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Apr. 24th, 2011 01:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
here in this carload i am eve with abel my son if you see my other son cain son of man tell him that i |
- Dan Pagis "Written in Pencil in the Sealed Railway-Car" |
here in this carload i am eve with abel my son if you see my other son cain son of man tell him that i |
- Dan Pagis "Written in Pencil in the Sealed Railway-Car" |
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Date: 2011-04-25 03:48 pm (UTC)And now I have looked it up. Huh.
Oh! Okay, previous generalization redacted. That's very cute.
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Date: 2011-04-25 05:46 pm (UTC)The song itself is unrelated, I think. It's... it's very sad :< Cute, but sad.
I know, right? I think Dickinson is given a bad rap-- her more 'famous' works tend to be melancholy and, to be fair, more of her work is sad than happy, but there's a couple poems by her that are cute or even sort of... sly, you know? Poking fun at people and the world c: