Re: TRANS: El suicida (homage to Borges)

Josh Roth <Fuscian@...> wrote:

> >No  quedar=E1      en la  noche una estrella.
> >not remain.3sFUT in the night one star
> >
> >No  quedar=E1      en la  noche.
> >not remain.3sFUT in the night
>=20
> Couldn't "no quedar=E1 en la noche" just be referring to the same subje=
ct as in=20
> the first line, "una estrella"? This is what I thought of first, though=
 your=20
> interpretation is more interesting....
Well, it *could*, but it would sound weird in this particular
context, since it implies 'not even one'. So it's not really
one star the poem talks about, but *no* stars. So gramatically
it could be, but it'd probably not be understood... I just
read the poem and the weirdness of the sentence practically
jumped at me. It's difficult to explain to a non-native speaker.


--Pablo Flores