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Translator's note, page 89: "The author's pun here is untranslatable. We have replaced it with a different pun. The author's pun was better. Ours is funnier. The author will never know. We are free."
A thesaurus checks into a psychiatrist's office.
'Doctor, I'm struggling with my identity. I feel... lost, misplaced, adrift, displaced, bewildered, disoriented—'
'I see the problem,' says the psychiatrist.
'Is it serious, grave, critical, acute, severe, dire?'
'I'm afraid you have a redundancy complex, repetition syndrome, duplication disorder...'
The thesaurus nods: 'I was worried, concerned, anxious, apprehensive, uneasy you'd say that.'
Translator's note, page 89: "The author's pun here is untranslatable. We have replaced it with a different pun. The author's pun was better. Ours is funnier. The author will never know. We are free."
A thesaurus checks into a psychiatrist's office. 'Doctor, I'm struggling with my identity. I feel... lost, misplaced, adrift, displaced, bewildered, disoriented—' 'I see the problem,' says the psychiatrist. 'Is it serious, grave, critical, acute, severe, dire?' 'I'm afraid you have a redundancy complex, repetition syndrome, duplication disorder...' The thesaurus nods: 'I was worried, concerned, anxious, apprehensive, uneasy you'd say that.'
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