19.2.13

swimming into the winter {2}

Πουθενά αλλού δεν ένιωσα τη ζωή μου τόσο δικαιωμένη όσο

πάνω στη γέφυρα ενός πλοίου. Στη θέση τους τη σωστή,

τα πάντα: οι βίδες, οι λαμαρίνες, οι σωλήνες, τα συρματόσχοινα,

οι αεραγωγοί, τα όργανα πλεύσεως· και ο ίδιος εγώ που εγγράφω

την αέναη μεταβολή παραμένοντας στο ίδιο σημείο.

Ένας πλήρης, αυτάρκης και συγκροτημένος κόσμος που μου

ανταποκρίνεται και του ανταποκρίνομαι και εισχωρούμε μαζί

σαν ένα σώμα στον κίνδυνο και στο θαύμα.

Πλοίο διαρκείας η χώρα μου.

Ο Μικρός Ναυτίλος.
Οδυσσέας Ελύτης.

Nowhere did I feel my life so justified as on a ship's bridge.
Everything in its proper place: sheet-metal, pipes, screws,
cables, flotation devices, airshafts; and I myself inscribing the
constant transformation by remaining fixed. A full, self-sufficient
and organized world that responds to me, and I do it,
and together we penetrate miracle and danger as one body.

Enduring ship, my land.

The Little Mariner.
Odysseas Elytis.

the man on the last picture, is the most "dramatic" figure I've seen in ages.. I can't find any other words to describe him. I was kind of hesitant about sharing this picture, in public, but I couldn't resist.
I recognized the "hero" of the poem in his face.

Beasts of the Southern wild, a great movie taking place somewhere where the water is feared..
and as Hushpuppy, the 6 yo heroine of the movie, says:

"Daddy always saying, that up in the
dry world, they got none of what we
got."

"They only got holidays once a year."

"They got fish stuck in plastic
wrappers, they got their babies
stuck in carriages, and chickens on
sticks and all that kind of stuff."

"One day, the storm’s gonna blow,
the ground’s gonna sink, and the
water’s gonna rise up so high,
there ain’t gonna be no Bathtub,
just a whole bunch of water."

"But me and my Daddy, we stay right
here.  We who the earth is for."

Natasa, on the last picture, with that shiny beautiful eyes, on the way back to the port of Lavrio..

Have a nice day!
S.

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