elanya

First off... I'm suddenly not entirely sure where my interview is tomorrow. I'm not sure which location. I dropped my resume off at one place, but I think it was the other location that was hiring (according to the job bank), so I'm not sure any more :o I'll call tomorrow and find out for sure, I guess :o

Now, on to the quotes.

This first one is short, so I'll just let it stand out here in the open. It is from Foucault's Pendulum. It makes me think of the darker side of Changeling:

"Better reality than a dream. If something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame."

As a side note, I am really likit FP, even though I am not far into it. I think that I am better armed than most to get into it though, because I know a bit about kabbahlism and numerology, as well as a bit about the Templars (thanks to ladysylkie!). less about the specifics of the various conspiracies, btu still enough, I think. I also wonder if Eco went to any lengths, and if the chapter number mean anything, etc. But I'm not crazy enough to bother putting any efoort into that. It would be cool, in a nutbar/obsesive kind of way if he did though :D

Onto my other quote, which is longer and therefore deserves a cut. It is also a song.

First, the origial French version...

Mon ami la rose - Francoise Hardy

on est bien peu de chose
et mon amie la rose me l'a dit ce matin
À l'aurore je suis née
baptisée de rose
je me suis épanouie
heureuse et amoureuse
aux rayons du soleil
me suis fermée la nuit
me suis réveille vieille

pourtant j'tais très belle
oui, j'étais la plus belle
des fleurs de ton jardin

on est bien peu de chose
et mon amie la rose me l'a dit ce matin
vois le Dieu qui m'a faite
me fait courber la tête
et je sens que je tombe
et je sens que je tombe
mon coeur est presque nu
j'ai le pied dans la tombe
déjà je ne suis plus

tu m'admirais hier
et je serai poussière
pour toujours demain

on est bien peu de chose
et mon amie la rose est morte ce matin
la lune cette nuit
a veillé mon amie
moi, en rève, j'ai vu
éblouissante et nue
son âme qui dansait
bien au-delà des nues
et qui me souriait

crois celui qui peut croire
moi, j'ai besoin d'espoir
sinon je ne suis rien

ou bien si peu de chose
c'est mon amie la rose
qui l'a dit hier matin.

Update: Livejournal hates French! But Livejournal is my bitch!

And then the English translation (not literal, can't remember who by)

My Friend the Rose

a lifetime comes and goes
and as my friend the rose said only yesterday
"this morning I was born
and baptised in the dawn
I flowered in the dew
and life was fresh and new
the sun shone through the cold
and through the day I grew
by night-time I was old"

"at least there's never been
no, you have never seen
a rose more bright and gay"

a lifetime comes and goes
and as my friend the rose said only yesterday
"the good lord smiled on me
so why then should it be
I feel I'm falling now
oh yes, I'm falling now
my heart no-one can save
my head begins to bow
my feet are in the grave"

the rose God smiled upon
tomorrow will be gone
forever gone away

a lifetime comes and goes
and so my friend the rose was dead at break of day
the moon is shining bright
and in my dreams tonight
beneath the starlit sky
my friend the rose goes by
he has seen my dreams I see
a soul that wouldn't die
still watching over me

whatever fortune brings
I'll hope for better things
or life will just be grey

"a lifetime comes and goes"
that's what my friend the rose
said only yesterday

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Now, the reason I stuck this song in here is that I wonder what people think it is about, what the general point of the song is, and mood, and so on. Because I seem to have looked at it very differently than some people I passed it on to already and I'm wondering if it is just me :o