10 
The Scolex School 
Cara Soror, 
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. 
You actually want to know how to distinguish gold from 
copper 
pyrites- "fool's 
gold" they called it in '49 
California-no! 
I wasn't there-or 
"absolute" 
alcohol 
and-Liqueur Whisky from "alki" (commercial alcohol-see 
Jack London's The Princess, a magnificent story-don't miss 
it!) and Wartime Scotch as sold in most British pubs in 1944, 
era vulgari. 
One pretty good plan is to take a masterpiece, pick out a 
page at random, translate it into French or German or 
whatever language you like best, walk around your chair 
three times (so as to forget the English) and then translate it 
back again. 
You will gather a useful impression of the value of the 
masterpiece by noticing the kind of difficulty that arises in 
the work of translation; more, by observing the effect 
produced on you by reading over the result; and finally, by 
estimating the re-translation: has the effect of the original 
been enhanced by the work done on it? Has it become more 
lucid? Has it actually given you the information which it 
purported to do? 
(I am giving you credit for very unusual ability; this test is 
not easy to make; and, obviously, you may have spoilt the 
whole composition, especially where its value depends on its 
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