Passion used to mean suffering in English, now it means lust.
Tom Send a noteboard - 19/05/2010 03:21:47 PM
And "Lust", in German, just means any desire, not necessarily an overwhelming or sexual one.
Meanings just change as languages grow apart. The Czech and Russian words were probably much closer in meaning 500 years ago.
Meanings just change as languages grow apart. The Czech and Russian words were probably much closer in meaning 500 years ago.
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
Russian Book Club: Chapaev and Pustota or Buddha's Little Finger
- 16/05/2010 03:42:07 PM
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I'll have my full thoughts up in a few hours
- 16/05/2010 04:33:54 PM
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Could you give me a better reference as to where that was in the book?
- 17/05/2010 03:09:16 AM
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Chapter 5, just before Kocurkin appears for the first time. *NM*
- 17/05/2010 02:34:30 PM
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In Russian it says "succubus" became the Russian "suka" or "bitch" *NM*
- 17/05/2010 02:49:03 PM
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Ahh, so the English version is closer.
- 17/05/2010 07:38:35 PM
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This reply is mostly empty of thoughts. 
- 16/05/2010 05:37:54 PM
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- 16/05/2010 05:37:54 PM
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I'll wait until it is substantially empty but nominally full, then. 
*NM*
- 17/05/2010 03:09:52 AM
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*NM*
- 17/05/2010 03:09:52 AM
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OK, here's what I wrote for the OF Blog on this book
- 17/05/2010 02:22:18 AM
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I like the way your review is an un-review.
- 17/05/2010 03:08:20 AM
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That's what I wanted to convey, since it's hard to be definitive with such a work
- 17/05/2010 03:16:19 AM
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I wouldn't term it "fantasy".
- 18/05/2010 02:24:40 PM
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My thoughts.
- 17/05/2010 02:16:11 PM
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Pelevin isn't a real Buddhist, he's a superficial pop-culture Buddhist.
- 18/05/2010 02:33:37 PM
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Re: Pelevin isn't a real Buddhist, he's a superficial pop-culture Buddhist.
- 18/05/2010 10:37:36 PM
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It is apparently called Clay Machine Gun in the UK.
- 17/05/2010 02:41:41 PM
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It's Čapajev a Prázdnota (Chapaev and Emptiness) in Czech
- 17/05/2010 07:46:14 PM
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In Russian prazdny or prazdnost' would mean "lazy, inactive" *NM*
- 18/05/2010 02:21:42 PM
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And pustota means barrenness or desolateness in Czech.
- 18/05/2010 10:51:22 PM
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Passion used to mean suffering in English, now it means lust.
- 19/05/2010 03:21:47 PM
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Bah. No bookshop in Edinburgh has it. Amazon will have to be my saviour.
- 18/05/2010 12:56:28 PM
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I like this passage about 10 pages from the end of the book on Russia
- 17/05/2010 02:56:49 PM
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I think the pseudo-Buddhist bit is not as good as the Russian vodka psychology.
- 18/05/2010 02:35:07 PM
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Perhaps
- 18/05/2010 02:38:24 PM
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All and none. Russia is a paradox, but one that can be explained.
- 19/05/2010 03:30:58 PM
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Re: I think the pseudo-Buddhist bit is not as good as the Russian vodka psychology.
- 18/05/2010 11:12:10 PM
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And I still don't have a copy of this book!
- 17/05/2010 07:37:35 PM
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I'll bet you could find a Russian version online if you searched rambler.ru. *NM*
- 18/05/2010 02:35:49 PM
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Re: I know a weird "lending library" sort of site that can give you the English version.
- 20/05/2010 12:48:57 PM
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