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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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.
Thanks, man! I'll give the message to ol' Bill.
Coincidentally I was just reading a book from the library by George Dyson called "Darwin Among the Machines"... fascinating stuff.
Sounds like an interesting read Jeffrey, I'll check it out.
Interesting quote, you might be interested in some of my stepmother's papers.. http://mypage.iu.edu/~ealloyd/
Wow, I actually came across her orgasm book a while ago - I had no idea she was your stepmother. Fascinating stuff!
A pun about Darwin here : http://enclumedesjours.wordpress.com/
Ha, small world.
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