27 october 2025

John Bjarne Grover

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3. Die Lampe Die Lampe ist ein bekanntes Wort das läßt sich bei Tag nicht verstehen. Bei Nacht, doch, erschließt es seinen wahren Ort in Dunkelheit vor unsrem Sehen. Es zieht ein Licht über Bäume und Strauch von Föhn in dem Wind einer Wand als ziehe die Dunkelheit mit in dem Hauch als wär' sie dem Licht unbekannt. Der Vogel fliegt in dem schnellen Wald und läßt sich nach Hummel fliehen. Da zieht er wie Salz in dem Herbste kalt nach was sich die Frühlinge ziehen. Da war es die dunkle Frage entblößt von welcher kein Lebe-Gast stand als wär' es bei Donner und Blitze getöst bei Fenster, bei Lampe, bei Wand. SNEEFT COEIL 'Die Verwandlung' poem #3

28 october 2025:

This page with the above was published on 27 october 2025 at 17:30 local Vienna time, which is 16:30 UTC. Then 4 hours and 18 minutes later, at 20:48:29 which is 19:48 UTC, there was an earthquake in Turkey. According to Republic of Turkey, Ministry of Interior, Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency, Earthquake Department via the list of latest earthquakes, which registers it under turkish time 27-10-2025 20:48:29, the magnitude 6.1 quake (event 687395) was located at 39.1839 N 28.2308 E which is on this location.

On background of the very interesting poetic sense of earlier earthquakes in Turkey, and since I was curious whether this quake thereby maybe interpreted (with 'Donner und Blitze'?) the poem I had attached to the photo above, in particular since I had a feeling that maybe it was not the right poem, I looked up the surrounding placenames on the map to see if the quake nevertheless supported this poem. It did not - but it seemed that the quake suggested another poem of mine which perhaps was also a good idea. I made the following list of placenames immediately around the epicentre and I tentatively translated them with Google translator:

Mandıra Kocakonak Sındırgı Yaylacık Sinandede Aktaş Bayraklı Işıklar Yüreğil Küçükdağdere       Büyükdağdere Aslandede Osmanlar Ilıca Pürsünler Çaltılı Çiçekli Danaçayırı

- dairy - koca konak = huge mansion - Sındirgi = digestion - Yayla cık = go to the plateau - Sinan dede = grandpa Sinan; Sina ndede = in Sinai - Ak taş = white stone - flagged - lights - heartless - Küçük dağdere = Little Mountain Stream - Büyük dağdere = Great Mountain Stream - Aslan dede = grandfather Lion, aslande de = lion too - Ottomans - spa, Il ıca = first of all - Pür sünler = they are pure - Çal tılı = chalcedony - flowering - Da naçayırı = what is it like?   Dana çayırı = calf pasture

Then I recognized - mainly on basis of 'koca konak = huge mansion' - my TEQ #398, on this page in volume 2, and I organized the meanings of the surrounding placenames as follows according to the poem:

TEQ #398
Exodus 15:2   עזי וזמרת יה
Nay, it was just that I,	Dairy / Little Mountain Stream / Great Mountain Stream
with money-hay: It was solved,	white stone / flagged / lights
and his exquisite guitar is unbanishing.	chalcedony / they are pure.
Nay, honestly, were out to blame.	Lion, too, heartless.
You remember me?	What is it like?
Many have bounced to mansion in nineteenfortythree.	Ottomans huge mansion.
Just borrow his tip	First of all
for all the garfish:	digestion:
It is not the same.	Go to the plateau / in Sinai.
Gazellen	Flowering / Calf Pasture

I think maybe I could agree with the earthquake that this is a relevant poem to the photo. If this is not an artificial earthquake, one could perhaps speculate if even the disastrous earthquakes of 6 february 2023 could have been natural - even if these interpreted my poem (likewise from 'SNEEFT COEIL') with amazing precision.

As in this page, I refer also to Chopin op.10 no.6.

Source for the hebrew parallel text is Biblia Hebraica, Hooght/Hahn, Lipsiae 1839.

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