Like a call summoning an animal spirit:
– I’ve never given happiness a thought. I charge ahead. I troat.
– Do you know that animal?
– Which animal?
– The stag. They say it is often compared to the tree of life and that it symbolizes rebirth.
Nicole Brossard
translated by Susanne de Lotbinière-Harwood
Mauve Desert
And the image of the summoning call surfaces again at the book’s end.
Beauty suddenly, slyly. There is singing between Angela’s lips, there is bawling, troating, chanting. Our hands meet, freeze, brushing skin’s velvet smoothness, clasp each other in the low-throated whisper of words. It is like a great tournament of sound. Then her cheek at last close up.
Troat: to cry in rutting time
– Je n’ai jamais songé au bonheur. Je fonce. Je brame.
– Vous connaissez cet animal?
– Quel animal?
– Le cerf. On dit qu’il est souvent comparé à l’arbre de vie et qu’il symbolise les renaissances.
Brame (in obs. English) means “passion, desire, longing”.
And so for day 3173
19.08.2015