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A challenge I'm toying with for 2011: Tom Send a noteboard - 15/12/2010 04:00:36 AM
Read fiction only in its original language, and read only foreign fiction, with a minimum of 25 significant works of fiction in a foreign language read in 2011.

There are several works in Russian literature I still haven't read and really should read, and I want to continue with French literature once I'm done with Le Rouge et Le Noir (I expect to finish it shortly now that work has started to die down as holiday season kicks into full gear). I also want to read some Kafka and Goethe in German, as well as Schnitzler's Traumnovelle. I'm not sure if the last would be long enough to be "significant". Some classical works might make it into the mix, too. I might also take up Ishtar's Descent into the Underworld but I think that would be a major handicap to getting through 25 in one year. Akkadian is difficult to read for a lot of reasons, most (well, almost all) of which have to do with the writing system.

That having been said, I still do read non-fiction (I've been agonizing over a book on the War of the Spanish Succession for a while now, mainly because it isn't really the best I've read), and most of that would be read in English.
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.

ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius

Ummaka qinnassa nīk!

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