Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: Are houses naked?

Come vi sembra l'inglese di Tiziano Scarpa?
"Are Houses Naked?", by Tiziano Scarpa
In Venice houses are so naked that they show their viscera, tube the
arteries of the aqueducts under the skin and the intestines in the water
drains, but the nervous system of electric wires and telephone cables often
runs on the surface of the skin. In Venice houses have eyelashes and
tentacles, they are filled with ropes and pulleys where linen can be hung.
In Venice the cords for the washed linen graze the plaster under the lids of
the shutters and the windowsills, or they are tied to the opposite side of
the calle, obliquely crossing entire campielli. In Venice, from the window
leave trains of underpants, carovans of sockets, processions vest creaking
on rope trails. In Venice no policeman is going to fine you for hanging your
wet linen out of the window in order to dry it, as happens in any other
city. In Venice clothes don't limit themselves to the exploration of
surfaces and depths, they're not content with line the human skin and
explore the mysterious whirlpool of the washing-machine. In Venice clothes
know how to become flags and stendards, gonfalons and pennants. In Venice
the shy bra is astonishing, for the amount of things one learns by listening
to the beats of girl's heart, buried under stratified sweaters: maybe that's
why it lets itself be blown to the four winds? through it lace riddled with
holes like secrets. In Venice the discrete sheet envelopes highly personal
letters made of embraces: maybe that's why it sometimes loses its mind,
feels pumped up with love and with lust for the infiniteness, and tries to
make the house sail like a sail fixed to the shrouds by pins. In Venice
palaces adobe themselves with the detective's raincoat to cover the planking
from the restoration works. In Venice there's a house where clothes have
grown on the plaster like clinging ivy. In Venice there's a house which has
wound like a reel of thread with the rope full of clothes: it has been a
moment of self-discipline: afraid of getting mad, the house captured itself,
imprisoned in a strait-jacket made up with blouses and T-shirts. In Venice
there's a house where the washing tentacles have surrounded the whole
plaster: it was a moment of tenderness, she felt the need of holding
herself.
--
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In Venice, houses are so naked that they show their viscera. The
arteries of the plumbing and the intestines of the drains lie just under
the skin.  The nervous system of wires and cables often runs on the
surface of the skin. In Venice houses have eyelashes and tentacles, they
are covered with ropes and pulleys where linen can be hung.
Cheers
-- 
John G Davies

 ideas come over quite well, but the phrases are not "English".  
It's not MY English, but Tiziano Scarpa's.
(He is a young Italian writer). Thank you anyway. Bye.


A me suona molto strano, sa di traduzione eccessivamente letterale;
sono sicuro che vi sono modi migliori per esprimere le stesse
cose in inglese.
"Carovan" e "stendard" sul mio vocabolario non esistono, 
"they're not content with line the human skin" non riesco a capire
cosa voglia dire," the discrete sheet " e "palaces adobe themselves " 
mi sembrano traduzioni maccheroniche belle e buone. Insomma e'
un inglese molto brutto.
La generalizzazione che la polizia multi chi stende i panni ad asciugare 
in tutte le citta' tranne Venezia la trovo decisamente eccessiva.
+--
I know you can't speak, I know you can't sign
So cry right here on the dotted line

 inglese molto brutto.
Se a qualcuno interessa, qui c'è la versione in italiano:
 
http://www.ljudmila.org/scca/mav/i/07.htm
La versione in inglese (
http://www.ljudmila.org/scca/mav/e/07.htm
), per
altro, non è nemmeno completa, giacchè mancano alcuni capoversi. Non ho
trovato, inoltre, alcuna indicazione che confermi che la traduzione sia
stata effettivametne realizzata dallo stesso autore. Lucio, sei sicuro si
tratti dell'inglese di Scarpa, e non quello di un improvvisato traduttore?
Max


si' avevo immaginato che intendesse dire quelle cose, ma non
sono riuscito a trovare il verbo 'to adobe' da nessuna parte e quel 
"discrete" dovrebbe essere discreet. Discrete e adobe (come nome)
hanno dei  significati che non c'entrano nulla in questo contesto.
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 Max
--
Anna L.C. Mayer
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"To do is to be." - Descartes.
"To be is to do." - Sartre.
"To be do be do." - Sinatra.

 Conosco due degli autori
Due di quali autori, scusa? Qui si è parlato sempre e soltanto di Tiziano
Scarpa (anche se ancora gira la voce che Tiziano Scarpa e Antonio Moresco
siano la stessa persona:-) )

 Scarpa
Suppongo Anna si riferisca agli autori dei testi raccolti qui:
 
http://www.ljudmila.org/scca/mav/index_i.html
Max

"Max M." wrote:
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yep.
Era per togliere un po' di protagonismo a Tiziano :-)
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