19th Mar – Just read that Abraham’s first recorded words are his instruction to his wife to tell a lie, in order to save his own life.<\/p>\n
20th Mar – Paid for access to George Sand’s Story of my Life.<\/em>\u00a0 Translated from French.\u00a0 1585 pages, 72 chapters, 65 translators.\u00a0\u00a0 Apparently the largest group translation outside the Bible<\/em>.<\/p>\n 21st Mar – Heard Libby Holman singing Body and Soul<\/em> (1930).\u00a0 She occasionally uses the OSV word order – object-subject-verb:\u00a0 ‘My life a wreck you’re making’.\u00a0 Like Yoda from Star Wars –<\/em> ‘When nine hundred years old you reach, look as good, you will not, hmmm?’<\/p>\n 22nd Mar – Went to tutor at a house where nothing is thrown away.\u00a0 Found a note to myself that I dropped in the yard last year, a reminder to get The Scarlet Letter<\/em><\/em> from the library.<\/p>\n 23rd Mar – Ran into a man who told me his wife, whom I’ve known for 10 years, is teaching French at the local primary school.\u00a0 As a Francophile, I wondered how I could have known someone for 10 years and not known she speaks French, so I had to ask, ‘Does she speak French?’.\u00a0 ‘No,’ he said, ‘she’s learning it at the Alliance Fran\u00e7aise.’\u00a0 Hope she’s a few lessons ahead of her students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 19th Mar – Just read that Abraham’s first recorded words are his instruction to his wife to tell a lie, in order to save his own life. 20th Mar – Paid for access to George Sand’s Story of my Life.\u00a0 Translated from French.\u00a0 1585 pages, 72 chapters, 65 translators.\u00a0\u00a0 Apparently the largest group translation outside … <\/p>\n