• prívet
• clématis
• bígoted
• pólypany
• múltiple
• cátechism
• sólace
• péctoral
• Botocúdos
• málleable
• nastúrtium

The diacritical marks are his, made in case he ever had to pronounce these words in front of his students.

Davis’s essay in the new Paris Review, on translating Madame Bovary, is great. I read it on the train ride down to Brooklyn this morning. Right around the part where she is discussing the idea of equivalency in translation, a woman seated a few feet away offered me a Ritz cracker; she stared at me reading for the rest of the ride, after I declined. 

This was fine though. I had thoughtful Davis to distract me.