Thursday, March 09, 2006

Translating a book

I was happily translating a book from German for one month already, and grew a bit too many feelings for the main character, I guess.
Now he is stuck in a middle-age inquisition dungeon, bearing different kinds of tortures, and guess what? I have to re-create every single detail, I cannot just skip the brutal scenes as I would if I were just reading it... sob... it breaks my heart, you know...
I hope the poor guy manages to get out without permanent damage. (I don't know yet, because I try not to read any further than the very page I'm translating, not to kill all the curiosity and fun.)

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