reasons not to learn german

"How canst thou translate the language of cat-monkeys? Fie on such fantasies!"
--Charles Lamb, on translating Goethe, 1814.

                                                           also, some good weekend things...

                  ...texts from lovely sister...
                                                         ...deep in deep cove...
...gospel from the country of Africa...
                                                                                               ...becoming an Eastvan roofclimber
         .......reading love stories by Nabokov (more to come on that subject)...
                               ...sunshine tortoise...