Tag Archives: literature

Robinsoe Crusoe in words of one syllable

Posted 179 days ago by Stephen Whiteley

One interesting way to consider the art of the translator is to compare it to that of a poet. Both attempt to express ideas in writing within some very specific constraints. The poet constrains his own work by setting rules …

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Raymond Chandler and the split infinitive

Posted 284 days ago by Stephen Whiteley

Raymond Chandler to his editor, 1948: ‘Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-down patois, which is something like the way a Swiss …

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The history of dollar

Posted 416 days ago by Stephen Whiteley

The word dollar has a curious and convoluted history. It is derived, as a word, from Thaler, which itself comes from the the Joachimsthal silver mine in Bohemia. In 1519, the silver from Joachimsthal was first used to mint the …

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Three versions of Sappho’s Poem of Jealousy

Posted 455 days ago by Stephen Whiteley

My muse, what ails this ardour? Mine eys be dym, my lymbs shake, My voice is hoarse, my throte scorcht, My tong to this roofe cleaves, My fancy amazde, my thoughtes dull’d, My head doth ake, my life faints My …

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Coming soon: eBooks!

Posted 573 days ago by Stephen Whiteley

By way of a trailer for an upcoming blog post on eBooks and translation, I wanted to share a couple of quotes I found in the course of researching it. The first is Borges: “De todos los instrumentos del hombre, …

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