…γῆς ἱδρῶτα θάλασσαν… — Ἐμπεδοκλῆς
“The sea is the sweat of the earth.” — Empedocles (c. 495–435 BC), Fragments 165
Category Archives: Translation
Noise from Nowhere
• Es war, als ob er irgendwohin horchte, auf irgend ein unheimliches Geräusch. — Thomas Mann, Der kleine Herr Friedemann (1897)
• He seemed somehow to be listening, listening to some uncanny noise from nowhere. — “Little Herr Friedemann” (translated by David Luke)
Performativizing Papyrocentricity #57
Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:
• Do and Die — The Reason Why, Cecil Woodham-Smith (1953) (posted at O.-o.-t.-Ü)
• Liddell im Wörterland – Liddell and Scott’s Greek-English Lexicon, Henry George Liddell and Robert Scott (1843)
• Lunar or Later – Moon: From 4.5 billion years ago to the present: Owners’ Workshop Manual, David M. Harland (Haynes 2016)
• Headlong into Nightmare – Headlong Hall (1816) / Nightmare Abbey (1818)
• Twisted Tales – Biggles’ Big Adventures: Four Classic Stories Starring the British Empire’s Most Fearless Pilot Adventurer, Captain W.E. Johns (Sevenoaks 2007)
• Stop the Brott – staying the serial slaying of a sanguinivorous psychoanalyst
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Performativizing Papyrocentricity #56
Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:
• Sympathetic Sinner – The Light of Day, Eric Ambler (1962)
• Voy Polloi – The Voynich Manuscript: the unsolved riddle of an extraordinary book which has defied interpretation for centuries, Gerry Kennedy and Rob Churchill (Orion paperback 2005)
• Non Angeli, Sed Anglicani – That Was The Church That Was: How the Church of England Lost the English People, Andrew Brown and Linda Woodhead (Bloomsbury 2016)
• Geller Feller – The Magic of Uri Geller, as revealed by the Amazing Randi (1982)
• Voy Veh – The Voyeur’s Motel, Gay Talese (2016)
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Performativizing Papyrocentricity #55
Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:
• Arms and the Manager – Passage of Arms, Eric Ambler (1959)
• Tods and Toads – The Complete Tales of Beatrix Potter, Beatrix Potter (Frederick Warne 1989)
• La Guerre et la Gaule – Le Tour de Gaule d’Asterix, René Goscinny et Albert Uderzo (Hachette 1967)
• The Hurt Shocker – an exclusive extract from Titans of Transgression, ed. Dr Miriam B. Stimbers and Dr Samuel P. Salatta (TransVisceral Books, forthcoming)
• Schlock Xpress – The Bad Movie Bible: The Ultimate Modern Guide to Movies That Are So Bad They’re Good, Rob Hill (Art of Publishing 2017)
• Brott und der Tod – The Maximum Security Yoga Club, Mikita Brottman (TransVisceral Books 2017)
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He Say, He Sigh, He Sow #45
…ψάμμος ἀριθμὸν περιπέφευγεν… — Πίνδαρου Ολυμπιόνικος ΙΙ, 98
“…the sand escapes all numbering…” — Pindar, Second Olympian Ode, line 98
Performativizing Papyrocentricity #54
Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:
• Protean Prose – The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby, Charles Kingsley (1863)
• Schmetterlingsschmuck – Butterfly, Thomas Marent (Dorling Kindersley 2013)
• Criblia – ბიბლია / Biblia (Georgian Bible) (2013)
• Micro Macro – Super Bugs: The Biggest, Fastest, Deadliest Creepy Crawlies on the Planet, John Woodward with Dr George McGavin (Dorling Kindersley 2016)
• Chute: The Lot – The Fallen: Life In and Out of Britain’s Most Insane Group, Dave Simpson (Canongate paperback 2009)
• Twice Has Thrice the Vice – Pisces, Peter Sotos, with an introduction by Dr Miriam B. Stimbers (TransVisceral Books 2017)
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Performativizing Papyrocentricity #53
Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:
• Pocket to Laroussia – Larousse de Poche (Librarie Larousse 1954)
• Translated to Heaven – Les Hommes Volants, Valerie Moolman, trans. Madeleine Astorkia (Time-Life Books 1981)
• The Eyes of the Infinite Mind – Ficciones, Jorge Luis Borges
• Caught by the Furze – Francis Walker’s Aphids, John P. Doncaster (British Museum 1961)
• Commit to Crunch – Maverick Munch: Selecting a Sinisterly Savory Snack to Reinforce Your Rhizomatically Radical Reading, Will Self (TransVisceral Books 2016)
Or Read a Review at Random: RaRaR
He Say, He Sigh, He Sow #43
Me dijo que su libro se llamaba el Libro de Arena, porque ni el libro ni la arena tienen ni principio ni fin. — Jorge Luis Borges, “El Libro de Arena” (1975)
He told me that his book was called the Book of Sand, because neither book nor sand has beginning or end. — Borges, “The Book of Sand“
He Say, He Sigh, He Sow #40
Muerto, no faltarán manos piadosas que me tiren por la baranda; mi sepultura será el aire insondable; mi cuerpo se hundirá largamente y se corromperá y disolverá en el viento engendrado por la caída, que es infinita. — «La biblioteca de Babel» (1941), Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986).
When I die, there shall be no lack of pious hands to cast me over the railing; my grave shall be the fathomless air; my body shall fall for ever and rot and dissolve in the wind generated by the fall, which is everlasting. — “The Library of Babel”, Jorge Luis Borges.
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