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Dans le cylindre des tribulations

Trente filles au corps opaque,
trente filles divinisées par l’imagination,
s’approchent de l’homme qui repose
dans la petite vallée de la folie.

L’homme en question joue avec ferveur.
Il joue contre lui-même et gagne.
Les trente filles en ont vite assez.

Les caresses du jeu ne sont pas celles de l’amour
et le spectacle n’en est pas aussi charmant, séduisant et agréable.

Il y a aussi, dans une ville de laine et de plumes,
un oiseau sur le dos d’un mouton.
Le mouton, dans les fables, mène l’oiseau au paradis.

Il y a aussi les siècles personnifiés,
la grandeur des siècles présents,
le vertige des années défendues et des fruits perdus.

In the cylinder of tribulations ...

Que les souvenirs m’entraînent
et j’aurai des yeux ronds comme le monde.

Thirty girls with opaque bodies,
thirty girls deified by the imagination,
approach the man who rests
in the little valley of madness.

The man in question plays with fervor.
He plays against himself and wins.
The thirty girls quickly had enough.

The caresses of play are not those of love
and the spectacle is not as charming, seductive and pleasant.

There is also, in a city of wool and feathers,
a bird on the back of a sheep.
The sheep, in the fables, leads the bird to paradise.

There are also the personified centuries,
the grandeur of the present centuries,
the dizziness of forbidden years and lost fruits.

Let the memories carry me away
and I will have eyes as round as the world.

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from Mourir de ne pas mourir .​.​. Paul Éluard (2023), released February 23, 2024

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Thomas Oboe Lee Cambridge, Massachusetts

Thomas Oboe Lee was born in China in 1945. He lived in São Paulo, Brazil, for six years before coming to the United States in 1966. After graduating from the University of Pittsburgh, he studied composition at the New England Conservatory and Harvard University. He has been a member of the music faculty at Boston College since 1990. ... more

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