tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post5788795748317215265..comments2023-11-22T09:11:01.567+00:00Comments on George Szirtes: Launch of Hack in the Box and Part 2 of...George Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08889600788146987089noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-15461726132372082842010-05-30T09:40:05.828+01:002010-05-30T09:40:05.828+01:00Thank you, Anjali. I asked because I had heard two...Thank you, Anjali. I asked because I had heard two versions before. In Hungarian the accent always falls on the first syllable - no exceptions at all.<br /><br />Sam, there might well have been a particularly flattering patch of light. I should have tried standing in it.<br /><br />I am slowly learning that I have always written fast and, in fact, have needed to write fast. Maybe I need to burst through some equivalent of the sound barrier. The discovery of slowness would really be a discovery for me, though time may change that, of course.George Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08889600788146987089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-766617828694974792010-05-30T09:10:07.651+01:002010-05-30T09:10:07.651+01:00It's very kind of you to say I look young too....It's very kind of you to say I look young too... There must have been a flattering light in the shop. (While we're exchanging compliments, I very much enjoyed the two concluding pieces of the book. Your section made me laugh a great deal George - as well being a most impressive feat of speedy versification.)Sam Jordisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11847113158131387947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-85868887946324105062010-05-29T13:08:28.755+01:002010-05-29T13:08:28.755+01:00It's kind of you to ask. There is a slight str...It's kind of you to ask. There is a slight stress on the first, but it's pretty even - but both 'a's transliterate a short vowel akin to a shwa, so it's really Unjali. I ought to change it to Krasznahorkai or something else easily grasped.Anjalinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-50764283546078429742010-05-28T17:32:25.564+01:002010-05-28T17:32:25.564+01:00Welcome, Anjali. Thank you for Sam's name. I n...Welcome, Anjali. Thank you for Sam's name. I need to see names written down and associated with something. Once the conversation moves to anything interesting I forget a name I have just heard for the first time.<br /><br />And on that subject. Should your name be pronounced with accent on first or second syllable (as in impála, or as in Ángela)?George Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08889600788146987089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-73561111096589526062010-05-28T13:45:22.450+01:002010-05-28T13:45:22.450+01:00Thank you George... The nice PhD novelist friend i...Thank you George... The nice PhD novelist friend is Sam Byers, by the way. I'm just looking up the Melancholy of Resistance on Amazon. I don't think I would have correctly recalled the spelling of Krasznahorkai's name.Anjalinoreply@blogger.com