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The speaker does not expect anonymous Twitter posters to soon give him their translations of Greek or Roman poetry.
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“some guy so i met met up with him recently and he gives me this he made 100 translations of his favorite greek poet uh kovafi and he gave me a copy and it's just this thing he's been doing on his side it's just like translating greek poetry he really liked um i don't expect any anonymous posters on twitter to be anytime soon handing me their uh their translation of uh some roman or greek poet or something”Play from 2:40:00Report a misattribution
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