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angevin2

[NPM] today's poem

Apr 28, 2011 15:25

Ballade des Pendus (L'Epitaphe Villon)
Francois Villon Freres humains qui après nous vivez ( Read more... )

national poetry month 2011, poetry: 15th century, poetry, poetry: non-english: french

Comments 7

speak_me_fair April 28 2011, 21:01:25 UTC

OMG the translation!

*loves on*

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murasaki_1966 April 28 2011, 22:29:29 UTC

Have you read Robert Louis Stevvenson's essay on him?

murasaki_1966 April 28 2011, 22:27:46 UTC

That is a great translation. Much better than some I've read.

ext_104773 April 29 2011, 04:24:11 UTC

There was altogether too much rotting flesh for me to be comfy.

angevin2 April 29 2011, 04:34:47 UTC

Dude, your dissertation was about zombies.

ext_104773 April 29 2011, 17:02:10 UTC

Just because I work on it doesn't mean it makes me COMFORTABLE.

Besides, there are more grotesque fresh wounds in my dissertation than rotting flesh. I mean, speaking out of a wheezing windpipe because your head's been cut off? That's just good fun. Rotting flesh is icky.

rikibeth May 1 2011, 14:20:36 UTC

oh, that translation gave me CHILLS. The good kind. The best poetry is as addictive as any drug.