Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Which Reminds Me

Yes, that was a nice travel book that Laura wrote, although she didn't have very much to say compared to other travel book writers who are still going on and on about many things that Laura never saw. Enough of that. Ok, no one would ever say that Laura was illiterate, but what are you going to read when some of those interesting books have not yet been translated into English? A game of charades just won't cut it. Charades assumes a prior knowledge, but cannot install a knowledge where none exists. At some point there has to be a translation to make the knowledge accessible to a more general public.