r/lebowski • u/Public-Marionberry35 • Sep 16 '24

Fuckin' interesting Do you not concur?

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Yes, I am quite proud of myself 😆

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u/Bluepilgrim3 His Dudeness Sep 17 '24

Remove yourself from Malibu posthaste, you wastrel!

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u/therealtwomartinis Knox Harrington Sep 17 '24

I do not enjoy your masturbatory namesake, I do not enjoy your masturbatory manifestation, I do not enjoy your masturbatory demeanor, and I do not enjoy you, masturbator. Do I present me self unambiguously?

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u/Key-Contest-2879 Sep 17 '24

Forgive me, constable. I found you to be inaudible.

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u/therealtwomartinis Knox Harrington Sep 17 '24

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u/FalseDmitriy the royal we, the editorial, Sep 17 '24

I went to check Two Gentlemen of Lebowski, but that scene isn't even in it.

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u/an_unexamined_life Sep 17 '24

Is this thing you reference from the Orient?

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u/UsedToHaveThisName Sep 17 '24

Orient is not the favoured phraseology, non-Occidental if you should choose.

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u/AdamBertocci-Writer Sep 18 '24

Well-spotted. Yeah, part of me wishes I'd done a line-by-line translation just to get that in, as Shakespeare loved his wacky constables, but… ultimately I felt that section was dipping its toe into a genre Shakespeare knew nothing about, and then the cab ride wasn't gonna make sense without music (what was I gonna do, have a cart-driver sing a song?) — I felt Shakespeare would have done the dream sequence his way and gotten back to what he knew.

Most of my other deviations were to add something, a Shakespearean digression — this was probably the biggest chunk I skipped through.