Transfiguration of Mirrors pt. 2

 

Flight  path:

Motivation 1: The expression of the best of contemporary psychology, in particular, positive psychology. Dangers of happiness culture. Importance of larger vision of “the good life.”

Motivation 2: Express  a tale of spiritual transformation as experiential transfiguration.

Guiding Questions:

1: -Ideological/interpretive vs. historical/contextual split.  -Contemporary/plain prose vs. poetic/old time.  

2. Reconciling ambiguity and specificity.  (Narrative that means nothing and everything.)  

Things to try:

1. Creating new lines. Disrupting syntax. Total novelty.

2. Headnotes instead of footnotes

3. Total contemporaneity and total Boccaccio

4. The Kramer Cut

5. As a reader: highlight the development or the change of usage of terms

6. Try out meters

Postscript

As I approach the end of translating book 4, I am going to turn my sights elsewhere once again. The science fiction novel churns in the Promethean chaos, and this translation work has made me more deeply understand the source material. I also intend to return to another devotional piece, my rendering of “waiting for Godot” in comics form. This fall, I hope to complete issue 4 and do a printing of issues 1-4 that I can send out to people which will be roughly 100 pages and about ⅓ of the way through the play.