"Nobody knows it, but you've got a secret..."

[sfumato]

Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf is amazingly engaging, easy to understand, and beautiful in its own right. I am impressed. I've read the poem four times now, and this is the first translation that I've read that hasn't put me to sleep

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[abulia]

i get that way too, sometimes, where i feel lonely and asocial at the same time.

also, semisonic is nice.

[halo1]

Ex-roommate as in moi?

[sfumato]

Yep.

[halo1]

I'm lost, then. I mean, I know him, and he never asked me to do any of that. He doesn't even seriously joke about it. I wonder where or who you heard that from, since you've got me curious now!