Re: GR translation: It’s the most disgustin’ thing I ever seed!

[Mike Jing]

Laura: I went back to China for a visit during the summer, but I'm now
in North America. Have a good flight and enjoy your trip!

On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 8:11 AM, kelber at mindspring.com
<kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
> I've been up since 4:00 a.m. Maybe if my internal clock is already so out of
> whack, the jet lag I'm about to experience won't hit me that hard.
>
> My husband and I are flying to Shanghai tomorrow to visit our daughter,
> who's been living in Hangzhou for the past 18 months. Mike, if you happen to
> be in either of those cities, let me know.
>
> Laura
>
> Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID
>
>
> David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Who knew so many P-listers were up so early or up so late!
>
> On Monday, December 5, 2016, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> This is a perfect meta answer for this list.
>>
>> On Monday, December 5, 2016, kelber at mindspring.com <kelber at mindspring.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I think Mike's the one doing us a favor, by asking thought-provoking
>>> questions that require a close read. This is what we were trying to do with
>>> our group read of the Beyond the Zero section of GR, earlier this year -
>>> which failed miserably.
>>>
>>> It's exactly what the p-list is supposed to be about. Enjoy it!
>>>
>>> Laura
>>>
>>> Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID
>>>
>>>
>>> David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> When someone asks for a service, a favor, it is not an invasion to ask to
>>> what end such a service would help.  Stop being a boob.
>>>
>>> David Morris
>>>
>>> On Monday, December 5, 2016, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Well, I do not think it is a 'good' question at all. I do not think it
>>>> is a nice question.
>>>> I think it is an invasion of privacy question and I hope Mike does not
>>>> answer it.
>>>> This is a distinction without a difference that matters for the doing of
>>>> the translation and
>>>> especially for us on the Plist trying to 'help'. Sometimes.
>>>>
>>>> Although, if you have cared about Mike's efforts from the beginning you
>>>> might have had
>>>> enough caring to remember that he did virtually answer this in the way
>>>> back.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 5:29 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Good question.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Monday, December 5, 2016, Alexei du Périer
>>>>> <alexei.duperier at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Are you translating GR for your own pleasure or for a publisher?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 2016-12-05 10:55 GMT+01:00 Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks, Laura and Mark.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 5:17 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> > Also, has roots:
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> > seed - Wiktionary
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> > https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/seed
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> > From Middle English seed, sede, side, from Old English sēd, sǣd
>>>>>>> > (“seed, that
>>>>>>> > which is sown”), from ..... (dialectal) simple past tense and past
>>>>>>> > participle of see ...
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> > On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 2:51 AM, kelber at mindspring.com
>>>>>>> > <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> >>
>>>>>>> >> I can't see any other meaning than the one you suggest. The
>>>>>>> >> ungrammatical
>>>>>>> >> conjugation of the verb gives the verse a dumbed down feel.
>>>>>>> >>
>>>>>>> >> LK
>>>>>>> >>
>>>>>>> >> Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID
>>>>>>> >>
>>>>>>> >>
>>>>>>> >> Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> >>
>>>>>>> >> V534.3-8, P543.6-11
>>>>>>> >>        Doper’s greed,
>>>>>>> >>        Oh, doper’s greed!
>>>>>>> >>        It’s the most disgustin’ thing I ever seed!
>>>>>>> >>        When you’re out there feelin’ fine,
>>>>>>> >>        It’ll turn you into swine,
>>>>>>> >>        If you ever get a taste of DOPER’S GREED!
>>>>>>> >>
>>>>>>> >> Is the word "seed" here used as the past tense of "see" because of
>>>>>>> >> the
>>>>>>> >> rhyme, or is it something else?
>>>>>>> >> -
>>>>>>> >> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> >
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>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>
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