Isn't it just! And always at least a half-hour out of kilter with everywhere else on Earth.
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dlowan
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Mon 23 Sep, 2013 04:10 am
@ehBeth,
It's that new single god stuff you know.....no heathen rhythms of nature for us....straighten up and fly right by the calendar.....or it might lead to sex, and, as we all know, that might lead to dancing.
Speaking of quixotic, have you looked at the marvellous, not so new any more, English translation? It's a delight.
Speaking of quixotic, have you looked at the marvellous, not so new any more, English translation? It's a delight.
Which translation is that?
I've read Walter Starkie's 1964 translation and most of Edith Grossman's and John Rutherford's. Of these, I rather think Rutherford's is best, at least at the difficult task of adapting Cervante's humour to modern English idiom; by which I mean modern British-English idiom. I don't think there's a single "G'day, mate" in it, nor a "Whazzup?" nivver.
