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Original text - English - Wine is sunlight, held together by water

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Wine is sunlight, held together by water
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Submitted by ss230467
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Wine is sunlight, held together by water
20 November 2009 11:18





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20 November 2009 12:06

Aneta B.
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Could somebody explain me the sentence. I can't catch it...

Is it correct in English?

20 November 2009 12:42

lilian canale
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Hi ss230467,

Could you explain the meaning of your sentence? or perhaps provide more context? It's quite difficult to understand.

20 November 2009 12:59

Lein
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Really? I find it a beautiful, poetic way to describe wine (take sunlight, add water to keep it together and there you are).

20 November 2009 13:08

lilian canale
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"held together by..."?

CC: Lein

20 November 2009 13:13

Lein
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Yes! It is the water that helds the sunlight together, so it is being held together by water. Sunlight itself would be too light and fly away.

20 November 2009 13:15

lilian canale
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Quite fertile imagination that of yours, Lein!

20 November 2009 14:54

ss230467
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It is a qoute by Galileo Galilei, and poetically describes wine the way he saw it. Something fantastic, the light from the sun caught in a bottle and kept there by water.

20 November 2009 15:13

lilian canale
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Aneta, is that clear enough for you to do the translation?

20 November 2009 15:53

Aneta B.
Number of messages: 4487
Yes, it is, Lilly! Thank you to all of you for the explanation... I probably haven't got so fertile imagination as Lein does, but I really can understand what she thinks...

I'll do it in a moment!

20 November 2009 16:09

Aneta B.
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It is beautiful metaphor indeed. I have been thinking in the right direction before, but couldn't believe somebody could think about a wine in this way!!!

21 November 2009 17:04

ss230467
Number of messages: 3
I work with wine and want this as a tattoo, thankyou for your work on this.