this is so wonderful! i love the concept, the idea beneath, that in each butterfly-word of each language another butterfly is hidden, and with each new word we learn and say aloud, a new essence of butterfly is revealed to us... i am thrilled with all this! i can't even say which one is my favourite, as i fly from one to another, like a butterfly, each time thinking: oh this is it, this one i like most! :-)
'mariposa' (still the loveliest word among all these :-), and the japanese 'cho' and the russian one are among my favourite, i think, i think...
Drifting, drifting...that's the way it looks on the edges of our civilisation. A drifting, a searching, beyond all the known grounds for an other ground.
from Travels in the Drifting Dawn by Kenneth White
As he travels through the great human desert, this man, this lonely figure endowed with active imagination, has, you may be sure, a higher aim, a more general aim, than that of a mere strolling reporter.
Baudelaire
tutto, in natura, ha una essenza lirica, un destino tragico, una esistenza comica.
santayana
the floating elvis had heard the words the floating elvis had looked out for so long it was time to see the world he was not alone
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this is so wonderful! i love the concept, the idea beneath, that in each butterfly-word of each language another butterfly is hidden, and with each new word we learn and say aloud, a new essence of butterfly is revealed to us... i am thrilled with all this! i can't even say which one is my favourite, as i fly from one to another, like a butterfly, each time thinking: oh this is it, this one i like most! :-)
'mariposa' (still the loveliest word among all these :-), and the japanese 'cho' and the russian one are among my favourite, i think, i think...
i got more and more into it as time went on - who knows, there may be more! there's a couple i want to edit a bit still.
my favourites? probably russian and mariposa...
haha, i see that we have the same favourite :-)))
amazing:
http://www.youtube.com/embed/ah0SBALIc0o?rel=0
rats, missed it!
just too late!
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