Hi All 👋 This is my latest post for John’s Cellpic Sunday.
Tay Bridge — Cellpic Sunday
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7 responses to “Tay Bridge — Cellpic Sunday”
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Excellent photo!
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I looked it up on Google maps. Are you looking northwest toward Dundee or southeast to the opposite shore?
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I looked it up on Google maps. Just curious, are you looking northwest toward Dundee or southeast on the opposite shore?
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Ahh, I linked my cellpic for today to yours. I was wondering about the Scottish part but John is so well travelled …
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Much more sturdy, I guess (I hope), is this “new” Tay bridge. There is a very well known poem by Theodor Fonane about the disaster in 1879 when the old bridge collapsed during a severe storm with a train on it. The poem is a standard in German schools. The conclusion of the poem is that human endeavours cannot stand against nature.
Here is my cellpic today: https://picturesimperfectblog.com/2024/11/24/leftovers/-
I will have to look up that poem! Thanks for the tip.
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https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=71713 – That’s a link to an English translation. From the start you can see that Fontane takes the three witches from Macbeth as the forces who plan to destroy the bridge. He then draws it back into the realistic world (he was labelled a realist after all) by telling the story of the parents of the engineer driving the train. Very powerful. Most Germans have read it at least once during their school years.
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Great to hear your thoughts