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What is love? Liem asks.
Then he proceeds to say he does not know! Just like that. That leaves you and
me to scramble for an answer as best we can. Unfortunately, just as our
psychiatrist friend, we are stumped and clueless. If there is someone out there
who has the answer, do not hesitate to share it with all of us.
The only redemptive note in all this enigma is Liem's affirmation that once
the man and his woman get together, he knows what love is, in the image of his
sweetheart.
Aimer
Tu me dis : "L'Amour, qu'est-ce que c'est ?"
Je réponds : "Est-ce que je le sais ?
Au fond, l'Amour, c'est... mais vois-tu,
Je ne le sais pas non plus...
Pourtant, quand nous sommes ensemble,
Je le sais, car Tu LUI ressembles."
Jacques Nguyen Hieu Liem
5 Février 2002
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Em ho?i anh : "Thê' nào là Yêu nhi??"
Anh tra? lò'i : "Nào anh có biê't ðâu?
Thâ.t ra, Tình Yêu. Em cha?ng thâ'y sao
Anh cu~ng cha?ng biê't thê' nào mà nói.
Anh chi? biê't khi chúng mình gâ`n gu~i
Em ðã cho anh hiê?u nghi~a Tình Yêu."
Traduit par Lý Lãng Nhân
29 Août 2002
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You asked me once, "Love. What is it?"
I said, "How will I ever know?
Love is, I think, you see... not it.
Nor can I be sure love is so.
Yet when we are close for a bit
You look like IT, and that I know."
Translated by Thomas D. Le
17 August 2002
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