Alex igy.net11/3/05


> I really doubt that it was glass unless it was double-walled.
> Some of the plastics they use are very dense and look and feel almost like
> glass. The single-walled are almost exclusively plastic, only WangZi
> double -walled are tempered glass (and they are expensive too).
> Double-walled have quite a gap between the walls so you can easily see the
> "internal glass" "hanging" there. I say that because if you ask for
> double-walled and the vendor does not have it he will nod-nod-nod and offer
> you one with thick walls which may look like it is double-walled but it
> ain't. Beware! Again the trick is to look at the bottom part - the
> double -walled is also double-walled on the bottom and it looks like there
> is another glass hanging in the air inside. The only factory that I am aware
> of that makes true double-walled is Wan Zi (Wan = King Zi = Son).
>
> I know this 'cause I have several and I broke several too.
>
> Sasha.


Hey, I thought were talking about the double walled sort. I wouldn't go for
the single walled. They don't make it. But, if they are plastic, they'll
make it longer than my doubled walled type, which, as I mentioned
previously, I have a graveyard full of.

Sasha, what about the Dostoyevski translation question? Did you read the
New Yorker article on this? As a yout, I read the Garnett translations, and
thought D's prose was pretty smooth, but it turns out, according to the
article, that the style I was actually enjoying was Victorian and Garnett.
I'm trying to find top flight translations of his novels.

Michael