Thursday, February 12, 2009

Darwin Day, You Goddamn Monkeys!

Okay, since today's Darwin's birthday I thought I'd translate this poem into english (with a little help from Carol R.), something I wanted to do for ages. It was written by Wilhelm Busch, the father of violent cartoons and creator of Max & Moritz, to whose demise this very blog owes its name. Busch was a freethinker and wrote in his autobiography that the writings of Darwin, next to the philosophy of Schopenhauer were what influenced his worldview the most.

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8 comments:

  1. PaleoFebruary 12, 2009 at 9:13 PM

    Oh, what a noble piece of cartooning, translation, lettering, history & photoshopping this is.

    Most important, they get drunk like blind pigs and crawl it, yeah!

    Honores to the Señores Busch & Frauenwahl.

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  2. Human MolluskFebruary 13, 2009 at 2:46 PM

    Thanks, man! I'll give the message to ol' Bill.

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  3. Jeffrey MeyerFebruary 14, 2009 at 3:49 AM

    Coincidentally I was just reading a book from the library by George Dyson called "Darwin Among the Machines"... fascinating stuff.

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  4. Human MolluskFebruary 15, 2009 at 1:26 PM

    Sounds like an interesting read Jeffrey, I'll check it out.

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  5. AeronFebruary 17, 2009 at 5:17 PM

    Interesting quote, you might be interested in some of my stepmother's papers.. http://mypage.iu.edu/~ealloyd/

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  6. Human MolluskFebruary 18, 2009 at 5:29 AM

    Wow, I actually came across her orgasm book a while ago - I had no idea she was your stepmother. Fascinating stuff!

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  7. Gaspard PitiotFebruary 18, 2009 at 8:17 AM

    A pun about Darwin here : http://enclumedesjours.wordpress.com/

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  8. AeronFebruary 18, 2009 at 3:20 PM

    Ha, small world.

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