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“Don’t feel sorry for yourself. Only arseholes do that.” One character says this at least twice in the book. "Arseholes" doesn't really seem right there to me. Could this be a badly translated word?
Amy Teshima I read this book in Japanese and that seems like way too vague of a translation. It should have been translated more like: "Only inferior men do that.…moreI read this book in Japanese and that seems like way too vague of a translation. It should have been translated more like: "Only inferior men do that." It would've matched Nagasawa's pretentious, binary worldview (of seeing people as either worthy or unworthy, superior or inferior, etc.) much better.(less)
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Peter Thanks, that makes sense now.
Jul 15, 2018 06:03PM
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Norwegian Wood
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