Reading Rilke's 'Letters to a Young Poet' tonight prompted me to open a thread to ask everybody who their favorite person (ever) is, but then I found this thread, which is also great and should suffice.
I think my favorite person, or rather type of person, is Swetlana Geier, although I only know her from a documentary ('Die Frau mit den 5 Elefanten'). What I like about her is that she is astute, quiet yet determined, invitingly gentle yet withdrawn, thoughtful but also simple, that she takes time before she speaks, that, when she speaks, it is with precision and the voice of a young woman even at the age of 85, and that it took her 20 years to translate six books from Russian to German. I believe she is an INFP, like Rilke, which is what made me think of her today while recognizing many of her qualities in his letters.
A trailer to the documentary that I recommend to anybody interested in literary translation, Russian, German, INFPs, but particularly to @Vasilisa: [video]
Reading Rilke's 'Letters to a Young Poet' tonight prompted me to open a thread to ask everybody who their favorite person (ever) is, but then I found this thread, which is also great and should suffice.
Reading Rilke's 'Letters to a Young Poet' tonight prompted me to open a thread to ask everybody who their favorite person (ever) is, but then I found this thread, which is also great and should suffice.
I think my favorite person, or rather type of person, is Swetlana Geier, although I only know her from a documentary ('Die Frau mit den 5 Elefanten'). What I like about her is that she is astute, quiet yet determined, invitingly gentle yet withdrawn, thoughtful but also simple, that she takes time before she speaks, that, when she speaks, it is with precision and the voice of a young woman even at the age of 85, and that it took her 20 years to translate six books from Russian to German. I believe she is an INFP, like Rilke, which is what made me think of her today while recognizing many of her qualities in his letters.
A trailer to the documentary that I recommend to anybody interested in literary translation, Russian, German, INFPs, but particularly to [MENTION=9273]Vasilisa[/MENTION]:
I knew someone would say that. I am fine with INFJ, too. Typology is squishy business.Not that it matters, but she seems INFJ. I've always thought Rilke was INFP/ISFP.
Born in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, Jesse Livermore started his trading career at the age of fourteen. He ran away from home with his mother's blessing to escape a life of farming his father intended for him. He then began his career by posting stock quotes at the Paine Webber brokerage in Boston.
By the age of fifteen, he had earned profits of over $1,000 (which equates to about $23,000 today[5]). In the next several years, he continued betting at the bucket shops. He was eventually banned from most bucket shops for winning too much money from them. He then moved to New York City and devoted his energies towards trading in legitimate markets. This change would lead him to devise a new set of rules to trade the market.
During his lifetime, Livermore gained and lost several multi-million dollar fortunes. Most notably, he was worth $3 million and $100 million after the 1907 and 1929 market crashes, respectively. He subsequently lost both fortunes.