Tuesday, December 13, 2022

 

One Halfway Decent Sentence

E.M. Cioran (1911-1995), History and Utopia, tr. Richard Howard (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988), p. 2:
What consumption of coffee, of cigarettes, and of dictionaries merely to write one halfway decent sentence in this inapproachable language, too noble and too distinguished for my taste!

Quelle consommation de café, de cigarettes et de dictionnaires pour écrire une phrase tant soit peu correcte dans cette langue inabordable, trop noble, et trop distinguée à mon gré!



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