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Aug. 12th, 2004 09:53 am
truepenny: artist's rendering of Sidneyia inexpectans (Default)
[personal profile] truepenny
You will have noticed, because you are all with the keen observy-ness, that I now have my website linked to from this LJ. Also that the LJ title has changed.

I still won't be using my real name on LJ, for various personal reasons that are much too boring to explain, but I will be linking to posts I make on my "official" journal, in order that I can get a conversation going here and actually MAKE posts over there. Complicated? Yes, I know. It's my head. What did you expect?

Of course, I still have to think of something to say. ::sigh::

Recent reading: Wit, Testament of Youth, Night, Les liaisons dangereuses (in what I suspect to be a fairly insipid translation--must find French edition!), Tolkien and the Great War. Currently reading The Neandertals (downstairs) and The Duino Elegies as translated by David Young (upstairs).

The house is in a state of fermented chaos. My books are about half-unpacked--although at least I have Wolverine guarding the printer again, so I have some small sense of secuirty. Today I put the first coat of paint on the Pink Closet in the office (we all know it will need a second coat, and I'm not going to hurt myself by trying to pretend otherwise).

And I'm still trying to figure out where to put my fragile knick-knacks so the cats can't destroy them.

Date: 2004-08-12 08:11 am (UTC)
larryhammer: floral print origami penguin, facing left (Default)
From: [personal profile] larryhammer
Which translation of Les liaisons dangereuses is this?

---L.

Date: 2004-08-12 08:23 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] truepenny.livejournal.com
Oxford World's Classics. Douglas Parnée.

Date: 2004-08-12 08:29 am (UTC)
larryhammer: floral print origami penguin, facing left (Default)
From: [personal profile] larryhammer
That'd be the one I read. I found it okay, but have no way to compare to the original.

---L.

Date: 2004-08-12 08:48 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] oracne.livejournal.com
TESTAMENT OF YOUTH. [weeps]

Man, Vera Brittain's life sucked for a while. I just gave Ann her copy back a couple of months ago--I read bits and pieces throughout, not the whole thing from end to end.

Date: 2004-08-12 09:19 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] pameladean
Oh, it's so nice to see you posting. Am especially glad to hear about Wolverine for some reason. 8-)

Pamela

Date: 2004-08-12 09:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] malinaldarose.livejournal.com
Les liaisons dangereuses. Ah, the memories. That was the first thing I read in French, after I changed my major to Modern Languages and was still learning the damned language. I'm sure I missed a lot of it. I had a translation around that I picked up after the movie came out, but I never did bother to read it.

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