<div dir="ltr">Got this alert from the Goodreads Gene Wolfe group:<br><br><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1614149-help-some-details-in-the-shadow?utm_medium=email&utm_source=comment_instant#comment_88705259">https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1614149-help-some-details-in-the-shadow?utm_medium=email&utm_source=comment_instant#comment_88705259</a><div>
<br></div><div>"<span style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:Georgia,Times,'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14.399999618530273px;line-height:18px">I am a SF editor & Wolfe fan in China, and we are trying to publish The Book of New Sun in Chinese. I've done a lot of work in reading and translation , yet there are still some sentences I can't understand. Hope I can get some help here. </span><br style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:Georgia,Times,'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14.399999618530273px;line-height:18px">
<br style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:Georgia,Times,'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14.399999618530273px;line-height:18px"><span style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:Georgia,Times,'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14.399999618530273px;line-height:18px">THE HOUSE AZURE </span><br style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:Georgia,Times,'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14.399999618530273px;line-height:18px">
<span style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:Georgia,Times,'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14.399999618530273px;line-height:18px">While I was undressing I said, “Nevertheless, we all seek to discover what is real. Why is it? Perhaps we are drawn to the theocenter. That’s what the hierophants say,that only that is true.”</span><br style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:Georgia,Times,'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14.399999618530273px;line-height:18px">
<br style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:Georgia,Times,'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14.399999618530273px;line-height:18px"><span style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:Georgia,Times,'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14.399999618530273px;line-height:18px">what does "theocenter" mean? I can't find this word in dictionary nor can I google it. and what does the whole sentence mean?</span><br style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:Georgia,Times,'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14.399999618530273px;line-height:18px">
<span style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:Georgia,Times,'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14.399999618530273px;line-height:18px">--------------------------------------------</span><br style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:Georgia,Times,'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14.399999618530273px;line-height:18px">
<span style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:Georgia,Times,'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14.399999618530273px;line-height:18px">THE LAST YEAR </span><br style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:Georgia,Times,'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14.399999618530273px;line-height:18px">
<span style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:Georgia,Times,'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14.399999618530273px;line-height:18px">I carried them to her, and she said my beard had shot up like them, and I should be bluer of cheek than the run of common men, and the next day begged my pardon for it, saying I was that already. </span><br style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:Georgia,Times,'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14.399999618530273px;line-height:18px">
<br style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:Georgia,Times,'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14.399999618530273px;line-height:18px"><span style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:Georgia,Times,'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14.399999618530273px;line-height:18px">what does "bluer of cheek"and " run of common men" mean here?</span><br style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:Georgia,Times,'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14.399999618530273px;line-height:18px">
<span style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:Georgia,Times,'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14.399999618530273px;line-height:18px">-----------------------------------------</span><br style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:Georgia,Times,'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14.399999618530273px;line-height:18px">
<span style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:Georgia,Times,'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14.399999618530273px;line-height:18px">DORCAS </span><br style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:Georgia,Times,'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14.399999618530273px;line-height:18px">
<span style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:Georgia,Times,'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14.399999618530273px;line-height:18px">“Your pardon, sieur,” he said. “But I can’t come no nearer. Wet she may be, but she gets too dry for me, or you couldn’t walk upon it. </span><br style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:Georgia,Times,'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14.399999618530273px;line-height:18px">
<br style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:Georgia,Times,'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14.399999618530273px;line-height:18px"><span style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:Georgia,Times,'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14.399999618530273px;line-height:18px">Does "she" refer to the boat or Cas' body? what does the sentence mean?</span><br style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:Georgia,Times,'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14.399999618530273px;line-height:18px">
<br style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:Georgia,Times,'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14.399999618530273px;line-height:18px"><span style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:Georgia,Times,'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14.399999618530273px;line-height:18px">------------------------------------------</span><br style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:Georgia,Times,'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14.399999618530273px;line-height:18px">
<span style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:Georgia,Times,'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14.399999618530273px;line-height:18px">THE PLAY </span><br style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:Georgia,Times,'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14.399999618530273px;line-height:18px">
<span style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:Georgia,Times,'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14.399999618530273px;line-height:18px">confirm the outcome of a love affair by putting the elector of one suit atop the patroness of another</span><br style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:Georgia,Times,'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14.399999618530273px;line-height:18px">
<br style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:Georgia,Times,'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14.399999618530273px;line-height:18px"><span style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:Georgia,Times,'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14.399999618530273px;line-height:18px">If the word suit refer to the some card game, then what does "elector"and "patroness"mean?" </span><br clear="all">
<div><br></div>-- <br>Daniel Otto Jack Petersen
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