"I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme." -- Henry James
Tuesday, April 22, 2014
Daily Dose
From Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift
TRANSLATING HOUYHNHNM
"My only concern is, that I shall hardly be able to do justice to my master's arguments and expressions, which must needs suffer by my want of capacity, as well as by translation into our barbarous English."
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