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“In other words, life is an attempt to realize one’s own nature in one’s own soul. The man who fails to recognize it as such is hopelessly bewildered by the irrational character of the universe, which he takes to be real; and he cannot but regard it as aimless and absurd. The adventures of his body and mind, with their desires for material and moral well-being, are obviously as foredoomed to disaster as Don Quixote’s. He must be a fool if he struggles on (against inexorable fate) to obtain results which he knows can only end in catastrophe, a climax the more bitter as he clings the more closely to his impossible ideals.”
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“In other words, life is an attempt to realize one’s own nature in one’s own soul. The man who fails to recognize it as such is hopelessly bewildered by the irrational character of the universe, which he takes to be real; and he cannot but regard it as aimless and absurd. The adventures of his body and mind, with their desires for material and moral well-being, are obviously as foredoomed to disaster as Don Quixote’s. He must be a fool if he struggles on (against inexorable fate) to obtain results which he knows can only end in catastrophe, a climax the more bitter as he clings the more closely to his impossible ideals.”
#aFool #absurd #adventures #against #aimless #aleisterCrowley #attempt #body #book #book220 #canOnlyEndIn #catastrophe #climax #clings #desires #disaster #DonQuixote #fails #foredoomed #hopelesslyBewildered #impossibleIdeals #inOtherWords #inexorableFate #irrationalCharacter #knows #LiberAL #liberCCXX #liberLegis #life #man #material #mind #moral #moreBitter #moreClosely #nature #NewComment #obtain #obviously #oneSOwn #quote #real #realize #recognize #regardItAs #results #soul #strugglesOn #TheBookOfTheLaw #universe #WellBeing
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okay, In Other Words by Mona Baker, now done. it's the first of three Translation Theory books I'm planning on tackling, so I don't really have anything to compare it to, but it was billed as a college-level textbook, and I can 100% see a class based around it. it was organized quite well, I thought, starting with a discussion of word equivalencies, and proceeding through phrases, texts, and finally how individual texts relate to whole societies and humanity. in general, it felt very introductory, like, this would be your first semester's Intro To Translation Theory class. 👍
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you know a book is good when it's got diagrams like this. #amReading #InOtherWords (by Mona Baker)