Sunday, December 25, 2005
Have a Happy Hannukah, Merry Christmas, Kwonderful Kwanza, Festive Festivus, Scintillating Solstice and a Happy New Year
especially during the winter holiday season i love this quote...
i guess that means it really resonantes with people. if it was written by senseh in her diary, it would have been written originally in hebrew - so any english version is by definition an interpretive translation. and she could have been quoting or alluding to an earlier quotation, even if she didn't realize it. so interesting...
"All the darkness cannot extinguish the light of a single candle,when i was googling it to find out who really wrote it, i discovered that it has moved beyond its original context, has been paraphrased all over the place and has been attributed to hannah senesh, the talmud, a wise man, someone, and unknown ... and occurs in many different variations.
yet one candle can illuminate all the darkness."
i guess that means it really resonantes with people. if it was written by senseh in her diary, it would have been written originally in hebrew - so any english version is by definition an interpretive translation. and she could have been quoting or alluding to an earlier quotation, even if she didn't realize it. so interesting...
