about translating Shakespeare, the realities of library work and the reading life.
The book, incidentally, was If This Be Magic, The Unlikely Art of Shakespeare in Translation by Daniel Hahn.
Disappointed to see that Paraguay lost their opening game. Not because I want the US to loseΒΉ, but because I really want to see a ParaguayβUruguay faceoff.
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1. Although to be honest, I kind of do.
Itβd be kind of weird to hear someone say, βyou know, George Lucas, heβs a Methodist,β the same way that Catholics claim Scorsese or Jews Spielberg.
Iβm thinking I want to start a practice of talking to strangers. Todayβs stranger conversation: I noticed the librarian shelving holds had stopped her work and was looking at one of the books that she was shelving, reading the inside flap copy and I asked her about it. We had a fun conversation
Catholics and Jews are always big on the βone of us?β game, and I often wonder whether any other religions do that. Iβve never heard of protestants doing it.