811
However, 101 years later, America would re-think Wilson, removing his name from
Princeton’s School of Public and International Affairs in the wake of searing memories of his racist character, and part of that long-overdue movement to rectify (retranslate) glossed-over darkness throughout American history.
George Steiner, in his monumental book After Babel – Aspects of Language and
Translation (1975), provides some insight into the subject of adequate or inadequate
translation, as he speaks of the “trick of blinding vision across time” and the reality
that “Magnification is the subtler form of treason” that “can arise from a variety of
motives: through misjudgment or professional obligation.” And, indeed, the extent
to which those motives are empowered or stymied, as the case may be, the original
text might well be apotheosized to what Steiner describes as “an alien elevation.”
13
“Hell/Is the fulfillment which stifles their desire/By granting it” wrote the poet
Charles Tomlinson (1927–2015) in his poem titled “Last Judgement.”
14
The same
poet who announces his work by quoting from Jean François Millet, “I want the
cries of my geese to echo in space.”
Behavioral ecology may be dynamic but it is also fickle.
15
One might assume
there is nothing we can do about it.
16
Others will disagree. And that’s that. A “Clean,
Green New Zealand”?
17
Dark sides to that country’s history, notwithstanding: cruel
predator control, or the case of the indigenous Moriori on the Chatham Islands of
New Zealand, at least one in six of whom were enslaved by the conquering Maori.
18
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989. 426–436; online at: History Matters, http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/4979/. Accessed February 10, 2020.
13 George Steiner, After Babel – Aspects of Language and Translation, Oxford University Press,
New York and London, 1975, p.401.
14 A Peopled Landscape – Poems (Oxford University Press, London, 1963, p. 41).
15 See “Ecology: Boom and bust,” by J. Zaanen, November 4, 2009, Nature 462, 15(2009), Ecol.
Lett.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01391.x(2009),
https://www.nature.com/
articles/462015d. Accessed February 10, 2020. The research pertains to “eight years of measurements from a Baltic Sea plankton community…From amid the chaos of thousands of population
measurements, they were able to discern for the time in real life two coupled predator-prey cycles
oscillating out of sync.”
16 See HistoryExtra, from BBC History Revealed Magazine, December 20, 2014, https://www.
historyextra.com/period/victorian/why-we-say-bah-humbug-christmas-carol-scrooge-dickenswhat-mean/. Accessed February 10, 2020.
17 See a full analysis of this complex obfuscation in God’s Country: The New Zealand Factor, by
M.C. Tobias and J.G. Morrison, Zorba Press, A Dancing Star Foundation Book, 2011.
18 See Our Islands, Our Selves – A History of Conservation in New Zealand, by David Young,
University Otago Press, Dunedin, New Zealand, 2004, p. 233; See also Paul Moon’s This Horrid
Practice, Penguin Group, New Zealand 2008; See also, Tahana, Yvonne (12 July 2008).
“Cannibalism had little to do with consuming enemies’ mana, says historian”. The New Zealand
Herald. See also John Byron, Samuel Wallis, Philip Carteret, James Cook, Joseph Banks (1785,
3rd ed.). An account of the voyages undertaken by the order of His present Majesty for making
discoveries in the southern hemisphere, vol. 3 (London) p. 295. In addition, see “The Sad Story of
the Moriori, Who Learned to Live at the Edge of the World,” by Natasha Frost, Atlas Obscura,
March 6, 2018, https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/moriori-people-genocide-history-chathamislands. Accessed February 11, 2020; and Michael King’s Moriori: A People Rediscovered, Reed
Books Pty Ltd., Wellington, NZ, 1994.
93.2 The Psychoanalysis of Belief Systems
However, 101 years later, America would re-think Wilson, removing his name from
Princeton’s School of Public and International Affairs in the wake of searing memories of his racist character, and part of that long-overdue movement to rectify (retranslate) glossed-over darkness throughout American history.
George Steiner, in his monumental book After Babel – Aspects of Language and
Translation (1975), provides some insight into the subject of adequate or inadequate
translation, as he speaks of the “trick of blinding vision across time” and the reality
that “Magnification is the subtler form of treason” that “can arise from a variety of
motives: through misjudgment or professional obligation.” And, indeed, the extent
to which those motives are empowered or stymied, as the case may be, the original
text might well be apotheosized to what Steiner describes as “an alien elevation.”
13
“Hell/Is the fulfillment which stifles their desire/By granting it” wrote the poet
Charles Tomlinson (1927–2015) in his poem titled “Last Judgement.”
14
The same
poet who announces his work by quoting from Jean François Millet, “I want the
cries of my geese to echo in space.”
Behavioral ecology may be dynamic but it is also fickle.
15
One might assume
there is nothing we can do about it.
16
Others will disagree. And that’s that. A “Clean,
Green New Zealand”?
17
Dark sides to that country’s history, notwithstanding: cruel
predator control, or the case of the indigenous Moriori on the Chatham Islands of
New Zealand, at least one in six of whom were enslaved by the conquering Maori.
18
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989. 426–436; online at: History Matters, http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/4979/. Accessed February 10, 2020.
13 George Steiner, After Babel – Aspects of Language and Translation, Oxford University Press,
New York and London, 1975, p.401.
14 A Peopled Landscape – Poems (Oxford University Press, London, 1963, p. 41).
15 See “Ecology: Boom and bust,” by J. Zaanen, November 4, 2009, Nature 462, 15(2009), Ecol.
Lett.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01391.x(2009),
https://www.nature.com/
articles/462015d. Accessed February 10, 2020. The research pertains to “eight years of measurements from a Baltic Sea plankton community…From amid the chaos of thousands of population
measurements, they were able to discern for the time in real life two coupled predator-prey cycles
oscillating out of sync.”
16 See HistoryExtra, from BBC History Revealed Magazine, December 20, 2014, https://www.
historyextra.com/period/victorian/why-we-say-bah-humbug-christmas-carol-scrooge-dickenswhat-mean/. Accessed February 10, 2020.
17 See a full analysis of this complex obfuscation in God’s Country: The New Zealand Factor, by
M.C. Tobias and J.G. Morrison, Zorba Press, A Dancing Star Foundation Book, 2011.
18 See Our Islands, Our Selves – A History of Conservation in New Zealand, by David Young,
University Otago Press, Dunedin, New Zealand, 2004, p. 233; See also Paul Moon’s This Horrid
Practice, Penguin Group, New Zealand 2008; See also, Tahana, Yvonne (12 July 2008).
“Cannibalism had little to do with consuming enemies’ mana, says historian”. The New Zealand
Herald. See also John Byron, Samuel Wallis, Philip Carteret, James Cook, Joseph Banks (1785,
3rd ed.). An account of the voyages undertaken by the order of His present Majesty for making
discoveries in the southern hemisphere, vol. 3 (London) p. 295. In addition, see “The Sad Story of
the Moriori, Who Learned to Live at the Edge of the World,” by Natasha Frost, Atlas Obscura,
March 6, 2018, https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/moriori-people-genocide-history-chathamislands. Accessed February 11, 2020; and Michael King’s Moriori: A People Rediscovered, Reed
Books Pty Ltd., Wellington, NZ, 1994.
93.2 The Psychoanalysis of Belief Systems