GR translation: the elder Dr. Groast

[Mike Jing]

That indeed makes more sense. I was asking because the published
translation interpreted it as his brother.

Thanks, Michael.


On Sat, Jul 30, 2022 at 5:15 AM Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Mike Jing wrote:
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>  “It is part,” Rollo writes home to the elder Dr. Groast in Lancashire, in
> elaborate revenge for childhood tales of Jenny Greenteeth waiting out in
> the fens to drown him, “part of an old and clandestine drama for which the
> human body serves only as a set of very allusive, often cryptic
> programme-notes—
>
> Is the elder Dr. Groast Rollo's brother?
>
>
> I’d say father - like Pliny the Elder? Plus “writes home” - a
> brother’s residence wouldn’t necessarily be in the family home.
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