Ph. D. wrote:

>
> Ph. D. skribis:
> >
> > Well, "very expensive" is in the eye of the beholder, but fifty
> > dollars then would be about eight dollars today for a book with
>
> Correction: I meant "eighty," not "eight."

I was not pleased when I felt I had to spend $75 for the giant
coffee-table book on writing edited by Chrétien (is that her name?
Christain?) when it turned up at Barnes & Noble (the real one, on Fifth
Ave. at 18th St.), and then it turned out that the text is nightmarish.

But NYU for some reason has a copy of the French original, and the fault
lies not in the authors, but in the translators.

Still, $75 is a lot.
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...