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...Yes...Well, well. It’s a wonderful place to come back to, no doubt...
...don’t want to use the word “CrackBerry,” because I think it’s stupid, but unfortunately it’s pretty apt. Yes, it’s annoying when you place it on the table when you sit down for a meal. Yes, it’s pretentious when you wonder aloud how anyone could be satisfied with T9 anymore...
...Yes, I think so. The first substantial translation I did was from the Irish called “Sweeney Astray” from an Irish poem called “Buile Shuibhne.” Working with a very heavy concrete element of Anglo-Saxon was a counter-weight to what I was hearing in America. It’s a much opener conversational weave. I think of myself as between the two, but I was glad at that time of the substantial element in the language. It brought me back to more of a substantial language...
...Marguerite Simon on Egania Street in New Orleans, it had been a small statue of the Virgin Mary that had weathered Katrina. Strange, but that is way the world looks after a deluge, all at odds and unfathomable. "Yes, you have to laugh, but it don't come from the heart," Marguerite had said, her voice trailing...
...Tough, yes, says McCaskill. But winnable. "This is going to be a typical Missouri horse race. It's gonna be close. It's going to keep you excited all the way up to 2 o'clock in the morning on election night...