Parabolic Ballad

[Otto]

"An einer Parabel entlang fliegt das Geschick des Menschen 
- wie eine Rakete - meist im Dunkeln, 
doch hin und wieder auf einem Regenbogen." 

Andrei Wossnessenski - Parabelballade 
http://www.ottosell.de/pynchon/episode.htm


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jasper Fidget" <jasper at hatguild.org>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 5:25 AM
Subject: Parabolic Ballad


> Just stumbled on this, wondered if anyone had noted it before:
> 
> Along a parabola life like a rocket flies,
> Mainly in darkness, now and then on a rainbow
> 
> Andrei Voznesensky, "Parabolic Ballad" (1963)
> http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/557.html
>