Incredibly cool.

Just absolutely spitting on the sacrifice that people were bearing and in the treason accepting the GOPs framing that Democrats were prolonging it.
I am furious, but Neoliberals are going to Neoliberal. I find myself agreeing with accelerationists more and more.

They are really trying to setup the material conditions for complete breakdown of civil order. Going to be a winter of vast discontent.

I know I'm fanboying, but this made my day @oysterband.bsky.social

He was the first that came to mind and is such a strong example.

I'm sure there is a fine line though between characterization and catchphrase.

Inconceivable!

I finished the third in a flat in Pokhara, Nepal. I never did get around to finishing the artwork on the inserts. By that time it was prohibitively expensive for me to print even one physical copy. Still listened to the three volumes over and over for years. #Playlist

Here's the second volume made about a year after the first and just before taking action on a decision made because of the first. #Playlist

I ran across him as a side mention in a video I watched a few months ago and it reminded me of this assignment. He is really an amazing character, sort of the Mark Twain of his time, but there is so very little translated. TY🙇‍♂️

#Translation #Poetry #german #Collapse #freeverse
Rathenau - Kurt Tucholsky June, 1922
Translated J.D. River
Read back for history.

If there are any native German speakers among my readers, let me know if I deserved a C.

I did check my original homework translation from double digit years ago against an online translator and I think my choices are superior. I remember I got a C on the translation because my German teacher had the heart of a poet - on her desk in a jar. Humorless.

I sacrificed his form (end rhyme couplets mostly) for freeverse as translation is difficult enough. Trying to recast his lines into English rhymes tended to undercut the poem in this case so I abandoned that attempt.

and could turn off a modern reader who doesn't want to figure out who the pants shitter is. This is a poem of warning from within a collapse. Poets often see it first. Tucholsky probably saw the assassination as a turning point and proof the Republic was being murdered in slow motion. Relevant.

way back in a university German class as an assignment. Earlier this year I added it to my revision pile to clean up the freeverse (original is actually AABB but thats German for you). The references inside the poem date it to a very certain point in time…