Below you will find the most frequently asked Bee Gees questions.
From their Beatles-ish beginning, to their disco apotheosis, to their un-pin-downable beyond, questions abound in the Bee Gees lyrical corpus. Bee Gees questions are, and yet somehow are not, rhetorical. Maybe they are not questions at all. In German, one sometimes finds a powerful backronym for « FAQ »: « Fragen, Antworten, Quintessenzen »: quintessence is the alchemical fifth essence, or the ether itself.
Below you will find the Bee Gees Summa Theologica, posed to an empty, unfeeling universe.
An iron curtain makes a powerful canvas. Images from Sven Johne & Falk Haberkorn’s Aus Sicht des Archivs, documenting life in the former East Germany in the 1990s.
« A black cat sneaks across a flower bed toward a shed, past some asters, and squeezes into a gap an arm's width wide. Some worn-down club-goers lay wasted on sofas, sweat and smoke in a late-summer landscape. » On Berlin clubs and Calvino's cat flâneurs.
« Eine schwarze Katze huscht über ein Blumenbeet in Richtung eines Holzverschlags, an einigen Astern vorbei drückt sie sich in eine armbreite Lücke. Einige Abgefeierte lümmeln auf Sofas; in Schweiß und Rauch in dieser spätsommerlichen Club-Landschaft. » Über Berliner Clubs und Calvinos Katzenflaneure.
→ → Pursuing / you lead me to come to the future.
← ← coming to the future, I lead you / demanding.
→ → 求索 / 你引导我来未来
← ← 来未来我导引你 / 索求