A thought-sparking exhibition which I revisited more than I ought to have when reconsidering my text editor of choice: Prompted by a passing thought about TextMate, I thought I’d make a comprehensive, accurate, unbiased, and irrefutable survey of text editors by way of comparison to locations in The Lord of the Rings. (via Crooked Timber) […]
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Text Editors in The Lord of the Rings
Posted by recommended on August 1, 2011
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Perilous indeed
A book’s journey from one language into another can be perilous. The Russian title for J. D. Salinger’s classic tale of adolescence translates as “Above the Precipice in the Rye.†A clerk in a Yokohama bookshop once told John Steinbeck’s wife that yes, he had a copy of Steinbeck’s “Angry Raisins.†Has this bumpy road gotten […]
Posted by Ben on September 4, 2008
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