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am_Unition  ·  3660 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Myth of Sysiphus

    ...one sees the face screwed up...

I'd guess that this translation is at least many hundred years old, so I found it interesting how our contemporary usage of "screwed up" juxtaposes the other typically unfamiliar idioms and syntax.





lil  ·  3659 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    this translation is at least many hundred years old
Camus wrote The Myth of Sisyphus in 1942. The story of Sisyphus can be found in Homer and Ovid, but Camus's interpretation, translated here from the French, is most likely his own words.

Still it is pause-worthy to see the words of contemporary phrases used so.

rob05c  ·  3659 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Still it is pause-worthy to see the words of contemporary phrases used so.

Isn't it?

lil  ·  3659 days ago  ·  link  ·  

very funny!

empty  ·  3403 days ago  ·  link  ·  
am_Unition  ·  3659 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Now that you mention it, it is considerably less cryptic than most translations of Greek "Classics"... I just hadn't had my coffee yet (my go to excuse).

Thanks for setting the record straight, lil. :)

lil  ·  3659 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    hadn't had my coffee yet (my go to excuse)

I'd like to hear more "go-to excuses" from hubskiville.

My most recommended excuse: "I was away that day."

galen  ·  3659 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    I'd like to hear more "go-to excuses" from hubskiville.

"I forgot." I have a notoriously terrible memory-- usually amongst friends (and even sometimes with teachers), those two words suffice to explain away my failings. The fun part is that 90% of the time, I actually did forget.

lil  ·  3659 days ago  ·  link  ·  

You were probably away that day. :-)

nowaypablo  ·  3659 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Mine got shot down by b_b and now just I have to own up to my slip-ups. Thanks for propelling me to manhood, b_b.

lil  ·  3659 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Oh yes, the old "It was 3:00 a.m. when I wrote, said, thought that" excuse. Leading to you, no doubt, being away the next day.