What I really appreciate about being a literary translator is that I never really know where my next assignment would lead me. For No One You Know (by Michelle Richmond) I had to dive into Fermat's last theorem - just to be able to translate a sentence that was like Greek and Chinese combined to me. For Against All Enemies (by Tom Clancy) I was leafing through assault rifle catalogues and for the Confessions of Catherine de Medici I was contemplating the prophecies of Nostradamus.
And now, because of The Signature of All Things, I am finally reading The Origin of Species.
It is longer - and more enjoyable - than I expected....And as an added bonus I also got the Voyage of the Beagle from the library.
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