Michael Simkin wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jon Johanning" <jjohanning at igc.org>
>
> > Works of art are personal communications; they don't necessarily speak
> > to everyone.
>
> > Those who do love someone can't "explain" why everyone's supposed to
> > love that person. Explanations are ultimately futile.
> >
>
> The point was that, occasionally, admirers can not distinguish what they
> "love" from a mutant translation.
But you haven't given us any _passages_ from Faulkner (or from the machine translation). You have given us little snippets. They prove nothing except that you've never thought much about what prose is.
I'm not a "lover" of Faulkner. And I think it ridiculous to call works of art "personal communications," but I have a good deal of experience with a number of different prose styles, and none of them can conceivably be judged, or even discussed, with such snippets as you offer.
Carrol