"Fool," said my Muse to me...- Sir Philip Sidney ('courtier, soldier, poet and romancer'), Astrophel and Stella
Thursday 26 February 2015
Philip Sidney, romancer
from 'Letters to a Translator'
There are many more modes of the past than those allowed by Imperfect, Perfect & Pluperfect!
I racked my brain for a better way of rendering "Wehswirtschaft" (p.14), but not to much avail.
I haven't had proofs from "Sprache im technischen Zeitalter" (what a stupid name for a journal)...- WG Sebald, 'Letters to a Translator' in Little Star 5 (2014)
Wednesday 25 February 2015
Favourite footnotes: 8
(A good dictionary and usage dictionary are strongly recommended. You're insane if you don't own these already.)- David Foster Wallace, teaching materials (English 183D, Pomona College, 2008), in The David Foster Wallace Reader
Tuesday 24 February 2015
I am indebted to Google Translate
for the information - happened upon mid-translation of a 'German' poem - that the adjective 'englisch' means, among other things, 'angelic' (obv.) and 'medium-rare' (less obv.), and the proper noun 'die Engländer' can be 'monkey wrench'.
Monday 23 February 2015
Thursday 19 February 2015
What am I to make of the fact
that my Samsung Galaxy tablet incorrects my 'P.S.'s to 'Please. Sorry.'s?
Found in books - 7
In a copy of Salman Rushdie: Sentenced to Death by WJ Weatherby, a time-sheet for Talon Security Services Ltd, week ending the 4th of October.
Monday 16 February 2015
Thursday 12 February 2015
Friday 6 February 2015
Books I've actually finished lately: 67
What enabled me to give up [smoking] was the realisation I could go on loathing the campaigners without continuing to damage my health.- Wendy Cope
Thursday 5 February 2015
Not from Blackadder(?) - 3
As you wrestle with the rantings of Austria's most lethal watercolourist...- Richard Lea, in The Guardian
Poetry at the movies
You dare to cast aspersions?! I am not the one who was entertaining with a failed poet...!- Mortdecai
Wednesday 4 February 2015
Not from Blackadder(?) - 2
[He] was, in fact, born in Smyrna ... where his father, George Herbert Willans, was Assistant Locomotive, Carriage and Wagon Superintendent of the Ottoman Aidan Railway.- Wendy Cope, Life, Love and The Archers
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