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/^t/If one is enthusiastically fascinated with literature, he or she, owing to the more extended knowledge of a given language, is able to read its literary masterpieces or any other texts in their original versions, not in translations which, as it often happens, slightly garbles a text. As an example I can mention my reading of "The Scarlet Letter", written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, which in its Polish translation appeared to me as a very poor and boring novel, whereas, after reading its original version, I have completely changed my opinion on the book.