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letslearntogether 1 month ago

Brilliant quote. I'm curious what the source is. Many people seem to worship the trivial, take for granted the practical, and still miss that every life is priceless.

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proletarian-library 1 month ago

can't confirm but I think it's Stephen Jay Gould. I read it (or a variation of it) from another source that I can't remember a long time ago and it has stuck in my mind ever since

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letslearntogether 1 month ago

You're right on it. After a quick search: It is at the end of Chapter 13 "Wide Hats and Narrow Minds" of Stephen Jay Gould's book "The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History". This, in turn, is the second out of a ten volume anthology of essays taken from the "This View of Life" column that he wrote for Natural History magazine.

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letslearntogether 1 month ago

The essay itself has to do with some racist and sexist history behind attempts to correlate "intelligence" with brain size and other bodily characteristics (particularly the work of Pierre Paul Broca and Edward Anthony Spitzka). Generally, by seeing oneself as "more" and others as "less", one can then rationalize "rewarding" the former and "punishing" the latter.

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proletarian-library humanknowledge

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standing in awe of spacetime: we are (were) actually very similar, studied and cared about similar things, even grew up in the same area. except now I'm twice your age and I was displaced by gentrification. good luck! good work!

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humanknowledge 1 month ago

Oh shit, thank you! Good luck to your project (and cause) as well!

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virtually-isolated proletarian-library

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I was thinking about picking up some reading again and have spend a few times looking at books I might want. I think you offer just what I'm looking for! Amazing site with easy access to resources!

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proletarian-library 1 month ago

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AAAARGH I HAVE A COLD!!!! It's so sosososo bad I hate it here so much. Also been extremely busy with uni hence the lack of updates. But I do want to make a pokemon card page next... I'll be fr I know nothing about pokemon I am merely a poser, but I just like collecting the really cute and cool cards

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puppygrass 1 month ago

Also just started playing the TCG online game, my ID is 4726050385802524, you should totally add me B)

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i hope u get well soon !!! <3

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inthemeantimewecry 1 month ago

get well soon <3 my secret cure for a cold is eating a big white onion salad with lots of lemon and coriander!

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hekate 1 month ago

Get well soon :-( As a fellow pokemon poser I recommend magneton

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I looove your site, we have so many video games in common too <3 Also I hope you gain more self confidence in trying out those new outfits! It really can be so hard to go outside our comfort zone ;-;

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Thank you so much, your website is one of my favourites here! And thank you for the kind words. I'll do my best and have some fun with fashion (even outside infinity nikki, LOL) ^^💗

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excited to see more of your collection :)

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mustymixtape 1 month ago

thank ya so much :) I dig your site so sm, thanks for the follow

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Your site is so heckin' cool! I love your shrines page, that really takes me back (also you have excellent taste in music!)

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thanks a ton!! I'll add more CDs to my shelf eventually :P

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XXXV The heart of a true leader - https://thelesserword.neocities.org/Diary-Common-Man/Common-Man#Toc-XXXV

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XXXVI The mystery of the body - https://thelesserword.neocities.org/Diary-Common-Man/Common-Man#Toc-XXXVI

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this is truly an amazing resource! thank you for all your efforts. DEF gonna share with my local org

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I hope I can be of service 🫡❤️☠️

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suboptimalism 1 month ago

have you ever read the borges essay "the homeric versions"

balckwell 1 month ago

yes -- i think his comment about the "definitive text" corresponding only to religion is apt here. perhaps the reason i'm so concerned about the zhuangzi is because I feel that there's some eternal Truth in the text that I want access to, and there's a sense of frustration at feeling like the process of translation is getting in the way. you could say this essay was an attempt to wrestle with those feelings

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balckwell 1 month ago

i think borges (who is much smarter than me) is better able to reconcile the various styles/methods of translation, with their different goals. some focus on expressing the poetic beauty of the odyssey, some focus on expressing the pathos, and some on strictly expressing the "material" content of the text.

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balckwell 1 month ago

i, on the other hand, am apt to become attached to a translation as if it were an original text (like his example with the quixote), and then become upset with the idea that others *think* they are experiencing "dream of red mansions," for example, when to my mind they are actually reading a cheap imitation that passes itself off as that book. and my fear is that they will dislike it and say, "this book sucks," and..

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balckwell 1 month ago

... i will have to scream off the largest mountain on Earth, "no!!!! it does not suck!!!!"

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saddleblasters 1 month ago

Complete tangent, but re: Don Quixote, Chinese and translation, I just happened to read an essay this afternoon by Zhou Zuoren, Lu Xun's brother, where he compares Lin Shu's translation (the only Chinese translation at the time) to the available English and Japanese translations. One point that stood out: after Don Quixote “saves” a kid from his master’s beatings, only resulting in more beatings, the kid finds…

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saddleblasters 1 month ago

…Quixote and says (Ormsby translation): “on [you] and all the knights-errant that have ever been born, God send his curse.” Lin translated this as “似此等侠客在法宜骈首而诛，不留一人以害社会,” which means roughly “These kinds of knight-errants should by law be gathered together and put to death so that not one remains to harm society,” with a translator’s note by Lin below it “吾于党人亦然”：”I feel the same about members of political parties.”

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saddleblasters 1 month ago

Perhaps I should give further context: Lin Shu's translation of Quixote was published in 1922, in a post May 4th movement world. Despite introducing a lot of Western literature to China, he was considered a conservative figure. I'm curious if he maps Quixote to the politics of his day throughout the entire translations, or if this was just one witty remark

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balckwell 1 month ago

see, part of me really likes translators inserting themselves like that. this is why I like Pope's Odyssey; he seems to consider himself a legitimate descendant of Homer, and therefore justified in doing whatever it takes to make the most beautiful English Poetry Version of the work

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