There is a joke about the late, great Harry Rowohlt.
A client in a bookshop is deliberating on whether to buy the original or the translated version of a book, and the bookseller strongly recommends the translation as “it looses a lot in the original.”
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One of the reasons I have so much respect for Mark Twain is that he was willing to spend the time writing books he knew would most likely never pass the censors’ muster. He wrote a friend regarding Letters from the Earth “This book will never be published. in fact, it couldn’t be, because it would be a felony.” (He was almost right, it wasn’t published until decades after his death).
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If you couldn’t force yourself to read the entirety of Moby Dick, try starting with this blog post about commercial whaling:
https://voices.clickhole.com/the-time-i-spent-on-a-commercial-whaling-ship-totally-c-1825124286
Yes, context matters. That’s correct. Nevertheless the context you bring up is quite a stretch from the one of the article, which is a loose collection of citations that speak for themselves in contrast to a lecture about specific areas of literature.
I mentioned that your comment - not the fun BB piece - was a bit misleading about the persons mentioned from my POV. You didn’t know what I meant, I told you.
If you aren’t seeing any problems, this is an unsolvable impasse. Well, ok then.
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I think the anecdote in itself is fun and works well as an addendum to the BB piece.
If you don’t, it’s your personal view but from my POV, it’s a rather pedantic and academical one.
No offense, but your rebuttal of the field path doesn’t make it an impasse.
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