Watching #Visconti 1957 film #LeNottiBianche (#WhiteNights) based on #Dostoevsky story & during a great dance scene there’s a swinging 1948 rock ‘n’ roll song by #BillHaley & The Comets - #ThirteenWomen - that starts out:
Last night I was dreaming’
Dreamed about the H-bomb
Well, the bomb-a went off
And I was caught
I was the only man underground
[Chorus]
There was-a thirteen women
And only one man in town…
Hmm. Rocking to the fantasy of being a kept man after an #H-Bomb explodes…
Here's the opening sentence of #WhiteNights by #Dostoevsky, translated to Ru̇u̇ťalis as I promised!
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Ze ne Nahť ďeehlis, ne Nahť szvaalik vo, vėn vir hunlis, maaglis eenťlis, o Loker lu̇u̇flis.
DUMP ART.M.INDEF night-ABS delightful-ABS , ART.M.INDEF night-ABS such REL , when 1P young-ABS , possible only , VOC reader lovely .
It was a wonderful night, such a night as is only possible when we are young, dear reader.
I wanted to begin working on a new translation project for the Ru̇u̇ťalis language, so after much deliberation, I chose to translate one of my favourite stories: White Nights by Fyodor #Dostoevsky.
I'll post excerpts regularly (check #lang_ruut and #ruutalis), and the whole thing when I'm done!
#ruutalis #WhiteNights #Literature #conlang #conlanging #conlangs
"Separate Lives" is a 1985 song recorded by #PhilCollins and #MarilynMartin and featured on the #soundtrack to the motion picture #WhiteNights. It reached No. 1 on the US #Billboard Hot 100 and #AdultContemporary charts as well as in Canada and Ireland. It reached No. 4 on the #UKSinglesChart, and was certified silver by the #BritishPhonographicIndustry. Songwriter #StephenBishop recorded his own version for his album Sleeping with Girls for Polydor Records.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmMinSOWKQk
St. Petersburg’un Beyaz Geceleri
#StPetersburg, #BeyazGeceler, #WhiteNights, #Rusya, #NevaNehri, #Turizm, #Festival, #Hermitage, #Peterhof, #KültürelDeneyim
Ah, the grim cold north, where it's dark all the time, right? Right? Nope! The higher the latitude, the brighter the summers, until you cross the threshold where the clock strikes midnight and *this* is what you see. My July capture from Finland: "Last of the White Nights".
#art #photography #sunset #cityscape #city #summer #whitenights #sky #skyscape #clouds #cloudscape
#whitenights in the sub-arctic
length of day: sunrise 18.6. 2:22
sunset 19.6. 0:23
and the light never goes, just a dim
"Separate Lives" is a 1985 song recorded by #PhilCollins and #MarilynMartin and featured on the #soundtrack to the motion picture #WhiteNights. It reached No. 1 on the US #Billboard Hot 100 and #AdultContemporary charts as well as in Canada and Ireland. It reached No. 4 on the #UKSinglesChart, and was certified silver by the #BritishPhonographicIndustry. Songwriter #StephenBishop recorded his own version for his album Sleeping with Girls for Polydor Records.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmMinSOWKQk
Drama Recs Challenge Day 15
Another swerve from my bsky pick here. This is a #KDrama I *NEARLY* used there, but the character limit too short there. This was not marketed or promoted as gay/GL, since the 2 FLs were mentor/mentee & Regent/rival really. BUT their chem was (imo) HOT, to the extent that the ML, the nominal 'love interest' felt like nothing so much as an intrusive 3rd wheel. I had little interest in him and resented his taking screen time from the pair that mattered😀 #WhiteNights
