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The Cubs: original version, nicknames, and a few things that got lost (?) in translation
Reading English translations of literary works always frightens me a little because if you cannot read it in the original language, you get the feeling that you might be missing out on certain nuanc… more »
The Cubs: original version, nicknames, and a few things that got lost (?) in translation
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Ortizzle wrote 1 year ago: Reading English translations of literary works always frightens me a little because if you cannot … more »
Césaire and the shadow of woman
Ortizzle wrote 1 year ago: There is so much use of metaphor and similies in Notebook of a Return to the Native Land; it is … more »
Pedro Páramo and Negative Space
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Ortizzle wrote 1 year ago: Years ago I read a fascinating book called Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. One of the concep … more »
Endgame and Bomb Shelters
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Ortizzle wrote 1 year ago: Random thoughts on this week’s reading… *I started reading Endgame during Spring Brea … more »
Flaubert: Setting the Scene
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Ortizzle wrote 1 year ago: “To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happine … more »
Pangloss and Sab meet at Starbucks
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Ortizzle wrote 1 year ago: Two very different customers order their coffee at Starbucks: PANGLOSS: I’ll have a double … more »
Working the land
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Ortizzle wrote 1 year ago: When I lived in Madrid, and before I was able to comprehend anything like a novel in Spanish, I re … more »
Above Tintern Abbey
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Ortizzle wrote 1 year ago: I am looking forward to at least a brief discussion of this poem as an assigned reading, although … more »
Daughters of humanism
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Ortizzle wrote 1 year ago: Dr. Ivanova brought up a critical point that I had been wondering about while reading about Petrarch … more »
Metaphor in History-telling
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Ortizzle wrote 1 year ago: I found Hayden White’s Historical Text as Literary Artifact fascinating on the one hand, but … more »
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