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Forwarded from Euthanasie (Mohamed Ali)
يوم الحساب
Shogun is so fucking brilliant
It gives you the feeling of an alien movie, because just like Blackthorne you're suddenly thrown into a dizzyingly unknown world
+ دور الترجمة بالمسلسل عظيم
أغلب المرات، ماريكو ما تترجم الكلام بشكل حرفي. تلكاها تغيّره بما يلائم عادات وثقافة كل لغة وبنفس الوقت دتشتغل بصفتها دبلوماسية ونص المرات تخفف من حدّة الكلام لما تترجمه.
Stoics and Epicureans. — The Epicurean seeks out the situation, the persons, and even the events that suit his extremely sensitive intellectual constitution; he forgoes the rest—that is, almost everything—because it would be too strong and heavy a diet. The Stoic, by contrast, trains himself to swallow stones and worms, glass shards and scorpions without nausea; he wants his stomach to be ultimately insensible to everything the chance of existence pours into him—he likes to act out his insensitivity before an invited audience, which is precisely what the Epicurean gladly eschews—for he has his ‘garden’! Stoicism may well be advisable for those with whom fate improvises and who live in violent times and depend on impulsive and changeable people. But someone who more or less expects fate to allow him to spin a long thread does well to take an Epicurean orientation; people engaged in work of the spirit have always done so! For it would be the loss of all losses, for them, to forfeit their subtle sensitivity in exchange for a hard Stoic skin with porcupine spines.

— The Joyful Science, aphorism 306
Stoicism is always required to balance an artistic sensibility
على مِثلِ ليلى يَقتُلُ المرءُ نَفسَه
وإنْ كنتُ من ليلى على اليأسِ طاويا

خَلِيلَيَّ إنْ ضَنُّوا بليلى فقَرِّبا
ليَ النعشَ والأكفانَ واستغفِرا ليا

— قيس بن الملوح
What? The ultimate goal of science is to create the most pleasure possible to man, and the least possible pain? But what if pleasure and pain should be so closely connected that he who wants the greatest possible amount of the one must also have the greatest possible amount of the other, that he who wants to experience the "heavenly high jubilation," must also be ready to be "sorrowful unto death"?

— The Joyful Science