AtD translation: the irregular of spirit

[David Morris]

Make that phrase “Spirit, not letter, of the law.”

On Thu, Feb 3, 2022 at 11:37 AM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> “Irregular” often means having bowel movement problems.  It’s a common
> term used openly in advertising for diarrhea remedies.
>
> “Of spirit” might be best understood by the phrase “spirit, not law, of
> the letter.”  Meaning its essential qualities.
>
> David Morris
>
> On Thu, Feb 3, 2022 at 11:17 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> "either “pigeon” or “dove,” but the birds themselves symbolize the human
>> spirit and the people of Israel according to Judaism."
>>
>> so pigeon shit, full of acid and not nitrates, is the mineral element? And
>> we know birds shit pretty irregularly, sort of "when the spirit moves
>> them", we might say?
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 3, 2022 at 10:50 AM Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
>>
>> > I am fairly sure he’s talking about pigeons. I tried to think what would
>> > make any  human visitors come to see a statue of a minor Austro
>> Hungarian
>> > dignitary and why they might be called  irregular of spirit. Seems a
>> > serious stretch to me. Perhaps it is a way of mocking his self image
>> > compared with the attitudes of those who actually come and go from his
>> > life.. Pigeons and birds come and go from any statue, so are
>> “irregular”.
>> > The phrase    "of spirit" is more of a stretch, but birds are definitely
>> > not motivated by loyalty of spirit to an empire.  How you would
>> translate
>> > this is another issue. But I think it would be better to err on the
>> side of
>> > pigeons. I think that is the intended joke.
>> >
>> > > On Feb 3, 2022, at 3:08 AM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> > >
>> > > P679.21-28   The moving field came to rest at length on whom but the
>> > > co-tenant of Tarot card XV, Professor P. Jotham Renfrew, apparently
>> down
>> > > from Cambridge taking in a show, his face flattened into a lurid
>> > > two-dimensional chromo of itself,  sitting in a box with somebody in a
>> > > foreign uniform, whom it took Lew only a moment more to recognize as
>> his
>> > > former fellow Archduke-minder, the Trabant Captain, now regular K. &
>> K.
>> > > Landwehr Colonel, Max Khäutsch,  hardly changed from the Chicago days,
>> > > unless perhaps grown slightly more mineral, toward the condition of a
>> > > statue in a park frequented by the irregular of spirit.
>> > >
>> > > What does "the irregular of spirit" mean here?
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