Thursday 8 October 2015

Grothendieck in Ghalib 82



Tho' this plaint but ricks famine's sheaves above Aegypt's flooding woe
& only Echo grieves Yusuf's fetters the heart treasures to yet know
Ghalib's mirror-house black-holed by the Tyrant's lustration
Betters Her Metrical infold of Geometrical frustration




Vide Pritchett's 'Desertful of roses'.
bah nālah ḥāṣil-e dil-bastagī farāham kar
matāʿ-e ḳhānah-e zanjīr juz ṣadā maʿlūm

1) with/through lamentation/wailing, gather together the harvest/outcome of heart-binding
2) the property/wealth of a house of chains, except for sound/cry is-- 'known' [to be nothing]

bah qadr-e ḥauslah-e ʿishq jalvah-rezī hai
vagarnah ḳhānah-e āʾīnah kī faẓā maʿlūm

1) according to the capacity/spirit of passion is the {glory/appearance}-scattering
2) otherwise, the width/expanse of the mirror-house {is / would have been}-- 'known' [to be nothing]

asad fareftah-e intiḳhāb-e t̤arz-e jafā
vagarnah dil-barī-e vaʿdah-e vafā maʿlūm

1) Asad is beguiled/seduced by the choice/selection of the style/manner of cruelty/oppression
2) otherwise, the heart-stealingness of the promise/vow of faithfulness {is / would be}-- 'known' [to be nothing]

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Topological frustration might be relevant but this makes no sense

windwheel said...

you mean like in protein folding?

windwheel said...

You are right. I've changed it. Thanks.

Anonymous said...

Difficult to understand.