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So also during this time in the
1960s Cecilia Vicuña started

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having these visions of words
that sort of came together

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and made other words.

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And she created a whole
series of these palabra armas,

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which contains the word
palabra, word, arma, arms, más,

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meaning more, labrar,
meaning to work.

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So it's a word that contains
a lot of words within it.

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We're talking over
dinner how difficult

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it is to translate word
play or language games.

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It's probably the most
difficult language problem

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there is to translate or the
most difficult translation

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problem.

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But I picked a few of them
that I thought I could solve.

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And these are called adivinanzas
or divinations or riddles.

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It sort of has that
double meaning.

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And so, like a riddle, it
begins with a question.

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And then the question
itself contains the answer.

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I will read my
translation which is

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a rethinking of the
original riddle in order

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for it to also contain a
language game within it.

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[CLEARS THROAT] So it
begins with an epigraph.

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The word is the divination.

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To divine is to
ascertain the divine.

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What happens when libido
crashes a tea party?

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Anybody want to answer that?

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[LAUGHTER]

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What happens when libido
crashes a tea party?

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Liberty.

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[LAUGHTER]

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What does the deceitful
doorman do at night?

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Anyone?

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He lies dormant.

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[LAUGHTER]

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Right?

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What airs sweetly the free
reign of lovers and reign

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is misspelled?

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Yeah?

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So you know free reign
is without the G,

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but here, the G is in there.

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So it's the free reign of
lovers in love forever.

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Lovers ever foreign.

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I did three of those.

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She had tons of them.

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[LAUGHTER]

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And that's about
as much as I did.

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[CLEARS THROAT]