Or Arthur C. Clarke, I suppose:

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These are three paratextual areas that I would like to explore in more detail. Specifically, I’m interested in the current utility of and history of past attempts to use translations as a way of illuminating textual cruxes. Kevin Canty told a class I was in that the Danish (possibly Dutch) translator of one of his [...]

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Wallace believed, with good reason, that Michiko Kakutani could not possibly have read Infinite Jest before writing her original impercipient review, and her appraisal remedies little. The only thing that showed a lack of discipline about Infinite Jest is Wallace allowing it to be edited down as much as it was, almost certainly out of [...]

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The Departed is the worst Oscar Best Picture Winner I’ve ever seen, by a considerable margin. (There are many, needless to say, that I haven’t, but still.) I scanned the reviews in IMDB, and they were all, with the possible exception of Hoberman, very wrong. I accepted the PS3 challenge. It came with a game [...]

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I automatically prefer tennis players with a one-handed backhand, as that’s how I play[ed]; but how do you choose when both hit that way (which is increasingly rare)? The five-set match between Djokovic and Robredo yesterday seemed to show the latter at a severe disadvantage because of his one-handed backhand, but I didn’t watch enough [...]

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