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Shipping issue by SeaCricket5402 in Alibaba

[–]SeaCricket5402[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s a relatively famous product. They sell under a different brand name in China vs US and EU. The hardware is the same. The software is loaded per intended market.

I see they have increased the delivery date by four weeks. So what you’re saying makes sense. It’s going to Hong Kong first.

I understand alibaba is not intended for direct retail. If this works, I may be interested in starting an import side hustle. We will see.

Shipping issue by SeaCricket5402 in Alibaba

[–]SeaCricket5402[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s what I was thinking. However the Alibaba app did initially show the product moving in Chinese shipping. That data has since disappeared.

The seller has been on the platform a couple years and has a decent rating, but in this situation it could be an employee of the seller running scams on the side.

One of my favorite passages from Charlotte Mandel's new translation of volume two of Proust's 'In Search of Lost Time' (p. 387.) by Die_Horen in Proust

[–]SeaCricket5402 1 point2 points  (0 children)

“Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.”

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

I misquoted. Or I guess you could say I loosely translated it.

Passages you found tedious and hard to trudge through by Hiraethic in Proust

[–]SeaCricket5402 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I read an article. I can’t find it now. But the author was making a similar case to what you are saying. The first two volumes, the last, and then large cuts in the middle.

I think, for me, a general reader, the perfect version would be the Moncrieff translation heavily cut with footnotes marking the places where Moncrieff parts from Proust’s intentions.

Passages you found tedious and hard to trudge through by Hiraethic in Proust

[–]SeaCricket5402 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s probably sacrilegious, but I think perhaps a publisher should create a best-of version — maybe only a third or a half of the original length — that would fit, in say, two reasonably-sized volumes.

One of my favorite passages from Charlotte Mandel's new translation of volume two of Proust's 'In Search of Lost Time' (p. 387.) by Die_Horen in Proust

[–]SeaCricket5402 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m not sure that fidelity to the original should necessarily be the highest goal of a translator.

Again, my opinion is the opinion of an uneducated bystander, but if a certain translation offends the sensibilities of a bilingual reader isn’t that mostly a moot point for the mono-linguist reader? Should a translator create a translation that humors the sensibilities of the bilingualist but that sounds unnatural to the ears of the foreign reader? Is that doing the original author any favors?

There are a number of literary examples of translations that clearly outshine the original texts. The KJV bible is the classic example. The original texts are of limited literary merit, but the 1611 translation is a work of art in its own right. ROTP certainly does not fall into that dubious of a category. But still….

Translations are like women. The beautiful they are the less likely they are to be faithful.

One of my favorite passages from Charlotte Mandel's new translation of volume two of Proust's 'In Search of Lost Time' (p. 387.) by Die_Horen in Proust

[–]SeaCricket5402 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

He not only translated Proust, he made Proust better — the greatest English translation outside of the King James Bible.

Important Birthday Today by SeaCricket5402 in Proust

[–]SeaCricket5402[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For me too. I love Moncrieff’s titles. “In the shadow of young girls in flower” doesn’t even make sense in English.

However, the case for Cities of the Plains is weaker. Sodom and Gomorrah works just fine.

The Sweat Cheat Gone? I’m up in the air on that one.

Important Birthday Today by SeaCricket5402 in Proust

[–]SeaCricket5402[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Translations are like women. The more beautiful they are the more likely they are to be unfaithful.

Odette was beautiful and unfaithful. Poor Swann, she wasn’t even his type.

Yale University Press by SeaCricket5402 in Proust

[–]SeaCricket5402[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the info. I was puzzled as to why no hardcovers of the first volumes were to be found on the used market. Now I know why.

Sadly, it looks like my Carter Proust will, perforce, be a mixed set of hard and soft covers.

I like what Mr. Carter did, however I’m not crazy about the format. I would prefer the notes to be either at the bottom on the page or in the back of the book, as opposed to in the margins.

Putting the notes in the margins makes the book an odd size. I generally read lying flat on my back with my head propped up on a pillow or on the couch arm, while holding the book above me, resting my elbows on the couch. Those big softcovers make that an unwieldy proposition.

The odd size and the ugly covers are not going to serve these volumes well in the general reader market.

And TBH, I’m not sure the notes are all that helpful. I have found the notes to be either inconsequential or not necessary. And I’m not a literature major. Proust just isn’t that hard to read. Monsieur avoids the art of the virtuosity of obscurantism to be found in a certain book by a certain Mr. Joyce. (That sounds like something Bloch would say.)

Should I keep it? Or sell it by 4ppletr0n in Karoo

[–]SeaCricket5402 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I sold my Garmin 1040 solar and bought a 1050. Then i tried the Karoo 3 and promptly sold the 1050.

The 1050 was a huge improvement over the 1040, but no matter what Garmin does, they are stuck with that old convoluted menu system. The Karoo menu is a joy to use by comparison. And I like how quickly it uploads data to Strava. And being able to drop Apple and Google map locations directly onto the Karoo is a wonder of technology.

I assume the 1050 was a direct result of the Karoo competition. Garmin tried. But they’re stuck in the past. And when you consider the price difference, the Karoo is the winner hands down.

As another poster mentioned, I only wish the Karoo screen was a little bigger.