Platonov - Dzhan

[madonna at SOCRATES.BERKELEY.EDU]

On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Robert Chandler wrote:

> "Kakie lyudi?  Ikh dusha davno rasseyalas', im vse ravno, zhivut oni ili net.'
>
> Can anyone suggest a better word than the literal "scattered"? I dislike
> it because it is so much less idiomatic than the original. But I don't
> want to move far away from it because the opposition "sobrat"/rasseyat'"
> is central

try "dissipated."  in english, we can use the dissipate/gather opposition
of crowds, clouds, steam, power, force, etc.  if that sounds too bookish,
what about "dried up" or "evaporated"?

sylvia (whose youth seems to have dissipated without ever really
collecting itself) swift
madonna at socrates.berkeley.edu

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