austraLasia
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"They couldn't hit an
elephant at this dist......."
epitaph for General Sedgewick, died in
battle 1864, imprudently peeping over the parapet - and other famous
lines
ROME: 8th February 2006
-- Just to distract the reader from the solid material that's been
coming through, and which will continue, given the Rector Major's constant
magisterium in Asia, YM meetings and the like, here is a true story from the
past 24 hours, but first a little background.
There are
quite a number of interesting publication projects going on either in our region
or in the English-speaking Salesian world. Let me mention some of
these. In Africa, a colourful Project Africa
booklet to commemorate 25 years, with contributions from all over Salesian
Africa, is just making its way to the public. The Italian edition is
already out, the French is not far behind and English has got to the final
revision stage before going back to the printer. In Timor, an intrepid
translator has finally got Memoirs of the Oratory into Tetum, and now the
discussion begins as to how to disseminate this. Elsewhere, Teresio
Bosco's Mamma Margaret has been translated into English, gone through the
revision stages and should be printed and published before too long. In
China, the final touches are being put to something that should see the light of
day in a fortnight or so. The Social Communication Department becomes
involved often at translation or 'revision' levels in these processes, and its
personnel are happy to do so. Printer's ink, or whatever the digital
version of that might be (invisibleLink, to coin a new
term?) has run in yours truly's veins for many years.
Well, today, from one of the kinds of bodies aforementioned, the following line
arrived as part of an email. It was well-intended:
"I think it will sell,
it's a very inspirational story. Once again your energy has been
reworded".
Really! Epitaph for an author who's been translated to
death, maybe?
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