Re: [Cz-L] Let your eyes...

Thank you Edgar for sending us this poem by Paul Celan.
I would like to make a small correction:
The meaning of "Docht" in English is "wick", like the wick of a candle.
MY translation would be:

"Let your eye, be a candle in the chamber,
Your glance, a wick,
Let me be blind enough,
To light it."

Mimi

On May 9, 2013, at 7:50 AM, Edgar Hauster wrote:

> Let your eyes in the chambre become a candle,
> your glance a canon,
> let me become blind enough
> so to light it.
>
> Lass dein Aug in der Kammer sein eine Kerze,
> den Blick einen Docht,
> lass mich blind genug sein,
> ihn zu entzünden.
>
> Paul Celan
>
> Celan's poem is released at the end of one more amazing post "There
> it is, in so many places"
>
> http://riowang.blogspot.de/2013/05/there-it-is-in-so-many-places.html
>
> discovered at the "Poems del Rio Wang" Blog:
>
> http://riowang.blogspot.de/
>
> The posting displays unique photos from the synagogues of Khust,
> Shargorod, Bolekhiv, the Palace of Tsadik Friedman of Ruzhyn in
> Sadhora (Czernowitz) and the cemeteries of Kuty, Czernowitz,
> Medzhibozh, Bolekhiv.
>
> After cruising - as Jerome did in parallel - on the banks of the
> River Wang for many, many hours, I added "The Jewish Heritage at
> Poemas del Rio Wang" to our ehpes.com Blog
>
> http://ehpes.com/blog1/2013/05/07/the-jewish-heritage-at-poemas-del-
> rio-wang/
>
> and would encourage you once again, to discover the hidden
> treasures of this outstanding website!
>
>
>
> Edgar Hauster • MacBook
> Lent • The Netherlands

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