BookImaginaryBeings

Pedro Jorge Romero · 17 Apr 1998, 06:19 · from urth-v0009.mbox · original

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From: Pedro Jorge Romero <bempjr at redkbs.com>
Subject: Re: (urth) BookImaginaryBeings
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 07:19:23 +0100
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[Posted from URTH, a mailing list about Gene Wolfe's New Sun and other work=
s]

> >> FWIW & IMHO, all of THE BOOK OF IMAGINARY BEINGS is essential reading
> >> for those more than superficially interested in TBOTNS.  Period, end
> >> of report.
> >
> >I have read TBOIB in Spanish but the Spanish translator of TBOTNS, that
> >I read in English and then checked in Spanish, obviously didn't because
> >he got a few things wrong.
>=20
> Oh, don't pick on the poor guy. Just imagine his horror after he had
> started the translation in earnest and truly realized the magnitude of the
> task he had taken on for the first time.

Well, I am a translator too, and I can realize that perfectly well (when
you make a mistake it is there, printed in a book, for everybody to
see).

Best

Pedro Jorge

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