tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Jan 20 07:24:35 1996
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Lovecraft's Couplet
- From: "Matt-5, Ne'er-do-well" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Lovecraft's Couplet
- Date: Sun, 21 Jan 1996 02:23:04 +1100 (AEDT)
Not to beat around the bush:
This is my attempt at translating H.P. Lovecraft's couplet:
'That is not dead which can eternal lie
And with strange eons even death may die.'
I had to add an extra beat to each line, and also to get 'eternal' I had
to do some strange things with adjectives and relative clauses:
Heghpu'be' not mevbogh poH qaStaHvIS QotlaHbogh Doch'e',
'ej cheghDI' bov'a'mey Hujqu', chaq HeghchoHlaH HeghDaj le'.
What's the verdict?
taghqIj
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