At 14:37 15-11-2000 +0000, Chris Weaver/Rhett Hudson wrote:
> In French, sorry - Artur If you must apologize for French, I will begin apologizing for every time I post in English!
Ok, Chris, see what follows ;-) At 11:03 15-11-2000 -0800, Lisa Heft wrote:
One of the (many) things I love about this OS list is that I really feel the global nature of the OS community. Since our OS poetry is encouraged in any language, and since several languages were used at OSonOS, it is my impression that the weaving together of language, culture, perspective and imagery from all cultures forms the richness of our interchanges.
Ok, let's follow the music... What follows is the correct version of a poem from a portuguese-mozambiquean poet, Reinaldo Ferreira, that wrote in Maputo in the years 40-50, that I offered to Joelle's session on poetry at Berlim. He had alread died when I arrived there, but was still "present" among both cultures [Joelle, if you send me my English "translation from memory) I will correct it... ------ No principio so' a vida existia; O mundo era o que havia Ao alcance da vida... E mais nada. Tudo era certo, simples, claro. Quando o passado passar (E passara' porque o passado e' hoje), E o futuro vier (E ha'-de vir, porque o futuro e' hoje), Então, sim, ha'-de saber-se tudo E tudo sera' certo, simples, claro. Eu, porem, não sei nada. * * ========================================================== [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected] Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html =========================================================== [email protected] To subscribe, 1. Visit: http://www.egroups.com/group/oslist 2. Sign up -- provide an email address, and choose a login ID and password 3. Click on "Subscribe" and follow the instructions To unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: 1. Visit: http://www.egroups.com/group/oslist 2. Sign in and Proceed
