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(1987) Goethe and the sciences, Dordrecht, Springer.
It was related in antiquity that in atonement for their misdeeds the daughters of King Danaus were made to spend eternity filling a vessel with water. The bottom of the vessel was riddled with holes so that no matter how they labored their task was never accomplished. The work of the translator bears a certain resemblance to this penance of the children of Danaus: the vessel provided by the second language is often frustratingly inadequate in conveying the meanings found in the original, and this frustration may yield to a sense of despair when the fundamental impossibility of the task is realized.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-3761-1_6
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Miller, D. E. (1987)., Goethe's color studies in a new perspective: die Farbenlehre in English, in F. Amrine, F. J. Zucker & H. Wheeler (eds.), Goethe and the sciences, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 101-112.
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