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Agreeing with Busacca

April 14, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Quando ‘e buio

Andevamo verso mezzanotte per le vie di Milano
deserte, corso Italia, con Anna Maria Ortese
e Massimo Leli
e Guido Ballo e non so chi altri,
e io tenevo nella mia manina tenera
di una bimba di cui rammento i riccioli neri
e i grandi occhi ma non il nome,
e a un tratto lei disse a voca alta:
” ‘E buio. Quando ‘e buio, bisogna tacere.”

Allora, pensai io, bisognerebbe tacere sempre.

When it is dark

We went out around midnight to the streets of Milan
deserted, corso Italia, with Anna Maria Ortese
and Massimo Leli
and Guido Ballo and I don’t know who else,
and I held in my hand soft
from a baby girl whose black curls
and bigs eyes I took in but not her name,
and at some turn she said in a loud voice:
“It is dark. When it is dark, one needs quiet.”

So then, I thought, one should always need quiet.

Helle Busacca, from Il libro delle ombre cinesi 1990
Translation my own, ADGD

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