A synapse fires...
Feb. 24th, 2007 05:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgp...and a strange recollection-connection occurs.
There's a marvelous line in one of the routines in George Carlin's Class Clown album - I think it was the one on heaven, hell, purgatory, and limbo - where Carlin, assuming one of his many voices, says, "Hey, I can do an eon standing on my head!" He was, if memory serves, speaking of purgatory at that point of the routine, describing it as a kind of "temporary hell," where one spent some number of eons in expiation of earthly sins.
Relatively recently, as I tackle more and more translations - and especially short translations - when I get down below 1000 words remaining in a translation, I've begun to think that I'm home free.
And thus, as I start the last 1000 words of the item that I must complete today, it just popped into mind - reminding me of Carlin - that, "Hey, I can do 1000 words standing on my head!
(That is, if I knew how to stand on my head!)
I now return to my less-than-1000 words.
Cheers...
There's a marvelous line in one of the routines in George Carlin's Class Clown album - I think it was the one on heaven, hell, purgatory, and limbo - where Carlin, assuming one of his many voices, says, "Hey, I can do an eon standing on my head!" He was, if memory serves, speaking of purgatory at that point of the routine, describing it as a kind of "temporary hell," where one spent some number of eons in expiation of earthly sins.
Relatively recently, as I tackle more and more translations - and especially short translations - when I get down below 1000 words remaining in a translation, I've begun to think that I'm home free.
And thus, as I start the last 1000 words of the item that I must complete today, it just popped into mind - reminding me of Carlin - that, "Hey, I can do 1000 words standing on my head!
(That is, if I knew how to stand on my head!)
I now return to my less-than-1000 words.
Cheers...
