Well, it was another wild day for this philosopher. I went to\u2026yes, the supermarket! I have been trying to learn French, partly by translating. I’m working on\u00a0Mr C\u00e9dric Fioretti-Clet’s essay (you might remember that he’s the one who spoke to my class in Nice). It’s slow going. I translate a little less than a page an hour. The pages are not that big, alas. When\u00a0Fioretti-Clet quotes from Nietzsche’s letters, I often have to look at the German to make any sense of them. As you might imagine, going from German to French to English \u00a0is a recipe for mangling what Nietzsche wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Well, it was another wild day for this philosopher. I went to\u2026yes, the supermarket! I have been trying to learn French, partly by translating. I’m working on\u00a0Mr C\u00e9dric Fioretti-Clet’s essay (you might remember that he’s the one who spoke to my class in Nice). It’s slow going. I translate a little less than a page … Continue reading 11 October<\/span>