From the monthly archives: April 2023
I first translated the Jabberwocky in 2010. This is a rewrite of that version. This is the first and only Arabic translation of Lewis Carroll’s nonsense poem Jabberwocky (Through the Looking-Glass, 1871). The structure of Arabic, with its fluid interplay of consonant and vowel, makes it ideal to render the Jabberwocky. It was fun [...]
a patch of skin peeped shyly showing off serendipitous diamond made between the collar leaves and scarf a crimson sunset captured by luscious milk turquoise-silver butterfly in its center.
Let us jump straight into the subject with a somewhat ad hoc definition: a childish society is a society in which the bulk of adults do not live up to their intellectual and emotional potential as fully grown human beings. In other words, an observer might sense a lack or distortion of the kind of [...]
