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Admiral Santana looked up from the reader as the chime of the viewer sounded.
“The Marshal for you, ma’am.”
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on Like undistinguisI agree with Nam – perhaps also this is not a great translation but as it stands I would throw this tiddler back in the ocean of words…
hable horses by Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilev, on May 12, 2005 -
on Juliet by Hilaire Belloc, on March 17, 2005I love Belloc's poetry but have never discovered who 'Juliet' in these and several other verses actually was!
Is this known? I suspect she was a married woman - see 'Towards the closing of her splendid day...' -
on To A Mouse, (The best Laid Schemes O' Mice An' Men) by Robert Burns, on January 25, 2005I promoted it thinking I was getting a few to read it – clearly simply reading is not enough… just like you I think the whole thrust and particularly the last stanza is as near as we are going to get to perfection!
This poem reminds me of my old friend, mentor and colleague, Watt The Farouk. As in the tantric mantra - “Oh my beloved leader Watt The Farouk are you on about¿?”
I get hints of some kind of exploration of the link between spiritual and corporeal – at least assuming he is in fact speaking internally… which I did; but not sure what is meant…
The enjambment lines 1-2 strikes me as a little hokey but it is very difficult to judge how it was then – after all a cliché wasn’t clichéd when it was coined… in fact it is simply a victim of its own success!
If it was on AP general list I would have probably questioned the use of whipt = whipped… but since C. S. was a lecturer in medieval and renaissance English - if he liked it – it suits me fine¡!
I was a bit disappointed – not a false-backed wardrobe in sight – but since he hung out with J. R. R. Tolkien (among others) I guess he had to get real sometimes…
I shall be very interested to see what the right answer is though¡!
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