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The editors had some real problems with Greek. Numbers and symbols show up in the middle of words and some letters are wrong. One example of both is πολύφρων, which is printed as πολύψ#t1ων, swapping a phi for a psi and having difficulties rendering rho.

Even something as simple as σοφία is mistakenly rendered as σοψία.

I know that he wrote this in the 70s and he provides a caveat in a footnote from the edition published in 1993, but I'm getting a pervading sense of dread reading this after the election...

Having just finished HA!, I have the urge to do an immersion in all of the Hubert Aquin titles available in English. Starting with re-reads until Blackout (Trou de memoire) and Hamlet's Twin (Neige Noir) arrive.

For better or worse, this is too on the nose. It's a great feeling when a work makes you feel less alone, but this reaches "warts and all" precision. Damn.

3 Days Ago: "This is the kind of writer that would use the word 'prolixity' without a trace of irony".

Today: "Bingo! Page 133".

Argh, he's opted to "print the legend" and his style is tedious (Thought midway through the first chapter: "WTF, is he British?" Yes.).... This is going to be a long one...

Author describes the Kids in the Hall as a comedy Voltron. I'M. FUCKING. IN.

Again, Schopenhauer was ahead of his time.