translation thread

[Jules Levin]

A feat of the translator's art that no computer could match:

Nabokov's rendering of Lewis Carrol's "reeling and writhing" as the 
curriculum in the Walrus's school for oysters:
chesat' i pitat'
This is an improvement--"grooming and feeding" is more sea-critterish 
than reeling and writhing...
Jules Levin

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