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Today is Sunday, July 5, 2009 2:46 pm (U.S. central time).

 

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-- Alexander Waugh

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Julio cortazar, drawing by thomas christensenThe post title is a Cortazar allusion (hard to explain, you just have to read Julio). It seems President-elect Obama phoned President Cristina Fernandez of Argentina, and in the course of their conversation he expressed his admiration for super-cronopio Julio Cortazar.

Cortazar’s Around the Day in 80 Worlds was my first book-length literary translation. We corresponded a bit but he died before the project was completed.

Wow! A literary president!

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