@CoreyRobin @yeselson Interesting take. Do you mean VN & Straussian habit of minute verbal analysis verging on pedantic literal-mindedness?
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@CoreyRobin@HeerJeet Wilson could be equally Olympian, yet arbitrary. That friendship was doomed from the start--two egomaniacs.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@yeselson@CoreyRobin Updike: early letters of VN and EW display "a serene and mutual deafness." Later became less serene.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@HeerJeet@CoreyRobin Perfect. They got into a pissing match about reading Russian, as I recall--did N criticize a translation of W?2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@yeselson@CoreyRobin VN put out a very eccentric Pushkin translation which EW objected to. Neither came out looking good in exchange.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@CoreyRobin@yeselson It occurs to me that I only know Plato's Republic through Bloom's translation. Maybe that's not a good thing.3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@CoreyRobin@HeerJeet Very hard to judge if you don't know primary language, no? I always feel like I'm dealing w/car mechanic--who knows?2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
@yeselson @CoreyRobin Right. For a philosophic work I feel on safer grounds with a Straussian-type literal translation. But maybe I'm naive.
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