Its been a long  week, month, year and even though I keep trying to hold fighting form when tired, I know when enough is enough.

“The man who is secure within himself has no need to prove anything with force, so he can walk away from a fight with dignity and pride.” (Hyams J, 1979, Zen in the Martial Arts, Bantam Books)

Time to move onto a quieter period.

Another beautiful article on Perception from Cittaviveka.

What a long, boring day… 3 long lessons with basically nothing to do.
Worst is the English C class I had in the afternoon, I have to write an academic paper, 6 pages and I have no idea on how to start.
My topic is about how the evolution of martial arts of the 20th and now 21st century has gone.
But where to start, how to find and construct the information is the biggest mystery…I have no idea.

I wanna especially take up the topic about MMA and the UFC.
Personally, I am no fan of MMA, also known as mixed martial arts, and when I watch the UFC matches… I get like…what the fuck is this?

In my opinion MMA is nothing but brutes just pounding the living fuck out of one another with ruthless kicking and punching, and then they know some good wrestling moves on the ground…but nothing more, no technique, no dicipline and most importantly; no honour.
This isnt real martial arts, for there is no ART in this sport, or blood sport as I call it.
No, I prefer the traditional Wushu and all those other traditional east asian martial arts, which I feel is the true artforms of combat and selfdefense.

I would like to give a tip for a good movie; ‘Wushu’ from 2008 starring and directed by Sammo Hung, produced by Jackie Chan and introdcuing the rising wushu stars Wenjie Wang and Fengchao Liu, seen on the above pic with Jackie himself.
Great movie about a bunch of kids growing up at a wushu academy, learning about life and wushu when they ultimately must use their power to defeat evil.
It is kinda B, but the acting is good and very, very well choreographed, and the Wushu competition scenes are breathtaking.

Though, to change to another subject from all the violence; I created a little but very nice playlist on Spotify, filled with some of my personal favorite love songs ^^
-So just download the playlist HERE and enjoY~~

Hottness~~

I’ve just been watching one of the MJFF Virtual Roundtables which was available as a webinar, available soon, previous ones. Its the first one I’ve viewed. The Foundation is supporting incredible work. I haven’t read Always Looking up yet, but a friend has and said it was excellent.

History of Parkinson’s Disease.

Amongst many activities of the  Foundation, it tirelessly supports ( research into clinical trials, surgeries and physical therapies / exercises).  Activities like meditation, yoga, tai chi, walking, dance – can all help improve balance, co-ordination especially those who suffer with posture and gait related symptoms. There are many ways to support the Foundation’s work.

Their research:

With medications, the clinicians who responded in the webcast, mentioned that no two patients are the same, respond to treatments differently, the rate of progression of symptoms also varies. They are trying to understand if there are different groups of people who have physical, genetic similarities. People may have cognitive symptoms such as thinking more slowly, depression, mood disorders, so treatments for motor disorders may not be as effective for these as well.

I was not aware but there is research about gastrointestinal dysfunctions where there is also a loss of  dopamine neurons. They are looking at studies of the colon.

In June, they launched PDOnlineResearch which looks at how to interpret results – where researchers, scientists, funders can get together and  discuss findings, also making this available publicly, googleable ! It has grown substantially since its launch.

There are many other interesting areas discussed in the webinar, which I highly recommend watching. Will conclude this post with DBS – deep brain stimulation which is an evolving technique, being used at earlier and earlier stages. MJFF have funded many grants for DBS. I don’t know if this is one of them but it explains a bit about DBS:

On trouve dans une épigramme attribuée à Sénèque une très belle réflexion sur la simplicité (Pierre Laurens, Anthologie de l’épigramme de l’Antiquité à la Renaissance, Poésie/Gallimard, 2007) :

Toujours parée, toujours, Basilissa, coquette,

Et toujours les cheveux avec art disposés,

Et toujours maquillée et toujours parfumée,

Et toujours d’une main habile préparée,

Cela m’irrite : j’aime un peu de négligé,

Une simplicité sans art, voilà ce qui me charme.

Qui se pare toujours se défie de l’amour ;

Plus la beauté se cèle et plus elle est visible.

 

Ce texte, qui est un art d’aimer, j’aimerais le voir aussi comme un art poétique. L’amour et la poésie ne vont jamais qu’ensemble à Rome. L’épigramme a en effet quelque chose d’un haïku – Roland Barthes n’avait d’ailleurs pas manqué de rapprocher ces deux formes.

Cet art qui a pour principe la simplicité même, l’effacement, le bruissement, le chuchotement, et qui ne peut que nous être salutaire. L’art du haïku consiste en effet, dans toute sa délicatesse, à “nommer un chat un chat”. Ici, peu de métaphores, peu d’images, peu de ces leurres qui déguisent le réel, qui le masquent, qui le transforment en objet de langage, en “Poésie” majuscule. Le haïkiste n’écrit qu’à demi-mots. Comme la courtisane de Sénèque, il aime que son poème ne se pare pas trop du langage :

Champs et montagnes

mouillés de pluie

une aube fraîche

Shiki (Roger Munier, Haïkus, Fayard, 1978 – tous les poèmes cités dans ce post sont issus de cette très belle anthologie)

 

Le champ, la montagne, la pluie, l’aube : ce sont autant de mots simples, facile à saisir, donnés à chacun. Car il y a dans l’écriture une brisure : l’instant où la feuille blanche, encore pure couleur, pur toucher, encore insignifiance, est couverte de mots. Elle devient alors un média, un objet, elle se pare d’une signifiance, d’une utilité. Le haïku, dans tout le silence qui l’environne, tâche de conserver, malgré l’obligatoire recours au langage, ce rien, ce vide, cette nudité.

Tachetés de boue

par la rosée

les melons ont un air frais

Bashô

Boue et rosée : ce sont les images de cette pureté trahie qu’évoque ici Bashô. Car c’est une entrebâillement que le haïku, une hésitation, un équilibre.

Dans les fleurs tardives de cerisier

le printemps qui s’en va

hésite

Buson

Cette hésitation, c’est aussi celle de l’écrivain, sachant que, cédant à sa tâche de parole, il brise l’instant, ce bref entrebâillement de la feuille blanche. Retrouver, après le poème, la pureté du papier sans tache, voilà le rêve de tout poète, voilà le seul présent qui vaille d’être reçu.

Mais je termine en paraphrasant cette autre épigramme latine, de Martial cette fois-ci :

Ce n’est pas un mince présent

D’un poète que ce papier blanc.

It’s been a couple months of busy times here at the Monastery.  We’ve been getting ready for winter, chopping wood, carrying water, etc.  Now we can relax and chill (literally) with the snow falling outside.

Martial pursuits are proceeding apace;  8 Shadows attendance could be better, but work has interfered.  Hopefully this will change over the winter.  A new rank has brought a paradigm shift in the content of the training; a shift that is a good match for my approach to martial arts.

Escrima (what little of it I learned in California) remains fascinating to me and I practice my few techniques daily, looking greatly forward to June, when I will see Sig again and pick his brain further.

In other news, I’ve been privileged to be able to train one on one with Aikido master Sensei Daniel Kempling for the last few months and for the foreseeable future.  His take on Aikido is refreshingly martial, and his training and life experiences make for a capable and fascinating teacher.  After persistently offering to let him ‘throw me around’ if he felt like it, he relented and we train once a week in the morning.  To be able to learn from any master one on one is a rare and valuable privilege.

It’s been a very interesting year martially; to have access to three martial masters that ‘have it’ is something that I would never have thought possible.   Even though all three styles are radically different on the surface (8 Shadows Kung Fu, Serrada Escrima, and Aikido), the parallels and harmonies between them are a source of continual surprise and delight.  Lucky times!

As previously mentioned for Taegeuk Yuk Jang, it has retreating movements. I am enjoying learning these. The art of stepping back.

There is also a great series of movements translated as repulsing monkeys which I started to learn in Scotland. They are part of the Tai Chi Beijing Short Form (24 movements). Its nice to visualize problems as monkeys to be repulsed. As well as stepping back, there is a firm but gentle pushing movement whilst you retreat.

Beautiful !

So we are meeting at the dojo this week again.
Last week’s turn out was small but I think it was pretty awesome.

So Eko has killed two birds with one stone by doing his 2D class project on the Martial Arts Club. He had cooked bird stew later on.

so as usual. contact me if you have issues.

J Yun

Have found a series of  posts about “body sense”, partly following a conversation on Tom Haskins post, I am not really familiar with the psychology yet and trying to get my head around the interaction of sensations, emotions. Both Tom and minh were extremely helpful in their descriptions of how we learn.

Body sense appears to be about reconnecting to your body, increasing your awareness of what is happening.

Body sense is the ability to pay attention to ourselves, to feel our sensations, emotions, and movements on-line, in the present moment, without the mediating influence of judgmental thoughts…

The body sense is more technically called embodied self-awareness. It is composed of sensations like warm, tingly, soft, nauseated, dizzy; emotions such as happy, sad, threatened; and other body senses like feeling the coordination (or lack of coordination) between the arms and legs while swimming, or sensing our shape and size (fat or thin), and sensing our location relative to objects and other people. Thoughts about the self are called conceptual self-awareness. The table below gives a summary of the differences.

Conceptual Self-Awareness

• Based in language
• Rational, explanatory
• Abstract

Embodied Self-Awareness

• Based in sensing, feeling, and acting
• Spontaneous, open to change
• Concrete, in the moment

The series also looks at eating, exercise both with and without mirrors, body image etc. I find this interesting in relation to taekwondo. Out of the three dojang sessions I do weekly, one is with mirrors. This can be very helpful, because when someone is explaining that you are doing something wrong and they demonstrate it and you get it wrong again, if you can see what you are doing in the mirror, you have a better understanding – possibly ..it is easy to get distracted by your image in the mirror although in a dobok – less so.

I guess if men or women are in a gym with mirrors and wearing tighter fitting clothing you naturally become more self conscious. I’m not sure how much difference it makes – I haven’t trained in a gym for a few years and from what I remember, if I was in a good mood to try and exercise which made me concentrate or a really bad mood and concentrated in order to snap out of it, then I didn’t notice the mirror so much. Some of it, like a treadmill where you can be staring into a mirror can work both ways, either your mind drifts to other things because of the monotony – you stare through it, or it can be distracting.

It also depends, if a work or personal situation is on your mind, then it is more difficult to focus anyway, so seeing yourself in the mirror exercising hard may be less than helpful, unless you are an olympic athlete or similar ! Maybe if conceptual self-awareness does exist, then you are more likely to drift back to conceptual in those circumstances.

One of the benefits of martial arts training in the dojang is that there are others around, very fast paced and variety of activities and you are training to develop balance, focus, co-ordination. In terms of general fitness, I dislike running in gyms, you cannot replicate the wind, rain, unexpected changes in the environment as you run around either streets or fields, I feel so much better when I have run outdoors.

Time and budget permitting, I’m thinking about starting video series soon – taking some fitness gadgets for a spin, in both running and martial arts training. Heart rate monitors have been around for a long time, then Nike and others looked at tracking in trainers,  now in 2009 there are gadgets like Fitbit*, Apple and Nokia both releasing or partnering with others, GymTechnik etc

Does any of this make any positive difference to how we perceive the benefits to our body / exercise or are they a physical distraction in themselves?

I’m not convinced right now, I am very happy with how I currently train for martial arts without wearing any digital technology. I don’t record anything formally other than documenting the 33 days on this blog earlier in the year and I don’t have plans to do anything more detailed. This will also be alongside continuing a deeper exploration into chi, internal martial arts and eastern philosophy.

In the meantime:

Author: Will Brink
Source: articleage.com

For a considerable amount of time, nutrition has not played a prominent role in the life of many martial artists, police, and military personnel as a means of improving, unique key chain
, performance. Top athletes are always looking for an edge. Although the martial arts are more of a way of life and a life style than a sport per se, the needs of the martial artist are the same as that of the elite athlete.
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Will they not be an improved version of their former self? Of course they will! Proper nutrition can make the martial artist, as it has for so many of today’s top athletes, an improved and potentially more accomplished practitioner of their art, plain and simple. If a policeman is able to stay alert, has more endurance or strength, etc., will he/she not have an added advantage to, unique key chain
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Protein
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Suffice it to say, proteins are an essential part of virtually every function in our body from the muscles, to certain hormones, to our immune system(s) and a whole lot more. In particular, the amino acids known as the ‘branched chain’ amino, unique key chain
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Though the RDA for protein is generally sufficient for couch potatoes (with some debate) the majority of athletes and/or highly active people will benefit from higher intakes of high quality proteins. Proteins with the highest biological value (BV) are the proteins that should constitute the majority of the active person’s diet, as they are superior for maintaining positive nitrogen balance, reducing, unique key chain
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Whey protein concentrate (WPC) and isolates (WPI) have the highest BV of any protein, is almost 50% branched chain amino acids, and is high in L-glutamine, which is why I recommend several servings a day of WPC/WPI to all the athletes/martial artists/police I work with.
There are several brands of WPC/WPI on the market. Other high quality proteins such as skinless chicken, fish, eggs, soy, and lean red meats, have relatively high BV values and are good proteins. Another point that is important to know, the higher quality, unique key chain
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For a person who is active in the martial arts, has a busy job, and probably does some weight lifting and/or aerobics, an intake of .7 ? .8 grams of protein per pound of lean body weight is what I have generally recommended. For high level bodybuilders and competitive distance athletes, the protein intake will be higher, approximately 1g of protein per lb /bodyweight being the most common.
In certain situations, amino acid supplementation is useful, but most people will have no problem getting what they need by eating plenty of high quality protein foods. Low grade, high fat, preservative loaded, protein foods such as luncheon meats, hot dogs, etc., should be avoided, unique key chain
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Carbohydrates
Carbohydrates are made primarily of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen atoms that cycle into a ring. They can be ’simple’ or ‘complex’ depending on the number of rings that are hooked together and the way the carbohydrate effects blood, unique key chain
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Though foods such as pasta, breads, and white rice are considered ‘complex’, unique key chain
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Americans are notoriously low eaters of fiber, and heavily processed foods mentioned above do nothing to correct this deficit, unique, unique key chain
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Though the high carbohydrate/low fat diet is all the rage these days, it has not been in my experience the optimal diet, unique key chain
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There are many researchers, books, and studies using both animals and humans that seriously questions the high carbohydrate/low fat diet as the optimal diet for health and performance. Two grams per pound of lean bodyweight of carbohydrates is more than, unique key chain
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Fats
The very word sends a shiver down the back, unique key chain
, of the leanest person. There is not a more misunderstood nutrient in all of nutrition than fats. Many people know, unique key chain
, there are big differences in how various carbohydrates effect the, unique key chain
, body and some people even know that different proteins have different properties, but ‘a fat is a fat, no’? is what the majority of people would say if you asked them about this much maligned nutrient.
Fats have just as many biochemical differences in the human body as do carbohydrates and proteins, and thus have, unique key chain
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You should be aware that there is no such thing as an essential carbohydrate, but that’s a whole other story. The two fats that are known to be essential to health are Linoleic acid (LA) which is an Omega-6 fatty, unique key chain
, acid and Alpha-linolenic acid (LNA) which is an Omega-3 fatty acid. Both of these fats can be found in various foods that have not been heavily processed.
These two fats are highly sensitive and reactive to heat, light, and oxygen (i.e. they go bad quickly), and are totally ruined or lost during the processing of our foods. The reason poly -unsaturated vegetable oils that line the shelves of most super markets can sit there for years on end is because they have been heated, deodorized, and generally processed to the point that they are the nutritional equivalent of white bread and table sugar. I recommend, unique key chain
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Because of all the fat bashing by the popular media and health professionals who should know better, most people have come away thinking that all fat is bad and serves no other purpose than to make our hips and stomach wider while ruining our health. Nothing could be further from the truth. The membrane that surrounds every single cell in your body, the sheath around nerves, various hormones, prostaglandins, and countless other parts of the body, unique key chain
, (especially the brain) depend on the dietary intake of the right fats.
The importance of the essential fatty acids for health and performance cannot be understated. It is true that certain fats, such as, saturated fats, rancid fats, and trans fatty acids (found in margarine, Crisco, and other products), can cause numerous health problems from heart disease to cancer and insulin resistance, to name only a few ills of a diet high in the wrong types of fat.
However, the essential fatty acids (especially the Omega-3 fatty acids) are anti-lipolytic (stop fat storage), anti-catabolic (stop the break down of muscle tissue), increase metabolic rate and beta oxidation (burn calories/increase fat burning), improve insulin sensitivity, reduce the chances of heart diseases, and a whole lot more (3).
Though early research told us that we need a bit more LA (the Omega-6 fatty acid) than LNA (the Omega-3 fatty acid) in our diet, we find in practice that a diet containing higher amounts of Omega-3 fatty acids (LNA) gets the best results in health, bodyfat levels, and performance.
The richest source of the Omega-3 fatty acid LNA is Flax oil, which also contains a small amount of the Omega-6 oil LA (4). Flax oil can be found in the, unique key chain
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, store and is derived from the careful processing of flax seeds (5). As a nutritional consultant to various athletes, I have used flax oil with many of the country’s top bodybuilders (a group of athletes notoriously fearful of eating fat) to reduce their bodyfat levels and improve their performance and health. Two/three tablespoons, unique key chain
, a day over a salad, taken straight, or in a protein drink does the trick (6).
Another major source of Omega-3 fatty acids can be found in deep water cold fish such as sardines, mackerel, and salmon (7), and I recommend that people eat two to three servings of these fish per week. Good sources of LA are unprocessed vegetable oils such as safflower, sunflower, sesame, and many other oils found in health food stores.
Fats to avoid are highly processed vegetable oils and other processed vegetable products (such as margarine), rancid fats, and to a lesser degree, saturated fats. The key to health and performance is a proper balance of essential fatty acids (LNA and LA), mono unsaturated oils (found in olive oil, avocados, etc.),, unique key chain
, and small amounts of saturated fats found in lean meats and other sources combined with the right carbohydrates and proteins.
Vitamins/Minerals
Obviously, unique key chain
, a full description of every vitamin and mineral and all their functions would take several large text books, so I won’t even attempt it here. A good multi vitamin, unique key chain
, is an insurance plan to make sure we get all the major vitamins and minerals that for what ever reason we failed to get from our food on any given day.
There is not a single cell in our entire body that does not require the use, or interaction with, some vitamin, mineral, or biological function that is dependent on the above nutrients in adequate amounts. If you think we get all the vitamins and minerals we need from our highly processed food supply (as some health professionals maintain), then I have a bridge in Brooklyn I would like to sell you. Some (but not all) nutritionists and other health related professionals will often say something like ‘vitamins supplements just cause expensive urine’.
The, unique key chain
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, major brand of multi vitamin from such manufacturers as Twin Lab, Solgar, or Nature’s Best, to name only a few good brands, would be fine.
Anti – oxidants
‘Anti-oxidants’ and ‘free radicals’, unique key chain
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Anti-oxidants are a special class of vitamins and other non vitamin compounds that neutralize free radicals before they can damage cells in our body. What is a free radical? A free radical is a highly reactive molecular fragment that has a single unpaired electron. The unpaired electron wants to ?pair up? with another electron.
The free radical will steal this electron from, unique key chain
, virtually anything it comes in contact with, including our cells. This reaction, if left unchecked, leads to a free radical chain reaction and damage to various parts of the cell depending on where it takes place. An anti-oxidant can donate an electron without itself becoming a free radical and thus can break the chain of events leading to an uncontrolled free radical chain reaction (8).
Free radical pathology is now believed to be linked to diseases such as cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and dozens, unique key chain
, of other afflictions. Without going into a long (and boring) biochemical explanation, there are many things that cause free radicals to be released, such as smoking, exposure to various toxins found in air, food and water, sickness, exercise, and stress in general.
Anti-oxidants such as vitamin E and C and other compounds such as selenium, N-acetyl cysteine (NAC), and proanthocyanidins (derived from grape seed extract), to mention a few, will help recuperation from tough workouts, improve immunity, possibly prevent certain diseases, and improve your health in so many different ways it would take another article to explain. A good anti-oxidant formula made by any one of the brands I mentioned previously, should be added to the diet in addition to the multi- vitamin. Whey proteins can also greatly improve anti oxidants status and, unique key chain
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Sports Supplements:
The topic of sports nutrition supplements, such as: androstenedione and other ?andros,? Arginine, Colostrum, CLA, Creatine, Ecdysterone, GH Supplements, Ginseng, HMB, Myostatin Inhibitors and Tribulus, to name just a few, is beyond the scope of this article. Each supplement has its potential uses, dawbacks, doses and other variables that need to be examoned on an indavidual basis. People in the martial arts, law enforecement, or military that want to understand these supplements ; whether or not they are worth useing, doses, types, etc., should consider reading my ebook on the topic of sports nutrition supplements, nutrition, and training called Muscle Building Nutrition.
Conclusion
The above list of foods and supplements is in no way complete or the entire picture when it comes to additional ways the martial artist, police, and military personnel can improve his or her health, strength, bodyfat levels, and recuperative abilities. However, the information presented here can make for a foundation of health and performance that could add a considerable edge for those who seeks it.
(1)The way a carbohydrate effects blood sugar after it is eaten is known as the glycemic response. The glycemic, unique key chain
, index (GI) is a list of foods and how they effect blood sugar. Some foods we think of as ‘complex’ actually raise blood sugar much faster than many, unique key chain
, foods we think of as ’simple’.
(2) The health problems related to fats is are far more complex than most people appreciate. The pathology of disease(s) caused by high fat intakes of the wrong types of fat is a complex interaction between certain fats, carbohydrates, a lack of certain vitamins and other nutrients, free radical/anti-oxidant mechanisms, and other factors that are poorly understood.
(3) For more information on the many benefits of the essential fatty acids and to find out more information about fats and health in general, read ?Fats the Heal fats that Kill? by Dr. Udo Erasmus published by Alive books.
(4) LNA and LA are in a 4:1 ratio in flax oil.
(5) Like fresh eggs, milk, meat, etc, all fresh unprocessed oils will spoil (go rancid) if not refrigerated constantly and eaten shortly after opening the bottle.
(6) All highly unsaturated oils, including flax, should NEVER be used to cook with as this will change the structure of theses oils making them toxic and of little use for the purpose they are intended for.
(7) The ‘fish oils’ DHA and EPA can be formed in the human body from LNA by desaturase enzymes.
(8) It is important to note that free radical reactions are a normal and essential part of metabolism. It is the uncontrolled free radical chain reactions that we are concerned with.
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http://www.dietsupplementsreview.com
http://www.musclebuildingguide.com

Răsfoind cartea “Cum să redactăm …” de Septimiu Chelcea, am dat peste îndemnul “Să nu plagiezi!”. Astfel, am aflat si câteva noutăţi: prima dată cuvântul “plagiat” a fost folosit de Marţial ( Marcus Valerius Martialis). Scopul a fost acela de a-l ridiculiza pe Fidentinus (“increzutul”,”indraznetul” – poreclă dată unui plagiator stângaci). Oare putem afirma că trăim într-o tară plină de încrezuţi care îşi atribuie creaţii fără niciun pic de ruşine? Probabil mulţi dintre plagiatori se regăsesc în versurile de mai jos:

“Unui plagiator
Poemul ăsta, Fidentine,
Îl recunosc, e scris de mine.
Dar il reciti atât de rău,
C-a început să fie-al tău.”

“Epigrama lui Martial”, în traducerea lui T. Mainescu (1961).