I have this memory of being on an elevator, having an awkward conversation with someone who wanted me to tell them what I ‘wrote about.’ Everything I write is about you, I said. I’m in San Mateo, sitting in a Starbuck’s near my sister’s house, dealing a little with my email account getting hacked, and [...]
December 28, 2007
The Silent Majority Is Reading
The New York Times ran this piece Sunday about the pretentiousness of buying something like Herodotus for someone for Christmas. Let’s read along and translate it, shall we? Feel free to add your own translations in the comments. YOU would have to crack open “The Landmark Herodotus” and get as far as Page 41 to [...]
