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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
What's the point to reading Karamazov in French? And it's kind of pitiful, you know, to suggest that reading a book is a brag of any sort.
Now, if you'd read Nabokov's commentary on his translation of Eugene Onegin in both Russian and English because that is the only way to truly understand it, that's different. There's a brag.
But did I mention a national publication quoted my #billbarrletters tweet on Moby Dick today? #nothumble
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Saying one is reading a book is never pitiful. But that's not what I said, which you grasp.
Congrats on your Twitter quote.