Haha I remember thinking that when I read the Epic of Gilgamesh in school. I thought, “this story can not possibly be as boring as the translation is making it.

Haha I remember thinking that when I read the Epic of Gilgamesh in school. I thought, “this story can not possibly be as boring as the translation is making it.” Years later, reading all different sorts of literature in a effort to make myself “more cultured,” I realized how different certain pieces of literature made me feel (I know, duh) despite them all being written originally in English, and I despaired that even great translations were probably cutting out or changing a lot of meaning.