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"Although he neither speaks nor reads Persian, he is a popular interpreter of Rumi, rewriting the poems based on other English translations" white liberals lmao (en.wikipedia.org)
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[โ€“] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reminds me of how Westerners try to turn the Daodejing into this weird proto-anarchist work when it's actually fairly autocratic at places. The Ursula translation was pretty bad, especially the part where she took out a passage because it was too "Confucian."

[โ€“] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

Maybe she was worried there would be too much....Confucian