wow sychotic juvenile

you have excelled yourself

we woke up this morning bereft and grieving

this is even better than ATU

whilst being a perfect replica

the tabula rasa where we will leave our imprints

the sands where our footsteps will tread lightly

thank you Swiss Jung

I rather fancy myself as the one in the middle..........

sexy Janus has done a good job.....

...thanks for getting us safely to a mothership sj...it feels good.

Shone Jungfernfahrt, Shipwrecked Jellyfish

...sorry about the missing umlaut or whatever it's called...

...it's The Lake Isle of Innisfree.

...it's in the poetry thread

...hmmm...so you could translate Rilke's poem then? The one about the panther? In the poetry thread?


...when you have time, of course.

...oh for heaven's sake... do you think I haven't trawled an ocean of versions looking for the one I hear best?

I have three...a translation from a book, another from online, and the third from a friend who translated it in jail...I hadn't asked him to. I'd sent him a copy in German and he sent the translation in reply.

You are demonstrably a clever man sj. You can run with an Arts forum....won't you....err...contribute to it?

...but later, when you have time, because it requires time.

...you can handle a bit of sturm und drang or whatever...

...and yes. It's been in seeking a definitive translation of this poem that I've come to understand the...difficulty...of translation.

I am but a cyber contact.

...not so. Irony's the go...

blue moon wrote:


...not so. Irony's the go...

it seems that you two are more than acquaintances

I've been the butt of many jokes in the past.......so it bothers me not

Catherine wrote: it seems that you two are more than acquaintances

...not so cath. But we're often passengers on the same train of thought....