Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Grad school realization
So you know you're in grad school in a foreign country when access to research involves reading a book in Italian to scour the footnotes to find references to sources in French and really this is only to put off the primary sources that are only in Arabic thus only accessible with a translator...at least I get to write in English!
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One of my fave quotes in literature is this from Edith Wharton: "An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences."
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