September 15th, 2010 / 2:31 pm
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Paris Review Blog 404

This is why I like the internet somewhat: Joyce typos caused by quick updates even from the glossies.

Or maybe it’s no typo? Maybe “momentairly” is a more beautiful way to remind you that on the internet part of the fun is the making of whoompers, and sometimes whoompers are the charm.

Anyway, in however long it takes a momentairly to pass (perhaps it is over by the time you are reading this, realtime, shooing this icon to the PR web fodder bin), the Paris Review blog will return with a two week series of guest posts featuring Lydai Davis considering the act of translation, which we could surely use some help with anytime.

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27 Comments

  1. deadgod

      It’s “Lydai Divas”, Bleak. Geez louise.

  2. Matt

      * Louis.

  3. damon

      define whoomper?

  4. Owen Kaelin

      …And quick, before our resident roaming parser gets here!

      I like the Paris Review for having once published a silly piece by Yoko Ono.

      I like silliness. I like Yoko.

      Even if she did or did not break up the Beatles. Whatever.

      I like “momentairly”, also. Thanks for the heads-up. Perhaps I’ll start using that word, from now on.

  5. Owen Kaelin

      Oh, I seem to have missed it. He’s right up there at the top. Oh, well.

  6. deadgod

      No, I’m sure it’s “geez”.

  7. deadgod

      Thanks for coughing, Bezoarwen.

  8. Owen Kaelin

      If you want, of course, you can always revert to the original Irish.

      What’s your name, by the way?

  9. deadgod

      Like you “revert” your dessert on these threads, Bezoarwen?

      My haiku’s name is The Thinker:

      hm gibber garble
      burble babble emowen
      blither blather cough

  10. deadgod

      It’s “Lydai Divas”, Bleak. Geez louise.

  11. Condalmo

      * Louis.

  12. damon

      define whoomper?

  13. Owen Kaelin

      …And quick, before our resident roaming parser gets here!

      I like the Paris Review for having once published a silly piece by Yoko Ono.

      I like silliness. I like Yoko.

      Even if she did or did not break up the Beatles. Whatever.

      I like “momentairly”, also. Thanks for the heads-up. Perhaps I’ll start using that word, from now on.

  14. Owen Kaelin

      Oh, I seem to have missed it. He’s right up there at the top. Oh, well.

  15. deadgod

      No, I’m sure it’s “geez”.

  16. deadgod

      Thanks for coughing, Bezoarwen.

  17. Owen Kaelin

      If you want, of course, you can always revert to the original Irish.

      What’s your name, by the way?

  18. deadgod

      Like you “revert” your dessert on these threads, Bezoarwen?

      My haiku’s name is The Thinker:

      hm gibber garble
      burble babble emowen
      blither blather cough

  19. Steven Augustine
  20. mts

      Welcome to the club.

  21. mimi

      @Steverino

      “Most of your taxes go to bomb-making and bomb-housing and bomb-delivery-systems.”

      It was this line of yours and its simplicity that said so much to me, thus my Barbara Lee sentiment on the other, “political” thread.

      I don’t talk politics so much with the rest of you (I usually like to keep my comments short) (so people will read them – ha ha!) but I do get a lot out of reading the discussions.

      PS – I keep wanting to address you as “Mr. Fox”.

  22. deadgod

      Steven, I saw it last night, thought of replying, and left the Lenin quotation as a ‘last word’. (I was going to say – and will now – that it’s your ilk of bilk that’s leading the really neutralized resistance. Yes, yes: ‘I know you are but what am I.’ – but I said it first! Ha ha ha!)

      As you say, an utterly unobjectionable post – perhaps a site malfunction (rather than a mod event)?

      I’m pretty insulted by this last communique, though. Surprised it’s still ‘here’.

  23. Steven Augustine
  24. mts

      Welcome to the club.

  25. mimi

      @Steverino

      “Most of your taxes go to bomb-making and bomb-housing and bomb-delivery-systems.”

      It was this line of yours and its simplicity that said so much to me, thus my Barbara Lee sentiment on the other, “political” thread.

      I don’t talk politics so much with the rest of you (I usually like to keep my comments short) (so people will read them – ha ha!) but I do get a lot out of reading the discussions.

      PS – I keep wanting to address you as “Mr. Fox”.

  26. deadgod

      Steven, I saw it last night, thought of replying, and left the Lenin quotation as a ‘last word’. (I was going to say – and will now – that it’s your ilk of bilk that’s leading the really neutralized resistance. Yes, yes: ‘I know you are but what am I.’ – but I said it first! Ha ha ha!)

      As you say, an utterly unobjectionable post – perhaps a site malfunction (rather than a mod event)?

      I’m pretty insulted by this last communique, though. Surprised it’s still ‘here’.

  27. Owen Kaelin

      Okay, but let’s not see it spread to here.

      Perhaps I shouldn’t’ve posted what I posted. Perhaps I shouldn’t’ve started the conversation in the first place. But I happen to think it’s critical. Oh, well. I don’t like negativity, but if follows me everywhere.

      (Unrelated: Why do I have to re-enter my info, now, in every thread I post in?)