Dragões São Deveras Raros
Postado por Enrique em 22 de março de 2009(O Neil Gaiman usa uma frase desse poema pra abrir o Smoke & Mirrors (“But where there’s a monster there’s a miracle”), e eu lembro do meu desespero tentando achar esse poema em algum lugar da internet. Um belo dia eu achei…em um blog alemão,que provavelmente já acabou. Enfim, pensando nos futuros nerds que também procurarão por esse poema, guardadeiro-o aqui e deixarei o Google encarregado de distribuí-lo. Aliás, isso é um poema ou uma poesia? Qual a diferença? Enfim, fiquem com o texto, futuros nerdzinhos)
DRAGONS ARE TOO SELDOM – por Ogden Nash
To actually seen an actual marine monster
Is one of the things that do before I die I wonster.
Should you ask me if I desire to meet the bashful inhabitant of Loch Ness.
I could only say yes.
Often my eye with moisture dims
When I think that it has never been my good fortune to gaze on one of Nature’s whims.
Far from ever having seen a Gorgon
I haven’t even seen the midget that sat in it I have never even seen Mr. Morgan’s lap.
Indeed I never much thought about Mr. Morgan’s having a lap because just the way you go into churches and notice the stained glass more than the apses
When you think about multi-millionaires you don’t think about their laps as much as their lapses;
But it seems that they do have laps which is one human touch that brings them a little closer to me and you,
And maybe they even go so far as to sometimes have hiccups too.
But regular monsters like sea serpents don’t have laps or hiccups or any other characteristic that is human
And I would rather see a second-rate monster such as a mermaid than a first-rate genius such as John Bunyan or Schiaparelli or Schubert or Schumann;
Yes, I would rather see one of the sirens
Than two Lord Byrons,
And if I knew that when I got there I could see Cyclops or Scylla and Charybdis or Pegasus
I would willingly walk on my hands from here to Dallas, Tegasus,
Because I don’t mean to be satirical,
But where there’s a monster there’s a miracle,
And after a thorough study of current affairs, I have concluded with regret
That the world can profitably use all the miracles it can get,
And I think life would be a lot less demoralizing
If instead of sitting around in front of the radio listening to torture singers sing torture songs we sat around listening to the Lorelei loreleising.
Quote seu: “(O Neil Gaiman usa uma frase desse poema pra abrir o Smoke & Mirrors (”But where there’s a monster there’s a miracle”), e eu lembro do meu desespero tentando achar esse poema em algum lugar da internet. Um belo dia eu achei…em um blog brasileiro, de um cara que mora na mema cidade que eu. Enfim, pensando nos futuros nerds que também procurarão por esse poema, guardadeiro-o aqui e deixarei o Google encarregado de distribuí-lo.”
Irei traduzi-lo assim que tiver tempo.
P.S.: isto é um poema. Poema é o que está escrito. Poesia se refere a um livro onde os poemas são publicados.
Boa vida pra você e obrigado por publicá-lo aqui!
Talvez eu comece o blog que eu planejo fazer a séculos com esta tradução (é claro que dando a você os devidos creditos).