“I went to the pharmacy, and they couldn’t understand any English, so I got no meds,” says Lauder, CEO of Vocre Translate. The drug labels were quite literally Greek to him. Language barriers are common for world travelers. In a foreign country, small transactions like buying medicine ...
It roused a hyena in me. I ran to the library, grabbed that big volume of Niwa and began to copy the portrait of the composer, Rubinstein, fascinated by his crowsfeet and his wrinkles, or by a Greek woman and other illustrations; maybe I improvised some too. I hung them all up in ...