a schiovere
Noon15 maggio 2022 – 08:33
the kiss, the apex of the love affair
from Erri De Luca
‘Or vase the kiss. Io te vurria vasa ‘the desire to kiss, not to decant. So how does the Neapolitan replace the word vase? He calls it head: nu carnation falls into a head.
And head, then how do you replace it? The word: capa, end of meaning rebounds.
One of my favorite lines by Ernesto Murolo:
And fuie accuss arraggiuso ‘o primmo vaso (and the first kiss was so angry) / ca mmocca mo’ ca n’ato se marries her (that in the mouth, now that another marries her) / na guccetella ‘e sanghe nc’ rummasa (a drop of blood is left).
The kiss for me is the summit of the amorous understanding. In the kiss the very different bodies of woman and man coincide and come to exchange the same physical experience.
A distant proverb recommends it as a contraceptive: Pizzechi and vase nun fare pertose.
15 maggio 2022 | 08:33
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