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Pilgrim
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« Reply #50 on: June 17, 2009, 10:40:AM »
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Quote from: Rosarium
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I'm reading Beowulf. Owl

A translation or original?


[/quote

A translation.  I wouldn't know what to do with an original. Dunce



Is it a verse translation or a prose translation?  E. Talbot Donaldson's prose translation is my personal favorite, but Burton Rafael has a great verse translation.
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"And so, Lord, do you, who do give understanding to faith, give me, so far as you knowest it to be profitable, to understand that you are as we believe; and that you are that which we believe." -- St. Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109)

"But Christianity preaches an obviously unattractive idea, such as original sin; but when we wait for its results, they are pathos and brotherhood, and a thunder of laughter and pity; for only with original sin we can at once pity the beggar and distrust the king." -- G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)

"The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist."  Baudelaire and Verbal Kint from The Usual Suspects

"I'm a practicing Catholic; I'm practicing until I get it right." Martin Sheen
Tobias
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« Reply #51 on: June 17, 2009, 10:50:AM »
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Quote from: Tobias
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Quote from: Tobias
I'm reading Beowulf. Owl

A translation or original?


[/quote

A translation.  I wouldn't know what to do with an original. Dunce



Is it a verse translation or a prose translation?  E. Talbot Donaldson's prose translation is my personal favorite, but Burton Rafael has a great verse translation.

I have both, but I prefer a prose translation.  Off the top of my head, I think this version was translated by Michael Wright.
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Tobias
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« Reply #52 on: June 17, 2009, 10:54:AM »
I'm sorry, but I'm having a slight problem figuring out the quote mechanism.  I'll get it soon enough. Bambino
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pocketharpy
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« Reply #53 on: June 17, 2009, 12:21:PM »
I finished The Last Superstition and have just started The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit by E. Michael Jones.  It's 1200 pages so it should keep me busy for awhile.  But, I'm also expecting The Day Without Yesterday: LeMaitre, Einstein and the Birth of Modern Cosmology from the library any day now so I may be double-dipping.  I love summer.
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Tobias
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« Reply #54 on: June 17, 2009, 12:37:PM »
I'm going to read "Why Must I Suffer?"  There's one thing I hate about pain; it hurts.
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Rosarium
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« Reply #55 on: June 17, 2009, 12:42:PM »
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I'm sorry, but I'm having a slight problem figuring out the quote mechanism.  I'll get it soon enough. Bambino

All quotes are in tags. A tag is a set of text to encompass text.

A tag is formed with the general scheme:

[ tag ]
Stuff in the tag
[ / tag ]

Spaces are there to prevent it from being seen as an actual tag.

[ quote ]
This is a quote.
[ / quote ]

Remove spaces:

Quote
This is a quote

Tags also have attributes, but those aren't important really for general use.
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Rosarium
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« Reply #56 on: June 17, 2009, 12:44:PM »
Quote from: Tobias
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Quote from: Tobias
I'm reading Beowulf. Owl

A translation or original?

A translation.  I wouldn't know what to do with an original. Dunce

(I fixed quote, added a ] to the tag. An unclosed tag is continued rather indefinately)

For the original, you read it. It works the same way Smile

Understanding it requires studying the language. I don't really know Anglo-Saxon well enough to read a book in it either. I do like to read Middle English texts in the original.
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salixbabylonica
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« Reply #57 on: June 18, 2009, 08:42:AM »
My, my, all these erudite people!  We should have a thread about "guilty pleasures: the books we are ashamed to admit we like" 

Well, I just finished The Importance of Being Ernest and Everyday life of the Aztecs, and have just started Our Lady Of Guadalupe: And The Conquest Of Darkness by Warren Carroll.  Next up, re-reading Northanger Abbey.  The books on Aztecs do not make for nice nightmares.   Ugh.

Mhoram, please do put up a list of good Catholic books.  That's one of my sticking points for finding new books to read - you get stuck with your few "safe" authors, since you don't want to waste your time on junk.  I'd love to hear what you've found good.
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Mrs_Spock
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« Reply #58 on: June 18, 2009, 10:21:AM »
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My, my, all these erudite people!  We should have a thread about "guilty pleasures: the books we are ashamed to admit we like" 

That'd be pretty much EVERY book I read... Embarrassed
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salixbabylonica
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« Reply #59 on: June 18, 2009, 10:45:AM »
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My, my, all these erudite people!  We should have a thread about "guilty pleasures: the books we are ashamed to admit we like" 

That'd be pretty much EVERY book I read... Embarrassed

 LOL
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