Искусство перевода и блохи
Sep. 5th, 2015 07:04 pm
"So nat'ralists observe, a flea
Has smaller fleas that on him prey;
And these have smaller fleas to bite 'em.
And so proceeds Ad infinitum."
(Jonathan Swift, "On Poetry: A Rhapsody", pub. 1733)

"Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em,
And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum.
And the great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on,
While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on."
(Augustus de Morgan, A Budget of Paradoxes, pub. 1872, p. 377)
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