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Friday, August 4, 2023









Vietnamese Cultural Center with Ho Chi Minh quotation on 8-4-23--Vientiane copy




Vietnamese Cultural Center. At the top are images of the Temple of Literature in Hanoi and the Imperial Palace in Hue. Below are images of the One Pillar Pagoda in Hanoi and Pha That Luang in Vientiane, with this quatrain from Ho Chi Minh:
With love, one can climb any number of mountains
Cross any number of rivers or mountain passes
The love between Vietnam and Laos
Is deeper than the Red River or Mekong


3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Your rendering of Vietnamese into English is amazing. Have you ever attempted to translate Truyện Kiều?

Linh Dinh said...

That's too big of a project for me. I did translate Eliot's Waste Land into Vietnamese.--Linh

Linh Dinh said...

P.S. I became a writer outside institutions, so no steady income or even access to decent libraries, and my situation became even more precarious after I lost my publishers.