GR translation: He reverted that season to childhood

Mark Kohut mark.kohut at gmail.com
Wed Mar 5 10:32:05 UTC 2025


it is intransitive.....

On Wed, Mar 5, 2025 at 5:18 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> V405.12-18, P411.34-40   He reverted that season to childhood, to the
> wounded dog. During those wet and solitary walks he brooded about Leni: he
> concocted scenarios in which they would meet again, in some elegant or
> dramatic setting—ministry, theatre lobby—two or three jeweled and beautiful
> women hanging to him, generals and industrialists springing to light his
> American cigarettes and listening to his offhand solutions to problems Leni
> would only vaguely understand.
>
> Is "reverted" transitive or intransitive here? The second edition of the
> published translation treated it as transitive and "that season" as its
> object, but it doesn't seem right to me.
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