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Repeat After Me, a comic by Maki Naro about psychology's reproducibility problem. (via)

The Saga-Steads of Iceland, a blog documenting reading the Icelandic sagas in the locations where each is set. (via)

I really want a Finnish-speaker's opinion on what it's like to read The Song of Hiawatha in Finnish. (Did the translator use the Kalevala meter that Longfellow was imitating, or did they imitate the imitation? And what would THAT sound like?)

---L.

Subject quote from "Life Less Ordinary," Carbon Leaf.

Date: 13 October 2016 10:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thistleingrey.livejournal.com
Huh, saga-steads. *goes to look*

Date: 14 October 2016 02:18 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] sovay
"i'm a saddened man i'm a broken boy / i'm a toddler with a complex toy"

That was the first song I ever heard by Carbon Leaf.

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