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Even as someone who doesnt translate, I get this.... Doug On 8-May-06, at 4:19 PM, Pierre Joris wrote: > 1) of course, poetry is untranslatable. and that's exactly why we have > to translate it. > > 2) anything put into language is already a translation, language is > already a translation, so there is no pre-translation, no original > untranslated text. and if all is always-already translation, why > worry? > > 3) belief is useless when translating or writing. > > Pierre Douglas Barbour 11655 - 72 Avenue NW Edmonton Ab T6G 0B9 (780) 436 3320 Latest book: Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy) http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664 White parchment trees Recording The brief lives of insects An automatic writing Telling all and nothing David Campbell