http://crookedtimber.org/2004/02/25/the-gnawing-of-the-mice/ Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made Fri, 25 May 2012 16:45:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://crookedtimber.org/2004/02/25/the-gnawing-of-the-mice/comment-page-1/#comment-19103 Natalie Solent Fri, 27 Feb 2004 09:46:25 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/wp/?p=1123#comment-19103 Beautiful! No irony here, I really find this calligraphic swirl of heads-within-heads to be a thing of beauty. And I discover I have more in common with Engels than I thought: I always doodle heads facing to the left as well. Beautiful! No irony here, I really find this calligraphic swirl of heads-within-heads to be a thing of beauty. And I discover I have more in common with Engels than I thought: I always doodle heads facing to the left as well.

]]> http://crookedtimber.org/2004/02/25/the-gnawing-of-the-mice/comment-page-1/#comment-19102 Chirag Kasbekar Wed, 25 Feb 2004 19:27:04 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/wp/?p=1123#comment-19102 That actually looks like a lot of my notebooks. But mine are better. That actually looks like a lot of my notebooks. But mine are better.

]]> http://crookedtimber.org/2004/02/25/the-gnawing-of-the-mice/comment-page-1/#comment-19101 Mike Wed, 25 Feb 2004 17:19:02 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/wp/?p=1123#comment-19101 Someone should have started the Cartoonist International, instead. Someone should have started the Cartoonist International, instead.

]]> http://crookedtimber.org/2004/02/25/the-gnawing-of-the-mice/comment-page-1/#comment-19100 Kieran Healy Wed, 25 Feb 2004 12:02:52 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/wp/?p=1123#comment-19100 Wasn't it David Riazanov, the Russian translator of the original <i>Gesamtausgabe</i> who said you had to translate Marx twice -- once from German into whatever language you wanted, but before that from Marx's appalling handwriting into German. And even beyond that, much of Marx and Engels' correspondence is written in a weird joky French-English-German hybrid, filled with portmanteau words and whimsical in-jokes. Wasn’t it David Riazanov, the Russian translator of the original Gesamtausgabe who said you had to translate Marx twice—once from German into whatever language you wanted, but before that from Marx’s appalling handwriting into German. And even beyond that, much of Marx and Engels’ correspondence is written in a weird joky French-English-German hybrid, filled with portmanteau words and whimsical in-jokes.

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