{"id":2278,"date":"2012-10-04T06:53:23","date_gmt":"2012-10-04T06:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/?p=2278"},"modified":"2012-10-04T06:53:23","modified_gmt":"2012-10-04T06:53:23","slug":"weekly-photo-challenge-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=2278","title":{"rendered":"Weekly photo challenge: Mine"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been reluctant to respond to the theme of ‘mine’ – it struck me as a request to show how self-centred and unsharing we can be sometimes.\u00a0 However, I’ve just realised that I have something I’m pleased to call ‘mine’ because I’ve been using a borrowed one for 15 months.\u00a0 I don’t need to hang onto it very tightly:\u00a0 it’s one of those things that no one else would ever want!<\/p>\n

In June last year I began working on the translation of a story, reading from a library book which I was the first to borrow since the 1980s.\u00a0 The story was so good that I soon tried to buy my own copy.\u00a0 But it’s such a peculiar title and edition that my worldwide search turned up nothing.\u00a0 Until 2 weeks ago.\u00a0 I was reminded that persistence pays.<\/p>\n

Here’s the library book I’ve been using, printed in 1980:<\/p>\n

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‘Un Hiver \u00e0 Majorque’ in ‘Oeuvres Compl\u00e8tes’, George Sand, printed 1980<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And here’s ‘mine’, the edition which rewarded my relentless searching.\u00a0 It came from a bookshop in Geneva complete with an old folded 1920 invoice between its pages.\u00a0 I was thrilled to find that the book is the original of the library version, meaning the page numbers are the same and I don’t have to rearrange my notes.<\/p>\n

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‘Un Hiver \u00e0 Majorque’ and ‘Spiridion’, George Sand, printed 1867<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My book is so fragile that page shards are appearing on every surface where I work with it.\u00a0 But it’s mine and I don’t have to return it to a library.\u00a0 Every one of its readers from the past 145 years is inspiring me as I translate its words for a new century of readers.<\/p>\n

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I’ve been reluctant to respond to the theme of ‘mine’ – it struck me as a request to show how self-centred and unsharing we can be sometimes.\u00a0 However, I’ve just realised that I have something I’m pleased to call ‘mine’ because I’ve been using a borrowed one for 15 months.\u00a0 I don’t need to hang … <\/p>\n

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