I love French. Perhaps in part because I don’t master it, not a bit, though I love reading and speaking it, creatively more than correctly, I fear. Some French words are wonderful. For instance, while in English, I rather boringly gave a talk at Brown a week ago, in French, it was an intervention. Doesn’t that sound wonderful?
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