> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Igor Roshchin > Bob W wrote: > > > > From: pdml-bounces at pdml.net [mailto:pdml-bounces at pdml.net] On > > > Behalf Of Mark Roberts > > > > > > They're installing a security patch on a cloud instance? That > sounds > > > like a crime against nature or something... > > > > > > > It's probably a cloud in trousers. > > > > B > > Bob, > At first, I was puzzled by this reference. > Russian poet from early 1900s, Vladimir Mayakovsky had a poem with the > title "Clouid in trousers". It was very famous in Russia (it was > studied in the middle-school literature classes). > However, I didn't expect it to be known in the US. > > Then, I found that that poem had been translated into English: > http://www.unlikelystories.org/old/archives/cloudintrousers.html > After just a bit more of searching, I found that there was a play > written by American writer Steve Trafford about V. Mayakovsky: > http://www.amazon.com/Cloud-Trousers-Oberon-Modern-Plays/dp/1840025069/ > > Then, I found that there are a few other things have the same title, > e.g. this musical album: > http://www.amazon.com/Cloud-Trousers-The-Thin-Man/dp/B00005LB8T/ > > But, I suspect that you reference might have been related to a > photography book by Christopher Doyle: > http://www.amazon.com/Cloud-Trousers-Christopher-Doyle/dp/1889195332/ > > Is this right? > > Igor >
I know it from the Mayakovsky poem. When I was in my 20s and early 30s my girlfriend was a half-Russian woman who studied Russian language & literature at university. She is a big fan of Mayakovsky, so I became moderately familiar with some of his work, mainly his graphics, but also some of his poetry. We had a recording of him reading Pasluschetye (? - "Listen!"). We saw a play called Futurists about Mayakovsky sometime in the mid-80s, with Daniel Day-Lewis playing Mayakovsky. Day-Lewis was relatively unknown at the time. I knew someone on the list would recognise the reference :o) B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
