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This is too good not to share. As it turns out I’ve seen almost all of these paintings. More about the title, below.
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Hello, friend. So many boring months Mambo of the oil paint, Mambo of the canvas, Whether I weep, whether I sweat, The painter gave us form, Mambo of the oil paint, Mambo of the canvas, If you grow dizzy, dance. Mambo of the oil paint, It breathes Mambo of the canvas, Thank you, friend. |
Hola, amigo. Tantos meses aburridos Mambo del oreo, Mambo de lienzo, Que si lloro, que si sudo, El pintor nos dio la forma, Mambo del doreo, Mambo el lienzo, Si te baleas, baila. Mambo del odio, De respirar Mambo de lienzo, Gracias, amigo. |
The “Stendahl” thing. What’s up with that? Stendahl (+1842) is best known for his books The Charterhouse of Parma and, especially, The Red and the Black. Every seminarian and every young priest should read The Red and the Black.
I think the video is referring to something Stendahl experienced in Florence in the Church of Santa Croce. He related in a book of travels, a common genre then:
As I emerged from the porch of Santa Croce, I was seized with a fierce palpitation of the heart (that same symptom which, in Berlin, is referred to as an attack of the nerves); the well-spring of life was dried up within me, and I walked in constant fear of falling to the ground.
Every seminarian and every young priest should read this book.
Stendahl was in Rome. The photo at the top shows where he stayed, now the prestigious Hotel della Minerva, recently redone inside… wow. On the street, you can see the inscription:
Black to move and mate in 4.
NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t be “spoilers” for others.
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