tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9192922.post2408929383922203330..comments2024-01-31T23:45:04.049+00:00Comments on Mabinogogiblog: O bright wind, you cannot read, why do you turn my pages?DocRichardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08903964792092284406noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9192922.post-91372001067720990782010-03-09T23:23:08.239+00:002010-03-09T23:23:08.239+00:00You found me out, with your Google search. I have ...You found me out, with your Google search. I have to confess that this is a reprise of the earlier blog.DocRichardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08903964792092284406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9192922.post-75120597810282583532010-03-09T10:16:20.501+00:002010-03-09T10:16:20.501+00:00re
"I can say only this,
that I can nothing...re <br />"I can say only this, <br />that I can nothing say" <br /> - in the end, it doesn't matter who wrote it, because it it true, and that is all that matters.DocRichardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08903964792092284406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9192922.post-59649110765618017402010-03-09T10:14:02.255+00:002010-03-09T10:14:02.255+00:00Kaihsu
Your scholarship impresses me more each tim...Kaihsu<br />Your scholarship impresses me more each time I read you! <br /><br />I confess i find the link to Xu Jun a little difficult to read, as my understanding of Chinese characters is limited to "Horse", "Gate" and "House. But Xu Jun is The Man, and a part of his consciousness lives on, like all poets, whenever his words are understood.<br /><br />Yes, Andrew Marvell is another candidate for the censorship line, but I could not find it on his Google list.<br /><br />Maybe it's been censored...<br /><br />Thanks again.<br /><br />RichardDocRichardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08903964792092284406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9192922.post-21549431286767053132010-03-08T22:19:19.439+00:002010-03-08T22:19:19.439+00:00(In the earlier post, for my translation of the qu...(In the earlier post, for my translation of the quoted poem, change ‘are’ to ‘art’.)<br /><br />As for the first quote, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Marvell" rel="nofollow">Andrew Marvell</a> might be your man? Putting the whole quote in straight double quotation marks into our favourite search engine turned out the only result: <a href="http://www.greenhealth.org.uk/Trafigura.htm" rel="nofollow">‘The Abidjan 2006 Toxicity Incident: a Scientific Approach’</a> by a certain Richard Lawson, draft dated Sunday 25 October 2009.Kaihsu Taihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13286678317421340212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9192922.post-73692906792340246342010-03-08T22:09:14.627+00:002010-03-08T22:09:14.627+00:00Dear Richard, you have forced me to respond. The s...Dear Richard, you have forced me to respond. The second quote:<br /><br />清風不識字,何必亂翻書?<br />Qīng fēng bú shìzì, hébì luàn fān shū?<br />O thou <b>clear</b> breeze who are illiterate, what use is it for thee to randomly turn the pages?<br /><br />This is often attributed to <a href="http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%BE%90%E9%A7%BF" rel="nofollow">徐駿 Xú Jùn</a>, elected to the imperial academy 翰林院 as an associate 庶吉士 in 1713; executed 1730 for writing stuff like this. (See the Wikipedia article linked above; the web also has alternative versions of the poem and the rumour/story.) He was of the Manchu Qīng (‘clear’) Dynasty, not the Míng (‘bright’).<br /><br />While I have your attention, check out <a href="http://www.pieandcoffee.org/2007/06/27/zheng-banqiao/" rel="nofollow">this specimen of Chinese indigenous ecosocialism from Zhèng Bǎnqiáo</a>, a contemporary of Xú Jùn.Kaihsu Taihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13286678317421340212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9192922.post-91322749723140220162010-03-08T22:01:17.529+00:002010-03-08T22:01:17.529+00:00This comment has been removed by the author.Kaihsu Taihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13286678317421340212noreply@blogger.com