Re: Fear Is the Mind Killer

On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 12:11:59 -0000, caeruleancentaur
<caeruleancentaur@...> wrote:
> Many years ago I enjoyed Frank Herbert's "Dune."  I saw a movie
> version of it yesterday afternoon for the umpteenth time on AMC.  I
> was always impressed by the "Fear is the mind killer" passage.
I attempted to translate that to Klingon once (at
http://www.livejournal.com/users/jiqon/1197.html , in one of my
auxiliary LiveJournals). Here it is inline:

jIjeQHa'Qo'. yab HoH jeQHa'ghach. HeghHom 'oH jeQHa'ghach'e'. Qaw'chu'
jeQHa'ghach. jeQHa'ghachwIj vIqaDrup. DungwIjDaq leng 'ej muvegh 'e'
vIchaw'. mejpu'DI' HeDaj vIleghmeH qoD mInwIj vItlhe'moH. jeQHa'ghach
DaqDaq 'oHtaH pagh'e'. jIratlh jIH neH.

Or with an interlinear:

jIjeQHa'Qo'.
I refuse to be un-self-confident.

yab HoH jeQHa'ghach.
un-self-confident-ness kills the mind.

HeghHom 'oH jeQHa'ghach'e'.
un-self-confident-ness is the little-death.

Qaw'chu' jeQHa'ghach.
un-self-confident-ness utterly destroys.

jeQHa'ghachwIj vIqaDrup.
I am prepared to face my un-self-confident-ness.

DungwIjDaq leng 'ej muvegh 'e' vIchaw'.
I permit it to travel in the-area-above-me and to go through me.

mejpu'DI' HeDaj vIleghmeH qoD mInwIj vItlhe'moH.
As soon as it has departed, I will turn my inside-eye to see its route.

jeQHa'ghach DaqDaq 'oHtaH pagh'e'.
Nothing will be in the un-self-confident-ness's location.

jIratlh jIH neH.
Only *I* will remain.

Cheers,
--
Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
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