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Bob All-Star Supporter
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Posted - Aug 9 2006 : 2:10PM
Last night I watched a great Dana Vespoli scene in Motorcross DP from 1st Strike.

Dana has some very involved tattoos on her right arm -- one appears to be a sentence or two in English script, others appear to be Chinese or Japanese characters (forgive my ignorance in being unable to distinguish between them!)

Does anyone know what these symbolic and prose tattoos literally mean?


(As an aside, Dana's voice alone could melt the polar ice caps!)

Edited by - bob on Aug 9 2006


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Harri Patel
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Posted - Aug 9 2006 : 2:31PM
Some of it is Rilke.

All of it is not an improvement on the blank "canvas."

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pinc_noiz
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Posted - Aug 9 2006 : 3:50PM
I really like her canvas, especially now, when there's not to much of it. Her tats are a bonus: very classy IMO. And a very sexual lady too !!

p_n

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Bob All-Star Supporter
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Posted - Aug 9 2006 : 7:15PM
Harri Patel wrote:
Do you know specifically which passage(s) of Rilke?
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melissalauren
Melissa Lauren

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Posted - Aug 9 2006 : 9:09PM
I just asked Dana... she says it s the last part of "only in the realm of praising"
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bauer024
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Posted - Aug 9 2006 : 10:09PM
Bob is it new ink work or is this stuff she has had

Dan

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francios
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Posted - Aug 9 2006 : 11:30PM
It is fairly new ink. I haven't seen a shot of it that you could make it all out. Been curious about what it does say
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Harri Patel
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Posted - Aug 9 2006 : 11:31PM
Yeah. That's what I was going to say.

OK, OK, I wouldn't know Rilke from the operating instructions for a John Deere riding mower. I just heard her say in a movie that it was Rilke. At least I recognized the name "Rilke." That's worth something, right? Right?

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Bob All-Star Supporter
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Posted - Aug 10 2006 : 1:22AM
melissalauren wrote:
Thanks, Melissa!
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Bob All-Star Supporter
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Posted - Aug 10 2006 : 3:12AM
Okay . . . so Dana's tattoo excerpts Part I, Sonnet 8, of Rainer Maria Rilke's The Sonnets to Orpheus.

Is the excerpt from the original German or from an English translation? If it's from a translation, which one?

Apparently, there are several English translations of The Sonnets. The translations that I've been able to Google-up tonight (all the wrong ones if Dana's tattoo is a translation) don't render the German into the English as "only in the realm of praising."

The translations of the first line of that sonnet I've read tonight use these locutions instead:


Lament, sprite of the pool of tears, may only on paths of glory walk.

(trans. Robert Hunter)


Only in praise-space may Lament pass freely.

(trans. Howard Landman)


Only in the fields of Praise may Complaint go.

(trans. Cliff Crego)


Of those translations, I like the one by Robert Hunter (of Grateful Dead fame, appropriately) best:


Part One, VIII

Lament, sprite of the pool of tears,
may only on paths of glory walk.
Keenly upon our tumult she peers
and marks they splash clear on the selfsame rock

where the arch and tabernacle rise. --
Above her still shoulders intuition glisters:
a sense that she, the one who cries,
is youngest of the heart's three sisters.

Joy has certainty; Longing: her confessions.
Lament alone still learns. Through night's successions,
she tallies, with girlish hands, our ancient vices.

Suddenly, hesitant and awkward,
she chooses a constellation among our voices
and flings it, free of sorrow, heavenward.


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How cool is Dana!!!!!!!!!


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