Today's Grrrr-ness
Writing, writing, writing.
I could get a great quote, a little oomph to my point, if only I could make sense out this preface in Italian. Not just any ol' Italian, though, 16th century Italian, with lots of words that require special dictionaries that include 16th c words. And not just any ol' passage, but a preface, which means wading through flowery My Patron is Great-ness, to find just the right morsel of quotability.
Grrr. I just can't quite do it. I would have to stop, set aside a chunk of time, find that special dictionary, and have at it. And I still might not be able to come up with something I could actually quote, just summarize. And I'm not going to do that right now, because I don't need the quote and i don't have the time. It would just be nice.
But I hate it when I can't do it!!! Grrrr. Usually, I can process stuff like this well enough to at least get the point, if not an outright translated quote. But this passage is just eluding me!!