To my surprise, I discovered a Page One bookstore in the mall of Taipei 101 (currently the tallest skyscraper in the world). Just outside of the entrance, there were books on a clearance sale. And my day was made when I dug out a copy of Arthur Rimbaud's A Season In Hell; the best part was, the original text accompanied the translated text, along with photographs by Mapplethorpe at the start of each chapter.
- Once, if I remember right, my life was a celebration where all hearts were open and all wines flowed.
- One night I sat Beauty on my lap. And I found she was bitter, and I called her names.
And so it begins…
Finally, after having dredged bookstores around the city for the past week, I have found a book I actually wanted to read.
- Jadis, si je me souviens bien, ma vie était un festin où s'ouvraient tous les cœurs, où tous les vins coulaient.
- Un soir, j'ai assis la Beauté sur mes genoux.——Et je l'ai trouvée amère.——Et je l'ai injuriée.
34, male and very Cancerian. Often irascible, even if he is prescient to his emotions. Lives for the resonance of beautiful passages, cinematic magic and aural bliss. Dabbles in 
you would have to stop making me use babel fish to read ur entries…
tsk tsk…
making old dog learn new trick…
I just realised from Tetanus that there is a actual translation tool called Babel Fish. And I thought you were just making a literary reference to the Hitchhiker. Laugh.
~ xena
Babel Fish is named after that Hitchhiker’s Babelfish. =)
Hell is other people, non?
so beutiful…these words.