GR translation: White Visitation

[David Morris]

Of course the problem of translation is nuance from the depths of
culture and language.

White in Japan has different meaning than Euro & Western tradition. Do
you translate the meaning of "white?"

Some duty has to be left to the reader.

On Saturday, June 25, 2011, Mike Jing <mikezjing at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>> Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 14:49:29 -0400
>> From: mackin.paul at verizon.net
>> To: fqmorris at gmail.com; pynchon-l at waste.org
>> Subject: Re: GR translation: White Visitation
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>> But who's to say.  Seems to me a perfect translation (no such thing of
>> course) would reflect it all.
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> That's the problem.  It's all but impossible to find such a word in Chinese, therefore I have to make a choice.
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