lounge (v.)
to pass (time) in lounging (usually fol. by away or out): to lounge away the afternoon.
1508, from Scot., of uncertain origin, "to lounge about, lie at full length,"
The noun in the sense of "comfortable drawing room" is first recorded 1881;
in the sense of "couch on which one can lie at full length," 1830. Lounge lizard is from 1912,
originally in reference to men who hung around in tea rooms to flirt.
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Tuesday, 16 September 2008
octavio paz
The only possible translation is poetic transmutation or metaphor. But I would also say that in writing an original poem we are translating the world, transmuting it. Everything we do is translation and all translations are in a way creations
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