{"id":47921,"date":"2015-11-27T08:10:58","date_gmt":"2015-11-27T08:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=47921"},"modified":"2015-11-27T08:20:16","modified_gmt":"2015-11-27T08:20:16","slug":"birthday-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=47921","title":{"rendered":"Birthday surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; the bell just tolled 72 for me, so it&#8217;s no longer Thanksgiving, it&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Psalm+90.10&#038;version=KJV\">Psalm 90, still early in the &#8220;labour and sorrow&#8221; zone<\/a> ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>A propos, then, of nothing in particular &#8212; and because it is a glorious work of art, here in a tweet is <strong>Marcel Duchamp<\/strong>&#8216;s Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fadesingh\">@fadesingh<\/a> &quot;Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2&quot;, Marcel Duchamp, 1912. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0P9dAR3f6S\">pic.twitter.com\/0P9dAR3f6S<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; LapsusLima (@LapsusLima) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LapsusLima\/status\/669396139431624706\">November 25, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>And because it shows the paucity by comaparison, not just of language but of constructed languages &#8212; and also how finely tuned such languages can be, as in this extraordinary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ithkuil.net\/texts.html#duchamp\">translation into the Ithkuil<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"sk\" dir=\"ltr\">Aukkras \u00eaqutta ogv\u00ebu?a tnou\u2019elkwa pal-l\u0161i augwaik\u0161t\u00fcln\u00e0mbu.. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wIb1MzSYvd\">pic.twitter.com\/wIb1MzSYvd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; 1 \/ ?(x) (@fadesingh) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fadesingh\/status\/669395237169700864\">November 25, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>Now &#8212; how many words are worth a picture?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; the bell just tolled 72 for me, so it&#8217;s no longer Thanksgiving, it&#8217;s Psalm 90, still early in the &#8220;labour and sorrow&#8221; zone ] . A propos, then, of nothing in particular &#8212; and because it is a glorious work of art, here in a tweet is Marcel Duchamp&#8216;s Nude [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[384,526,965,1151,630,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-charles-cameron","category-comparative","category-doubletweets","category-language","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47921"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47933,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47921\/revisions\/47933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}