Je congnois tout, fors que moy mesmes

[lobosolo]

Journal entry (foreign poetry - if that doesn't put you off).

Comments

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Reading Rimbaud in French is such an amazing experience.

[lobosolo]

I look forward to that. But Villon has to come first. His verse has a wonderful sonority, which someone described as sounding like the clang of a centuries-old iron gate.

[shofarot]

You will be visiting South Africa? Where do you intend to go? February can be delightful, though a bit hot.

I did not realize that you were of mathematical slant. I studied chemistry back at university.

[lobosolo]

Yup, professional mathematician, though I'm about to retire. To celebrate my retirement, plus some significant anniversaries next year (my wife and I both turn 65, and it will also be our 40th wedding anniversary), we're spending a month on holiday in South Africa. We'll stay in Cape Town for a week, then rent a car and travel along the Garden Route as far as Grahamstown, returning by a more inland route through the Karoo. We're much looking forward to it.

I believe you come from that part of the world, eh? But you seem to have travelled a fair bit since then, even during the brief time since I started following your LJ. I hope the new phase of your life in Vancouver works out well. I have several cousins living there, and have been there a few times. But my last visit there was in 1974, when the International Congress of Mathematicians was held in UBC.

[shofarot]

Congratulations on the milestones

[lobosolo]

Thanks for the tip. I'll certainly try to get to Bakoven and Glen Beaches.