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Great find! I wonder which translation that was?

Wow this was posted because it is funny but it has led me to a great PDF through Don of which I was totally unaware. THANK YOU! Busby is pretty strong in his criticism of Creech:

And it is poetic version! Would be interesting to compare this to the William Emery Leonard translation and see which seems more clear: (Edit: Arranging these side by side, Busby may in fact be more clear, but maybe at the cost of leaving out significant detail. Reviewing these reinforces my view that poetic versions may sound good and be useful for emphasizing certain points, but can never substitute for a more literal word-by-word translation.) BusbyLeonardToo long to bondage Reason was consig…

I have to admire Academia's ability to send out emails. They make Linked In look like amateurs. If I didn't get an email from them every day I think I would worry the world has ended