The End Draws Near

No, not "the" end, just the last pages of the first run-through translation (painfully literal) of the humongous book I have been trying to render in English for two years. I have six pages to go (plus a million footnotes) to have been through the book once completely. I did hand edits for 35 chapters, and will have 7 more chapters to do first edits on, but still, to reach the end of the book is such a relief I want to celebrate (even on a Friday in Lent). The project has been kind of overwhelming, and it still will be for some time to come, but today (God willing!) I will reach that landmark, that long-awaited page 471, which signifies that I have been through the entire book. It is, in a way, the half-way mark (well, the 40% mark, but that doesn't sound as good). So rejoice with me!