Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder

17 Jan 2002, 7:16 a.m.

I know a fella who learned Spanish by reading Neruda…

Hi, reader. I wrote this in 2002 and it's now more than five years old. So it may be very out of date; the world, and I, have changed a lot since I wrote it! I'm keeping this up for historical archive purposes, but the me of today may 100% disagree with what I said then. I rarely edit posts after publishing them, but if I do, I usually leave a note in italics to mark the edit and the reason. If this post is particularly offensive or breaches someone's privacy, please contact me.

I know a fella who learned Spanish by reading Neruda in the original, speaking of Pablo. In fact, that fella is John Morearty, of whom I will speak much more in the next few hours.