Thursday 15 November 2007

London is druk

Maar als het avond wordt
en nat ligt


dan kan de straat soms zeer mooi blinken.

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

inderdaad...
wat een mooi beeld!

16 November 2007 at 04:52
Anonymous said...

In the rain, the pavement shines like silver!

16 November 2007 at 08:10
Anonymous said...

Dear Melanie and Rosie,

What an excellent picture! Thank you very much indeed. May I grant both of you an Everlasting Honorary Membership of my TOAWN Fellowship? (TOAWN is the abbreviation of ‘The Ones Acquainted With the Night’.) Among the outstanding Honorary Members of TOAWN are William Shakespeare (‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream)’, Charlie Chaplin (‘City Lights’), J.F. Céline (‘Voyage au bout de la nuit’), Vincent van Gogh, (‘Terrasse du Café le Soir, Place du Forum, Arles’), Graham Greene, Carol Reed & Orson Welles (‘The third man’), Maurice Sendak (‘In the Night Kitchen’ and ‘Where the Wild Things Are’) and a great many others. We all share at least two things: a keen sensibility for the mysteries of the night and our fellowship anthem. The lyrics of the anthem are the fourteen lines of a poem written by your servant:


ACQUAINTED WITH THE NIGHT

I have been one acquainted with the night.
I have walked out in rain - and back in rain.
I have outwalked the furthest city light.

I have looked down the saddest city lane.
I have passed by the watchman on his beat
And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.

I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet
When far away an interrupted cry
Came over houses from another street,

But not to call me back to say good-by;
And further still at an unearthly height,
One luminary clock against the sky
Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right
I have been one acquainted with the night.


Well, don’t you agree your picture and my poem are dizygotic twins?. As to the music, it is somewhat less definite. Indeed it has to be reinvented whenever the anthem is sung and it keeps changing forever in close correspondence with the phases of the moon. So feel free to hum or sing it in your own way according to your mood (which is of course dictated by the moon.)

Now, my dear Melanie and Rosie, do you accept this Honorary Membership? If your answer is positive, you only have to pass one small initiation ritual. I ask you to go out one night and take an artistic picture of Big Ben showing its luminary clock. On the very moment the snapshot is taken you will enter the Fellowship en enjoy the company of all its members. And please, do put it on your weblog.

Yours faithfully,

Robert Frost,

President of the TOAWN Fellowship

17 November 2007 at 05:50

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