04/03/2007

red moon

Instead of standing on the terrace to watch the eclipse of the moon your Librarian went to bed without a second thought.
It was the hype alla italiana, the cooing female voice spouting rubbish about heavenly bodies, the astrology of it all. How worrying that reality can be rendered repellent by foolish overwrites.

Lovely cartoon in Corriere della Sera: Prodi to Fassino looking at red moon, ' godiamoci questa luna rossa altrimenti bisogna aspettare altri diciannove anni'.

6 comments:

milena said...

i only discovered the red moon because of this blog:

we'd been interview outfit shopping and then to the cinema and then for noodles and noticed unexpectedly the moon disappearing as we walked back through soho and it had nearly all gone by the time we got home.

but we would have thought that was it had i not read oops below and gone to la repubblica to find out more about the body on the flowerpots and read about the moon being red, exactly then.

so we got back into our coats and stood on the corner of tavistock place, practically in the dark as there are no street lamps since the storm, Camden having beheaded them all as pericolante.

It really was red.

the Librarian said...

Harry has been slow on picking up this one for Ken, Lenna.
Red Ken, Red Moon!

Streets full of people, all alone
Rows full of houses, never home
Church full of singing, out of tune
Everyone's gone to the moon
Eyes full of sorrow, never wet
Hands full of money, all in debt
Sun disappears in the middle of June
Everyone's gone to the moon

Long time ago, life had begun
Everyone went to the Sun
Hearts full of motors, painted green
Mouths full of chocolate-covered cream
Hands that can only lift a spoon
Everyone's gone to the moon.

Red Moon Red Ken!!

giules said...

I like the poem!

There were red moon celebrations going on in florence in the piazzale michelangelo, with astronomers and telescopes and everything, but repubb. said the actual eclipse was going to happen at 2 a.m. so we did't go . But I did dream about it instead, so I suppose I saw it in any case.

the Librarian said...

Giules, how true, dreams are the stuff of life (or was it the other way round)?

Caronte said...

actually it was D'Alema talking to Fassino. The cartoonist was a bit confused about astronomy because he drew Prodi-earth eclipsing Berlusconi-moon, which does not add up.

the Librarian said...

The cartoonist in Corriere can't actually draw very well; not a patch on Altan.

Still, I should be able to tell one politician from another. I shall get back to my library and read.