[Publib] Re: translations

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In a message dated 12/9/2006 11:36:39 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
jbsphx at cox.net writes:

As  Gregor Samsa of one morning from jerky dreams awaked, he was changed 
in  its bed to tremendous vermin. It lay on its tank-like hard back and 
saw,  if it the head a little main header, its curved, brown belly, on 
whose  height the blanket, divided by arc-shaped reinforcements, to the 
complete  Niedergleiten ready, could keep hardly still. Its many 
compared with its  other extent pitifully thin legs flickered it 
helplessly before the  eyes.


Which is one of the finest translations I've ever read of that work.   If 
anybody, Kafka profits from a machine translation.  The thing reads like  Martian 
poetry.
 
M. McGrorty
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