transpolia (fragments re-set)

Banana falls ⋮ over.

Banana falls down, no matter.
Melon falls down, it’s over.

A proverb taken from Rosebush Pruning (2026)
written by Efthimis Filippou

Αν πέσει μια μπανάνα στο έδαφος δεν πειράζει,
αν πέσει όμως ένα καρπούζι τότε πειράζει.

A fictitious proverb made up by Edward “Ed” Taylor (1991–2024), a fictitious character made up by Efthimis Filippou for the film Rosebush Pruning (2026) inspired by a fictitious character made up by Marco Bellocchio for the film Fists in the Pocket (1965).

Translated for (and taken from) the screenplay for the film, directed by Karim Aïnouz.

For more bona fide faux wisdom by Efthimis’ Ed (via Marco for Karim), see the dubitandum “sayings ⋮ spouted” (yellow box below).

see also
(this transpolium lives alone)

arkhæio
ROSEBUSH PRUNING

dubitanda
sayings ⋮ spouted

A ballad ⋮ beloved.

A life ⋮ forever here.

A mutilated ⋮ death.

All ⋮ in and of itself.

All that I ⋮ back.

An all-round driver of ⋮ systems.

An earthquake ⋮ himself.

An opportunity⋮ precedes syntax.

And ⋮ the land.

Are you afraid ⋮ comrade.

Banana falls ⋮ over.

Betrayal comes from ⋮ another.

Boughs ⋮ like ink (Egyptian).

But rejection ⋮ at night.

Don’t ⋮ bare, bereft.

Down on the ⋮ floor.

Each night, ⋮ tears.

For better or ⋮ return.

Ghost boy ⋮ killer.

I am ⋮ weeping.

I asked him ⋮ to dance more.

I come ⋮ cover up.

I find a plaque ⋮ fascinating.

Inside ⋮ its warm embrace.

It is ⋮ everything.

Let me ⋮ never come.

Like ⋮ the smell of earth.

Look now ⋮ and grow tame.

Me – the material ⋮ necessity.

Miss! Pride and ⋮ bows.

Nightmarish forest of ⋮ our own.

Noon ⋮ lies ahead.

Painting ⋮ with the body.

Plunged in ⋮ our gaze.

Rose-like ⋮ all the flowers.

The catharsis ⋮ of proportion.

The difference ⋮ is absurdity.

The migratory moves ⋮ immense.

The things ⋮ now behind.

This here ⋮ (from Brazil.)

This place of ours is ⋮ sky.

Today ⋮ forever more.

What ⋮ everyone will say.

Words ⋮ seem unrecognisable.