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Lucia Tang
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"The Pu Songling of quit lit." Very Gemini moon. She/her. luciaqtang.wordpress.com/writing/
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K what, is this actually true?
Highlighted text: “My idol was the Columbia University professor Burton Watson… I learned that he had quit teaching to become a taxi driver.” All text shown: … from how they might be expressed in English, and by how things that aren’t normally expressed in English can be expressed in Japanese. My idol was the Columbia University professor Burton Watson, whose translations of Chinese and Japanese poetry and fiction were the best. My dream was to have a career like his. That was before I learned that he had quit teaching to become a taxi driver. Also before I ever attempted to seriously translate anything.
August 30, 2023 at 3:20 PM
lqtang.bsky.social
Gonna read this and hope that it takes me back to 2010
A paperback called Content Strategy for the Web, by Kristina Halvorson
July 26, 2023 at 11:35 PM