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mcgeary: May 2009

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Tuesday, May 12, 2009. Here are a few of my favourites. To call a bad thing bad is to do little. To call a good thing good is to do much" - Goethe. That which is seen is temporal, that which is unseen is eternal" - The Book of Corinthians. The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love. That's the message we're brought up with, isn't it? Thank you, forgiving Lord, for all those options'" - Bill Hicks. These are the days when men of all social disciplines andall ...

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Virginia Tech & Self Esteem - Manifestos of the Moon

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Virginia Tech and Self Esteem - Manifestos of the Moon. Virginia Tech and Self Esteem. Life that is not perishable is not worth living. Of you and me. Lie in this cup. Which I raise up. And drink to you. And press your lips. Drink down the mix. Of me and you. We press our lips. To touch the trace. Of wine that drips. From face to hips! Virginia Tech and Self Esteem. Apr 21st, 2007 @ 06:53 pm. April 22-26, 2007, pages 21-24. But this is talk without much thought behind it. Narcissus gazed into a pond,...

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On the Subject of Being Different - The Adventures of a Confounded Spinning Ball

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On the Subject of Being Different - The Adventures of a Confounded Spinning Ball. The Adventures of a Confounded Spinning Ball. On the Subject of Being Different. Jul 27th, 2008 09:46 pm. The Adventures of a Confounded Spinning Ball. Cross posted at Engineering Education. I was a student attending the prestigious Math Olympiad Summer Program. MOSP) during the summer of 1993 when it was announced that mathematician Andrew Wiles. Whom I met a few times in San Diego, including at his own going away party ju...

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mcgeary: The First and Last Recipe: Ulysses

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Sunday, February 28, 2010. The First and Last Recipe: Ulysses. I've noticed that John Berger's 1991 essay on Joyce's. Is nowhere to be found online so I've typed it up and put it here. I first sailed into James Joyce's Ulysses. When I was 14 years old. I use the word sailed into. Because, as its title reminds us, the book is like an ocean; you do not read it, you navigate it. It was the French edition in English published by Shakespeare and Company. Stowbird had bought it in Paris on his last trip be...

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mcgeary: March 2014

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Thursday, March 27, 2014. Part 1: All Time Favourite Short Stories. 1 " The Shadow Industry" - Peter Carey. Simply the best distillation of consumerism in English literature. It could also have been written in the form of a sestina. The last paragraph also makes it a masterpiece of post-modernity. Also recommended by the same author: "A Schoolboy Prank" - Anybody who went to an all-boy's school will relate to it. 2 " The Garden Party" - Katherine Mansfield. An obvious choice that beats " The Prelude.

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mcgeary: May 2011

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Thursday, May 05, 2011. I do my blogging at http:/ blog.sina.com.cn/kmcgeary. The English is on the lower half of every post. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Lots of Big Ideas. I am blogs editor for South China-based news and events website The Nanfang. I also write and record comical songs in both English and Chinese. View my complete profile.

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mcgeary: Creative Writing Tips

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Wednesday, March 26, 2014. But when you're working in Shunde you have to pass the time somehow so why not do so in the most megalomaniacal way possible? As Scottish academic Alastair McIntosh put it: The world is a ball of strings (economics, politics, philosophy, ecology) and we can't pull on one without unravelling some others. Literature, in my opinion, is the best way of unravelling all these strings at the same time. Here are some tidbits of wisdom I have picked up so far. 2 Have a plot:. Dialogue s...

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mcgeary: July 2009

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Thursday, July 23, 2009. I wonder if this. Song is uncivilized. Every verse begins with an extra-linguistic scream, like a. But the lines that follow it rigidly rhyme with it. I wrote it myself. The lyrics translate as:. We're born in order to feel. It's what us mammals are good at. We'll all be swallowed by the earth. So I don't allow anything to embarrass me. This planet could silently disappear. Why do you dedicate your life to doing nothing? Singers are just monsters of egotism. Links to this post.

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mcgeary: On translating comical lyrics into Chinese

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Tuesday, July 16, 2013. On translating comical lyrics into Chinese. Author and linguist Alan Garner once said: "The more I contemplate the process of translation, the more I want to find a dark corner and die.". The process is particularly tricky with humour. There are all kinds of reasons why much humour does not easily cross cultural boundaries. One of them is that different cultures have different taboos. Against political correctness proves. Below that is my attempt at rendering it in Chinese. So son...