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Estate con Miller
Tutte le biblioteche, reali o letterarie, hanno un Reparto Proibito. Ce l’ha anche quella della mia scuola, ed è lì, dove le innocenti mani degli studenti minorenni non possono arrivare, che ho trovato, e subito preso in prestito per l’estate, il Meridiano dedicato a Henry Miller. Più di mille pagine, comprendenti i famosi Tropico del Cancro e Tropico del Capricorno e altri meno noti. Leggendolo ritrovo molte cose che caratterizzano i suoi compatrioti, gli statunitensi, anche oggi, come li trovo ritratti in libri, film, telefilm...
read moreOmaggio a Bob Dylan – Desolation Row (decima e ultima strofa)
E qui si conclude l’avventura, la pazza idea di Giorgio Guelmani di commentare, strofa per strofa, la leggendaria ed enigmatica Desolation Row di Bob Dylan. E avanti, verso nuove sfide! 1 Yes, I received your letter yesterday (about the time the door knob broke) When you asked how I was doing Was that some kind of joke? 5 All the people that you mention Yes, I know them, they’re quite lame I had to rearrange their faces And give them all another name Right now, I can’t read too good 10 Don’t send me no more letters no Not unless you mail...
read moreOmaggio a Bob Dylan – Desolation Row (nona strofa)
Coraggio, siamo quasi alla fine! Penultima strofa della leggendaria Desolation Row di Bob Dylan, pignolamente commentata da Giorgio Guelmani. 1 Praise be to Nero’s Neptune The Titanic sails at dawn And everybody’s shouting “Which Side Are You On?” 5 And Ezra Pound and T.S.Eliot Fighting in the captain’s tower While calypso singers laugh at them And fishermen hold flowers Between the windows of the sea 10 Where lovely mermaids flow And nobody has to think too much About Desolation Row 1-2. Sia lode al Nettuno di Nerone, il Titanic salpa...
read moreOmaggio a Bob Dylan – Desolation Row (ottava strofa)
Ancora una volta, Giorgio Guelmani commenta – strofa per strofa – la canzone Desolation Row di Bob Dylan. 1 Now at midnight all the agents And the superhuman crew Come out and round up everyone That knows more than they do 5 Then they bring them to the factory Where the heart -attack machine Is strapped across their shoulders And then the kerosene Is brought down from the castles 10 By insurance men who go Check to see that nobody is escaping To Desolation Row 1-4. Ora a mezzanotte gli agenti e la ciurma superumana escono, e fanno la...
read moreOmaggio a Bob Dylan – Desolation Row (settima strofa)
Ritorna il commentario – strofa per strofa – di Giorgio Guelmani alla canzone Desolation Row di Bob Dylan. 1 Across the street they’ve nailed the curtains They’re getting ready for the feast The Phantom of the Opera A perfect image of a priest 5 They’re spoonfeeding Casanova To get him to feel more assured Then they’ll kill him with self-confidence After poisoning him with words And the Phantom’s shouting to skinny girls 10 “Get Outa Here If You Don’t Know Casanova is just being punished for going To Desolation Row” 1-4. Dall’altra...
read moreOmaggio a Bob Dylan – Desolation Row (sesta strofa)
Poiché il lupo perde il pelo ma non il vizio, Giorgio Guelmani si ostina a commentare la canzone Desolation Row di Bob Dylan, strofa per strofa. 1 Dr. Filth, he keeps his world Inside a leather cup But all his sexless patients They’re trying to blow it up 5 Now his nurse, some local loser She’s in charge of the cyanide hole And she also keeps the cards that read “Have Mercy On His Soul” They all play on penny whistles 10 You can hear them blow If you lean your head out far enough From Desolation Row 1-4. Il Dottor Abominio tiene...
read moreOmaggio a Bob Dylan – Desolation Row (quinta strofa)
E rieccoci all’appuntamento midrashico, in cui Giorgio Guelmani s’industria a commentare, strofa per strofa, la canzone Desolation Row di Bob Dylan. 1 Einstein, disguised as Robin Hood With his memories in a trunk Passed this way an hour ago With his friend, a jealous monk 5 He looked so immaculately frightful As he bummed a cigarette Then he went off sniffing drainpipes And reciting the alphabet Now you would not think to look at him 10 But he was famous long ago For playing the electric violin On Desolation Row 1-4. Einstein,...
read moreOmaggio a Bob Dylan – Desolation Row (quarta strofa)
Poiché il lupo perde il pelo, ma non il vizio, Giorgio Guelmani prosegue il commentario al Nobel per la Letteratura 2016. Oggi è il turno della quarta strofa di Desolation Row. 1 Now Ophelia, she’s ‘neath the window For her I feel so afraid On her twenty-second birthday She already is an old maid 5 To her, death is quite romantic She wears an iron vest Her profession’s her religion Her sin is her lifelessness And though her eyes are fixed upon 10 Noah’s great raimbow She spends her time peeking Into Desolation Row 1-4. Ora...
read moreOmaggio A Bob Dylan – Desolation Row (terza strofa)
Torna la Desolazione! Giorgio Guelmani insiste nel commentare, verso per verso, l’enigmatica “Desolation Row” di Bob Dylan. 1 Now the moon is almost hidden The stars are beginning to hide The fortunetelling lady Has even taken all her things inside 5 All except for Cain and Abel And the hunchback of Notre Dame Everybody is making love Or else expecting rain And the Good Samaritan, he’s dressing 10 He’s getting ready for the show He’s going to the carnival tonight On Desolation Row 1-4. Ora la luna è quasi nascosta, le stelle...
read moreOmaggio A Bob Dylan – Desolation Row (seconda strofa)
Prosegue il viaggio di Giorgio Guelmani nella poetica di Bob Dylan. Oggi vi proponiamo il commento alla seconda strofa di “Desolation Row” . 1 Cinderella, she seems so easy It takes one to know one, she smiles And puts her hands in her back pockets Bette Davis style 5 And in comes Romeo, he’s moaning “You Belong to Me I Believe” And someone says, “You’re in the wrong place my friend You’d better leave” And the only sound that’s left 10 After the ambulances go Is Cinderella sweeping up On Desolation Row 1-4. Cenerentola sembra così...
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