Some related links:

- Emily Wilson insights on some of her translations: https://www.emilyrcwilson.com/emilyrcwilson-scholia

- Compare a few passages from the Odyssey: https://www.exodusbooks.com/odyssey-comparisons.aspx

- "The Homeric version", by J.L. Borges: https://gwern.net/doc/borges/1932-borges-thehomericversions....

I too, like the author, read (almost) everything Dickens wrote a couple of years ago. Definitely the best of times.

You can still see the trailer everywhere on youtube, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NA5ydinNXiE

Someone re-designed the Berlin map and every day I hope it becomes the official one: https://www.berlintransitmap.de/

I think this is the most interesting read: https://blog.ajay.app/voting-and-pseudo-randomness-or-sponso...

It's surprisingly (well) similar in italian, where "etto" is 100 g and "ettaro" is 10000 m².

> My private tragedy, which cannot, and indeed should not, be anybody’s concern, is that I had to abandon my natural idiom, my untrammelled, rich, and infinitely docile Russian tongue for a second-rate brand of English, devoid of any of those apparatuses--the baffling mirror, the black velvet backdrop, the implied associations and traditions--which the native illusionist, frac-tails flying, can magically use to transcend the heritage in his own way.

I wonder how many people, with English as the mother tongue, could write even this paragraph.

I bet if he had written code it’d be hard to debug.

I am also a fan of lists, and I would say that as far as lists of "great books" go, an aggregated view would look like:

To the Lighthouse > Mrs. Dalloway > Orlando > A Room of One's Own = The Waves

Thank you, I missed it

Care to provide sources for your statements?

Feel free to trudge through any of the dozens of threads and literal thousand-plus comment discussions on HN about the matter, or any of the articles written online, some by people who have known RMS for years. I'm not relitigating any of it here, as I know full well how utterly futile it would be to even attempt.

You could've just said "no"