Libri Gaiae
Grzegorzewska narrant de Iulia Dobrowolska, pulcherrima femina, quae invenit
veneficos et sicarios, ut poenis debitis afficiantur. Primo eius libro titulus
fuit Messor. Cum enim scriptrix die
aprico rura Silesiaca bicyclo (sive velocipede) permetiretur, imaginata est
hominem in viae fine cum falce stantem et tum de opere cogitare coepit. Is
titulus optime quadrat libro, qui de morte violenta narrat, nam mortis deus
saepe ut messor pingitur. De tali messore cantat grex musicus Americanus, qui
“Cultus Caerulearum Ostrearum” (Blue Öyster Cult) appellatur:
Harvester of eyes,
that’s me,
And I see all there is to see
When I look inside your
head
Right up front to the
back of your skull;
Well, that’s my sign
that you are dead,
My list for you checks
off as null. […]
I’m the harvester of
eyes.
I’m just walkin’ down
the street,
I see a garbage can, I
pick it up,
I look through all the
garbage
To see if there are any
eyes inside.
I’ll put ’em in my pink
leather bag. […]
So if you see me walkin’
down the street,
You’d better get out of
the way
And put on your eye
glasses
’cause I’m gonna take
your eyes home with me.
Idem Latine:
Oculorum sum ego messor.
Visu tuum caput incesso
atque cuncta inibi
cerno,
quae in fronte sunt et a
tergo.
Cum id ago, tu scito te
tum
e vivorum albo deletum.
[…]
Oculorum sum ego messor.
Vado via. Adhuc non
cesso,
donec vas purgaminum
cerno,
et tunc scrutor id ab
interno
invenire oculos volens,
uti roseum impleam
follem. […]
Si me igitur cernas
euntem,
aufer ilico e via tum te
perspicillaque indue, ni
– vae! –
velis ut te oculis
privem.
Nicolaus Simonides