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ewilcox answered your question: Some Notes on Translation and on Madame Bovary
“The town was asleep. The pillars of the marketplace stretched their long shadows out. The whole earth was grey, like a summer night.”
Yes! I love the inversion of scale in your last sentence, the way “a summer night” makes “the whole earth” extend.
ecantwell said:
Someday I want to translate all day long.
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