{"id":641,"date":"2008-11-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kommiekomiks.com\/driftwood\/?p=641"},"modified":"2023-02-04T20:38:16","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T20:38:16","slug":"driftwood-7-00","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/?p=641","title":{"rendered":"Driftwood 7 00"},"content":{"rendered":"

I bet there is NO ONE who reads this comic and actually knows where “Navigare Autem” comes from. Mwa hah haa …<\/p>\n

Actually, it is from a poem by the Finnish poet Pentti Saarikoski, who used to be a sailor in his youth. Quite many of his early works are based on his experiences as a sailor. The full poem in Finnish:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
NAVIGARE AUTEM<\/p>\n

Olen l\u00e4htev\u00e4
\njoka aamu l\u00e4hden harhailemaan
\nvedet \u00f6ljyiset
\nne vaarallisetko
\nja kauniit kanavat<\/p>\n

vesi suustani virtaa
\nvesi silmist\u00e4ni
\nvesi korvistani
\nja sieraimistani virtaa
\nich bin die Welt
\nich bin das Meer<\/p>\n

Se mies josta tarina kertoo
\neik\u00f6 h\u00e4n ole kuin lohik\u00e4\u00e4rme
\ntuli luokseni vesi\u00e4 pitkin
\ntaltuttaen vedet sanallaan<\/p>\n

Mitta min\u00e4 tarvitsen purren
\nitseni luota itseni luokse
\nMutta min\u00e4 tarvitsen purren
\nluiselta rannalta luiselle merelle
\nMutta min\u00e4 tarvitsen purren<\/td>\n

(My crappy English translation:<\/p>\n

I am leaving
\nevery morning I leave to wander about
\nthe oily waters
\ndangerous, they say
\nand the beautiful canals<\/p>\n

the water flows out of my mouth
\nwater from my eyes
\nwater from my ears
\nand from my nostrils it flows
\nich bin die Welt
\nich bin das Meer<\/p>\n

The man this story tells of
\nis he not like a dragon
\nhe came to me across the waters
\ntaming the waters with his word<\/p>\n

But I need a boat
\nto take me from myself to myself
\nBut I need a boat
\nfrom the bony shore to the bony ocean
\nBut I need a boat)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I bet there is NO ONE who reads this comic and actually knows where “Navigare Autem” comes from. Mwa hah haa … Actually, it is from a poem by the Finnish poet Pentti Saarikoski, who used to be a sailor in his youth. Quite many of his early works are based on his experiences as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-driftwood-chapter-7","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2036,"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions\/2036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}