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Do not neglect to bring your revolver, Russell. It may be needed, and it does us no good in your drawer with that disgusting cheese. " "My lovely Stilton; it's almost ripe, too. I do hope Mr. Thomas enjoys it. " "Any riper and it will eat through the woodwork and drop into the room below. " "You envy me my educated tastes. " "That I will not honour with a response. Get out the door, Russell.

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The truth is, just to hear other people speaking Italian is really worth it. It keeps the sound in your ear.

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As the writer, you can choose the word that seems best in terms of meaning, nuance, sound, etc. As the translator you are unlikely to find a word in your language that exactly matches, so that you are always making a decision about which meaning or nuance to choose, or emphasize, over the others.

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Primo Levi's - I mean, he's a very different kind of writer. He's a much more formal writer. He's a much more -almost detached. I mean, I wouldn't really say that he's detached ultimately. But he does write as a scientist, and so he describes things very - in great detail, very carefully.

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I always hesitate to say that something is lifelike.

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I have very strict rules in my head that seem to me to be the way things should sound.

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I think that if you are sticking to the text, essentially, you're not trying to write your own version of it. I mean, of course, it is your own version of it. And every translator would probably have a different version. But I think that that's what keeps the writers from being individual in English. They may be my English, but I don't think that Ferrante sounds like Levi.

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