Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/05/17

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Subject: [Leica] burgers
From: pswango at att.net (Phil Swango)
Date: Wed May 17 10:55:45 2006

Daniel wrote:

It's one of the more difficult ones for me to translate (beautifully).
The picture says it much better than I do, but here's a try:

The savour of burning flesh came to the heavens entwined in smoke.
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Hey, that's pretty good if you ask me.

Lattimore has it:

"The savour of the burning swept in circles up to the bright sky."

But either way Sonny's picture goes perfectly with it.  Pano format even
mimics the cinematic feel of the poem.

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