---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <sharelong60@...> wrote :
more bubbles about bugs: in many countries bugs are eaten. I think chocolate
covered ants are considered a delicacy (-: OMG Steve be careful OTHO what a
sweet future and end
OTOH, butterflies are not, as far as I know, having traveled internationally
only to Bermuda and Canada!
Ok I prefer Canada then
Share you easy can recognize meru riding a masked zebra using his danda as a
riding stick hoping to catch a one winged butterfly
Bermuda?no
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpoqcU_WRbg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpoqcU_WRbg
On Thursday, July 31, 2014 8:46 AM, merudanda <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
Franz Kafka - Die Verwandlung https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_nCmHAjxMo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_nCmHAjxMo
Franz Kafka - Die Verwandlung https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_nCmHAjxMo
Interpretaion von Franz Kafkas Erzählung "Die Verwandlung" (uraltes
Schulprojekt)
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The Metamorphosis, Verwandlung of Steve Sundur
As Steve awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in
his bed into a gigantic, some sort of monstrous , insect. He was lying on his
hard, as it were armor-plated, back and when he lifted his head a little he
could see his domelike brown belly divided into stiff arched segments on top of
which the bed quilt could hardly stay in place and was about to slide off
completely. His numerous legs, which were pitifully thin compared to the rest
of his bulk, waved helplessly before his eyes.
What has happened to me? he thought...."nothing earth shattering.. noticed that
that emotion got arrested before it could surface"
"Adapted from Kafkas
:Als Gregor Samsa eines Morgens aus unruhigen Träumen erwachte, fand er sich in
seinem Bett zu einem ungeheueren Ungeziefer verwandelt. Er lag auf seinem
panzerartig harten Rücken und sah, wenn er den Kopf ein wenig hob, seinen
gewölbten, braunen, von bogenförmigen Versteifungen geteilten Bauch, auf dessen
Höhe sich die Bettdecke, zum gänzlichen Niedergleiten bereit, kaum noch
erhalten konnte. Seine vielen, im Vergleich zu seinem sonstigen Umfang kläglich
dünnen Beine flimmerten ihm hilflos vor den Augen.»Was ist mit mir geschehen?«
dachte er."
Steve.Merudanda is just trolling , bubbling from collected mind of T(R)olles
collective universal consciousness!
lol with his numerous legs waving helplessly before your eyes.
For cardemaister:
In the opening sentence the epithet " ungeheueres Ungeziefer" poses one of the
greatest challenges to translate. Both the adjective ungeheuer (meaning
“monstrous” or “huge” and "gigantic") and the noun Ungeziefer are negations—
virtual nonentities—prefixed by "un".
Ungeziefer comes from the Middle High German ungezibere, a negation of the Old
High German zebar (related to the Old English ti’ber), meaning “sacrifice” or
“sacrificial animal.”
An ungezibere, then, is an unclean animal unfit for sacrifice, and Ungeziefer
describes the class of nasty creepy-crawly things.( The word in German suggests
primarily six-legged critters, though it otherwise resembles the English word
“vermin” which refers primarily to rodents).
Ungeziefer is also used informally as the equivalent of “bug,”(beware not Buck
or make a buck on) though the connotation is “dirty, nasty bug”—(you wouldn’t
apply the word to cute, helpful creatures like ladybugs). Transforming into
“some sort of monstrous insect” with “some sort of” added to blur the borders
of the somewhat too specific “insect”and " gigantic" suggest the
overwhelming-ness; A new body and condition with the same hazy focus with which
Steve himself discovers, noticing without emotional arrest, with his penchant
for the blurred perceptions of bewilderment.
About the one leitmotif and theme of ruhig/unruhig. (the narrative oscillates
between untroubled and troubled, tranquil and harried, peaceful and unsettled. )
Ruhig denotes “calm,” “peaceful,” “quiet,” “tranquil,” “at ease,” and unruhig
its opposite. Starting with the "unruhigen Träume" are often translated
with“troubled dreams”) in the first sentence,
Panzerartig .
Denotes to trading his spine for an exoskeleton, but even this armorlike
shell (“carapace” and “armor” are the same word in German, Panzer) is no
defense for a willingly accepted wretchedness thrust-ed upon , erring by
failing to act.
The German word "Verwandlung" does not suggest a natural change of state
associated with the animal kingdom such as the change from caterpillar to 60
Share butterfly. It is a word from fairy tales, suitable for a FFL Fairy Field
Life forum, used to describe the transformation, say, of a girl’s seven FFL
brothers into swans. “Metamorphosis” refers to this, too. Its first definition
in the Oxford English Dictionary is
“The action or process of changing in form, shape, or substance; esp.
transformation by supernatural means.”
http://www.oed.com/view/source/a50008;jsessionid=86825B7BA5502353A4ABEE982E55B73E?result=776&rskey=7v6Q3x&sourceScope=FIRST_IN_SENSE
http://www.oed.com/view/source/a50008;jsessionid=86825B7BA5502353A4ABEE982E55B73E?result=776&rskey=7v6Q3x&sourceScope=FIRST_IN_SENSE
More in the sense in which it’s used, for instance, in translations of Ovid.
Steve a salesman?
6:41 PM #391184
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In Steve greatest sense of freedom does he crawl ,enjoys tragicomic crawling
around the walls and ceiling of his room and FFL?
(The German verb kriechen which also translates as “to creep” has ironically
the additional meaning of “to cower.” To kriechen before someone is to act
sycophantically toward someone. A representation of a new "verwandelte"
physical state of a long-standing spiritual abjectness?)
Selling himself? His own agency and dignity? Making himself a sellout through
and through? Can we describing Steve as a “drummer” (commercial traveler),
referring back to another of Kafkas ilk, “a hardworking drummer who landed in
the ash can like all the rest of them”?
NO...no of course...
(silence between two thought bubble)....
not
Just having bathetical fun with a most luminous, suggestive transformation by
supernatural means (or read Kafka´s little booklet)
No- your opinion-----?cardemaister
As merudanda said already.
Merudanda is just t(r)olling , bubbling from collected pushing-button- mind of
T(R)olles collective universal consciousness!
lol with his numerous legs waving helplessly before your eyes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ittRIBvWl9Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ittRIBvWl9Q
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <steve.sundur@...> wrote :
I remember meditating one time, and I saw a bug crawling in the corner of the
room, and instead of a frightened response, which would have been normal for
me, I noticed that that emotion got arrested before it could surface.
I mean, nothing earth shattering. I just remember it as being sort of funny.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <sharelong60@...> wrote :
OTOH, Byron Katie popped in while she was crouched in terror under a bed in
the attic of a rehab house. And a cockroach crawled across her leg. Glad she
didn't teach THAT as a technique!
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