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Living languages and in the translation of dead tongues into the everĬhanging tissue of the living. This truth more strikingly manifest than in the growth and decadence of True History? But eternal life means endless change and in nothing is Metamorphoses of Ovid, or Francis Hicke's masterly rendering of Lucian's That masterpiece? Who could rival Arthur Golding's rendering of the With the exquisite flavor of William Adlington's unscholarly version of Who, today, could imbue a translation of the Golden Ass Period when the art of English letter writing had attained its highestĮxcellence, may well be the despair of our twentieth century apostles of Version of the letters of Pliny the Younger, made, as it was, at a Is obscure and subject to the misinterpretation and emendation of a laterĪ translation worthy of the name is as much the product of a literaryĮpoch as it is of the brain and labor of a scholar and Melmouth's Misunderstanding some allusion which was perfectly familiar to the authorĪnd his public, but which, by reason of its purely local significance, Translator, a sense of his own unworthiness must ever take precedence īut another, scarcely less disconcerting, is the likelihood of Firebaugh, in which are incorporated the forgeries of Nodot and Marchena, and the readings introduced into the text by De Salas.Īmong the difficulties which beset the path of the conscientious If you'd like to help, please review the style guidelines and help pages.Ĭomplete and unexpurgated translation by W. It has been suggested that this work be split into multiple pages. Talk about a pleasant surprise.Petronius 109142 Satyricon 1922 W. What I found was a wonderful story that I was too young to really appreciate, the best qualities of which went right over my head.
I went back to OotS expecting to find a relic of my childhood that I only once enjoyed because I was too young to see its faults. Hell, it even has way less growing pains than I remember - I found myself genuinely enjoying it by strip #50, when I remembered not enjoying it until well after. It has something that it's trying to say, and nuance in how it says it. When rereading Order of the Stick nearly a decade later, I found that it isn't just funny and doesn't just have a cool plot. That not only do I still love the characters I've always loved, but that I have newfound appreciation for those I once didn't, as there's genuinely interesting and nuanced writing for pretty much everyone. That the "epic" moments aren't just incredible because they're shocking or have big things happening, but also because they're interlaced well with the story, feeling genuinely earned and feeding naturally into the story's themes and character arcs. That the humour, incredibly unsubtle as it is, is genuinely funny in a way that other mid-2000s webcomics wish they were. You know what I found instead? That I love OotS more now as an adult than I ever did as a kid. I expected to return to it to find that the humour I once laughed at was childish and generic, the plot beats that I once found epic now felt hollow, and the characters that I once loved now bored me.
Like most things that I loved in high school, I expected it to have aged incredibly poorly. After all, I was 14 when I first read it. But I loved a lot of things dearly then that don't hold up for me today. I first read Order of the Stick when I was in high school.
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