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  • mechwarrior2 [he/him]
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    10 months ago

    🧵 on the secularization of Rumi including examples https://nitter.net/PersianPoetics/status/1261745279860080641#m

    • AssortedBiscuits [they/them]
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      10 months ago

      Reminds me of how Westerners try to turn the Daodejing into this weird proto-anarchist work when it's actually fairly autocratic at places. The Ursula translation was pretty bad, especially the part where she took out a passage because it was too "Confucian."