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Re: Fw: Comparison of the two Mysterious Islands

From: Norm Wolcott <nwolcott~at~kreative.net>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 15:05:41 -0400
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There seem to be certain words like "devil" that Kingston avoids. And even in chapter 1 "For Heaven's sake" replaces "for God's sake" . We will probably need to do a side by side comparison chapter by chapter to catch them all. With 65 chapters the task is daunting but not impossible. I can set up the side by sides, what takes time is re-aligning the paragraphs and then hiliting the parts to change. Then there are the judgment calls such as the more florid language of Kingston vs the bare bones translation of White. And in the last sentence of the book where nus is translated as "friendless" and White has "naked", the real meaning is a little obscure. Forlorn comes to mind.
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  Norm,
      This is a second set of passages that Kingston did not translate from The Mysterious Island. Some of these are deliberate censorship. Words Kingston did not translate are shown in square brackets [...].
      From Chapter 8, Part II, after the sheep have been herded into the corral .
      In short, the result was satisfactory, and the settlers had no reason to complain. [For the most part, these wild sheep were females, several of whom would not be long in giving birth.] There was no doubt that the flock would prosper,...
      From Chapter 7, Part II.
      He was already taught to make himself useful by drawing loads of wood and carting away the stones which were extracted from the bed of Creek Glycerine.
      ["He's not yet a mason, but he's already an ape!" said Herbert jokingly, making allusion to the nickname of "ape" that masons give to their apprentices. And if ever the name was justified, his surely was.]
      From Chapter 9, Part II.
      Cyrus Harding and Herbert, after having examined that part of the Far West where the cycas grew, took their bearings, and returned to Granite House, where they made known their discovery. The next day the settlers went to collect some, [and Pencroff, becoming more and more enthusiastic about his island, said to the engineer:
      "Mr. Cyrus, do you believe that there are islands for castaways?"
      "What do you mean by that, Pencroff?"
      "Well, I mean islands created especially for people to be shipwrecked on, where these poor devils can always manage."
      "That's possible," replied the engineer, smiling.
      "It's certain, sir," replied Pencroff, "and it's all the more certain that Lincoln Island is one of them!"]

  Sid Kravitz
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