Tuesday, December 09, 2014

 

Pleasures

Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956), "Pleasures," in Poems. Part Three 1938-1956 (London: Methuen, 1976), p. 448 (I don't have the book and don't know who did the translation):
The first look out of the window in the morning
The old book found again
Enthusiastic faces
Snow, the change of the seasons
The newspaper
The dog
Dialectics
Taking showers, swimming
Old music
Comfortable shoes
Taking things in
New music
Writing, planting
Travelling
Singing
Being friendly.
The German ("Vergnügungen"), from his Gesammelte Werke, Bd. 10 (Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp, 1967), p. 1022:
Der erste Blick aus dem Fenster am Morgen
Das wiedergefundene alte Buch
Begeisterte Gesichter
Schnee, der Wechsel der Jahreszeiten
Die Zeitung
Der Hund
Die Dialektik
Duschen, Schwimmen
Alte Musik
Bequeme Schuhe
Begreifen
Neue Musik
Schreiben, Pflanzen
Reisen
Singen
Freundlich sein.
Hat tip: Alan Crease.



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