arktical

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Member Since: 4/27/2006
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Les Fleurs du mal

Artist Song
the cure  bloodflowers 
claire voyant  eventide (riptide mix by front 242) 
switchblade symphony  sleep 
radiohead  exit music (for a film) 
the liars  it fit when i was a kid 
jack off jill  vivica 
de/vision  strange affection 
depeche mode  the sinner in me 
vnv nation  legion 
placebo  in the cold light of the morning 
mazzy star  rose blood 
joy division  love will tear us apart (string quartet tribute) 
the cranes  september 

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La Mort des amants

beds of subtle fragrance shall be ours,
soft divans far deeper than a tomb,
fairer climes shall yield mysterious flowers
- flowers which for us were made to bloom.

lavishing our final amorous hours
there, our flaming hearts shall merge and loom
in the twin mirrors of these souls of ours,
- torches vast which side by side consume.

then some evening, rose and mystic blue,
charged with the sobbing woe of our adieu,
Love shall links us in one lightning-spark;

later, shall the faithful angel fling
all the portals wide, illumining
the flameless torches and the mirrors dark.

- Lewis Piaget Shanks, Flowers of Evil (New York: Ives Washburn, 1931)
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fritz1
Date: 8/11/2006
i'm not sure what i think of that translation, but the mix looks good...
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Mixxer
Date: 8/12/2006
Nice work. Fritz, there is Beaudelaire's original French and 3 different English translations here.