Another hot blog and then some

And speaking of "insanely cool blogs" we were pleased to find we had seduced Chekhov's Mistress into a visit.  The weblog, complete with a name almost as cool as ours, covers all things literary and some things musical, most recently, The Strand and its unfortunate similarities to the DMV. It's creator Bud Parr is also responsible for 400 Windmills, a site devoted to the discussion of Don Quixote.  Check 'em both out, but in the meantime, a little Lorca for after lunch, in English and in Spanish:

LAS SEIS CUERDAS

La guitarra

hace llorar a los sueños.

El sollozo de las almas

perdidas

se escapa por su boca

redonda.

Y como la tarántula

teje una gran estrella

para cazar suspiros,

que flotan en su negro

aljibe de madera.

THE SIX STRINGS

The guitar

makes dreams weep.

The sobbing of lost

souls

escapes through it round

mouth.

And like the tarantula

it spins a large star

to trap the sighs

floating in its black,

wooden water tank.

-Frederico García Lorca