Talk:Peter Wessel Zapffe

message: This is Mr.P.  I've added a couple of quotes from the documentary that was made about Zapffe in 1990. I hope no one minds.
It's Mr.P again. I've put up the English translations for the titles of Zapffe's major works that previously had no translation.  I don't speak Norwegain, but these are the translations that I found in a few Arne Naess works.
Mr.P again.  I separated the list of Zapffe's works into 'greater works' and 'collections of shorter writings' to make things clearer.  Having them all together makes him seem more prolific than he actually was. Mr.P (the Zapffe enthusiast) 06:35, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Some Quotes 

message: Mr.P again.  Apart from a couple of translation 'attempts' that I have put up over the last few months, I have also changed 'Wits and witless' to Wit and whimsy.  
The word, 'wits', is almost always understood as someone's senses or alertness (to have your wits about you, as they say).  'Vett' probably means wit, as in clever humour.
Also, the word, 'witless', has a connotation of someone or something being stupid or dumb, rather than unwitty or silly.  There probably isn't a correspinding word in English for 'uvett', which literally translates to 'un-wit' or 'non-wit' (but you couldn't use either of these as a translation).  I have used the word 'whimsy' (meaning odd or silly humour) instead .  Apart from it probably being closer to the meaning of 'uvett', it also has an antiquated feel to it, which fits the style of writing that Zapffe reputedly wrote in. What do you think? Mr.P (the Zapffe enthusiast) 00:55, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I would translate 'vett' to 'sense', because someone who doesn't have 'vett' is senseless, in terms of common sense v. sense of perceiving. Common sense can also be translated to 'folkevett' or 'sense of the people'. The term 'vett' has a prominent place in North-Norwegian sayings and obscenities. But I think it's more important to make the title sound as sharp and witty as possible, which was arguably Zappfe's intention. - Sigg3.net (talk) 11:47, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Some more changes 

message: I have put up two more quotes from the Zapffe documentary made in 1990.  Also, I have re-translated a word of two in the quotes (from the English subtitles in the documentary), which seemed confusing or out of place. Mr.P (the Zapffe enthusiast) 03:57, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  More changes 

message: The lead needs to indicate how to pronounce his name. ~ Alcmaeonid (talk) 14:58, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Zapffe is derived from the Dutch weinzappfer (not sure about spelling) meaning wine bottler, tapster. I wrote a school paper on Zapffe and r$ead his philosophy when I was a teenager. I have a telephone interview that I conducted with his second wife, and friend & philosopher Sigmund Kvaløy Setreng, for exactly this purpose. Maybe I could put it on my homepage and we could reference to it as a primary source? I also have his collected works if needed. - Sigg3.net (talk) 11:52, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Pronunciation

message: I found a great summary of 'On the Tragic' from a book, and have added it to the page as an excerpt. Mr.P (the Zapffe enthusiast) (talk) 21:45, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  An 'On the Tragic' section... 

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