Re: AtD translation: in Time’s case

[Mike Jing]

Thanks, David.


On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 10:09 PM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> “Seemed” would be the perspective of something or someone other than Time
> *itself.*   But *maybe* Time (personified) would have a more absolute
> denial of having ever touched this dewdrop.
>
> David Morris
>
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 8:36 PM Michael Bailey <
> michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > P582.28-30   She was expecting an older woman with ruinous features, a
> sort
> > of human palazzo. Instead here was this bright-eyed dewdrop whom Time
> > seemed not, or maybe, in Time’s case, never, to have touched.
> >
> > What's the remark "in Time’s case" trying to convey here?
> >
> >
> >
> > - “never” is the “not” of (personified) Time
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