Michael Plant wrote:


> 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.

I bought the plastic "Best Chinese THERMOS Tea Pot Teapot in
China" on eBay 7-8 months ago for $9.99 from the vendor (Yellow
Mountain) mentioned up-thread, and I've found it to be a
perfectly handy alternative brewing device. Although I'm usually
reluctant to use plastic containers for tea, this one tolerates
high temps very well without imparting any plastic-y tastes to
the liquor. No drips or leaks, either -- as long as the top is
screwed on properly.

> 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.

I'm not Sasha, I can't read Russian, and I haven't seen the New
Yorker article you're referring to, but I've been a Dostoevsky
aficionada for 40+ years and can highly recommend the translation
team of Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Their
English-language texts are splendid, and although Constance
Garnett's work is reliably solid, the Pevear-Volokhonsky
renditions are beautifully literary in their own right/write.
The duo has also produced an excellent translation of (among
other works) Bulgakov's "The Master and Margarita," in case
you're interested.