quinacridone
@quinacridone@lemmy.ml
When I die I hope it’s doing 2 of my favourite activities- sitting and doing nothing.
- Comment on Faries are real! 3 weeks ago:
You can read up on them, and see some nice photos here on mander… they’re really interesting creatures!
- Comment on Smart 1 month ago:
- Comment on ‘Severance’ Season 2 Finally Gets First Footage as Adam Scott Returns to Lumon — With Balloons 5 months ago:
I went in blind…
Us too, we had no idea, just that it seemed highly recommended
Each episode had us going WTF and trying to work out the ‘puzzle’ of it all…don’t even get me started on the utterly bizarre waffle party
- Comment on ‘Severance’ Season 2 Finally Gets First Footage as Adam Scott Returns to Lumon — With Balloons 5 months ago:
Looking forward to this!
Me and the bf really enjoyed the WTF puzzling of the first season and the beautiful aesthetic, I just hope they continue the quality and don’t shit the bed…
- Comment on magic beneath the forests 7 months ago:
Guilty as charged
- Comment on magic beneath the forests 7 months ago:
I rather like this one…
wearily she waves
the white flag of surrender
cobwebbed butterfly
—Tracy Davidson from here
Pawprints fade, empty
Silence fills the empty space
Love lives on, always
From here
I sometimes feel that the classic haiku are let down by some translations, and the fact there are Japanese words that don’t translate across very well or at all.
I have a soft spot for this one
The old pond,
A frog jumps in:
Plop!
Translated by Alan Watts from here
It’s interesting to see how each translation differs, and tries to put into English something that is probably untranslatable…also…
pond
frog
plop!
Translated by James Kirkup
‘The sound of water’ ‘kerplunk’ ‘splashing the water’ ‘leap, splash’ ‘water note’ …just don’t capture it for me
Do you know any that are decent?
- Comment on magic beneath the forests 7 months ago:
I discovered The CryptoNaturalist over at the other place, and ending up buying ‘Field Guide to the Haunted Forest’ and ‘Love Notes from the Hollow Tree’ by Jarod K. Anderson…
Which is unusual for me as I detest poetry. I think it’s a pile of long-winded, navel gazing wank…Except for haiku, (because they’re short and sweet, and condense things down to their essence, which I like).
I like The CryptoNaturalist though, probably because they write about nature in a weird, beautiful and wonderous way. I want to use the word ‘magical’ to describe it, but am reluctant, for reasons
Also, thanks to this post I just found out there’s a couple of other books available which I’m going to buy tonight 😀
