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Published · transcript-backedEmily Wilson: preference
27 Mar 2019 Conversations with Tyler Emily Wilson on Translations and Language
“I like it if I can do at least some translating in the course of a day, and then some writing in the course of a day. I like to balance out because I feel like they use different parts of my brain.”
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- Emily Wilson
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- 27 Mar 2019
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…The different books you’re writing — the Iliad translation, Faithful, Classics Reborn — do you work on them all at once? Or what’s your method? Do you come back to them? I still struggle with that all the time. Right now, I’m not teaching, so I’m able to spend the morning doing one and the afternoon doing another. I like it if I can do at least some translating in the course of a day, and then some writing in the course of a day. I like to balance out because I feel like they use different parts of my brain. Just physically, what does your translation look like? Is it simply you sitting at a computer, typing and staring? Is it a room full of papers and books? Is it you’ve had to buy a separate house? What’s the production function for translation? Describe the factory.…
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