deconvolution

(via bruce sterling on ello)

CIZDA'U

ruxypre tcadu

(via @ACKstronomy on twitter)

      1.

A rich enclave in the southern part of the city. Its hilly, winding streets have never been mapped. I never met anyone who had ever lived there. For a short time i threw a paper route in the area. I came to believe something caused the streets to permute into a different configuration every night.

      2.

First day of work at the new job. Every computer is turned to the same image. I've never seen streaming video before, & i have trouble figuring out what i'm seeing. Smoke is churning like a moving wall through downtown streets. Again & again an airplane hits one tower. An explosion. Then the second plane.

acroteria

Niki de Saint Phalle thread.

Dallas by Plutolight.

Albino vampire plants. (via @KameronHurley)

conspire

.I'I GANAI DO POI
DIRBA MI KU'O .E MI
NU'O JGARI LE MULNO
MU'ERCISTE GI MI'O
CU'E .IACU'I PORPI
JE FINTI RA JA'E LENU
LE CNINO MUNJE CU ZMADU
FI LEKA MI'O ZANRU

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(translated from this)

two poems translated

'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.

misspelled meme

untranslatable

This poem.

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...