Works of art that mention ligamentum capitis femoris (LCF) are extremely rare. One such work is the poem «Der Schauende» (He Who Visions, The Seer, The Man Watching, The Beholder) by Rainer Rilke. Below is the original text in German.
Der Schauende
Ich sehe den Bäumen
die Stürme an, die aus laugewordenen Tagen an meine ängstlichen Fenster
schlagen, und höre die Fernen Dinge sagen, die ich nicht ohne Freund ertragen,
nicht ohne Schwester lieben kann.
Da geht der Sturm,
ein Umgestalter, geht durch den Wald und durch die Zeit, und alles ist wie ohne
Alter: die Landschaft, wie ein Vers im Psalter, ist Ernst und Wucht und
Ewigkeit.
Wie ist das klein,
womit wir ringen, was mit uns ringt, wie ist das groß; ließen wir, ähnlicher
den Dingen, uns so vom großen Sturm bezwingen, - wir würden weit und namenlos.
Was wir besiegen,
ist das Kleine, und der Erfolg selbst macht uns klein. Das Ewige und Ungemeine
will nicht von uns gebogen sein. Das ist der Engel, der den Ringern des Alten
Testaments erschien: wenn seiner Widersacher Sehnen im Kampfe sich metallen
dehnen, fühlt er sie unter seinen Fingern wie Saiten tiefer Melodien.
Wen dieser Engel
überwand, welcher so oft auf Kampf verzichtet, der geht gerecht und
aufgerichtet und groß aus jener harten Hand, die sich, wie formend, an ihn
schmiegte. Die Siege laden ihn nicht -ein.
Sein Wachstum ist: der Tiefbesiegte von immer Größerem zu sein.
(Rainer Rilke, Berlin-Schmargendorf,
Mitte Januar, 1901)
Translation of
quote
[Eng]
The Man Watching
(Translated by Robert Bly, 1981)
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External links
Rilke RM. Das Buch der Bilder. Berlin: Axel Juncker
Verlag, 1902. [dfg-viewer.de]
Rilke RM. Das Buch der Bilder. Berlin, Leipzig,
Stuttgart: Axel Juncker Verlag, 1906. [archive.org]
Bly R. Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke: A Translation from the German and Commentary by Robert Bly. New York: Harper & Row, 1981. [archive.org]
Authors & Affiliations
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926),
was an Austrian poet and novelist. [wikipedia.org]
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| Rainer Maria Rilke (18 September 1900) Unknown author; original in the wikimedia.org collection (CC0 – Public Domain, no changes). |
Robert
Elwood Bly (1926-2021) was an American poet, essayist. [wikipedia.org]
Commentary
The penultimate paragraph of the poem is a reference to the verses of the 32nd chapter of the Book of Genesis (Bereshit) 32:24-33:
24 And he took them, and sent them over the stream, and sent over what he had.
25 And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.
26 And when he saw that he could not pre vail against him, he struck against the hollow of his thigh ; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was put out of joint, as he was wrestling with him.
27 And he said, Let me go, for the day hath dawned. And he said, I will not let thee go until thou hast blessed me.
28 And he said unto him. What is thy name ? and he said, Jacob.
29 And he said, Not Jacob shall any more be called thy name, but Israel ; for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
30 And Jacob asked him, and said. Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name ? And he blessed him there.
31 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniёl : for I have seen an angel of God face to face, and my life hath been preserved.
32 And the sun rose unto him as he passed by Penuёl, and he halted upon his thigh.
33 Therefore do the children of Israel not eat the sinew which shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day; because he struck against the hollow of Jacob's thigh on the sinew that shrank.
(from 1922LeeserI)
Leeser I. The twenty-four books of the Holy Scriptures. Carefully translated according to the Massoretic text, on the basis of the English version after the best Jewish authorities and supplied with short explanatory notes by Isaac Leeser. New York: Bloch Pub. Co., 1922. [archive.org]
Keywords
ligamentum capitis femoris,
ligamentum teres, ligament of head of femur, mention, Bible, poetry
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