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Old February 9th, 2004, 09:31 PM
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This las weekend's reading: "Orlando" by Virginia Woolf, "Braxton Bragg's Sabre" by Juan Concha —a film script, written by a friend of mine— and "Master and Commander" by Patrick O'Brian.

No WWII books right now... [img]graemlins/no.gif[/img]

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Fictiones by Jorge Luis Borges
It is a shame that Jorge Luis Borges is one of the authors that are completely ruined by translations. There are some paragraphs that are untranslateable to other languages. And thanks to the English's awkwardness, it is one of the hardest to translate.
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