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| etracher Triglot Groupie Italy Joined 5335 days ago 92 posts - 180 votes  Speaks: English*, Italian, Spanish Studies: Modern Hebrew, Russian, Latvian | Message 25 of 29 23 March 2011 at 8:01am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Troppo facile. I cannot remember reading any other book dealing with language that would put Dante and Abraham Abulafia in the same sentence. In fact, that is the only book I've read that discusses them together.
Very good. I would never have guessed it myself. It comes from Culture and Value, an English translation of Vermischte Bemerkungen, a sort of anthology of various things from his notebooks. Just for fun, here's another quote from the book, one which I find very appropriate for this forum. I often think of it when it seems that Hebrew and Arabic are getting the best of me: Wir kämpfen mit der Sprache. Wir stehen im Kampf mit der Sprache. We are struggling with language. We are engaged in a struggle with language. Of course, Wittgenstein had a very different struggle in mind! 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Rameau Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6108 days ago 149 posts - 258 votes 4 sounds Speaks: English*, GermanC1, Danish Studies: Swedish, French, Icelandic | Message 26 of 29 23 March 2011 at 9:59am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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"Når bålet brænder ned, begynder du at fryse og vågner, hvad enten du har lyst eller ej."
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| Élan Senior Member United States Joined 5445 days ago 165 posts - 211 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Persian | Message 27 of 29 23 March 2011 at 10:04am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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"Everywhere there were horses down and men scrambling and he saw a man who sat charging his rifle while blood ran from his ears and he saw men with their revolvers disassembled trying to fit the spare loaded cylinders they carried and he saw men kneeling who tilted and clasped their shadows on the ground and he saw men lanced and caught up by the hair and scalped standing and he saw the horses of war trample down the fallen and a little whitefaced pony with one clouded eye leaned out the murk and snapped at him like a dog and was gone."
I bet someone can guess this one. How lucky that the 5th sentence on the 56th page was so... detailed. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| clumsy Octoglot Senior Member Poland lang-8.com/6715Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5179 days ago 1116 posts - 1367 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Japanese, Korean, French, Mandarin, Italian, Vietnamese Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swedish Studies: Danish, Dari, Kirundi | Message 28 of 29 23 March 2011 at 10:25am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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あるいは、羽川のときと同じように。 Edited by clumsy on 23 March 2011 at 10:25am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Juаn Senior Member Colombia Joined 5346 days ago 727 posts - 1830 votes Speaks: Spanish* | Message 29 of 29 24 March 2011 at 1:02am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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"Self-consciousness in Germany was defined as the folk spirit, as shared national memories, and as poetry."
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