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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Not with a bang but a whimper
It's going to snow some time in the near future, so as long as it's possible biking weather I figured I'd better get to the hardware store for…
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Shifts
1. Sunday was hair wash day but I wanted an epsom bath. Which had, but could smell- because I have A Nose- my hair just the slightest bit manky from…
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The dead days
Another calm grey dry day, but brighter than before: like the best of civil November. The seasonal fantods withdraw for a spell, as they bloody well…
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