De trap van steen en wolken by alwaysonmymind
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Every once in a while, there's something that actually does sound better in Dutch than it does in English. "De trap van steen en wolken", in my opinion, is one of those, rare, occurrences. "The stairs of stone and clouds" just doesn't quite cut it. It was the title of a novel by Johan Daisne, an exponent of the magic realism movement in Dutch and Flemish literature, that had its heyday roughly from the 1940's up to the 1970's, the decade it didn't manage to survive. Johan Daisne and the other main exponent of magic realism, Hubert Lampo, although once world famous in Flanders, and idolized by generations of high school students, are today almost forgotten. Sic transit gloria mundi. I think back on reading them with a certain fondness.
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Comments (6)
MrsLubner
Simply amazing artwork.
micturn
Definitely magic
auntietk
I like it in English, but that's just me ... since I don't speak very much Dutch. (More than you might think, but still ... not much.) The title in English has a rhythm to it that borders on mythic. You can take almost anything and call it "The Blank of Blank and Blank" and I would be pretty sure it was a Classic Tale of something or other. Regardless of that ... I LOVE this image! Excellent work!
Celart
Wonderful POV and composition. Nice artwork. Well done
Chipka
This is truly amazing! I love your ruminations on language too. Dutch is one of those language like German, I think, in that you can say something in Dutch and an English speaker would hear something almost familiar, but also a little bit funny. I love languages for that, and for the ways in which there are so many different variations on names and such, and sometimes, they simply don't translate. I'm still trying to wrap my brain around some of the stuff I learned in Prague, in terms of various emotions that Czechs have words for, only those words don't exist in English. That all made for some very interesting conversations over beer. Litost is my favorite Czech word, but it's rather dark and grim and has a lot to do with all of that stuff that makes things dark and grim. But anyway, I'm rambling, but that's because your text really started making me think in all sorts of wonderful directions. I'm not that familiar with Dutch literature, beyond a few titles here and there, and I'm quite sure that I'll be filling in that gap soon: especially in terms of Dutch magical realism. I'm more familiar with Latin American magical realism, but as I am fond of Dutch culture (and quite a prodigious number of Dutch people) I should look more into Dutch literature. And now, my comment on this photograph. WOW! This is quite elegant and I love the wholly modern/contemporary vibe it has. It's easy to complain about the lack of texture and a real aesthetic governing modern things, and yet, we've got all of that right here, and you've captured it perfectly and heightened it with an actual human being participating in what we see. This is marvelous. Brilliant. Elegant. Beautiful. It's making a trip into my favorites.
pauldeleu
Brilliant work!