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| Thread ID: 30009 | 2003-02-08 07:42:00 | OT (almost) Die ich rief, die Geister, | rugila (214) | Press F1 |
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| 119362 | 2003-02-09 05:03:00 | > Jede dumpfe Umkehr der Welt hat solche Enterbte, > denen das Frühere nicht und noch nicht das Nächste > gehört. If you run that through babelfish you get: Each dull/musty reversal of the world has such Enterbte, to which the earlier belongs not and not yet the next. But I think this is more correct: Each sluggish revolution of the world leaves its dispossessed-heirs either of things past nor of those impending. - The Seventh Duino Elegy by Rainer Maria Rilke |
Jen C (20) | ||
| 119363 | 2003-02-09 08:57:00 | Pretty good. I’d be more inclined to say something like: Each purposeless change of the world brings forth its disinherited (or dispossessed) ones, to whom belongs neither what has gone nor what is yet to come. But still … the difficulty is making good English out of good German, in which the meaning is reasonably clear. You’re OK. |
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