MARX'S CONFESSION - a little treat.. even if you know it alr

[maria11r]

your favorite virtue: SIMPLICITY
your favorite virtue in man: STRENGTH
your fav virtue in a woman: WEAKNESS
your chief characteristic: SINGLENESS OF PURPOSE
your idea of happiness: TO FIGHT
your idea of misery: SUBMISSION
the vice you excuse most: GULLIBILITY
the vice you detest most: SERVILITY
your aversion: MARTIN TUPPER
fav occupation: BOOKWORMING [hellyah!!]
fav poet: SHEAKESPEARE, AESCHYLUS, GOETHE
fav prose-writer: DIDEROT
fav hero: SPARTACUS, KEPLER
fav heroine: GRETCHEN
fav flower: DAPHNE
fav color: RED [is there a better one?!]
fav name: LAURA, JENNY
fav dish: FISH
fav maxim: NIHIL HUMANI A ME ALIENUM PUTO
fav motto: DE OMNIBUS DUBITANDUM

from a manuscript by marx's daughter laura

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my translations: [hoping that they're write]


NIHIL HUMANI A ME ALIENUM PUTO--

i consider nothing that concerns mankind
a matter of indifference to me

DE OMNIBUS DUBITANDUM---

doubt everything

[peaccenicked]

Engels does a confession too.
An alternative translation.
Nothing human is alien to me.


(Edited by peaccenicked at 3:47 am on July 4, 2002)

[maria11r]

Quote: from peaccenicked on 3:47 am on July 4, 2002
Engels does a confession too.
An alternative translation.
Nothing human is alien to me.


(Edited by peaccenicked at 3:47 am on July 4, 2002)



i decided to post engel's confession on a different thread... an extra little treat :D

[I Will Deny You]

Quote: from maria11r on 5:34 pm on June 29, 2002
your favorite virtue in man: STRENGTH
your fav virtue in a woman: WEAKNESSNo wonder all of the Marxist hardliners hate me! IF ONLY I WERE A MAN!

Thanks, Maria. You're right . . . this was a treat indeed.

Lindsay

[Michael De Panama]

Know it already. I'm so special.

[peaccenicked]

Marx's sense of humour is quite cruel at times.