Thursday, June 27, 2019

 

Lament

Robin D. Gill, Kyôka, Japan's Comic Verse: A Mad in Translation Reader (Key Biscayne: Paraverse Press, 2009), p. 24:
...your translator is stuck in the sticks of Florida without access to a large library...


From David Whitehead:
This put me in mind of the preface of W. Wyse, Isaeus (Cambridge 1904):

    'The proofs of the Commentary have been revised under difficulties in a Warwickshire village, where Greek authors are little read …'.



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