John Crowley is shelved in the literature section on the second floor-- what a puff from Harold Bloom will do to a man-- so I limped up to see if there were any, which there weren't. But bookstores are bookstores and one cruises the shelves by instinct, and so I found a treasure: bilingual facing-page English and Chinese text of Pride and Prejudice. Opening at random reveals Mr Collins to be 高林先生, and after that I had to have it. If only because in Japanese that's 'Takabayashi Sensei'.
I can has Rosetta Stone pt 2
John Crowley is shelved in the literature section on the second floor-- what a puff from Harold Bloom will do to a man-- so I limped up to see if there were any, which there weren't. But bookstores are bookstores and one cruises the shelves by instinct, and so I found a treasure: bilingual facing-page English and Chinese text of Pride and Prejudice. Opening at random reveals Mr Collins to be 高林先生, and after that I had to have it. If only because in Japanese that's 'Takabayashi Sensei'.
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Oh dear. You can buy Girl Guide cookies online, but only in quantities of four boxes. (cough) Hope I'll be better about eating them than I currently…
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The Makioka Sisters
I was under the impression that there existed a Cocteau something (ballet? short story? operetta?) called Le Jeune Homme Droit Se Marier (The young…
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So yahoo groups is closing in December and deleting all their content. I'm half tempted to use one of the download devices to save bits of AMLA and…
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