Mirror by Sylvia Plath

Here is a link to the poem (scroll down a little) and a Portuguese translation of it.

The “terrible fish” is spot on. This lake is a long way from Narcissus’ limpid pool, but I feel it does owe something to it.

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costaguana said: March 9, 201210:24 am

Does anyone know what WordPress’s markup language for a url is? I’ve turned off visual editing because my internet makes it excruciatingly slow to use, so it has to be tags. I’d like to make the url in this post into a live link! It’s not … … in fact what is WordPress’s markup language?

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Julian said: March 9, 20123:03 pm

You can’t just insert HTML?

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- Julian said: March 9, 20123:04 pm
  
  i.e. <a href=”http://www.foo.com”&rt;Foo</a&rt; ?
  
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Julian said: March 9, 20123:06 pm

I mean i.e. <a href=”http://www.foo.com”>Foo</a>

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costaguana said: March 9, 20123:45 pm

That works. HTML is another of those tedious new skills waiting to be acquired. However, I don’t advise copying and pasting that.

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