[lit-ideas] Re: Do You Have a Moral Urgency?
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 23:59:39 -0400
> [Original Message]
> From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 8/16/2006 11:46:18 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Do You Have a Moral Urgency?
>
> Andy: Real quick, the last line is wrong. Eric's
> transliteration put the prepositions in the right places:
> na visokii bereg na krutoi ...
> > > Onto the steep riverbank ... [literally: onto the high
> riverbank, the steep ...)
>
> Eric: I was taught the Katyusha song in one evening by a
> bunch of old Russian guys who had survived the Battle of
> Stalingrad. They made me an "honorary Russian" amidst a lot
> of vodka toasting.
>
> Andy: You're so bright. Too bad you're so heartless. You
> can't see the commonality of people.
>
> Eric: Don't forget the part about the eagle in the second
> stanza of Katyusha.
>
I remember once years ago during the Cold War seeing the movie Siberiad in
a theater in NY. I loved that movie. I walked out of it at the end, it's
like 3 hours long, thinking, how can anyone hate those people? I tried
getting it on video and the quality was so poor I couldn't watch it. Maybe
on DVD it might be better, but it could never match the original experience
on the big screen, even on my 65 inch TV. Maybe some day we'll say that
about those A-rabs, how can we hate those people?
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