"The past is a foreign country"; to visit ever-bittersweet, and as with any distant country, eerie when anyone knows one's name.
I was afraid of drowning in ghosts. It didn't happen.
(Thank you.)
This seems the perfect counterpoint.
It's great. There are biographies, fantasias, anecdotes, arguments, historical cartoons, contemporary introductions, information I hadn't known and phrases I knew instantly I'd have to learn. (Freyg mikh bekheyrem—Ask me in Purgatory. Literally, "Ask me under threat of excommunication," reminding me that fleurdelis28 still owes posterity an ikon of Spinoza with his ten-foot pole and also of Tom Lehrer: "You ask a silly question, you get a silly answer . . .") I am seriously considering posting Nathaniel Buchwald's essay about Coney Island (1926). Then I want to find it in Yiddish and see how the translation compares.
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I was afraid of drowning in ghosts. It didn't happen.
(Thank you.)
This seems the perfect counterpoint.
It's great. There are biographies, fantasias, anecdotes, arguments, historical cartoons, contemporary introductions, information I hadn't known and phrases I knew instantly I'd have to learn. (Freyg mikh bekheyrem—Ask me in Purgatory. Literally, "Ask me under threat of excommunication," reminding me that