Saturday 11 November 2017

do elephants have souls ? http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/do-elephants-have-souls

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  1. What's your opinion on this poem?
    https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/17168/ars-poetica

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  2. About how a lot of English translations of Chinese poetry can lose nuance:

    https://www.quora.com/What-do-you-think-of-Chinese-poetry/answer/Greg-Pringle-2/

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    1. a lot of that stuff is quite medieval, very different culture and values !

      it takes philology to sort that out but there are almost zero academics in that area !

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    2. i had done a retranslation of that poem in the article a while back

      http://mueller_ranges.tripod.com/andrew/untitled146.html

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