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Photo: AfEX " We know that extreme physical pain drives out language,"  Julian Barnes writes in  Nothing to be Frightened Of , but "it's dispiriting to learn that mental pain does the same." The "nothing" of Barnes's title is death, the thought of which produces an emotion, fear – fear so intense, so pervasive, as to be at times disabling. Death as an event, a fact rather than an emotion, is literally the Stünde Null, the zero hour, of our lives. None of us is excepted, death's hit rate is 100%. From the perspective of the defunct, we know very little. Dead men don't write books. (We do get the occasional insight. After suffering a major heart attack, the Australian billionaire Kerry Packer is said to have whispered to his sons, "I've been to the other side, and there's fuck all there.") Those of us who are still standing after a death – what  CS Lewis  termed "the club of the left-over living" – experience an ...

People speak different languages, and always have. The Ancient Greeks took no notice of anything unless it was said in Greek; the Romans made everyone speak Latin; and in India, people learned their neighbours' languages - as did many ordinary Europeans in times past. But today, we all use translation to cope with the diversity of languages. Without translation there would be no world news, not much of a reading list in any subject at college, no repair manuals for cars or planes, and we wouldn't even be able to put together flat pack furniture. Is That a Fish in Your Ear? ranges across the whole of human experience, from foreign films to philosophy, to show why translation is at the heart of what we do and who we are. What's the difference between translating unprepared natural speech, and translating Madame Bovary ? How do you translate a joke? What's the difference between a native tongue and a learned one? Can you translate between any pair of languages, or o...

I received  The Word Made Flesh  as a birthday gift this year, and have been enjoying it greatly. So, I thought I’d send in a picture of mine. I got this tattoo early in 2011, a couple weeks before I turned 40.  It’s my first and (currently) only tattoo.  I’ve spent most of my life working on Shakespeare, performing, directing, studying.  This tattoo is inspired by the First Folio, the first collected edition of Shakespeare’s works, published in 1623.  The text is from “The Tempest”, act 3, scene 2, from one of my favorite speeches in all of literature.  I left the spelling as it is in the Folio, and the typeface is inspired by the Folio font.  The rabbits are from the header engraving of the First Folio text of The Tempest, first page. —Chris

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Traductores. Nuestra desidia por aprender la lengua de Shakespeare nos ha obligado a utilizarlos para entender mejor  esta aldea digital. Pero ¿qué hay de esos lenguajes que, pese a estar en nuestro propio idioma, no solemos entender? Es por eso que Google, en alianza con el Cinismo Ilustrado , está próximo a sacar Googe Transall , una herramienta que permite  traducir absolutamente todo . Aquí unos buenos ejemplos: También funciona de maravilla a la inversa: Dios bendiga el siglo XXI.

None better than the French to fight prejudice, and Marilyn was a firebrand allright ;) Non, «Ulysse» de Joyce n'est ni long ni ennuyeux! Surfait, le  Ulysse  de  James Joyce,  que les fans du monde entier célèbrent ce 16 juin, alias  «Bloomsday» ? C'est ce qu'avance le journaliste et écrivain américain Ron Rosenbaum dans un article paru sur Slate où il s'amuse  à dézinguer le classique du romancier irlandais.  Prétentieux, fastidieux, interminable, raté, frimeur,  Ulysse  serait juste bon à jeter aux oubliettes de la littérature (à l'exception d'un seul chapitre, l'avant-dernier). Les arguments sont séduisants. Le problème, c'est qu'on les voit revenir de manière épisodique depuis... 1922, la date de publication d' Ulysse. Car c'est loin d'être la première fois que le roman suscite la controverse. Dès sa sortie, il acquiert une réputation sulfureuse: son prétendu caractère pornographique lui vaut l'interdiction aux États-Unis jusq...

Next, taking a handful of the flowers [of garlic], he rubbed them all over the sashes, as though to ensure that every whiff of air that might get in would be laden with the garlic smell.  –Dracula, Bram Stoker Vampires, evil beings that fed on blood, have been particularly prevalent in in the 18th century. Although superstition may have originated from Western Europe, fear of vampires became wides spread and sent the whole of Europe into mass hysteria. A well-known  defense against vampires is to chew garlic  and have cloves of garlic around you at all times. Of course chewing garlic release a putrid smell that is almost impossible to get rid of. This is because upon chewing garlic a sulphur containing chemical called allicin is produced, and sulphur containing compounds (thiols) are well known to smell nasty. The smell is often associated with rotting eggs or rotting meat, and it this is exactly what people wanted as surrounding oneself with thi...