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Re: The copyright issue


From: Walter Alejandro Iglesias
Subject: Re: The copyright issue
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 10:43:27 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Andreas Röhler <address@hidden> writes:

> Am 14.08.2010 18:30, schrieb Thien-Thi Nguyen:
>> () Walter Alejandro Iglesias<address@hidden>
>> () Sat, 14 Aug 2010 12:58:52 +0200
>>
>>     I undestand Emacs church and Sant Ignucius like a joke, a sarcasm.
>>     Am I wrong?
>>
>> leagues trodden step by step,
>> a place to rest my tired head?
>> shadows of leaves only moolight swept,
>> the night so short, the road so long.
>>
>> owl above, passed thrice each way,
>> will it meet me once i've arrived?
>> shuddering heaves, the scrape of slate,
>> chalk surrendered: writ right, writ wrong.
>>
>> now i fly, too, on the fourth and fifth,
>> can the horizon truly circle the square?
>> surely bereaved the spaces 'twixt myths:
>> too close seems weak, and too far, strong.
>>
>> matters not when i choose to alight;
>> matters not how i choose to delight.
>>
>> thi
>>
>>
>>    
>
> Thanks, Thi,
>
> what about this bit:
>
> Advocatus Diaboli
>
> Deep in my heart I hate despots and priests.
> Still more the genius who sucks up to them.
>
> Tief im Herzen haß ich den Troß der Despoten und Pfaffen,
> Aber noch mehr das Genie, macht es gemein sich damit.
>
> Odio profundamente la turba de los grandes señores
> y de los sacerdotes,
> pero más odio al genio que se compromete con ellos.
>
> (Friedrich Hölderlin)

Ah you, affectionate persons.
You take delight in poetry's mother: blood.
Others blood.  Of course.

At least here, at Emacs church, no genius will be crucified.
Courtesy, not cowardice.




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