Continuing to prowl through the stacks, I then snatched a copy of Teach Yourself German<\/em> as well as The Penguin Russian Course<\/em>. I’ll probably never read them, but that’s beyond the point. There was a Russian-English dictionary and a Greek-English dictionary as well, but the former was really ratty and the latter… well, as I can’t even read Greek I thought it’d be best to leave it alone.<\/p>\n I hopped over to the multilingual pile in hopes of finding a good French novel or some Asian comics. I picked up random French books, but sadly, none of them appealed to me (mais il y avait un roman intitulA~(c) Le petit prince cannibale<\/em>… malheureusement, la personnage principale n’A~(c)tait pas le petit prince de Saint-Exupery mais un garA~??on autiste. Je ne l’ai achetA~(c) pas car je pensais que ce roman serait un peu difficile A~ lire…) I did happen upon an ancient issue of Nakayoshi<\/em>, which I bought because it had the Sailormoon all-character poster in it (I cannot tell you how long I have been trying to find one of those at the library’s book sale.)<\/p>\n Finally, I decided to have a go at the paperback novels. I found a copy of Fugitive Pieces<\/em>: it was the same edition that we’d used for our IB English class and well….. for 25 cents it was a very, very good deal. I bet someone from our class decided to donate it to the book sale, since it wasn’t even part of the library’s collection. I also happened across a copy of July’s People<\/em> (which had been part of the library’s collection). To cap off the round of random books from IB English I saw, I caught a glimpse of Isabel Allende’s The House of the Spirits<\/em> (I borrowed it for my presentation on magic realism) and a National Geographic<\/em> magazine with a picture of a bog person.<\/p>\n I saw a copy of Translated Accounts<\/em> by James Kelman sitting around and after reading the synopsis (military state in the future, seemingly hastily translated first-hand accounts), I had to buy it. Playing with language and a dystopic future? Geez, that sounds kind of familiar. You’d think I’d be sick of it, wouldn’t you?<\/p>\n Had to put down a few things that I decided I could do without, though: a Pinter play and Hayakawa’s Language in Thought and Action<\/em>. If I see those again, I’m definitely going to get them. You see, the girl at the checkout decided that the French textbook I wanted counted as a multilingual book, so I saved a dollar or so. :cheerful:<\/p>\n Wah, and keep reading for signs of lemming behaviour.<\/p>\n So we’ll see if a polyglot-in-training can take over the world…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lemming","category-quotidian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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