> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Steven Desjardins > > Light-hearted little ditty, isn't it? Reminds me of Ogden Nash ;-) Of > course, now I have to really look at it hard. Another learning > experience form the PDML. >
Bertie Wooster is a treasure trove of delightful comments about gloomy Russian novelists. B > On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 3:04 AM, Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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/184002506 > >> 9/ > >> > >> 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. > > > > -- > Steve Desjardins > > -- > 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. -- 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.
