[lit-ideas] Re: "That too much your head of sleep becomes"
- From: Judy Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2005 18:32:25 +0100
Saturday, June 4, 2005, 1:20:55 AM, Robert Paul wrote:
RP> Judy Evans wrote:
>> Auden.
RP> Sorry. I didn't see this until I replied.
I do that all the time...
I wondered whether guessing the author was as easy as I
thought, or only easy for Auden-sodden Brits. (And Oregonians, but a
Missouri man I know says Oregon's a UK suburb.)
While I was wondering, I got babelfish to translate then retranslate
this
>I heard the town of rumours everywhere, they say that you
>project to put to me downwards. All I would like that you make,
>is me say that it is not true. They say that you were seen with
>another man, that that it is large, dark and beautiful, and
>you hold his hand. Darlin ', I am say a-countin ' on you,
>to me that it is not true.
which everybody here will get right away! -- so it's something to do
with the style.
RP> What's interesting is that
RP> with a little syntactic smoothing, this diced and minced and reassembled
RP> Auden might well be accepted by the literary equivalent of the magazine
RP> that accepted Sokal's paper, some years back.
Yes. Alas.
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