Subj : An exercise in transation To : Anton Shepelev From : mark lewis Date : Thu Jul 04 2019 08:21:36 On 2019 Jul 04 13:21:20, you wrote to you: AS>> Lying on wet snow in wait of a near death, Bianca AS>> suddenly emembered [...] AS> `near' does not sound well to me, but am hard put to find AS> one that fits the intended meaning of a death that will come AS> soon. A quick death may be misunderstood as having a short AS> duration. "near death" means close to death... in the above passage, bianca is waiting to almost die when she remembers something... looking up "near death experience" may help provide a little more information on the actual action but "near death" by itself just means "close to death" or "almost dead"... just a lowly american shooting from the hip again... )\/(ark And to this end they built themselves a stupendous super-computer which was so amazingly intelligent that even before its data banks had been connected up it had started from "I think therefore I am" and got as far as deducing the existence of rice pudding and income tax before anyone managed to turn it off. .... Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up. --- * Origin: (1:3634/12.73) .