General TP Reading Question (extremely silly)
Ya Sam
takoitov at hotmail.com
Thu Apr 19 14:18:33 CDT 2007
>then read John Barth's oeuvre in order,
>then Freud in German; Lacan, Deleuze & Guattari, in French;
>Borges in Spanish; Agamben and Dante in Italian...
>(Ya Sam and maybe some other awesome readers here have
>probably actually done this...)
>
(extremely snobbish (and maybe silly as well))
Actually yeah, I am reading Borges in Spanish at the moment. This is
shameless showing off (sometimes I indulge in this), but at the moment I'm
reading seven books in seven different languages. However there is one
factor which keeps my ego in check and prevents it from blowing up like
'Inconvenience', there is a person I know who not only reads in but also
translates from about thirty languages, so there is always room for
improvement. And I will never read Pynchon the way you Americans do, so it
cuts both ways.
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