'All is laughter, all is dust, all is nothing,
for all that is cometh from unreason.' --Glycon X.125 in the Greek Anthology (tr Paten)
Returning to this from my blog. How would it look in Lojban?
CMILYKAI JE PULCYKAI FA RODA
.IJE TRAJYTOLSMU
.INI'IBO RO ZASTI
CAPU SE KRASI LO KALSA
(My English version: Laughter, dust, & nothingness are all/ we know, since from Unreason we did fall.)
'This body,
grown fragile, floating,
a reed cut from its roots...
if a stream would ask me
to follow, I'd go, I think.'
--Ono no Komachi (tr Hirshfield & Aratani)
FRILI SE PORPI
XADNI JEKE SE KATNA
GENJA .I FULTA
.I GANAI PA RI'ECMA
CU RETSKU MI GI KANKLA
In my English:
Spun glass, my body
hovers, cut off at the roots;
if any trickle
were to ask me to follow
i'd be the last to decline.
Looking at 'winding streets' for the latter, DARGU although KLAJI is closer in meaning; for the former 'curve' KRUVI & 'spiral' (my preference) SARLU. So: SARLU DARGU...
The dictionary suggests SNOCANCI ('slow-vanish') for 'fade' although i think the effect is not visible change so much as a contrast to a previous state; hence 'more weak' ZMADU RUBLE which has several forms (ZMA MAU and RUB BLE). Then--RUBZMA LUNRA to continue the pattern of double assonance.
Finally, 'door' can only be VORME, and the form of 'you' i want is DONPRE:
SARLU DARGU .! RUBZMA LUNRA .I DONPRE VORME
which has the succinctness of the original, & at least a slight sense of the wordplay...
(via)
"I have poked into every dark recess, I have made an assault on every problem, I have plunged into every abyss..." --Deliverance from Error
"But if their metaphysical theories had been as cogent and definite as their arithmetical knowledge is, they would not have differed among themselves on metaphysical questions, as they do not differ on the arithmetical." --introduction to Incoherence of the Incoherent
"It were no marvel if the students of the realities underlying the terminology were puzzled by the multiplicity of these terms, and imagined a corresponding multiplicity of ideas. But he to whom the realities beneath the terms are disclosed makes the ideas primary and the terms secondary: while inferior minds take the opposite course." --The Science of Symbolism (from Niche of Lights)
"But if any one of them stands up in a state of genuine ecstasy all the rest should stand up with him, and if any one's turban fall off the others should also lay their turbans down." --Alchemy of Happiness, V.
2.256 Allah! Ne ekzistas alia Dio ol Li, la Vivanta, la Sendependa kaj Cxiosubtenanta; nek dormobezono nek dormo venkas Lin. Kio estas en la cxielo kaj sur la tero, cxio apartenas al Li. Kiu povas propeti cxe Li sen Lia permeso? Li scias, kio estas antaw kaj malantaw la homoj, kaj ili nenion komprenas el Lia scio ol tion, kion Li volas. Lia regno enhavas la cxielojn kaj la teron kaj la regardo de ambaw ne lacigas Lin. Li estas la Eminenta, la Grandega.
REKI'O REMUMU TU'E
.IA CEVNI JO MUSYCEI .I JMIVE JE CIMNI .I NAKU SIPNO JE TOLMORJI .I TERDI JE TSANI PONSE .I LO REMNA KO'AGOI LE MUSYCEI .IO KA'E TAVLA .IJO RI CURMI LENU LA'EDI'U .I CRANE JE TRIXE DJUNO .I GU'O REMNA JIMPE GI MUSYCEI JDICE .I LE TERDI .E LE TSANI CU SABJI LE STIZU KO'A .I RI NA TATPI LEZU'O KURJI .I BANCU RODA .I BARDA TRAJI TU'U
"Frost on a summer day:
all I leave behind is water
that has washed my brush."
--Shutei
two versions:
CISYDEI BISLI
.I DA'AMEI STALI FA
LEMI BRULUMJAU
(DA'AMEI for 'only' is somewhat idiosyncratic; more regularly--)
CISYDEI BISLI
STALI FA PADA NO'U
LEMI BRULUMJAU
"Life is an ever-rolling wheel
And every day is the right one.
He who recites poems at his death
Adds frost to snow."
--Mumon Gensen
LE XRUTI BA'O
CIMNI .I MOKCA PRANE
.I FANMO PEMCI
SE BACRU DA POI DUNDA
LE BISLI LE DUJYJAU
Literally: 'The returner has been infinite. Moment-perfect! End-poem-uttered-by one who gives ice to frozen water.'
