marcin
(Marcin)
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The great event is the hen clucking. It is not
a mystery for anyone that down here a
religion was born from the silence and from
an egg science. It is not surprising that
Pythagoras was able to discover the laws of
music and the cruel Zeno made men
suspicious of the play of the senses. [...] I
present to you a variety of indigenous
verses. Many of these songs are familiar to
my ears. Some are shouted, some are
accompanied by the wail of the bagpipe or
the cupo-cupo, others still are whispered
sottovoce like prayers. The words I have
transcribed into my language are rustic
words, they are common words. They have
not been dressed with lime by the Academy,
they have not been milked and then boiled.
Our indigenous poetry has a simple,
straightforward structure. It is a comment, a
summing-up. It is never empty talk. [...] I
