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[Robert Chandler]

Dear Beth,

I use an AppleMac, with Operating System 10.3.  I use the Apple Standard
Keyboard, along with a phonetic keyboard I got on line from this site:
http://www.friends-partners.org/partners/rusmac/

By "phonetic" I meant that (if I lock the shift key down) I can press T to
get a Russian Т, B to get a Russian Б, S to get a Russian С, etc.

Feel free to ask more (not that I know much about these things!)

Best Wishes,

Robert


 > If you could please tell me:  which version of the Cyrillic alphabet do
you 
> have on your computer?  when i read your email i was able to read Russian, not
> the usual garble that shows up when people send me things written with
> Cyrillic script.  And by any chance, do the letters match on the keyboard with
> the Latin letters?
> 
> thank you!
> 
> Beth Keifer
> 
> 
> Robert Chandler <kcf19 at DIAL.PIPEX.COM> wrote:
> - ? ??? ?? ?????? ????????.... /
> ...what are you missing most...
> 
> K.Peitlova,Ph.Dr.
> 
> ****************
> 
> Thank you, Katrina, but 'missing' does not really convey the most important
> idea: that work will be assigned to Dvanov according to what it is that he
> most longs for/yearns for.
> 
> A friend has written the following:
>> Perhaps, "And then, we'll see what your heart ends up being up to" or even,
>> "what yearn your heart's up to." I think, having a whiff of Symbolist
>> vocabulary -- deliberately out of context, amidst crass and colloquial
>> expressions -- is Platonov's trademark -- and not only his but, as always,
>> his
>> characters' as well.
> Her first suggestion is good, though perhaps a little fiddly. Maybe just
> 'what your heart's up to'.
> 
> **********************
> 
> Here are a few lines from our translation-in-progress of CHEVENGUR. It is
> 1919 or 1920, Dvanov has just joined the Party, and he has been sent by the
> Party to the town of Novokhopersk. He has just arrived there and gone to
> the RevCom:
> 
> "A mechanic from the depot, the chairman of the RevCom, said to Dvanov,
> ?Revolution is risk. If it doesn?t work out, we?ll churn up the soil and
> leave only clay. Let every son of a bitch fend for himself if things don?t
> go well for the workers.?
> 
> Dvanov was given no particular task. They just said, ?Live here with us,
> we?ll all get by better. Then we can see what your heart wants.?"
> 
> There are, no doubt, any number of things that could be improved, but what
> most concerns me is the direct speech at the end. The original reads: ????
> ??? ? ????, ???? ????? ?????, ? ??? ????????, ? ??? ?? ?????? ????????. ?he
> 3 most difficult things here are:
> 1) the usual problem with translating toska and toskovat'. I have elsewhere
> simply transliterated 'toska' -- but I don't think this will work in direct
> speech.
> 2) ????????, rather than ????????? is a little odd, isn't it? It somehow
> seems to ask to be taken more literally -- or am I imagining this?
> 3) the word ??????, with its implication that people will have to assess how
> much toska Dvanov feels for different things, is really quite funny.
> 
> Our present tr. 'Then we can see what your heart wants.' is simply the least
> bad we have been able to come up with. I'll be grateful for any
> suggestions!
> 

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