Woman enters the room guiding an elderly lady
This is my mother - she's ninety-one
Another woman steps forward head tilted in challenge
My mother's ninety-one
When's your mother's birthday?
March
mine's in October
(sotto voce) My mother's older
Lentils or Pottage?
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Peter E. Gordon, reviewing Paul Reitter’s Englishing of Capital in the LRB
(3 April 2025; archived), provides one of those analyses of translations
that gi...
7 hours ago
If they were RAF pilots of equal rank, then that would be important!
ReplyDeleteso true!
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