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veekI am giving myself most of the day off. About as long as it takes for me to feel like I can truly throw myself into work again. For, were I to do the work thing now, I just know some body deity out there would giggle and club me over the head again for being cocky.
Meanwhile, I am reading Alexandre Dumas' Vingt Ans Apres (Twenty Years Later) – the sequel to The Three Musketeers. Putting aside the fact that I can read the thing in French without a dictionary...
...wait a second... *bounces like a maniac* I can do what?!!
Right, so putting that aside, the book is bloody brilliant. The sense of humor is subtle, the descriptions are marvelous in that nineteenth-century way, the sentences! I usually hate sentences too self-referential and loop-y, but this is well done.
I remember my glee at the language when I was reading The Three Musketeers in Russian translation sometime in pre-teen land. This was exactly the feeling. It's odd, that it's so familiar in a language I don't know well.
I would like to know French better.
Meanwhile, I am reading Alexandre Dumas' Vingt Ans Apres (Twenty Years Later) – the sequel to The Three Musketeers. Putting aside the fact that I can read the thing in French without a dictionary...
...wait a second... *bounces like a maniac* I can do what?!!
Right, so putting that aside, the book is bloody brilliant. The sense of humor is subtle, the descriptions are marvelous in that nineteenth-century way, the sentences! I usually hate sentences too self-referential and loop-y, but this is well done.
I remember my glee at the language when I was reading The Three Musketeers in Russian translation sometime in pre-teen land. This was exactly the feeling. It's odd, that it's so familiar in a language I don't know well.
I would like to know French better.
