Liam, I got a package back today -- I assume it's the book I tried to send you. Still want it? Find another trade?

Finished it today; great work, congratulations. As you may know I'm not a fan of Jon Fosse, partly because I think the work is poorly constructed (looseness is taken to be potentially, or even automatically, expressive). Your book takes Beckett's lesson: consistency, minimal ingredients

Always glad to trade. [email protected]

Good luck with Nooteboom -- he was the apple of the literary world's eye maybe 20 years ago, largely unread now.

Ah, you have a Doppelgänger! Do you have any favorite sources for eccentric typography after Sterne?

(3 of 3) Schmidt scholars is also the controversial translator of Finnegans Wake (he added many neologisms not in FW). Sorry, I should've written this in an ordinary email! I just thought I'd ask if any of these issues suggest readings on translation we should know. [email protected] if it's easier.

(2 of 3) .. mainly to see cultural choices, since Perec's book is so dense with references to 1970s Paris. The other reading group I run, on Arno Schmidt's Zettel's Traum, is considering Schmidt's own theory of translation, since that entire novel turns on translartions of Poe. One of the...

Thanks. I see you write on translation theory (I downloaded your thesis on museum translation -- what a great topic). I'm in and around translation issues a lot these days: the Perec reading group I run is comparing translations of La Vie Mode d'Emploi in Chinese, Korean, Greek, German, & others...

Going to do some mountain climbing when you're there? Spend time in Gros Morne? (I was there many years ago, really loved it) And any icebergs coming in from the north? And will you visit L'Anse aux Meadows?

I had a tent with a fly over it, and mosquitoes woud gather underneath it. I remember one time camping in a hollow in the woods (I know, not a great choice). In the morning the fly was dark, thousands of mosquitoes side by side. I broke camp very very very quickly that day

When I was in Alaska years ago, we had a test for mosquito density. As you walk, clap your hands in front of you, arms outstretched, and again in back -- if you get a mosquito both times you can complain