I'm being followed by a moon shadow

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And it's creeping me out. If I jump, we become momentarily disconnected. Other than that, it's pretty useless.
 
If you are run over by a steamroller you no longer cast a shadow.
 
相 永 醉 醒 我 我 行 暫 影 月 對 舉 獨 花
期 結 後 時 舞 歌 樂 伴 徒 既 影 杯 酌 間
邈 無 各 同 影 月 須 月 隨 不 成 邀 無 一
雲 情 分 交 零 徘 及 將 我 解 三 明 相 壺
漢 遊 散 歡 亂 徊 春 影 身 飲 人 月 親 酒​
 
John woke me drunk with my line temporarily shadow alone spent months on the move
After dancing at the junction of Clarion with both shadow cup discretion among believers
Miao free each month over the same month shall be not a shadow without an invite
Cloud mutual affection will I pay zero irresolute and solution phase pot Sanming
San Huan Han Yu Chun shadow body chaos irresolute man-month pro-drinking wine

thanks a bunch google! that almost makes sense kinda.
 
That makes more sense than what I got. Babelfish wanted to install spyware up my ass, so I passed.
 
thanks a bunch google! that almost makes sense kinda.

That is pretty great.

To be fair, because I switched it to old fashioned vertical right-to-left style (sort of), it probably didn't input correctly, but I doubt it'd do a great job with it horizontal either:
花間一壺酒
獨酌無相親
舉杯邀明月
對影成三人
月既不解飲
影徒隨我身
暫伴月將影
行樂須及春
我歌月徘徊
我舞影零亂
醒時同交歡
醉後各分散
永結無情遊
相期邈雲漢

But, you know, 8th century Classical Chinese...

Anyway, it involves the moon, a shadow, and alcohol, so I feel like it fit.
 
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That is pretty great.

To be fair, because I switched it to old fashioned vertical right-to-left style (sort of), it probably didn't input correctly, but I doubt it'd do a great job with it horizontal either:
花間一壺酒
獨酌無相親
舉杯邀明月
對影成三人
月既不解飲
影徒隨我身
暫伴月將影
行樂須及春
我歌月徘徊
我舞影零亂
醒時同交歡
醉後各分散
永結無情遊
相期邈雲漢

But, you know, 8th century Classical Chinese...

well, that one seems to make more sense at least.

Jug of wine among the flowers
Drinking alone without a blind date
Toast to invite the moon
The film into three
May both puzzled drink
Acts shadow over my body
The moon shadow temporarily
Diem required and spring
My song lingered month
I Dances messy
Wake up at the same intercourse
Drunk decentralized
Forever relentless tour
Hon phase of Miao

what it be, yo? i used to have me a thing for old chinese poetry. sadly, always translated because i'm of the underclass.
 
well, that one seems to make more sense at least.

Jug of wine among the flowers
Drinking alone without a blind date
Toast to invite the moon
The film into three
May both puzzled drink
Acts shadow over my body
The moon shadow temporarily
Diem required and spring
My song lingered month
I Dances messy
Wake up at the same intercourse
Drunk decentralized
Forever relentless tour
Hon phase of Miao

what it be, yo? i used to have me a thing for old chinese poetry. sadly, always translated because i'm of the underclass.

It does make slightly more sense, yes.

Li Bai. It's one of his better known poems, perhaps his best known one, but not really my favourite. I'm not sure which of his poems would be my favourite, but I always liked him more than Du Fu.

I can't read it in Chinese either, but considering the thread isn't quite straightforward, I thought it just fit that way.
 
It does make slightly more sense, yes.

Li Bai. It's one of his better known poems, perhaps his best known one, but not really my favourite. I'm not sure which of his poems would be my favourite, but I always liked him more than Du Fu.

I can't read it in Chinese either, but considering the thread isn't quite straightforward, I thought it just fit that way.

li bai looks familiar, but sadly it's been ages. man, i don't even know what happened to half of my poetry books. god, that's a depressing thought. i used to have mao's poems in a neat little book that disappeared at least a decade ago. that was neat little oddity. i miss it.

and the others.

but, hey, i still have baudelaire and rilke so that's something.
 
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