Re: CHAT: Relays, Link 1

Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
>
> On Sunday, August 19, 2001, at 11:53 PM, Shreyas Sampat wrote:
>
> > The first Texts:
> >
> > Nur Saraxasûh
> >
> [snip]
> > Nur Spoke
> >
> > Long ago, I was alone with the Chaos.
> > The noise of the Chaos pained my heart, and so I took refuge in the
> > Silence.
> > The Silence pained me too, and so I created the world.
> > Among the people of this world, I finally found my rightful place;
> > Where they worshipped me,
> > And named me their god.
> >
> So *that's* what the original was!  <squirm>  Okay, I *so* reinterpreted
> what I got it's not even funny, even if it does move toward this
> (unintentionally)....<G>
Hmm... you mean it changed alot before it got to you? I warped it a bit
(unintentionally) and reinterpreted a little, to make it fit the Ajuk
poetic style and culture/religion, but kept it more or less the same -
as I can see now.

> Is the following the 2nd text?  It seemed to be a new one but there wasn't
> a--boundary marked, so I missed it at first.
>
> > There were many children in the room;
> > Their noisy fun [can be heard] from the room;
> > [Causing] the woman to go into the room.
> > [She] said:
> >
> [snip]
> Wow, what a neat transition!  :-)  <thinking of rowdy middle school kids>
>
> All I can say now is, I wish I knew how to work toward the kind of
> richness and complexity I've seen in these first two texts...maybe in a
> decade or so.  <G>
;-) Yeah, both of these amaze me in those senses. Hopefully I'll get
there if I keep working at it. You never know.

--
Robert