Dingo the Dissident

THE BLOG OF DISQUIET : Qweir Notions, an uncommonplace-book from the Armpit of Diogenes, binge-thinker jottings since 2008 .

Sunday 16 December 2012

The Water and Babel

In 1962
I understood a French film
only by reading the Danish subtitles.
In 2012
I understood a Danish film
only by reading the French subtitles.

The misty difference between
the two long-separated, but related acts
was caused by senile cataracts.


A week later I relied to some extent on French subtitles while watching an American thriller.
I have hearing-loss as well!

 

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