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chaniAnd another poet, a French one and who didn't sing, wrote : La terre est bleue comme une orange
La terre est bleue comme une orange
Jamais une erreur les mots ne mentent pas
Ils ne vous donnent plus à chanter
Au tour des baisers de s’entendre
Les fous et les amours
Elle sa bouche d’alliance
Tous les secrets tous les sourires
Et quels vêtements d’indulgence
À la croire toute nue.
Les guêpes fleurissent vert
L’aube se passe autour du cou
Un collier de fenêtres
Des ailes couvrent les feuilles
Tu as toutes les joies solaires
Tout le soleil sur la terre
Sur les chemins de ta beauté.
Paul ELUARD, L'Amour la poésie (1929)
I took a pill, had a nap and then I watched Lost episode 5. A very good episode!
I may be even more sick than I thought but the episode called Eluard's poem to my mind and I think the writers might have read it too. So now Lost
The orange thing in the Korean flashbacks caught my attention immediately because orange was an important colour from the beginning (I recall that shot of Locke smiling with an orange peel in his mouth!). Besides the "tailies" kept looking for fruits...an the orange was the Christmas fruit, the gift fruit.
La terre est bleue comme un orange...
In his poem, Eluard thought of Gala, his beloved wife. The couple was going through troubles, and Gala had already meant to leave Eluard for Dali. The poem is a complex metaphor that seems absurd but is not. Gala was the Earth because of her name of course but also HIS earth, his anchor. The Earth is called the blue planet of course because of the oceans, but under the sunlight that illuminates it, it becomes orange. That's what Eluard meant. And Gala had blue eyes and was fair-haired (Eluard said "une chevelure d'oranges" in another poem). That poem was a love song about how their young love used to be.
It suits the episode!
In Lost, Jin, the fisherman's son, the son of ocean, was supposed to find an orange love....and her name of course had to be Sun! It makes sense in a Ying/Yang kind of way since fire and water are complementary, like air/earth (it isn't surprising that Sun found her wedding ring in the soil eventually and that Eko asked if she was on the plane with Jin...therefore in the air) and that idea of the 4 elements harmony is on the Korean flag btw.
That couple has always been my favourite in the series and as individuals Jin and Sun were on the top of my list too. They are still. Jin was very heroic during the episode and Sun was extremely touching.
I liked Eko too. It's nice to see former Adibisi playing a good guy. Hurley's manichaean idea of geolopolitics made me laugh (good Korea, bad Korea!).
And Locke is still my favourite, always the gentleman, old-fashioned man, of course handing a hankerchief to a crying woman. Locke who says he isn't lost anymore.
ETA: I don't know why I wrote the lefties while I thought the tailies for those who were in the back on the plane...I blame the flu!
