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Dr Johnfon’s Ducktionary – or; fome juvenilia, revifed upon mature confideration

Thursday, September 22, 2016

In this place (as oppofed to that) Is repofited horizontally a Hearty, wholefome and falubrious Young male exemplum of fub-genus Water fowl (be it wild or be it tame), The accufative fingular of which Samuel Johnson – Artium Magifter, Legum Doctor (honoris caufa) – Did trample and crufh most Contemptibly beneath his foot; Suppofing it […]

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WHAT’S YOUR AFRIKAANS-TRANSLATOR NAME?

Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Your Afrikaans-Translator Name is L’Angoustine Bezuidenhout .

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Bertrand Russell wishes you a happy marriage

Sunday, August 28, 2016

for Paul and Beth (from volumes found at their engagement party) . ‘Whitehead and Russell’s Principia Mathematica is famous for taking a thousand pages to prove that 1+1=2.’ — Mark Dominus ‘To say shortly why one values love is not easy.’ — Bertrand Russell . I know what life and love may be. . . […]

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Easy Frisy

Tuesday, December 1, 2015

‘Some bread, some butter, and green cheese’ is as good in England as it is in Frisia. — * from a synthetic translation exercise by John McWhorter

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Questions – LXIII (after Neruda)

Saturday, January 24, 2015

How is the translation of their languages agreed upon with the birds? How do I explain to the tortoise that I am even slower than he is? How should I quiz the flea about his championship statistics? Or address the carnations, in my appreciation of their fragrance?

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Translator’s Note (after Khemiri, after Heti, after Valtat, after Coetzee, after Nooteboom, after Martin, after Kierkegaard)

Tuesday, January 13, 2015

What I would like to say by way of introduction to my essays on the art of writing, by A.B.C.D.E.F. Godthaab* (* Bear with me, please, while I endeavour to explain what is going on here.) . Twelve years ago, I wrote, with considerable emotional anguish, a long novel about a war against the languages. […]

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On the 27th draft translation of Basho’s ‘Sound of Water’

Thursday, March 29, 2012

Master, due respect: No-one cares about the pond. Or the frog. ……………(Plop.) ……………………(Splash!)

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Was ist Lydia? (homage)

Thursday, June 9, 2011

I  If only I’d been born Lydia Davis I’d have written a lot less.   II  The Lydia Davis School of Banter – Call me, bitch. – Don’t call me bitch.   III  Flaubert, revised ‘“A good sentence in prose,” says Flaubert, “should be like a good line in poetry, unchangeable, as rhythmic, as sonorous.”’ […]

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