Light-hearted little ditty, isn't it? Reminds me of Ogden Nash ;-) Of course, now I have to really look at it hard. Another learning experience form the PDML.
On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 3:04 AM, Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of >> Igor Roshchin >> Bob W wrote: >> >> > > From: pdml-bounces at pdml.net [mailto:pdml-bounces at pdml.net] On >> > > Behalf Of Mark Roberts >> > > >> > > They're installing a security patch on a cloud instance? That >> sounds >> > > like a crime against nature or something... >> > > >> > >> > It's probably a cloud in trousers. >> > >> > B >> >> Bob, >> At first, I was puzzled by this reference. >> Russian poet from early 1900s, Vladimir Mayakovsky had a poem with the >> title "Clouid in trousers". It was very famous in Russia (it was >> studied in the middle-school literature classes). >> However, I didn't expect it to be known in the US. >> >> Then, I found that that poem had been translated into English: >> http://www.unlikelystories.org/old/archives/cloudintrousers.html >> After just a bit more of searching, I found that there was a play >> written by American writer Steve Trafford about V. Mayakovsky: >> http://www.amazon.com/Cloud-Trousers-Oberon-Modern-Plays/dp/1840025069/ >> >> Then, I found that there are a few other things have the same title, >> e.g. this musical album: >> http://www.amazon.com/Cloud-Trousers-The-Thin-Man/dp/B00005LB8T/ >> >> But, I suspect that you reference might have been related to a >> photography book by Christopher Doyle: >> http://www.amazon.com/Cloud-Trousers-Christopher-Doyle/dp/1889195332/ >> >> Is this right? >> >> Igor >> > > I know it from the Mayakovsky poem. When I was in my 20s and early 30s my > girlfriend was a half-Russian woman who studied Russian language & > literature at university. She is a big fan of Mayakovsky, so I became > moderately familiar with some of his work, mainly his graphics, but also > some of his poetry. We had a recording of him reading Pasluschetye (? - > "Listen!"). > > We saw a play called Futurists about Mayakovsky sometime in the mid-80s, > with Daniel Day-Lewis playing Mayakovsky. Day-Lewis was relatively unknown > at the time. > > I knew someone on the list would recognise the reference :o) > > B > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Steve Desjardins -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
