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‘Made in translation’ (or gloomily lamenting lost languages)

Posted on November 1, 2013 by Claire_M

Went last night to the excellent ‘Sappho in the City’; came home to a pile of catch-up editing for Wikipedia.* In an odd coincidence, translation was at the heart of both these activities. (Even if Josephine Balmer’s translation of Sappho … Continue reading →

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In your own words, please…

Posted on February 22, 2012 by Claire_M

Today I shall do as I am paid and write words for other people to claim that they said. Even though we allegedly take great care, marking words off carefully with speech marks to denote what, exactly, someone actually said, … Continue reading →

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A heartbreaking dot of staggering genius

Posted on April 1, 2011 by Claire_M

I was trying to concentrate on an MA assignment I’ve to write on Greek tragedy and a quatrain started woodpeckering round my brain in that way, procrastination, deadline, or no, you just have to go google it. The lines were: … Continue reading →

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