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And when I'm translating poetry from another language, what I'm looking for in the original is "What's the movement here?", and that means stepping back quite a lot, trying to use the plane journeys and so forth, to get a sense of what's below or around the actual wording to find the movement, what Jacques Maritain the French Catholic critic call the 'pulsions' – that's a nice word the 'pulsions' – of a poem.
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We are some way from the language of 'pulsions'; but the whole point of narrative irony is a disruption of the politics of appearances to redraw the map of relations between the agents in the narrative.
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Maritain's own word is 'pulsions', a notion he discusses in the last two of the lectures, and whose definition clearly causes him some trouble.
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Instead, modern poetry pushes us back towards the deeper 'pulsions' – which seem, from the examples Maritain gives (from Baudelaire and, a little strangely, given his attention to strictly verbal music, Hopkins), to be something like units of imaginative sense, clusters of feeling or even 'knots' of imagery and cross-reference which can never be captured simply in the music of sounds.
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Car cela calmera mes pulsions BJDite et Pullipienne et sauvera mon compte en banque de la banqueroute: Adressez vos dons a: "Sauvons_Le_Compte_en_Banque_du_Pinku@CaUrge.com"
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2008
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Un pour satisfaire ses pulsions sexuelles, l'autre pour te foutre enceinte et Daniella qui, elle, veut ton uterus pour etre enceinte!!
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2007
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Piercings, tatouages, sexe et pulsions morbides, Lui va peu à peu perdre tous ses repères au contact de la faune trouble des bas-fonds de tokyo ...
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2007
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D'ailleurs j'ai deux manieres d'assouvir ces pulsions violentes!
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2007
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Only after immensely long periods, and under the pressure of strange com - pulsions, did it come to be realized that a past once forgotten could be recovered to a considerable degree by research.
HISTORIOGRAPHY HERBERT BUTTERFIELD 1968
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Elle m'a alors repondu "mais c une demarche saine et loin de la folie que de se refugier dans l'imaginaire pour assouvir ses pulsions!!
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2007
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