Wednesday, December 09, 2009

Translator's note...

... Mani Rao, from the Bhagavad Gita. (Link via some lit. list)
and the note in entirety and on fidelity:
Your partner is faithful to you, it is conventional, she is obedient, you can’t complain. Does she love you? What if she had the freedom to betray and nothing to lose?

Your partner is unfaithful. Does she pity you, or think you so stupid you don’t know it? Her attention is elsewhere when you speak. Can you be with someone who is not with you?

Love is problematic when faithless.

Fidelity is a drag when loveless.

Love as translation.
After all these years my love, you dare tell me that you merely did what I said?

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