@@ Passage 3 On Being Translated into Englishrn1.One Saturday morning a magazine that I' d never seen before arrived.In fact, when I picked it up I couldn't quite make out either its title or the caption under the cover picture;so I turned it over,as one does any curious and unfamiliar object, and became immediately absorbed in a three-strip episode of Tarzan,entitled "Overrumplet af Guxa." When I had finished (leaving Tarzan engaged in furious hand - to- handto- hand combat with a halfdozen pointed - toothed,bodiless heads that looked like nothing so much as rather evilminded Humpty - Dumptys), I turned back to the first inside pages and discovered the reason for the magazine' s arrival at my door - a harmless little short story of mine, beginning, "Skrivemaskinens sejrberuste klapren forstummede…"
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