GR translation: the long rain in silicon and freezing descent

[jochen stremmel]

perhaps it's his version of hard rain

2011/7/12 Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>:
> On 7/11/2011 6:56 PM, Bekah wrote:
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>> True enough,  but readers can't call the English text a bad translation.
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> No, Pynchon is, in a manner of speaking, a GOOD translator. Or better, an
> English-language innovator.i don't think he has necessarily here invented
> (named) the new color "silicon"  Not everything catches on. But if I ever
> hear again the phrase "silicon rain" or "silicon sky" or "silicon dawn" I
> will think "lustrous gray."
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> P
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>> Bekah
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>> On Jul 11, 2011, at 1:48 PM, Jed Kelestron wrote:
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>>> Sometimes Pynchon doesn't sound like English at all, as well.
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