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COR/2019/221

Letter from a convener concerning a local edition

Kind:
Correspondence
Date:
11 June 2019
Origin:
A circle in the north-west
Access:
Open.

A circle that meets in another language has made its own Reader, asks whether the translations must be approved, and is told that nobody approves them.

The Continuance Institute · The North House · Penobscot County · Maine

To the Stewardship

We have made our own Reader, because reading English at our table is

a performance and we are tired of it. Nine of the readings we have

translated ourselves. Two we could not translate to our satisfaction

and have replaced with things of our own.

The question is whether these must be sent to anybody for approval.

[Reply, 24 June 2019:] They must not, because there is nobody to

approve them. Keep a copy where the circle can find it. If two of your

readings are your own then your Reader has two readings that exist

nowhere else, which is a better outcome than a faithful translation.

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