Pushkin.

Wait, you want my version?

Yeah, I want your version.

Was it a New Year's party?

I'm asking my friend, MIT Classical Literature Professor Stephanie Frampton, to recall some age

in history.

I've requested that she tell her version of the story of how we first met many, many years ago.

My memory is it was that our friend's house, off the shelf, you pull the immediate, and you're

like, when I was in high school, I was really good at Latin.

So embarrassing.

Okay, so it turns out I was a huge nerd in high school, and I was kind of obsessed with

all things Latin.

I studied that ancient language for three whole years, and as a senior, I spent an entire

semester translating an important Latin text, the Aniad, by the famous Rowan poet Virgil.

But I didn't just translate the Aniad.

I got kind of obsessed with it.

And being the type A 17 year old Latin scholar that I was, I for some strange reason decided

that there was one and only one proper way to translate the first sentence of the Aniad,

which in Latin is Armour Ruhmke Kano.

Back then, when some scholar or author translated Armour, Virum Kueh Kano, and a way I didn't

like, I kind of thought a little less of them.

I know you have strong opinions.

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