“the two hundred and fifty mile journey down the Yangtze” gotta give it up for internal waterways, the handmaiden of travel
“Literature will bring me no fame. A career is denied me by my age and sickness.” The millennial energy
jejune /dʒɪˈdʒuːn/ Learn to pronounce adjective 1. naive, simplistic, and superficial.
Hawkes translation softens the rhetorical ‘name how’ in a way I don’t think gives it the plaintive sneer the original seems to carry, the unanswerable rhetorical
The ‘what am I like’ is a happy British colloquial similarity, imo
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Re: 32. 旅夜書懷 Lǚ yè shū huái
Date: 2021-11-08 02:49 pm (UTC)“Literature will bring me no fame. A career is denied me by my age and sickness.” The millennial energy
jejune /dʒɪˈdʒuːn/ Learn to pronounce adjective 1. naive, simplistic, and superficial.
Hawkes translation softens the rhetorical ‘name how’ in a way I don’t think gives it the plaintive sneer the original seems to carry, the unanswerable rhetorical
The ‘what am I like’ is a happy British colloquial similarity, imo