#2 Notes from The Translator

True, translation is best done in silence. (Even though no one will hear you scream anyway.) But if the text is not too challenging, I like to add a little music. Select the genre according to what you want to convey in terms of flavour. But if nothing else works, try Glenn Gould and Bach.

THAT’S MY GRANDAD with the cane. It’s a post Great War reunion. My grandfather had served nobly in the Middle East with the 14th Regiment, reputedly tending the wounded under a hail of bullets from the Turks on the heights at Gallipoli.
Australia would like that battle to sum up Australia.
After the war, Dr. Henry Joseph Loughran, returned to his practice in the hilly country idyll of Daylesford, Victoria.
Earlier, when a medical student in Melbourne, Henry J. had dropped his studies to volunteer with the others to fight for Britain in the Boer War. He served two countries bravely, apparently.
He’s small, but he’s got that fancy cane thing going. Dolly magnet.