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click to playThis is the sing-song translation attributed to Robin Flowers. All this time I've been naive, Pangur Ban is quite a read.
Quoted:
So in peace our tasks we ply,
Pangur Ban, my cat and I;
In our arts we find our bliss,
I have mine, and he has his.
This was a much more enjoyable translation for me to read. Comparing the two translations (Heaney's to Flowers') offers fascinating reflections on style, bias, skill, taste, audience, etc.
Thanks, Carol!
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dubya tee eff.
1 FaverViewed: 8 TimesQuoted: Sarah Palin pardons a Thanksgiving Turkey in Alaska and then gives a speech as many Turkey's are slaughtered right behind her.Stay Classy Alaska!
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Fun reading from The Boston Globe website.
1 FaverViewed: 9 TimesQuoted: (...) The first thing to know is that the mind isn't a mirror, or even a passive observer of reality. Much of what we think of as being out there actually comes from in here, and is a byproduct of how the brain processes sensation. In recent years scientists have come up with a number of simple tricks that expose the artifice of our senses, so that we end up perceiving what we know isn't real - tweaking the cortex to produce something uncannily like hallucinations.
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