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September 22, 2002

L'amour à la robote

Posted by bopuc at September 22, 2002 10:02 PM

Un homme écrit à la machine une lettre d'amour et la 
	machine répond à l'homme et à la main et à la place
	de la destinataire

Elle est tellement perfectionnée la machine
la machine à laver les chèques et les lettres d'amour

Et l'homme confortablement installé dans sa machine à
habiter lit à la machine à lire la réponse de la machine
à écrire

Et dans sa machine à rêver avec sa machine à calculer
il achète une machine à faire l'amour

Et dans sa machine à réaliser les rêves il fait l'amour
à la machine à écrire à la machine à faire l'amour

Et la machine le trompe avec un machin
un machin à mourir de rire.

-Jacques Prévert (1955)

Comments

Prévert is my favourit poet! My personal fav. is the one with the kid daydreaming, in class...they're doing math tables, and slowly everything dissolves away for him? My copy of Paroles is at home, but it's in there...
Sums up everything excellent about being a dreamer, couched in a nice critique of rote-based learning. Mmm...now I want to go home and curl up with that book again for a whle.

Posted by: Stv. at October 3, 2002 01:53 PM

Hehehe. I can't remember how I came across that poem, but it just struck me at the time. (I first put it on a website of mine back in 1996: http://www.levendis.com/banter/banth.html , along with a really bad translation attempt.

Having come across it recently again, I realised how relevantly it can be interpreted as being today... and in my life. This, after the collapse of a relationship in part due to Instant Messaging...

Sigh...

Posted by: Boris Anthony at October 3, 2002 02:42 PM