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Strictly speaking

Joachim Fersengeld, a German, wrote his Pericalypse in Dutch (he hardly knows the language, which he himself admits in the Introduction) and published it in France, a country notorious for its dreadful proofreading. The writer of these words also does not, strictly speaking, know Dutch, but going by the title of the book, the English Introduction, and a few understandable expressions here and there in the text, he has concluded that he can pass muster as a reviewer after all.

—Stanislaw Lem, A Perfect Vacuum (a collection of reviews of nonexistant books)

One Comment

  1. Jakub wrote:

    That’s fun. Good!

    Friday, July 25, 2008 at 12:28 am | Permalink

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