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we had our first little fire last night,
after getting home from seeing this movie.

:: on the woman with 5 elephants ::

it was the best movie, beautiful.
i was in heaven.
the movie is about translator Svetlana Geier.

She translates Dostoyevsky from Russian to German:

"My teacher always said:
‘Nose up in the air when you translate.’
That is to say, one doesn’t translate from left to right,
following the text,
but only after one has made the sentence one’s own.
It first has to be internalised, taken to heart.
I read a book so often that my eyes ’gouge holes’ in pages. I basically know it by heart.
Then the day comes when I suddenly hear the melody of the text."

source

it was entrancing to hear her thoughts on words and the world.
what a treat to listen to someone with such insight and eloquence,
who views language, words, and the beauty and sorrow of life
with reverence and wonder.
a deeply human film.

sometimes, the depth of the ideas or the slow-paced musings
required a little break for the viewer, i think.
this is where the house comes in.
the interior of her house was beautifully shot.
a crammed kitchen full of food, family and life;
embroidered linens lovingly folded;
endless cups of teas being poured into blue and white china;
pencils being sharpened and typewriter clacking
in the morning light.
the pacing of the filming of her working day was superb.

for the love of words,
see this film if you can.




:: now, back to our first fire ::

it was very nice:)
and required a breaking out of wine.
we sanded and varnished those floorboards ourselves.
all 100+ sq metres of them.

the last picture is of stash (light grey and white)
and kitly (tall and with bung eye, he got hit by a car)
in the kitchen.
there is one more cat, linen press.
he was watching them close by.
it's an uneasy truce,
but sometimes they play together.

still a lot of work to do in the kitchen
to make it nice and cosy.
stay tuned?

we were burning the scraps of floorboards that had to be replaced. next time non-varnished wood is best perhaps:)

above two are stills from the woman with 5 elephants