Dear List:

I found a fairly new (2001) translation of "Instructions for King Merikare"
this afternoon.  It is in "Ancient Egyptian Literature: An Anthology" by
John L Foster.  Foster translates the line as "The heaven of a man is his
good Nature".  This is the first professional Egyptologist I have found to
use the word order Boris did.  As Foster is still available I intend to ask
him concerning this word order.  I may have been absolutely wrong and this
looks like a good opportunity to find out.

I think my initial inquiry may be still appropriate.  Boris seems to have
picked a very poetic way to translate the "Instruction" and attracted
Pound's attention with the charged word "paradise".  I am curious as to the
coincidences and implications.

Rick Seddon
McIntosh, NM


----- Original Message -----
From: "sylvester pollet" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 8:40 AM
Subject: Re: Canto 93


> The International Pound Conferences are every other year--2003 Idaho,
> 2005  Rapallo, on theme of Pound/Nature, Pound & the Green World. Is
> that what you mean? I'll be putting info on it up on the National
> Poetry Foundation website bulletin board as soon as I deal with
> denial that summer's over. Sylvester
>
>         p.s. NPF will be sponsoring a conference in Orono, June
> 23-27, 2004, on Poetry in the 1940s, so why not apply your travel
> money to that? The call for papers will go out any day, and that will
> also be on the NPF site, www.ume.maine.edu/`npf/
>
> At 9:33 AM -0500 9/2/03, Robert E. Kibler wrote:
> >Any more word out there about the Pound Conference this Summer? Anything
> >formally announced, or on the verge of formality? I have the requiest for
> >travel form in front of me, and here at MSU, the competition for our few
> >travel dollars is fast and furious. If I don't hear from anyone, I
suppose
> >that I will let intuition be my guide. All the best, Robert K
> >
> >
>