zodiac26 May 2004

re: "I don't see how translating something makes it yours."

It's simple. Suppose we represent a good poem with 1 and a not-so-good poem with 0. This gives us

Lorca's poem = 1,
Sasha's version = 0

For Sasha's version to still be Lorca's poem and not its own, discrete dribbling, you'd have to except 1 = 0 - which is quite a hefty plum to get your mouth around.