User talk:Francois Jacob

Cygnis insignis (talk) 18:20, 2 May 2010 (UTC)

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Hi, and thank you for your translation of À Eugène Lefébure - Monday 27 May 1867. However, it seems to me that the English version doesn't make much sense, for example the opening "Melancholic lake stork, motionless, does not your soul see itself appear, in their mirror, with boredom in excess".

It may be that the original document makes little sense, or it may be that the meaning has been mangled in translation. I had a quick look at the original, and I can see that the translation may be quite literal. Are there idiomatic meanings that I don't understand? My French is extremely basic, so I can't untangle layers of meaning! Inductiveload— talk/contribs  03:29, 8 May 2010 (UTC)