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Titolo: [REQ] he can no more ignore me *than* know which....

Non capisco che funzione abbia il than in questa frase:
he can no more ignore me
than know which one of us is he
come la tradurreste?
Io pensavo
non può più ignorarmi
ora che sa chi di noi è lui.
,Blob

 than know which one of us is he
Here is a pretty tough one.
Sta dicendo che qualche cosa e' altamente improbabile: letteralmente, "non
puň ignorarmi piů di quanto non possa sapere chi di noi lui e'".
Dunque, in italiano idiomatico lo renderei:
"Non puň ignorarmi, quant'e' vero (OPPURE: com'e' vero) che non puň sapere
chi di noi lui sia".
Come sempre, sono certo che il contesto chiarifichi. Sono pero' sorpreso
che nessuno ti abbia risposto.
Sq
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Giò
A man has dreams of walking with giants,
to carve his niche in the edifice of time.
Before the mortar of his zeal
has a chance to congeal
the cup is dashed from his lips,
the flame is snuffed aborning.


Peter Hammill, album PF7, canzone "Mirror Images", anni '70.
Joe from Massachusetts

Giņ
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Peter Hammill
pH7 (Charisma Records)
Registrato durante la Primavera del 1979 - uscito a Luglio 1979
"Mirror Images"
If I'm the mirror and you're the image
then what's the secret between the two,
these "me"s and "you"s, how many can there be?
Oh, I don't mind all that around the place,
as long as you keep it
well away from me.
I've begun to regret that we ever met
between the dimensions.
It gets such a strain to pretend that the change
is anything but cheap;
with your infant pique and your angst pretensions
sometimes you act like such a creep.
And now I'm standing in the corner,
looking at the room and the furniture
in cheap imitation of alienation and grief.
And now we're going to the kitchen,
fix ourselves a drink and a cigarette,
getting no closer to being the joker or thief.
Still, I reflect, this nervous wreck
who stands before me can see as well,
can surely tell that he's not yet free;
he can turn aside, but can no more ignore me
than know which one of us is he,
than tell what we are going to be,
than know which one of us is me.
And now we're going to the kitchen,
fix ourselves a drink and a cigarette,
getting no closer to being the joker or thief.
These mirror images,
these mirror images
won't stay, go away, are no help.
In these mirror images of myself
there are no secrets.
Joe from Massachusetts

Giò
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He's British, and sort of a cross between Leonard Cohen and Lou Reed.
Joe from Massachusetts


Speaking of songs, I was wondering why there is no coverage of the San
Remo festival on Raiclick.
I heard from someone that Mike Tyson sang a Modenese song. (Or was it
Modugnese?)  :>)
Joe from Massachusetts

 Remo festival on Raiclick.
As another rather famous song went:
You don't know how lucky you are, boy :-)
Ciao,
Anna


And something (err... a lot of things) more
I suggest these albums
Ph7
In Camera
A Black Box
This
search on Google for hammillitalia (a yahoo group),
you'll find a lot of info abut him.
,Blob

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So are you telling me that Mike Tyson was indeed the highlight of the
Festival?  :>)
Joe from Massachusetts

 Festival?  :>)
Well, it depends... In my opinion the highlight was Hugh Grant :-)
Ciao,
Anna

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I missed most of it, but I've been told he... er... "ha fatto scena muta".
Bye, FB
-- 
"The doctors found out that Bunbury could not live, that is what I mean—so
Bunbury died."
"He seems to have had great confidence in the opinion of his physicians."
("The Importance of Being Earnest", Oscar Wilde)

 I missed most of it, but I've been told he... er... "ha fatto scena muta".
Oh, really? I didn't notice that. I wonder where I left my head :-)
Ciao,
Anna

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Hugh Grant, Mike Tyson - mancava solo il Tenente Colombo.
Joe from Massachusetts