tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Jun 10 10:55:07 2001
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RE: Block the Fist!
No, no, no, no, NO! He got it all wrong:
This traditional tune is about lovers who fight the same revolution, though
in different battles. The fist is, of course, the establishment against
which they are revolting. They are communicating in the midst of battle over
their personal communicators and at the end, they clip the "we" prefix off
the verb, since battle becomes heated. They want to be together as lovers,
but they consider their loyalty to the common cause to be a different way of
being together. Also, note that this song comes from the same region of the
empire as the general in ST5 who uttered the line about it being better to
die on our feet than on our knees. They don't necessarily use {-taH} with
{-vIS}. And so:
Block the fist, the fist, the fist.
The arm of the revolt is high!, over.
We hail, we hail, we hail, we hail.
While we promise, we are differently together, over.
ro', ro' ro' yIbot.
jenlI' Daw' DeS rIn.
marI'lI' marI'lI' marI'lI' marI'lI'
lay'vIS jaS tay' rIn.
Note that there is a second verse exactly like the first, except for the
last line that acknowledges that absence from one another is a sad, cold
thing, symbolized by a kind of freezing, hence, "While we promise, we freeze
differently":
lay'vIS jaS taD rIn.
charghwI'
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bryce Platt [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 3:07 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Block the Fist!
>
>
> Please please please tell me the fekhlar are feasting on ~mark's
> entrails as we speak [ well, read ]
>
> No Sto-Vo-Kor for him.
>
> targhthluH
>
>
>
> David Trimboli wrote:
>
> > Dear all,
> >
> > It is with the deepest regret that I must inform you that Mr.
> Mark Shoulson,
> > also known as Seqram, will be unable to attend qep'a'
> chorghDIch. He will,
> > alas, be dead before the end of the day.
> >
> > Most sincerely,
> >
> > SuStel
> > Stardate 1434.7
> >
> > P.S.: I wish I'd thought of it!
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Mark E. Shoulson" <[email protected]>
> > To: <[email protected]>
> > Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 7:57 PM
> > Subject: Block the Fist!
> >
> >
> >> This song came to me today... um, I mean, this song was
> recently found in
> >> the Klingon cultural database. It's a tender song of loss and
> tragedy, of
> >> the suddenness of separation as lovers are torn from each other in war.
> >
> > It
> >
> >> is called "Block the Fist" and in a few short lines it sketches the
> >
> > frantic
> >
> >> communications as a ship is under attack: "block the attacking
> fist!" says
> >> the pilot's lover, from the home base or some other location.
> The pilot
> >> tries to escape, but is thwarted by mechanical failures.
> Vainly, they try
> >> to re-establish communication, and rail at how so much warfare in the
> >
> > world
> >
> >> has torn lovers apart:
> >>
> >> ro', ro', ro' yIbot!
> >> jItlheD. Daw' nguSDI'.
> >> marI'lI'. marI'lI'. marI'lI'. marI'lI'.
> >> law' veS! bang DaghIm.
> >>
> >> (Sniff).
> >>
> >> ~mark
> >>
>
>