Translation II: The Lizzard Boy keeps farting

[Paul Mackin]

On Sat, 27 May 2000 DudiousMax at aol.com wrote:

> Yo Dude,
>                   An old professor of mine, who it turns out was, if not a 
> pro-feminist at least an anti-masculinist, said a generation ago:  "A 
> translation is like one's mistress; if she's beautiful she's not faithful."  
> Hate to be reductionistic, but...
>                   Max
> 

Seems like Nathan Zuckerman's brother subscribed to that philosopy in
_Counterlife_. Which reminds me I finished _The Human Stain_. Highly
recommended. Roth is no feminist which may or may not make it notable that
two principal female characters in the new book end up thinking pretty
much exactly like Nathan.

		P.