<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="t2" style="width: 540px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td valign="top" class="td2"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="t3" style="width: 540px;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td valign="middle" class="td2"><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">In an Old Book</font></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></div><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="t2" style="width: 540px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td valign="top" class="td2"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: auto;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td valign="middle" class="td3"><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">In an old book—about a hundred years old— </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">I found, neglected among the leaves, </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">a watercolour with no signature. </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">It must have been the work of a very powerful artist. </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">It bore the title “Representation of Love.” </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><font size="4" class=""><span class="s1"></span><br class=""></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">But “—of the love of extreme sensualists” would have been </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class=""> more fitting. </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><font size="4" class=""><span class="s1"></span><br class=""></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">For it was clear as you looked at this work </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">(the artist’s idea was easily grasped) </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">that the youth in this portrait wasn’t meant </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">for those who love in a somewhat wholesome way, </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">within the limits of what is strictly permitted— </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">with his chestnut-brown, intensely colored eyes; </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">with the superior beauty of his face, </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">the beauty of unusual allures; </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">with those flawless lips of his that bring </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">pleasure to the body that it cherishes; </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">with those flawless limbs of his, made for beds </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">called shameless by the commonplace morality.</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- C.P.Cavafy</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><font size="4" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>(Translated from the Greek by Daniel Mendelsohn)</font></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>