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					Originally Posted by MikeB1972  Damn, one of the few times I could have appeared intellectual by having read the original untranslated version and I missed it   | 
	
 That's OK - I did it for you 

. Fortunately it was only a 40 minute flight, because her English wasn't great, and my Italian is limited to be able to ask for a cup of coffee, which doesn't get you terribly far in a discussion of Jane Austen 

. I sometimes fall back to asking for things in Latin, which gets you a few funny looks, but works surprisingly often!