another pointless brain-spinner

I worry at translation issues a lot. Like, right now someone was enthusing on one of my book review communities about how they always love a certain author because of the appositeness of the words she chooses. But, dude, the author writes in French and this person reads in English. But, other dude, I've read this author in English translation and it's amazing how her voice carries through in the English text to the point where you can feel the original French haunting the English, scurrying in through the white spaces....

Hm.

hm

If anyone really wants to make a fuss over me for some reason I can't even think of and which may not even have happened yet ...

they could always get me a chocolate deity or two to gnom on. Despite the complete horror of the website design ... what a nifty thing! (props to elisem, who linked to this first.) Reverent AND blasphemous, all to onc't. My favorite sort of paradox.