Newbie needs help with "Gravity's Rainbow"

[Michael Bailey]

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>> P6.40  He has seen it in a film, just in the last fortnight...
>> Chinese translation:"He has seen it in a film, when he was last on
>> leave for a fortnight..."  That has to be wrong as well.
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> yes.   bringing in a fortnight's leave is unjustified by the context.
> It only takes a couple hours to see a film...
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and idiomatically, "last fortnight" is the preceding fourteen days