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We went along for the talk of Theodorakis, and there was quite a big audience. There was a long delay.
I receive a tap on my shoulder. Someone says to me ‘Dr Moore, the translator has not turned up. Could you do it?’ I say ‘Well, I couldn’t do simultaneous interpretation from Greek into Arabic.’ He replies that Theodorakis will speak in French, and that it will be fine if I just translate from French to English. I agree.
Theodorakis is a very tall and imposing man. I stand just behind his right shoulder and do my job. I find his talk somewhat boring, consisting mainly of routine attacks upon multinational corporations. While I sympathize with this point of view, I have heard it all before. But I translate, and he is an enthusiastic speaker with a case to argue, and plenty of evidence to back it up, though I do not know how sound this evidence was.