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DavidRoss

#2460
May 15, 2009, 03:26:34 PM
Quote from: John on May 15, 2009, 07:46:16 AM
Photo and Quotes to follow later...but...
I was sent this fabulous translation of the Tao Te Ching by Jeffrey.  Is it any good?  Well, to praphrase the translator:

"Tao is not a way that can be pointed out.
Nor an idea that can be defined."

I think it's a great, easy, uplifting translation, but in fact, it neither is or isn't.  Or is it? :o ???  lol
It's great!!
Based on that passage, not really a translation but sort of an explication.  One of the world's great books.
"Maybe the problem most of you have ... is that you're not listening to Barbirolli." ~Sarge

"The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people's money." ~Margaret Thatcher

mahler10th

#2461
May 16, 2009, 05:14:16 AM
Quote from: DavidRoss on May 15, 2009, 03:26:34 PM
Based on that passage, not really a translation but sort of an explication.

Yes.  It is a synthesis of many Tao translations out there and it does the job tremendously well.  Intead of a Tao translation lecturing from a mountaintop, this one sees fit to replace ones conscience instead.
Recommended not for high-brow analysis, but for accessing the simplicity of the Tao.

DavidRoss

#2463
May 16, 2009, 07:30:12 AM
Quote from: John on May 16, 2009, 05:14:16 AM
Yes.  It is a synthesis of many Tao translations out there and it does the job tremendously well.  Intead of a Tao translation lecturing from a mountaintop, this one sees fit to replace ones conscience instead.
Recommended not for high-brow analysis, but for accessing the simplicity of the Tao.
What job is that?

Here is a reasonably accurate translation of what's usually positioned as the "first chapter" of the Tao Te Ching, taken from the Han dynasty scrolls discovered at Ma Wang Tui in 1973:
   
The ways that can be explained
Are not the everlasting Way.
The names that can be named
Are not the everlasting Name.
Nameless is the source of all creation;
Naming gives birth to the 10,000 things.
Therefore, always be without desire
And thus observe the subtle;
Constantly have desire
And thus observe what wails.
These two emerge united, with different names.
This unity is called the darkest mystery,
The gateway of all that is subtle.
"Maybe the problem most of you have ... is that you're not listening to Barbirolli." ~Sarge

"The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people's money." ~Margaret Thatcher

DFO

#2464
May 17, 2009, 07:33:34 AM
David Kohon's "The Codebrakers". The Bible on this fascinating (to me)
Subject.

mahler10th

#2465
May 17, 2009, 09:09:42 AM
Quote from: DavidRoss on May 16, 2009, 07:30:12 AM
What job is that?

It has no job to do, but it does it very well.

Dr. Dread

#2466
May 17, 2009, 06:22:11 PM
Just finished.

Horror. Very good.

Now...


Solitary Wanderer

#2467
May 18, 2009, 01:19:12 PM


This much respected, scholarly, long OOP book just landed on my doorstep. Very excited to start reading this.  :)
'I lingered round them, under that benign sky: watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells, listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass, and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.' ~ Emily Bronte

Bogey

#2468
May 18, 2009, 06:38:01 PM
There will never be another era like the Golden Age of Hollywood.  We didn't know how to blow up buildings then so we had no choice but to tell great stories with great characters.-Ben Mankiewicz

DavidRoss

#2469
May 18, 2009, 07:32:19 PM
Re. your second link--on CMG a couple of months ago someone posted an item about a similar project on film instead of in print, though instead of zombies invading Austen's England, it might be aliens. 
"Maybe the problem most of you have ... is that you're not listening to Barbirolli." ~Sarge

"The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people's money." ~Margaret Thatcher

Bogey

#2470
May 18, 2009, 07:35:53 PM
Quote from: DavidRoss on May 18, 2009, 07:32:19 PM
Re. your second link--on CMG a couple of months ago someone posted an item about a similar project on film instead of in print, though instead of zombies invading Austen's England, it might be aliens. 

As you know David, my wife and I love Austen's works.  When I showed her this we both had a good laugh.  I have to say that I am a bit "morbidly" curious.  ;)
There will never be another era like the Golden Age of Hollywood.  We didn't know how to blow up buildings then so we had no choice but to tell great stories with great characters.-Ben Mankiewicz

DavidRoss

#2471
May 19, 2009, 04:09:14 AM
Quote from: Bogey on May 18, 2009, 07:35:53 PM
As you know David, my wife and I love Austen's works.  When I showed her this we both had a good laugh.  I have to say that I am a bit "morbidly" curious.  ;)
Here we go:  The title is Pride and Predator and Elton John is bankrolling it.
"Maybe the problem most of you have ... is that you're not listening to Barbirolli." ~Sarge

"The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people's money." ~Margaret Thatcher

CD

#2472
May 19, 2009, 12:01:33 PM
Read J.K. Huysmans's a rebours but didn't enjoy as much as I thought I would, considering I am something of a recluse like the novel's narrator (though the narrator's distate for society is magnified to a grotesque degree).

Currently a third of the way through Hesse's Magister Ludi and enjoying it immensely.

Also slowly turning through a book on Picasso (from Taschen, whose books are just awesome); hence my current avatar.

DavidRoss

#2473
May 19, 2009, 12:08:03 PM
Nice to see you posting again, Corey.  Haven't read The Glass Bead Game in about 40 years--seems to me I liked it best of the Hesse books I read.  Maybe it's time to do it again.
"Maybe the problem most of you have ... is that you're not listening to Barbirolli." ~Sarge

"The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people's money." ~Margaret Thatcher

Bu

#2474
May 20, 2009, 10:18:57 AM Last Edit: May 22, 2009, 10:49:33 AM by Bu
Quote from: rockerreds on May 12, 2009, 11:13:18 AM
Great stuff!

Indeed; MacDonald was a master of the mystery genre, while being descriptively poetic and refined, à la Chandler.  

Now:

Jim Thompson, The Getaway:

Dr. Dread

#2475
May 20, 2009, 03:24:55 PM
Those who like crime novels might want to check out this forum.

http://thebigadios.yuku.com/

;D

Papageno

#2477
May 21, 2009, 04:25:18 PM
Proust's In Search of Lost Time

karlhenning

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May 21, 2009, 05:29:31 PM Last Edit: May 21, 2009, 06:24:25 PM by k a rl h e nn i ng

bwv 1080

#2479
May 21, 2009, 06:50:40 PM
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on May 21, 2009, 05:29:31 PM
Return to The Sot-Weed Factor

Having just read Argall and Mason & Dixon a few years ago, I suppose I go for the complete set of olde English modernist novels
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