http://www.translatorscafe.com/cafe/MegaBBS/forum-view.asp?forumid=67 TC Discussion Forums Copyright ANVICA Software Development 2002-2012. All rights reserved. TC RSS Generator 10 Feb 2012 12:52 GMT http://www.translatorscafe.com/cafe/images/SteamingCup40.gif http://www.translatorscafe.com/cafe/MegaBBS/?showall=true /cafe/MegaBBS/forumthread225msg243148.htm#243148 Jacek K.: The Man of the Sword: Two Poems by Nizar Qabbani » Translator's note: Nizar Qabbani was the most popular and beloved Arab poet of the second half of the twentieth century. He was born in Damascus in 1923. He started out as a romantic poet, with daring poems of love and the heart’s ... 10 Feb 2012 15:29 GMT /cafe/MegaBBS/forumthread11314msg242961.htm#242961 Jacek K.: "Anyone choosing to post something publicly should be prepared to field potential objections or criticism without feeling or even less claiming to be personally attacked (or else, if one can't stand the heat, then etc...)" -- df ... 8 Feb 2012 21:47 GMT /cafe/MegaBBS/forumthread225msg242886.htm#242886 Jacek K.: http://www.tnr.com/article/books-and-arts/magazine/99536/tomas-transtromer-poetry-inexplicit ...And now Tranströmer, at the age of eighty, has at last received the great award. During the evening banquet in his honor, his wife, Monica, representing the poet, read in Swedish and English (in a ... 8 Feb 2012 15:07 GMT /cafe/MegaBBS/forumthread281msg242654.htm#242654 An Trinh: I am reading a biography about Steve Jobs. He was such a typical genius. Smart, peculiar, arrogant. 6 Feb 2012 21:44 GMT /cafe/MegaBBS/forumthread225msg242618.htm#242618 Jacek K.: The Nobel Lecture Wislawa Szymborska They say that the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me. But I have a feeling that the sentences to come—the third, the sixth, the tenth, and so on, up to the final line—will be just as hard, since ... 6 Feb 2012 14:09 GMT /cafe/MegaBBS/forumthread6728msg242131.htm#242131 Jacek K.: Can bells and whistles save the book? 2 Feb 2012 19:35 GMT /cafe/MegaBBS/forumthread3635msg241581.htm#241581 Nanna Mercer: [QUOTE]Originally written by Jacek K. on January 25, 2012 2:56 PM Technically, these are not poems but letters: A Hero's Heart Love letters reveal the inner spirit of Norway’s most intrepid explorer and greatest humanitarian, Fridtjof Nansen. [/QUOTE] Having just turned sixty-five, I find ... 26 Jan 2012 00:33 GMT /cafe/MegaBBS/forumthread3635msg241556.htm#241556 Jacek K.: Technically, these are not poems but letters: A Hero's Heart Love letters reveal the inner spirit of Norway’s most intrepid explorer and greatest humanitarian, Fridtjof Nansen. 25 Jan 2012 19:56 GMT /cafe/MegaBBS/forumthread9022msg241538.htm#241538 Jacek K.: Contd.: Our Dangerous Devotion to Eyewitness Testimony ...in criminal cases, eyewitness testimony is viewed as the ne plus ultra for the prosecution, despite a century’s worth of psychological and sociological studies revealing that, from Sacco and Vanzetti to Troy Davis, witnesses ... 25 Jan 2012 14:07 GMT /cafe/MegaBBS/forumthread9022msg241222.htm#241222 Jacek K.: [QUOTE]Originally written by Jacek K. on November 21, 2011 3:00 PM Our memories are wrong at least as often as they are right. At best, they are incomplete, though we might swear otherwise. http://www.salon.com/2011/11/20/why_we_forget/?source=newsletter [/QUOTE] The Certainty of Memory Has Its Day ... 21 Jan 2012 20:41 GMT