Source manuscript differences. Early translators often worked off bad copies.

This is normal and boring.

OP is a massive faggot and sucks dick for breakfast, what's new?

Post the paragraph or stop wasting everyone’s time.

Don’t post copyrighted text verbatim you moron. Summarize it.

Is the paragraph political? A lot of Cold War era translations got “adjusted.”

Could be obscene in original language. Some metaphors just don’t survive export.

OP’s refusal to summarize is weird.

I think I know the book OP is talking about. And yeah, that paragraph is… strange.

>>1414089 Then name it or shut up.

This thread is already annoying.

Translator here. If multiple independent translations cut the same paragraph, it’s usually because: 1) It contradicts the text’s internal logic 2) It resists grammatical rendering 3) It causes problems when read aloud No further comment.

>>1414122 "Problems when read aloud” is not a real category.

It absolutely is. Just not one you put in print.

Okay now I’m actually interested.

I checked two library copies of the original. The paragraph is there. But the spacing is wrong. Like it was inserted later.

Printing errors do not work like that.

OP summarize the paragraph already.

Yeah this is going nowhere without content.

OP either summarize or bail.

OP is offline or typing up some LARP. Calling it now.

Threads like this always end with “actually I was lying sorry.”

>>1414001 OP here. Fine. I’ll summarize. The paragraph describes the protagonist stopping mid-thought and becoming aware that the narration itself is continuing without him. It switches tense, repeats a sentence fragment three times, and ends with a statement that the book is being read “in the wrong order,” followed by a list of page numbers that do not correspond to the edition. That’s it.

That’s metafiction. Congrats you discovered postmodernism.

>>1414266 What are the page numbers.

Yeah, post the numbers.

OP don’t. This is how you summon /x/ tourists.

Too late.

Those numbers don’t line up with any known edition. I checked three.

I checked a digitized microfilm scan from 1961. The paragraph is there. The numbers point to *other books on the same reel*.

No they don’t.

They absolutely do. And one of them is *this book*. Just not this copy.

Stop. This is turning into creepypasta.

I read the paragraph aloud... I don’t recommend doing that.

>>1414417 Explain.

Halfway through, I realized I was skipping lines. Not intentionally. Like my eyes refused to track certain sentences.

Bullshit psychosomatic response.

I had the same problem. Thought it was a misprint until my roommate asked why I kept repeating myself.

Okay this thread officially sucks. Why is /lit/ full of homosexual larpers?

Mods should archive this before someone screenshots it for plebit.

Too late. Someone already linked it in /x/.

>>1414441 OP you should stop responding now. Seriously.

>>1414503 Why would you even admit that.

>>1414544 There is no 1414503.

I saw it too. It was between the reading-aloud post and the roommate post.

Stop encouraging this. There was no missing post.

>>1414503 literally said “I don’t think it wants to be translated.” That stuck with me.

There is still no such post. Are you people okay?

I refreshed and now the reply numbers feel wrong, like they’re skipping.

>>1414512 You shouldn’t have reposted that.

What is 1414512. Stop making up numbers.

The post that quoted the paragraph more directly. It didn’t use the same wording as OP. That’s why it mattered.

I’m starting to think the numbers in the paragraph weren’t page numbers. They were reply IDs...

>>1414679 HOLY FUCKING SHIT! Could you be any less of a faggot?

>>1414503 said it wouldn’t exist “all at once." Those were the exact words.

Stop citing a nonexistent post. It’s creepy.

I don’t think it’s nonexistent. I think it already passed.

>>1414731 I think the only thing that's being passed is your mom, from one black man to another.

Anyone else scrolling up instinctively when they see certain numbers?

>>1414266 OP you still here?

He said he wouldn’t answer after the third repetition. Why are you asking again?

This reminds me of something from years ago. Different board. Same feeling.

>>1414801 Be specific.

>>1414814 /g/, I think. Thread about a compiler bug that only happened if you commented the code “out of order.” People kept replying to fixes that weren’t there yet.

>>1414827 I remember that. Someone swore a reply told them to stop compiling entirely.

That thread ended the same way. Nobody proved anything. People just stopped posting. Goes to show whatever board your on op is always a faggot.

>>1414827 Wasn’t there also a /tv/ one? About a deleted scene everyone remembered differently?

>>1414864 Yeah. Same pattern. People replying to gaps.

So what, the board’s haunted now?

No. Just read in the wrong order.

This thread is making less sense the longer it sits.

>That’s usually when you stop scrolling.

Last reply before I sleep: If anyone finds that /g/ thread again, don’t bump it. It already finished.