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To: Wizzer who wrote (956)	3/30/1998 4:46:00 PM
From: Jack Clarke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4711

Wisam, "I speak French and Arabic, but do not get to practice them enough." You also speak very good English! I am glad that we agree on most points. Your fascination with those "old sayings" is shared by me. I love aphorisms, and speaking of French, they have an abundance of very rich ones. An interesting game is to translate one of them, and then see what the "professional" translator has done with it. The late Anthony Burgess (of A Clockwork Orange fame) wrote a piece about finding an Italian version of an English poem. He retrotranslated it back into English, and then sought out the original to compare it with. I did the same thing with a Daniel Defoe quote which Camus used as a preface (in French) for his novel La Peste or The Plague. My problem was finding the original Defoe version in English! Here is a French aphorism which I (the permabear) find applicable to the current stock market: "Quand tout le monde a tort, tout le monde a raison." (Pierre-Claude Nivelle de la Chauss‚e -- 1747). For the non-Francophones, I will translate: "When everybody is wrong, everybody is right." I guess that means that the market is always right. Best regards, Jack