GR translation: which even dacoits do too.

[Mark Kohut]

I think it does mean that decoits shit too.....I do not think Pynchon would
use the phrase "muttering, oh shit" and then SAY
they do it too....these elite trained bandits are presented as so cool, so
together that one might say he fell on his ass and
shit himself uncoordinatedly.....

On Mon, Dec 1, 2025 at 10:56 PM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> OK, just wanted to make sure. The published translation interpreted it as
> "shit", which doesn't seem right to me.
>
> Thanks, Mike.
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 2, 2025 at 12:02 AM Mike Weaver <mike.weaver at zen.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > Mutter "Oh shit"
> >
> > On 01/12/2025 11:41, Mike Jing wrote:
> > > V645.27-33, P658.24-30   Happily, he doesn’t have to wait at all. One
> of
> > > the dacoits comes leaping with a whistling sound, ecru silk cord strung
> > > buzzing tight between his fists, eager let’s-get-to-it grin, and just
> at
> > > the same moment a pair of arms comes pincering up out of a fissure in
> the
> > > ruins, and gathers the colonel down to safety just in time. The dacoit
> > > falls on his ass, and sits there trying to pull the cord apart,
> muttering
> > > oh shit, which even dacoits do too.
> > >
> > > What is that even dacoits do too is being referred to here?
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