Pullman and the Archbishop

[quislibet]

In case amberspyglass and other interested parties have not seen it, here is the transcript of a conversation between Philip Pullman and Dr. Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, about religion in the His Dark Materials trilogy.

(Classics-L has been talking about Pullman -- saying little of particular interest, I'm afraid -- but someone did link to that.)

Comments

[monsterweasels.livejournal.com]

Pan: thanks for posting that link! It provides much food for thought.

I have a Latin Question

[brigid.livejournal.com]

i feel really lame asking you this, but it's something i want to get as a tattoo, so i want to make sure it's right.

which is the correct phrase for "I am still learning"
is it: Ancora Imparo
or is it: Ingenio, ergo ancora imparo

both of which i found when doing a google search

Re: I have a Latin Question

[quislibet.livejournal.com]

"Ancora imparo" is a perfectly good famous quote meaning "I am still learning" -- except it's Italian rather than Latin. (In Latin I could only make it mean something like "I am not equipped with an anchor," and that requires making up a word.) If it doesn't have to be Latin, I'd go with that. (The longer version "ingenio...," with an extremely tiny googleprint, should probably be avoided unless you know someone who knows Italian well and can verify it; I have no idea what it's supposed to mean.)

In Latin, "I am still learning" would be "adhuc disco" or "etiam nunc disco," either of which requires you to have the word "disco" permanently scratched into your body.

Re: I have a Latin Question

[brigid.livejournal.com]

see, i thought it looked italian (plus it was said by michaelangelo which would also lend creedence to it's being italian), but one or two of the sites i googled it on said it was latin, which made me even more catious about it...i wanted to verify a) what language it was really in b) what it was really saying before i did anything with it, especially as i've read so many horror stories of people getting kanji tattoos that mean nothing remotely close to what they thought they did

thanks!