Joanne Wrote:
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> Thanks for the translation. Too bad he didn't say
> in two sentences what he said in five -- maybe
> that's how he stretched it into a book.
Hmmm ... that's beginning to sound uncomfortably like the criticisms levelled at Tolkien ...
(FWIW, I thought that the Johnson quote was both eloquent and elegant. My translation might have had the virtue of being succinct, but it was clumsy and clumpy, and didn't get anywhere near conveying the shades of meaning found in the original).
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