I had a gentleman from Italy contact me to see if he could translate a blog post I did back in the Spring, when this sort of thing was still kind of a joke. The original blog was, “David Foster Wallace’s Parody of Donald Trump’s Presidential Run.” In the gargantuan and brilliant Infinite Jest, by drawing the trendline of American culture forward David Foster Wallace predicted selfies, the smartphone revolution, and Netflix. He also predicted a culture in identity crisis. In sheer jest I threw this post together, clearly not aware of all the trendlines of American culture myself. A blogger in Italy has translated the post for his own blog. To that huge cohort of Italian readers of A Pilgrim in Narnia, enjoy “La Parodia di David Foster Wallace sulla corsa presidenziale di Donald Trump — Traduzionne” at PaperLifeBlog.
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“A Pilgrim in Narnia” is a blog project in reading and talking about the work of C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, the Inklings, L.M. Montgomery, and the worlds they created. As a "Faith, Fantasy, and Fiction" blog, we cover topics like children’s literature, myths and mythology, fantasy, science fiction, speculative fiction, poetry, theology, cultural criticism, art and writing.
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A British take on the elections and American culture by John Cleese: http://cogink.com/cleese/
I saw that a couple of weeks ago!
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