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Museum as Muse: Danaid
DANAID
The essence of white stirred between two lines, the wound opened out of the present and the sheet of faces was there, it was the precise line and that struck it was there, all the light was sealed inside the body, all the force of time lost.
L'essenza del bianco si muoveva tra due linee, la ferita usciva dal presente e il lenzuolo dei volti era lì, era la linea essatta e qualla colpita, era lì, tutta la luce era rinchiusa nel corpo, tutta la forza dell'ora persa.
Translated from the Italian by Lawrence Venuti
The essence of white stirred between two lines, the wound opened out of the present and the sheet of faces was there, it was the precise line and that struck it was there, all the light was sealed inside the body, all the force of time lost.
L'essenza del bianco si muoveva tra due linee, la ferita usciva dal presente e il lenzuolo dei volti era lì, era la linea essatta e qualla colpita, era lì, tutta la luce era rinchiusa nel corpo, tutta la forza dell'ora persa.
Translated from the Italian by Lawrence Venuti
