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Chapter V - Epitaph [i: Revolutionary ii: Homeland]

from Forthcoming Humanity (2020) by Yovel

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''Epitaph is the song of Memory. The Memory of Loss, the Memory of the Death. The Memory of Toil.

Epitaph is the song of the Will. The Will of the Struggle, the Will of Comradery, the Will of the Many".

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i) Revolutionary

*** Sample: The delegation of the Greek Government, and the delegation of the Central Committee of EAM, convened a Conference at Varkiza and together we looked at the means and the way for the cessation of the civil war and the reconciliation of the Greek people. We thus concluded, in the following agreed Treaty. Οn the signing of the protocol, the President of the Conference and Minister of Foreign Affairs said the following: "I must, in any case, express on behalf of the Government and the Greek people, my acknowledgements to the esteemed representatives of the British Empire" - "The Travelling Players / Ο Θίασος (1975)" by Theodoros Angelopoulos ***


Απόσπασμα: "Στίχοι γραμμένοι σε πακέτα τσιγάρα - Σημαίες (1956)"


Πάνω στα ματωμένα πουκάμισα των σκοτωμένων
εμείς καθόμασταν τα βράδια
και ζωγραφίζαμε σκηνές από την αυριανή ευτυχία του κόσμου.
Έτσι γεννήθηκαν οι σημαίες μας.


Excerpt: "Lyrics written on packs of cigarette - Flags (1956)"

On the bloody shirts of the slain/
We gathered in the evenings; we were painting scenes.
Of tomorrow’s happiness of the world.
So, our flags were born.


--- Lyrics ---

[old] rituals mundane. Symbolic functions of our discontent.
Let all laments end; Our mental shackles; [is] their common sense.
We now understand.

[that] our name’s a hiss, that eerie echo that climbs the abyss.
You let it sink in.
Moments before your next pointless shift.
Single out which new dead-ends to carry.
Or choose the path of the Revolutionary.

[And] all those times we lost heart.
All those times we felt desperate, detached & numb.
All those times we felt obsolete, detached & numb.

[Always] the memory of her hand.
The memory of her hand.
In that last barricade.
Defending our common land.

Through this desert of the Real.
Arm yourselves with the Optimism of the Will.
Give me cover with your shield.
Rise above, the ruins of Fear.

ii) Homeland

*** Sample from: BBC reporter, covering the Greek government suppression of the General Strike & demonstration in Athens, Syntagma Square, on December 3rd 1944 ***


Απόσπασμα¨"Στίχοι γραμμένοι σε πακέτα τσιγάρα - Σε περιμένω παντου (1956)".

Γιατί δικη πατρίδα μας είναι όλοι οι δρόμοι.
που στο πλάγια τους
κοιμούνται
οι σκοτωμένοι του αγώνα μας

Excerpt: "Lyrics written on packs of cigarette - I am waiting for you everywhere (1956)".

Because our homeland
is all the roads that on their side sleep
the dead of our struggle.

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from Forthcoming Humanity (2020), released October 2, 2020

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“The sign is the search itself, the sign is you!

You, hobbling out of the mud of the roads.

It’s you. We who are questing: we are the now, the past and that which is yet to come

The old are stationary [they’ve already been.] Old believers, dead already

The bricks of the Cathedral say nothing”.

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