Dedicated follower of fashion.
Thursday, May 22nd, 2003
There’s a slightly more in-depth (and spoiler-free) analysis of The Matrix Reloaded over there. All I have to say right here is: This. Coat. Rules.…
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Archive for May 2003
Recycling and redemption.
Thursday, May 15th, 2003
I’ve been translating a lot of documents dealing with recycling in Germany lately, and as I was working today, I had a sudden, strange, recycling-related flashback.…
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How'd that happen?
Wednesday, May 14th, 2003
Astounding! It appears that WordRidden has been shortlisted for the Brighton & Hove Virtual Festival 2003 Web Awards in the "Best Personal Sites and Weblogs" category.…
12:15am 1 comment
Bibliocaust
Saturday, May 10th, 2003
Seventy years ago today, over 20,000 books were set alight by the Nazis on the Opernplatz in Berlin. The words of Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht, Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud, Franz Kafka and Thomas Mann and many, many others went up in flames, t…
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We are knights errant!
Friday, May 9th, 2003
In the "real world", I am a freelance translator, and my translator’s heart soared when I read this: an open letter to the press from a group of literary translators - my brothers and sisters in arms - who demand that we "knights erra…
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The more things change...
Thursday, May 8th, 2003
Wow, it feels like I’ve been blogging for a year and a day. Oh, wait, I have!…
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