By Translation, Analogies

Ah it seems I have found this too late. I took the Inferno class with Musa in 1981. He actually gave us his mentor's book written in the original Italian by Thomas Singleton to memorize. He didn't want to labor over any stylistics of his translation. In fact, we were forbidden from...

Having thought about this, I can only assume that her comparison with a stuffed pheasant is because it is preserved in a similar way to mummification. It isn't going to die and decay like a real pheasant. It just sits there unchanging. It's a strange analogy but in her world it might represent...

"what is a colourful painting for one is just a blank sheet of paper for the other" Nice analogy! I hereby request permission to use it once in a while. These kinds of English oddities are exactly what make for misunderstandings, things getting lost in translation, jokes falling flat.