“Well” or “Put the cup here and push the button”?
No news this week… same old same old. Well, the crocuses came up today (all at once, practically), so that was nice. This means spring is coming.
Is anyone reading this from the southern hemisphere? There’s a Brazilian song, “Aguas de Março” (“Waters of March”), which is about the end of summer. I don’t know why but I have trouble wrapping my brain around that.
Oh the travails of a linguist! Hearing all meanings at once would be, I imagine, kind of like being God and seeing all time at once. I love it!
Haha, I love nerd humor.
You still wonder about that song? I have been living in the north of Brazil for some time and there March is the end of the dry season and the beginning of rainy season, which marks “winter” for the Brazilians. Therefore a song called Aguas de Março can be about the end of summer.
No, actually I do understand that: March marks the end of summer, and it comes in the form of rain (“são as aguas de março fechando verão”). It’s a beautiful image in the song, and it should be very evocative, but here in the northern hemisphere March is very evocative as the very beginning of Spring, so I just think that while I understand the song (intellectually), I’m not really getting it, because the seasons are different. “São as aguas de março fechando verão / e a promessa de vida no teu coração”: “It’s the waters of March closing summer, and the promise of love in your heart.”
Man I do love that song.
I have a confession: when I post my comic, it’s usually at the end of the day and I’m very tired… the blog posts that accompany them are not always as coherent as I’d like them to be. Or at least, they tend to be a little shorter than might be ideal to explain what I’m trying to say. (Reason: I want to stop typing and go to sleep.)
Thanks for reading!
Did you know Basia does a cover of the song? Basia!
Basia! Well that’s not too surprising, I guess.