{"id":2915,"date":"2016-10-14T09:15:21","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T07:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/?p=2915"},"modified":"2016-10-14T09:24:42","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T07:24:42","slug":"the-violin-of-the-bushman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/the-violin-of-the-bushman\/","title":{"rendered":"The Violin of the Bushman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2914\" src=\"http:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Foto-ITHACA-452-DE-VIOOL-VAN-DE-BOSJESMAN.jpg\" alt=\"foto-ithaca-452-de-viool-van-de-bosjesman\" width=\"255\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Foto-ITHACA-452-DE-VIOOL-VAN-DE-BOSJESMAN.jpg 255w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Foto-ITHACA-452-DE-VIOOL-VAN-DE-BOSJESMAN-200x151.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000080; font-size: 18pt;\"><strong>The Violin of the Bushman<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000080; font-size: 14pt;\">Weak<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080; font-size: 14pt;\"> is\u00a0resonance of the sound<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080; font-size: 14pt;\"> a one stringed bent stick<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080; font-size: 14pt;\"> on an empty<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080; font-size: 14pt;\"> ostrich egg.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080; font-size: 14pt;\"> Not an instrument\u00a0for greater glory<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080; font-size: 14pt;\"> of whoever. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080; font-size: 14pt;\"> Nobody else\u00a0hears<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080; font-size: 14pt;\"> what the bushman\u00a0fiddles<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080; font-size: 14pt;\"> in the steppe\u00a0wind\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080; font-size: 14pt;\"> a pair of\u00a0bow strokes long<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080; font-size: 14pt;\"> to his own astonishment<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080; font-size: 14pt;\"> hearing himself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000080; font-size: 14pt;\">Frail<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080; font-size: 14pt;\"> is\u00a0the resonance of the sound<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080; font-size: 14pt;\"> a one-stringed bent stick<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080; font-size: 14pt;\"> on an empty<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080; font-size: 14pt;\"> ostrich egg.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080; font-size: 14pt;\"> Not an instrument\u00a0for greater glory<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080; font-size: 14pt;\"> of whomever. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080; font-size: 14pt;\"> Nobody else\u00a0hears<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080; font-size: 14pt;\"> what the bushman\u00a0fiddles<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080; font-size: 14pt;\"> in the outback\u00a0wind\u2014\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080; font-size: 14pt;\"> a pair of\u00a0long bow strokes\u2014 <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080; font-size: 14pt;\"> to his own astonishment,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000080; font-size: 14pt;\">hearing himself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000080; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">Rainer Malkowski<\/span> (Germany 1932-2003)<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080; font-size: 14pt;\"> <em>Translation: Germain Droogenbroodt &#8211; Stanley H. Barkan<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000080; font-size: 14pt;\">***<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000080; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong><em>Die Buschmanngeige<\/em><\/strong><em>\/\/Schwach\/ist der Resonanzk\u00f6rper\/auf den einsaitigen Krummstock\/ein leeres\/Strau\u00dfenei.\/Also kein Instrument f\u00fcr den Beifall.\/Vielleicht kein Instrument\/f\u00fcr h\u00f6heren Ruhm\/von irgendwem.\/Niemand sonst h\u00f6rt\/was der Buschmann geigt\/im Steppenwind -\/ein Paar Bogenz\u00fcge lang\/sich selbst\/zum Erstaunen\/vernehmlich<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Violin of the Bushman Weak is\u00a0resonance of the sound a one stringed bent stick on an empty ostrich egg.\u00a0 Not an instrument\u00a0for greater glory of whoever. Nobody else\u00a0hears what the bushman\u00a0fiddles in the steppe\u00a0wind\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0 a pair of\u00a0bow strokes long to his own astonishment hearing himself. Frail is\u00a0the resonance of the sound a one-stringed bent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2915"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}