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This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact.", "addresses": "obscured as 'user at host'" }, "archive": "whorl", "thread": { "id": 1422, "subject": "Pajaro Cu", "messages": 2, "voices": 2, "first": "2001-05-22T12:30:19+00:00", "last": "2001-05-23T09:53:23+00:00" }, "messages": [ { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Jerry Friedman", "address": "jerry_friedman at yahoo.com" }, "date": "2001-05-22T12:30:19+00:00", "subject": "(whorl) Pajaro Cu", "in_reply_to": null, "reply_link": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "From: William Ansley \nSubject: RE: (whorl) Pajaro Cu and Hyacinthos\nDate: Fri, 18 May 2001 22:07:15 -0400\nMIME-Version: 1.0\nContent-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii;\nformat=flowed\nContent-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT\nReferences:\n<200105182227.f4IMRF836573 at lists1.ba.best.com>\nIn-Reply-To:\n<200105182227.f4IMRF836573 at lists1.ba.best.com>" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 2, "text": "Mr Friedman,\n\nYou wrote," }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 3, "text": " Do people want to see [the Pajaro Cu song]\n with a translation, which will be a good\nexercise\n for me? E-mail me at this address; I'll send\nthe\n lyrics to you personally or to the list," }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 2, "text": "Post it ! Post it !!!!!\n\n--Blattid" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "I enthusiastically second this.\n\n-- \nWilliam Ansley" }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Since you think posting it is a good idea, here it is.\n The delay was for my Spanish tutor (and English\nstudent), Roberto García, to review my translation. \nThanks, Roberto! Any remaining errors, etc.\n\n El Pájaro Cú\n\nEl Pájaro Cú en el monte\nsolito se lamentaba,\nse quejaba a su fortuna,\nde verse sin una pluma\nya ni cantaba.\t\nLa Lechuza en una noche \noyó un triste lamento,\t\ny sentado en un ocote\t\nle dijo a su Tecolote:\n--Reúne las aves del viento.\nEl Tecolote, por viejo,\nobraba con rectidud\ny les pedía una por una\nque le dieran una pluma\nal pobre Pájaro Cú.\nTodas las aves del viento\nentre jardines y flores\nse unieron una por una\nregalándole una pluma\nde diferentes colores.\nDijéronle al Tecolote\nen su preciosa gorjear:\n--Tú vas a ser el fiador,\nno vaya a ser un traidor\ncuando comience a volar.\nLuego que se vio vestido\npara el espacio voló\ny al Tecolote, su amigo,\nlo dejó comprometido\ncon la firma que prestó.\nPor eso los tecolotes\ncantando: ¡Ticú-ticú!\nvolando de rama en rama\nde noche, afligidos llaman\nal pobre Pájaro Cú.\nPor eso los tecolotes\nde día no pueden ver,\npues todas las avecitas\ncon el pico y sus alitas\nse los quisieran comer.\nEl Pájaro Cú voló\npara otras tierras mejores,\nles decía a los pajaritos:\n--De todos mis hermanitos\nme vestí de mil colores.\nToditas las tortolitas\ncantaban con inquietud:\n--Con cuidado, gavilanes,\nvayan formando sus planes,\nque ahí viene el Pájaro Cú.\nYa con ésta me despido\npor las hojas de un pirú\nme deben de dispensar\nque ya les vine a cantar\nversos del Pájaro Cú.\n\n\n The Coo Bird\n\nThe Coo Bird in the forest\nwas lamenting all alone,\ncomplaining about his fortune,\nfrom seeing himself without a feather\nhe wasn't singing any more.\nThe Barn Owl one night\nheard a sad lament,\nand seated on an ocote\nsaid to her Hoot Owl,\n\"Gather the birds of the wind.\"\nThe Hoot Owl, being old,\nworked with rectitude\nand asked them one by one\nto give a feather\nto the poor Coo Bird.\nAll the birds of the wind\namong gardens and flowers\njoined one by one,\neach presenting him with a feather\nof a different color.\nThey said to the Hoot Owl,\nin their beautiful warble,\n\"You're going to be the guarantor\nhe won't be a traitor\nwhen he starts to fly.\"\nAs soon as he saw himself dressed\nhe flew into space\nand the Hoot Owl, his friend,\nhe left committed\nby the signature he'd provided.\nThat's why hoot owls,\nsinging \"Ticú-ticú!\"\nflying from branch to branch\nat night, afflicted, call\nthe poor Coo Bird.\nThat's why hoot owls\ncan't see by day,\nso all the little birds\nwith their beak and winglets\nwant to eat them up.\nThe Coo Bird flew\nto other, better lands;\nhe was saying to the little birds,\n\"From all my little brothers\nI dressed in a thousand colors.\"\nAll the little turtledoves\nwere singing with disquiet,\n\"With caution, hawks,\nbe forming your plans,\nfor there comes the Coo Bird.\"\nNow with this I say good-bye\nby the leaves of a peppertree;\nyou should pardon me\nthat I have come to sing you\nverses of the Coo Bird.\n\nThe \"ocote\" (which is in the _Shorter OED_, so in\nLupine style I shouldn't gloss it) is a Mexican pitch\npine. The \"piru\", much used in Mexican traditional\nmedicine and witchcraft, appears to be _Schinus\nmolle_, also called the California peppertree and many\nother names.\n\nA Google search for \"Pajaro Cu\" turned up many\nrecordings of the song and some versions of the story\nfor sale, but no versions of the story on the Web. \nApparently one version is used in a second-grade\ncurriculum. It has prominent roles for the owl and\nthe roadrunner--the latter could be Wijzer's\n\"snake-eater\", since roadrunners eat snakes. However,\nthe Pajaro Cu in that version needs feathers, not a\npaint job. See\n for more\ninformation." }, { "kind": "sig", "depth": 0, "text": "Jerry Friedman" } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Michael Straight", "address": "straight at email.unc.edu" }, "date": "2001-05-23T09:53:23+00:00", "subject": "Re: (whorl) Pajaro Cu", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "subject", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "This is cool, but I still can't figure out the ending of Wolfe's version\nof the story. It seems to be some sort of joke or clever twist of\nwordplay, but I can't figure out what it means. Anyone?\n\n-Rostrum\n\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun." } ] } ] }