GR translation: which even dacoits do too.

[Mike Jing]

That certainly could be the case. It would make it harder to translate as
well.


On Tue, Dec 2, 2025 at 7:33 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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