Platonov question

[Deborah Hoffman]

Wait - I have something better. How about "You just work here, going through the motions, but I feel what I do." It's not literal, but perhaps also renders the colloquial "Vy tut."
   
  Sorry to be coming late to the party - no matter which encoding I switch my machine to I can never read the Cyrillic parts of some of the messages.
  

Deborah Hoffman <lino59 at ameritech.net> wrote:
  Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 04:44:34 -0700 (PDT)
From: Deborah Hoffman <lino59 at ameritech.net>
Subject: Platonov question
To: 
"SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list" <SEELANGS at BAMA.UA.EDU>

  Could khodite here be the regular motion of just coming to work every day? Also, how about inserting a word or two after chuvstvuyu to convey meaning rather than sticking to the original syntax, thus:
   
  "You only work here, you show up every day, but I feel what I do."
   
  Just a thought to convey the speaker's main concern of contrasting the rote performance of his co-workers with his greater emotional participation.
  

Date:    Sun, 20 May 2007 07:01:59 +0100
From:    Robert Chandler <kcf19 at DIAL.PIPEX.COM>
Subject: Platonov question: Vy tut tol'ko sluzhite, khodite, a ya 
chusvtvuyu

Dear all,

Thanks to everyone who sent in their thoughts about this line of 
Platonov.
And please forgive various confusions in my previous messages.  
Sometimes I
get fixated on one difficult word and lose sight of the others.   In 
any
case, I think we may now be there, or at least a lot closer than we 
were:

=91But can you do everything the way I do?=92 asked Fyodorov.

=91The way you do?=92 said one elderly junior pointsman.  =91Not 
likely.  We=92ll
do things better.=92

=91That=92s as maybe,=92 Fyodorov said gloomily.  =91You carry out 
tasks.  I work
by feeling.=92

The last line of the original is
- =DF =F2=E0=EC =EF=EE=E3=EB=FF=E6=F3, - =F1=F3=EC=F0=E0=F7=ED=EE 
=F1=EA=E0=E7=E0=EB =D4=E5=E4=EE=F0=EE=E2.  =96 =C2=FB =F2=F3=F2 
=F2=EE=EB=FC=EA=EE =F1=EB=F3=E6=E8=F2=E5,
=F5=EE=E4=E8=F2=E5, =E0 =FF =F7=F3=E2=F1=F2=E2=F3=FE.

Best Wishes,

R.


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