Comments | wwidsith: Issues.

wwidsith

Issues.

Aug 19, 2009 15:12

Brisbane is all clean blue skies and crisp tall buildings and newness. Australia seems even newer and more plastic than ever after Paris, although that is also why it's so lovely here. They call this winter - ha! We have been out sunbathing all day. The disparate members of our family are gradually coming together, which is always a huge pleasure ( Read more... )

wearing the old coat, family, australia, always roaming with a hungry heart, language, poetry

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herself_nyc August 19 2009, 13:39:28 UTC

I think it's crappy writing that an editor should have caught and rephrased.

wwidsith August 19 2009, 21:43:35 UTC

Yeah. It is rather infelicitously phrased.

norabird August 19 2009, 17:37:37 UTC

congrats on the abode!

and what a lovely reading. i had never thought of a marriage that way, but when i read the poem i instantly thought: "aah--yes!" the third body.

wwidsith August 19 2009, 21:44:40 UTC

Thanks! I only discovered it a few days ago myself, but I already feel like I'll be re-reading it for years.

ruakh August 20 2009, 01:38:57 UTC

> But, for Livy, Roman patriotism is overriding, and this issues, of course, in an antiquarian attention to the city's origins.

I understood it by mentally "correcting" it to the similar-sounding "ushers in", which is an expression I'm familiar with - and with that "correction", the placement of "of course" becomes quite awkward. I suspect that in the genuine expression "issues in", "in" is actually a normal preposition, in which case the placement of "of course" is reasonable (just as we could say "and this results, of course, in an antiquarian attention to the city's origins").

wwidsith August 20 2009, 07:44:17 UTC

Yes, it's a normal preposition.... just not one I'm used to seeing with 'issues'

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wwidsith August 30 2009, 16:59:36 UTC

I SAW THE METER MAIDS. THEY WERE AWESOME.

Surfers was quite bizarre but also quite a lot of fun, and a pretty good location for the joint hen/stag (bucks, as you would say) do. I really hope I can get down to see Canberra eventually, but the problem with having family over there is that every time we go we end up going back to the same places to see everyone...

weofodthignen September 2 2009, 04:09:00 UTC

Lovely choice of poem, well done :-)

I was familiar with "issues in." He's writing in this tentative, over-qualified, slightly precious way--maybe he should examine that logical connection he makes in the sentence--but I didn't actually blink at it and frankly I see more tortuous things in academic German.

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