Luigi Tenco - Vita sociale (Ballata del progresso)
Se lei sapesse cos’è la vita sociale non mi starebbe a seccare perché io la faccia passare. Se lei sapesse essere un uomo civile aspetterebbe il suo turno come fa tutta l’altra gente.
Senta, ma lei non sa chi sono io: sono il commendator tale, parente del ministro tale. […]
For my own part I have never had a thought Which I could not set down in words With even more distinctness Than that with which I conceived it
There is however a class of fancies Of exquisite delicacy, which are not thoughts And to which as yet I have found it Absolutely impossible to adapt to language
These fancies arise in the soul Alas how rarely, only at epochs Of most intense tranquility When the bodily and mental Health are in perfection
And at those weird points of time Where the confines of the waking world Blend with the world of dreams And so I captured this fancy Where all that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream
Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of the needle (stylus) of a record player in a groove on a record. A record is used to store sound. It is produced by a machine with a head which vibrates in time to the sound being recorded. This cuts a groove in the record which varies according to the vibrations. A needle can then reproduce these vibrations as it runs along the groove and these, when amplified, produce the original sound.