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More Often

“Why don’t you write more often” is a question I ask myself on the daily. Even when I don’t ask it explicitly, it’s still there, somewhere in the back of my head, mixed in with other anxieties and a headache.

Translating Gatsby

Some years ago, I was presented with a series of sentences which were supposed to be some of the most difficult clauses of English-speaking literature to translate into French. Among them was the Sisyphean last sentence of The Great Gatsby.