Trafika Europe 9/10 - UK in Europe

PHAEDRUS [251 C] SOCRATES. AS IN THOSE WHO ARE CUTTING TEETH THERE IS AN IRRITATION AND DISCOM- FORT IN THE GUMS, WHEN THE TEETH BEGIN TO GROW,JUST SO THE SOUL SUFFERS WHEN THE GROWTH OF THE FEATHERS BEGINS; IT IS FEVERISH AND IS UNCOMFORTABLE AND ITCHES WHEN THEY BEGIN TO GROW. SUMMERTIME: ELLA FITZGERALD, BILLIE HOLIDAY, LOUIS ARMSTRONG, JANIS JOPLIN: GEORGE GERSHWIN: ONE OF THESE MORNINGS, YOU’RE GOING TO RISE UP SINGING THEN YOU’LL SPREAD YOUR WINGS AND YOU’WILL TAKE THE SKY

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ΣΑΠΦΩ 166 [Αth.2.57a] ΦΑΙΣΙ ΔΗ ΠΟΤΑ ΛΗΔΑΝ ΥΑΚΙΝΘΙΝΟN... ΩΙΟΝ ΕΥΡΗΝ ΠΕΠΥΚΑΔΜΕΝΟΝ They say that once Leda found a hyacinth egg, well covered

DREAM: LEDA/HELEN Ι. from within an egg

Clambered onto the branch since nine in the morning, the Cicada flies out, under my very eyes, at twelve thirty... The discarded carapace stays, intact apart from its crack and so steadfastly attached that the bad weather of the season just gone, does not succeed in dislodging it. For months to come, even during winter, a lot of old carcasses can be seen hanging on bushes in the exact position the larva had assumed at the mo- ment of its transformation. A leathery aspect that is reminiscent of dry parchment, this is, indeed, one lasting memento. PHAEDRUS. SOCRATES: [245 c] Every soul is immortal. [246 a] We will liken the soul to the composite nature of a pair of winged horses and a charioteer. [246 c] and the whole, compounded of soul and body, is called a living being...[246 d] The natural function of the wing is to soar upwards and carry that which is heavy up to the place where dwells the race of the gods. [249 d] All my discourse so far has been about the fourth kind of madness, which causes him to be regarded as mad, who, when he sees the beauty on earth, remembering the true beauty, feels his wings growing and longs to stretch them for an upward flight, but cannot do so, and, like a bird, gazes upward and neglects the things below. [249 e]... and that he who loves the beautiful, par- taking in this madness, is called a lover...[251 c] So, then, the soul in its entirety is in upheaval and agitated and, like babies when teething, get painful and itchy gums, that very same thing hap- pens to the soul when it is sprouting wings.

she waited from afar for herself to be born -she said- without knowing what that meant since she was already born and had herself given birth first the outer shell would crack -she said- then into fragments the casing would break up and then you would spring out, fair one fairest out of the entire lot just like all daughters you would come out of the egg

to reap the same pleasures over and over and make the same mistakes over and over again. ΙΙ. you gave birth to the egg and you were it youthful and smooth inside spring you murmured lullabies for yourself and for the daughter how hard and never ending this growing from a child to become a woman this flight of the swan as it mourns its previous life. NATURE and the children? following spring after the summer like young shoots they sprout whereas we wither we are now low and they are high and after the first surprise is over of looking at our offspring from below at these young tall bodies by our side in our home wandering around and able to make choices and to advise their brimming life, youthful and adult from now on we will be accompanied by the reversal of roles and the keeping watch over infants indifferently we glance at the strangers sitting round a table as barefoot in the sand we casually allow the sense that we’ll be able no longer to fit it in our arms sing a lullaby to it deliver it unto sleep ourselves we are filled with joy

our talk to flow down to the sea