Friday, February 09, 2007

All You Need Is Blah

A postscript to my previous post:

Michael Hofmann's translation of Durs Grünbein's poem "Ashes for Breakfast" contains a line that made me laugh for a very personal reason: "Maybe what will survive of us is Blah ..." This echo of Larkin is an echo of the Beatles for me: when Miles was two or three years old, he became a great fan of the Beatles, and we used to drive along singing along to Beatles CDs. One parody we liked to sing was "All You Need is Blah"!

2 comments:

John Gallaher said...

My daughter, five years old, is crazy about "Yellow Submarine."

Oh well.

Andrew Shields said...

There are worse things to be crazy about. :-)

When I was about five, my family had a large yellow station wagon. Guess what we called it? :-)