-[I]- Interview in today's Sunday Telegraph "Seven" magazine + Winnie the Pooh returns!
Reader in Invisible Writings
interview with the Great Man in the above journal. Many things are
mentioned including UA which "fizzes as exuberantly as all the others."
apparently. Also a hint that TP has/had a touch of a type of synthesia
(sp?). Not finished it yet but I though I would share it with you all
in case you had not recycled the froth or know who to beg a copy from at
work tomorrow ;-)
There is also the first chapter of "Return to the Hundred Acre Wood" and
authorised sequel.
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Reader in Invisible Writings.. Something to Ponder upon!
Anthony Frost
Reader in Invisible Writings <markfo...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry it's too late for most people, but I have just come across an
> interview with the Great Man in the above journal.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/6231337/SIr-Terry-Pratchett-interview.html
Anthony
Reader in Invisible Writings
Emma Anne
> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/6231337/
> SIr-Terry-Pratchett-interview.html
Damn. That was hard to read.
Reader in Invisible Writings
I must admit that on my part I would have stopped before the end if it
was not for wanting to find out what the interviewer had gleaned.
Emma Anne
> Emma Anne wrote:
> > Anthony Frost <Vu...@vulch.org> wrote:
> >
> >> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/6231337/
> >> SIr-Terry-Pratchett-interview.html
> >
> > Damn. That was hard to read.
> The message or the medium, or both?
>
> I must admit that on my part I would have stopped before the end if it
> was not for wanting to find out what the interviewer had gleaned.
The message. My heart hurts for Pterry.
Daniel Orner
I was quite floored by this:
> 'However, I do get a lot of weird Christians with a little red glint on
> their spectacles and spittle at the corner of their mouths who say
> things like, �The Commandment says, Thou Shalt Not Kill.� And I always
> say, �Well, that�s rather strange given how bloodthirsty Jehovah was.�
> Personally, I think the Commandment should read, Thou Shalt Commit No
> Murder, which is rather different.
That's actually exactly what it says. In Hebrew, "Thou shalt not kill"
would be "Lo Taharog". The commandment instead says "Lo Tirtzach", which
indeed means "Thou shalt not murder".
As for the interview, I was quite heartened by it, in fact. He
obviously still has all his intellectual faculties, which is not only
good news for us but for him as well. I've never met the man in person,
but he seems to positively revel in ideas and words, so the fact that
he's fully capable of both is a good thing.
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http://roleplayingjew.blogspot.com/ - An Orthodox Jew who plays Japanese
role-playing games? Strange but true!
Richard Bos
> Anthony Frost wrote:
> > Reader in Invisible Writings <markfo...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/6231337/SIr-Terry-Pratchett-interview.html
> I was quite floored by this:
>
> > 'However, I do get a lot of weird Christians with a little red glint on
> > their spectacles and spittle at the corner of their mouths who say
> > things like, �The Commandment says, Thou Shalt Not Kill.� And I always
> > say, �Well, that�s rather strange given how bloodthirsty Jehovah was.�
> > Personally, I think the Commandment should read, Thou Shalt Commit No
> > Murder, which is rather different.
>
> That's actually exactly what it says. In Hebrew, "Thou shalt not kill"
> would be "Lo Taharog". The commandment instead says "Lo Tirtzach", which
> indeed means "Thou shalt not murder".
In the Dutch, translation, too: "Gij zult niet doodslaan", which has
rather different overtones than "doden" (which is the direct translation
of the English "kill") would have.
It's struck me before how oblique, imprecise, and occasionally simply
incorrect, the KJV can be. In itself this would not be a problem, but
there are people in the Anglo-Saxon world who, unfortunately, tend to
take the translated words of the KJV as more of a guide than they take
the intent behind the original words.
> As for the interview, I was quite heartened by it, in fact. He
> obviously still has all his intellectual faculties, which is not only
> good news for us but for him as well. I've never met the man in person,
> but he seems to positively revel in ideas and words, so the fact that
> he's fully capable of both is a good thing.
I quite agree.
Richard
Nigel Stapley
> Daniel Orner <dmo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Anthony Frost wrote:
>>> Reader in Invisible Writings <markfo...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/6231337/SIr-Terry-Pratchett-interview.html
>
>> I was quite floored by this:
>>
>> > 'However, I do get a lot of weird Christians with a little red glint on
>> > their spectacles and spittle at the corner of their mouths who say
>> > Personally, I think the Commandment should read, Thou Shalt Commit No
>> > Murder, which is rather different.
>>
>> That's actually exactly what it says. In Hebrew, "Thou shalt not kill"
>> would be "Lo Taharog". The commandment instead says "Lo Tirtzach", which
>> indeed means "Thou shalt not murder".
>
> In the Dutch, translation, too: "Gij zult niet doodslaan", which has
> rather different overtones than "doden" (which is the direct translation
> of the English "kill") would have.
In Welsh (at least in the versions which have had equivalent status to
the KJV), it's "Na ladd", which means "Do not kill". But those versions
were initially translated from the Vulgate and later 'tidied up' to
bring it more in line - doctrinally speaking - with the AV.
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Regards
Nigel Stapley
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