2/02/2009

in trutina - what results from being stranded at home



In Trutina - In Balance
From Carl Orff's cantata Carmina Burana
It was written by a bunch of horny monks in the middle ages in the middle of a German monastery somewhere

In trutina mentis dubia
fluctuant contraria
lascivus amor et pudicitia.
Sed eligo quod video,
collum iugo prebeo:
ad iugum tamen suave transeo.

"In my own wavering balance
desire fluctuates with modesty
but I choose what I see
I bow my neck to the yoke
For the burden is sweeter after all
And so I take it upon me"

And so the young girl runs off to get married and not be a nun

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