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Saturday, July 06, 2019

A Well Dressed Mistake



Katheryn 

La explicación es un error bien vestido.
Rayuela – Julio Cortázar

The explanation is a well-dressed mistake.
Hopscotch – Julio Cortázar

Because of differences between my Spanish and your English, the latter part of Cortázar’s quote has a more direct secondary meaning. A vestido in Spanish is a dress so the connection to the article of female clothing is implied but not there in the translation.

In this 21st century it is easy to put dress, the name of a poet or writer and you instantly hit poetic pay dirt.

I am neither a poet nor a writer. I am a retired, redundant, obsolete & inconsequential photographer with enough savvy (experience) to know that this photograph of Kathryn is special. It is highly erotic. In my quest (many years of it) to pin down what exactly is eroticism I believe this picture simply tells me, “You will know when you see it.”