Macmillan

BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL ss
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It is difficulto be understood,especially when one thinks
and lives gangasrotogati* among those only who think and
live otherwise" namely,kurmagati,^or at best "froglike,"
mandeikagati%(Ido everythingto be "difficultly understood"
"
myself!) and one should be heartilygratefulfor the good
will to some refinement of interpretation. regards "the
good friends," however,who are always too easy-going, and
think that as friends they have a rightto ease, one does
well at the very firstto grant them a play-groundand romping-placefor
misunderstandingone "
c"m thus laughstill; or
get rid of them altogether, these friends" good and laugh
then also!
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What is most difficultto render from one languageinto
another is the tempo of its style,which has its basis in the
character of the race, or to speak more physiologically, in
the average tempo of the assimilation of itsnutriment. There
are honestlymeant translations, which,as involuntaryvulgarisati
are almost falsificationsof the original, merely
^because its lively and merry tempo (whichoverleapsand obdates
all dangersin word and expression) could not also be
'rendered. A German is almost incapacitated for presto in
^hislanguage;consequentlyalso,as may be reasonablyinferred,
for many of the most delightful and daringnuances
3f free,free-spirited thought. And justas the buffoon and
ityrare foreignto him in body and conscience,so Aristo-
*
Like the river Ganges : presto
fLike the tortoise: lento. ^Like the frog: staccato.