{"id":4280,"date":"2013-08-19T08:17:28","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T12:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/?p=4280"},"modified":"2013-08-19T15:35:28","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T19:35:28","slug":"writing-in-another-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/?p=4280","title":{"rendered":"writing in another language"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here are two links to interesting articles at the New York Times.<\/em><\/p>\n

1. “Born Again in a Second Language<\/a>“<\/p>\n

This is on the very interesting subject of writing in a second language. It reminded me of a piece in the New Yorker<\/em> several decades ago about Tom Stoppard (by Kenneth Tynan, if I remember correctly). In it, talking about Stoppard and Joseph Conrad, he observed that you have to (I’m paraphrasing) come to a new language in order to write with such hypnotized brilliance. <\/p>\n

Nabokov is another example, of course.<\/p>\n

Me, I have trouble imagining writing (writing well, anyway) in a language other than English, but of course I can’t really imagine writing like Stoppard or Conrad or Nabokov anyway.<\/p>\n

2. The other is a piece about manual typewriters: “I Am TOM. I Like to TYPE. Hear That?<\/a>“<\/p>\n

I’m not nostalgic about manual typewriters (as I write this on my Android tablet with my BlueTooth keyboard), but it is definitely true that there’s a tactile pleasure with typewriters (and good pens) and no electronic device can equal.<\/p>\n

 
Also (not from the New York Times<\/em>):<\/p>\n

This is pretty great: “Morrissey and Peanuts<\/em>, Together at Last<\/a>“<\/p>\n

It goes well with 3eanuts<\/a>.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

 
In addition, Amazon just sent me an email recommending more military romances, since that’s what I’m into. <\/p>\n

I’m now going to check if someone else has been using my account, since I can’t recall ever buying any military romances. <\/p>\n

Or military. <\/p>\n

Or romances.<\/p>\n

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