auto-(re)translation into english of a line from do not go gentle into that good night (dylan thomas) from a portuguese translation of it (and sounding like a ronnie james dio black sabbath lyric).
horsemouth follows it by this the original in brackets.
(... wise men at their end know dark is right)
the poem itself is a villanelle. a poetic form that became popular in england (and thus presumably wales) in the late 19th century.
'the villanelle consists of five stanzas of three lines (tercets) followed by a single stanza of four lines (a quatrain) for a total of nineteen lines.[8] It is structured by two repeating rhymes and two refrains: the first line of the first stanza serves as the last line of the second and fourth stanzas, and the third line of the first stanza serves as the last line of the third and fifth stanzas.'
horsemouth has not been reading poetry, he has been reading viriconium by m.john harrison (a sort of urbanist fantasy collection, the city is the star, the city and the prose style). he's nearly finished reading the pastel city (1971), which together with a storm of wings (1980), are earlier, and almost straight ahead fantasy novels. but when he returns to these themes in 1982's in viriconium and 1985's viriconium nights it is with the concision of the short story and a much better prose style. the new wave of SF wars over literary fiction are over, or have been won, for the victors careers in literary fiction, for the losers genre nothingness.
the dispensation will not remain that way for long.
horsemouth is tired after doing some digging in the garden. tonight a new tv serial (it's not twin peaks). then probably the news (more horror).
it is the morning rainy and grey (all week apparently). today horsemouth will be recovering from digging the garden and will probably go for a mild walk (in the rain) at some point.
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