[lit-ideas] how to tell she wrote it
- From: Teemu Pyyluoma <teme17@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 08:46:40 -0700 (PDT)
It is common to point out texts that were obviously written by a men. It works
both ways.
Donna Leon, Blood from a Stone, reading a translation so reverse-translated and
with apologies to both Donna Leon and list members: "From time time black
men said something to each other, talked this and that, the stuff men at work
talk to kill time: how someone hadn't slept well, that it was freezing, how
someone hoped his son would pass entrance exams, of how much they missed their
wives."
Having spent most of my adult life on boring jobs while chatting with other men
on topics ranging from ice hockey to Tractatus, computers to growing potatoes,
I can testify that the subject of wives is rarely discussed, and never have I
heard about how much they are missed. On the other hand, to answer the question
on what I am reading, I could very well reply that on a lazy Sunday afternoon
my wife handed me Murder at Aqua Alta, and might as well given an apple to go
along with it. I still don't know if actually like the book, but I am
addicted.
Cheers,
Teemu
Helsinki, Finland
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