whistle, and I swear by what I love the most (here, he clutches the package between his thighs) that you'll have your man, if I can never be the kind you like to... Should I ever leave a friend in need without even advice? Right, 'Ponine? I swear by my cock and balls that you'll get things your way!"
Her breathing steadies as he clasps her once more. As the blood on the sheets begins to dry. Like a stray cat, she rubs her face against his chest, desperate for affection.
"Fudge," he swallows an F-bob-omb, unwrapping himself from her waist. "Whatsapp her guardian, 'Ponine. Right now. Shock the old codger."
Rising up and producing her phone, she scrolls down to LEBLANC on her list of contacts, while thinking of how to put it into words...

After a while, she types NORWEGIAN WOOD, then the enter key, hoping this gentleman will understand the Beatles reference. A response appears from Leblanc: "Could you please relate what do you mean by that?" Even though the old blighter erased the Thénardiers from the list of contacts, he does not know her number now that she has a phone of her own.
Éponine is quick to come up with a riposte: "AND WHEN I AWOKE I WAS ALONE; THIS BIRD HAS..." Now he will get the cue.
What did you type? 'Parnasse asks her, elbowing her in the false ribs right under the sports bra; in response, the Thénardier firstborn whistles the tune to Norwegian Wood as she winks an eye. He just stares at her, puzzled. "Beatles. A song about a bird, you know, a girl, whom a guy finds out has disappeared from their home in the night. Just like the old snowy owl will find his li'l skylark tonight..."

So this is a bunny for an Othello fushion I have only with my Mizzie babies - a postmodern Mariusette-Montponine AU (plus Valvert, plus Courfsette friendly! -maybe some Enjoltaire in the wings?-) including a Cyrano de Courfeyrac scenario and so forth... 

This is from the aforementioned Othello Les Mis fusion - starts out as a Cyrano de Courfeyrac story, but then takes a darker turn with Marius being duped into hating Cosette ... Courf' as Cassio, 'Parnasse as Iago, Éponine doubling as Emilia and Roderigo, Enj as the visiting dignitary... and some Valvert as Cosette's two dads spring to reaction in the first act. All done in a style mashing up Wes Anderson and Quentin Tarantino with 1990s Basque films like Airbag, Acción Mutante, or The Day of the Beast (for instance, a water-and-vodka Russian roulette of shots, the vodka shots laced with crystal meth, appears as a plot point). Norwegian Wood acts as a leitmotif throughout the story, as does the poem "The Second Coming" which Marius is analysing for Verse Translation class :* Titles of chapters will come from both the song and the poem - and other lyrics:

THE GREAT PRETENDER
****
RAPUNZEL, RAPUNZEL...
THE STAR OF THE MASQUERADE
SOME LIGHT CAN NEVER BE SEEN
LIKE THE EYES OF A CAT IN THE BLACK AND BLUE
ISN'T IT GOOD, NORWEGIAN WOOD?
NOT THE SAME WITHOUT A GUN
HIDE IN THE SUN TILL YOU SEE THE LIGHT
WHAT'S BECOMING OF ME?
THE BLOOD-DIMMED TIDE IS LOOSED
THE CEREMONY OF INNOCENCE IS DROWNED
THE BEST LACK ALL CONVICTION
FULL OF PASSIONATE INTENSITY
A TRUTH AS HARD AS STEEL
OUT OF SPIRITUS MUNDI
OR SHOULD I SAY SHE ONCE HAD ME?