I read it in English a few years ago and have to correct that horrible error of judgment. If I actually go ahead and read Monte-Cristo in French, as well as Homer and Virgil, then I think I can say I haven't read anything in translation that I didn't go back and read in the original (at least, in languages that I read). I actually got about a third of the way through the Aeneid about 10 years ago but I need to start over if I decide to do it now.
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
March 1: Tesla demonstrates radio; radioactivity "discovered"; Stalin suffers stroke; your reads?
- 01/03/2014 08:45:00 AM
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I'm not reading much this month
- 02/03/2014 04:18:29 AM
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I'm thinking about reading the Decameron in Italian.
- 02/03/2014 04:55:13 AM
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Oddly enough, I have an Italian edition that I plan on reading later this year
- 02/03/2014 05:02:23 AM
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susanna kearsley, splendour falls. amazon recommended it and it's not awful. *NM*
- 02/03/2014 07:01:45 AM
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