Pearls
« droid » ➞ « druid »
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The translator had probably not been familiar with Star Wars.〖 Found in translation 〗
« Bidoon » ➞ « Bedouin »
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A violent mistranslation I still find amusing was with a poem titled 1965.〖 Found in translation 〗
No money off a dead woman’s body (& other poems)
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« I like my tyrants like I like my heroes. That is, crushed by a giant chandelier. »
Coagulated soy juice
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〖 A killed darling. 〗 Lucia Berlin belonged to a less sanctimonious age than ours.
Two palindromes
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→ → Pursuing / you lead me to come to the future.← ← coming to the future, I lead you / demanding.
Marx and the art of natural winemaking
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The grapes are tiny, burnt to a crisp. It’s day two of the harvest, in late August — freakishly early in a year of drought and heat waves. What is wine?
Dinosaurs + dolphins
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〖 A killed darling 〗 A joke format that endured for precisely one week.
A can-can dancer performs a Christmas tree
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〖 A killed darling 〗 Being alone in a new city over the holidays was wonderful and, as it happened, not to be repeated.
