Literally, the sign says "Without Name Street". It's probably best translated as "Nameless Street", much like Jet Li's character in Hero, 无名 or "Nameless".For me, that throws up a whole host of cod-philosophical conundrums: Can anything truly be nameless? If so, can it be described as such without impinging on that self-same nameless quality?
Wikipedia claims that U2's "Where the Streets Have No Name" refers to the Nicaraguan capital of Managua, where the streets have no names. I don't think that that's what is going on here.
No comments:
Post a Comment