Jordan~ wrote:John Brockman? Isn't that the newsreader from The Simpsons? Oh, no, that's Kent.
Ann wrote:but lately I've felt very odd about reading translations (I have this idea that every word is important, and it bothers me that the word I'm reading is not the same word the author wrote).
Nemo wrote:Ann wrote:but lately I've felt very odd about reading translations (I have this idea that every word is important, and it bothers me that the word I'm reading is not the same word the author wrote).
but you cut yourself off from a lot of great authors all around the world. I am French and if I was with your argument I never read Emily Bronte, E A Poe, Wylde etc etc . this is a pure nonsense. do you really think we have to read the bible in Aramean ?
Nemo wrote:I am reading Petronius. incredible how human turpitude and patheticness are always the same through centuries...
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