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10th Jul 2011 at 12:29 pm

the doc - What's a little sin to see us through?

What's a little sin to see us through?

 
Interesting, this, and something I've often thought about myself. I've got a full set of Hesse in one edition or another and I've never read a bad translation, although that's not to say that they don't exist.

The two worst ones I've ever come across were an old translation of The Brothers Karamazov and one of Berlin Alexanderplatz. Both guilty of the cardinal sin of throwing in American idioms that hadn't been invented at the time the originals were written. The Dostoyevsky one was so bad that you could almsot date the translation from the language used (I guessed mid-60s and it turned out to be 1970). Criminal. Read all of that one, although I've been back and read a proper translation of it since. Didn't make it past the first chapter of the other one though. Awful.
Whiskey, painkillers and speed will carry me there.....


 
 
Steve-Dave: Better the devil you know, though. How many of the sensible people would ever vote for Romney?
Walt Flanagan: They're going to be non-votes, not votes for Barack.
Steve-Dave: I doubt it. I'd say that with some of the stuff Romney will come out, people could vote Barack just to prevent Romney getting in.
Walt Flanagan: Well, he's so clearly a terrible human being.
Walt Flanagan: He's going to gaff his way out of the White House, even as the President is hated from all the sides of the spectrum that aren't starry eyed.
Walt Flanagan: The GOP has gone too far towards the Stupid Bigot side of things, it may take years to get back.
Walt Flanagan: I just think people who say that Obama would have to f*ck a white woman on television to not get elected are missing the danger.
Steve-Dave: Oh I think Romney will still give Obama a run for his money. Romney flip-flops a lot. Could appeal to a wide enough base overall to run it close
oatibix: Something's happened here.
Steve-Dave: This is what happens when you leave Colin.
Steve-Dave: And I don't mean "This is what happens when you leave, Colin", I mean this is what happens when you leave Colin. I left Colin and became all sensible and sh*t
Steve-Dave: I'm an equivocating motherf*cker
Rayanne Graff: Yeah, you're sh*t. i'm not sure about sensible, though.
Jimmy: Holy sh*t everything's Barry.
Steve-Dave: Everything's better!
Puffalump: Barrier
Steve-Dave: The Barryest it's ever been
Jimmy: I can't wait for more "Important Barry and changes"
Steve-Dave: Well there will be some Barry and changes coming soon, because we need more donations. It no longer just takes £10 a year to help Barry survive
Steve-Dave: It takes like... £13

 

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