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The Door into Summer

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They threw stones at me
On the playground
I escaped barely alive,
I was hiding in another disctrict,
But dogs picked up my scent,
and now they're biting my heels
I grew tired of counting
How many days the chase lasted
 
I was scratching the doors
Looking for the Door into Summer
Where the cats according to Heinlein
Feel at home.
But they found me even there,
They shouted and went on chasing,
The parallel world
turned out painfully familiar.
 
I don't know why they get so enraged at me:
I never messed with anyone,
All my live I've been repairing my primus,1
I didn't take their toys,
I didn't steal their bones,
I didn't cross their way
And didn't aim at their backs.
 
Gosh, I don't even know
what's there, behind the Door into Summer,
Maybe this is a bad joke,
Kinda "Tom and Jerry",
Maybe there is a dead end there
And there's no sense to look for it,
But the cats must, Dog damned,
believe in something!
 
And I dream about Summer
Under the sad autumn rain
Hiding my lively tail
behind the trashbin
For any fool knows -
A cat needs a home,
At least a corner,
Just a shelter,
From evil kids and dogs.
 
  • 1. A reference to Bulgakov's "Master and Margarita". Idiomatic meaning is "I was engaged in my own affairs"
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Sophia_Sophia_
   Mer, 23/05/2018 - 15:55

Thank you for translation.
Tiny remarks:
-Никому не мешал -->I never hurt anybody,
To me "hurt' sounds a little bit too much. How about "disturb" ?

-You should use either "must" (without "to") or "have to".

St. SolSt. Sol    Mer, 23/05/2018 - 15:28

Никому не мешал = I never messed with anyone.

Alexander LaskavtsevAlexander Laskavtsev
   Gio, 24/05/2018 - 06:12

Thanks a lot. I didn't know that phrase, so I used something, that is close to that... ^)

Sophia_Sophia_
   Mer, 23/05/2018 - 15:56

I like "Dog damned" too! :)
In English it sounds even better than in Russian :)

Sophia_Sophia_
   Mer, 23/05/2018 - 16:02

By the way, I've never heard the word "задрочка" before and I have no idea what does that mean :(

Sophia_Sophia_
   Mer, 23/05/2018 - 16:34

Now I found it in the dictionary
https://argo.academic.ru/1748/%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%87%D0%BA...

Quote:

1. Очень неприятная нудная мелочь, сильно портящая всё или отравляющая жизнь, очень надоедающая и плохо поддающаяся исправлению.
2. Долгая постоянная тренировка или обучение чему-то путём многократного повторения одного или нескольких действий и доведение навыка до автоматизма. Или постоянное выполнение аналогичных действий. Заучивание. «Задрачивание». Действие, которым всю жизнь занимаются задроты.

1. Вот из-за этой задрочки у меня машина ни х#$ не заводится!
2. Я уже третий месяц ассемблер задрачиваю. Молодежный сленг

Олег Л.Олег Л.    Mer, 23/05/2018 - 16:16

Задрочка - многократное повторение одного или нескольких действий.

Alexander LaskavtsevAlexander Laskavtsev
   Gio, 24/05/2018 - 06:15

I understand this (according to my experience of using russian slang) as "trying to make someone annoyed" or something like that. So the "trolling" seems like fits here well (IMHO) So, that is really "a joke", but a very unpleasant joke to its object :)

GavinGavin
   Mer, 23/05/2018 - 15:53

Yes, I would either say "and now they're biting my heels" as you suggest. Or just say "...and bit my heels" keeping it in the past.

similarly:
I've got tired to count/ How many days the chase lasts = > I grew tired of counting / How many days the chase lasted

But they were finding me even there => But they found me even there

I agree with the other suggestions too :)

GavinGavin
   Gio, 24/05/2018 - 07:23

Out of interest do we know what this "Door into Summer" is? And the Heinlein reference - is that the sci-fi author?
Feel I'm missing something here :)

Sophia_Sophia_
   Gio, 24/05/2018 - 07:40

Door into Summer is a sience fiction story, written by Hainlein

Sophia_Sophia_
   Gio, 24/05/2018 - 07:47
Quote:

Dan's only friend in the world is his cat, "Pete", a feisty tomcat who hates going outdoors in the snow.

Quote:

Дэвис всюду носит Пита в сумке, поит его имбирным пивом и кормит едой из ресторана.

GavinGavin
   Gio, 24/05/2018 - 08:28

It appears that the ones I mainly read are now categorised as his 'juveniles' - Have spacesuit - will travel, Starman Jones, Time for the Stars... But I remember reading 'Job' when it first came out, that was an odd one!

GavinGavin
   Gio, 24/05/2018 - 08:05

Ah thanks both - I read a lot of Heinlein as a kid but I missed this one. I guess some judicious googling would have found that out but for some reason I thought I was probably barking up the wrong tree! :)
Agreed, when I first read it it seemed like wholesome "boys' own adventure" type stuff but some of it is borderline fascist on re-reading. As brilliantly sent up in Paul Verhoeven's movie of Starship Troopers. And then some of it is weirdly trippy fantasy stuff (I remember Glory Road as particularly mental)!

Alexander LaskavtsevAlexander Laskavtsev
   Gio, 24/05/2018 - 08:19

Thank you all for your help. Quite often my English translations have lack of attention of natives, so I always glad to read your suggestions. :)

GavinGavin
   Gio, 24/05/2018 - 09:11

Out of interest did any of you ever read the Dragonfall 5 series of books? I loved these as a child. :)

GavinGavin
   Gio, 24/05/2018 - 10:41

Yeah, I was raised on Asimov and Clarke, and discovered a rich vein of Heinlein in the school library. Also read a lot of random sci-fi from my parents' shelves but don't think I ever read Poul Anderson although I've certainly heard the name. Sounds like the sort of thing I would enjoy. Cordwainer Smith had also slipped under my radar but sounds compelling.

I've read some Bradbury and it's very variable - some of it goes into quite odd fantasy realms again. And I mainly know Theodore Sturgeon as the inspiration for Kurt Vonnegut's 'Kilgore Trout' character...

Who in turn published "Venus on the half shell" despite not actually existing (was actually written by Philip José Farmer)

I've surely read some Theodore Sturgeon in the numerous short story compilations I devoured but not any novels. Someone else to add to the list. :)

Sophia_Sophia_
   Gio, 24/05/2018 - 11:40

Oh, I just love Ursula Le Guin!
"The left hand of darkness" is my favourite one

GavinGavin
   Gio, 24/05/2018 - 14:01

Yep similar, with Iain M Banks being the only more recent one. I loved those books though, even if I do know what you mean about the occasional violence. Not because it's graphic so much as occasionally deeply unsettling. Use of Weapons did particularly disturb me too at the time!
I am looking forward to rereading them all, now that there won't be any new ones. :(

Talking of French authors, apparently I can claim this chap as a distant relative 1. Ever read any?

  • 1. Great great great great great grandfather
GavinGavin
   Gio, 24/05/2018 - 12:43

Yes apparently so - I really should track down the book! :)

Yeah, Banks had a nasty imagination at times. Sounds like you were traumatised by exactly the same bit as me... There are a few deeply unsettling moments in his non-sci-fi (or maybe just 'fi') work too. But wonderful imaginative writing. The shell world of 'Matter' was rather brilliant!

Sophia_Sophia_
   Gio, 24/05/2018 - 12:22

I like Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams TV-series

GavinGavin
   Gio, 24/05/2018 - 12:34

I found that incredibly variable - excellent one week and then completely 'meh' another. Not a patch on Black Mirror, despite its excellent credentials. :)

I enjoyed reading the serialized "Stainless Steel Rat" in the old 2000ad comics!

/edit - wait, that was Harry Harrison wasn't it...

GavinGavin
   Gio, 24/05/2018 - 12:35

I hope you don't object to your comments area becoming an open forum for sci-fi discourse! :)

GavinGavin
   Gio, 24/05/2018 - 13:42

Excellent! Pull up a (hover) chair ;)

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