Shuntaro Tanikawa.
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Another post about an interesting translator: Michael S. Rosenwald at the
NY Times reports that “Shuntaro Tanikawa, Popular Poet and Translator of
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A man should swallow a toad every morning to be certain of not encountering anything more disgusting in the course of the day. Nicholas de Chamfort
Uh. I've done that.
ReplyDeleteIt makes me nervous about where you've been.
ReplyDeletemaybe I should photocopy the sign and put it up in the gimcrack toilets. hard to imagine any of our patients being able to lift their feet off the ground let alone as high as a toilet cistern though
ReplyDeleteThis makes a nice change from the "If you sprinkle when you tinkle, be a sweet and wipe the seat!" sign.
ReplyDeleteI've always had a compulsion to flush public toilets with my foot.
ReplyDeleteIt must feel good to stop after all that dashing about. I'm very curious as to where that sign actually is.
ReplyDeleterolling on the floor laughing!!
ReplyDeleteWould it be okay if I wore my surgical foot socks?
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I am and always will be a toilet foot flusher. Except at home. A good reason to stay flexible!
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xl - I'm getting the idea that this might be an American thing.
ReplyDeleteLouciao - see I knew you wouldn't know about feet flushing either
Nursey - Maybe you could get them installed a little lower
MJ - Do they have toilet roll ladies in crinolines in Canada?
bb mcclain - hmmm - see what I said to xl
Synchy - Belize International darlin'
Ange - knew you'd like that one xx
Scarlet -Would it be okay if I wore my surgical foot socks? I think that makes it worse
Rebecca - wouldn't it be more fun to carry around a fake witchy hand to do the job?
I am even as we speak considering the fake witchy hand. The idea of it fills me with helium which is why my voice sounds so squeaky.
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