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You usually cite the original story

• encrypted_bird 6mo ago
  You also usually cite what you know. Maybe OP has not read the book.
  • thaumasiotes 6mo ago
    Well, I've read a translation of the book. If that scene was present, it made no impression. It's not very comedic in the book. You can see for yourself: it is the entirety of chapter 47, here: https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1257/pg1257-images.html#chap47 https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1257/pg1257-images.html#cha... . (Interestingly, I would have said that the translation I read came from Project Gutenberg, but it wasn't the one I just linked and no other is currently available there. Does Project Gutenberg take down existing versions of out-of-copyright books sometimes??)
    • nottorp 6mo ago
      If the book is out of copyright is the translation also out of copyright? Edit: apparently not. So Gutenberg is hosting whatever they legally can, which is older translations.
      • thaumasiotes 6mo ago
        There are multiple older translations, but Project Gutenberg only has one at the moment. I'm conjecturing that they used to have a different one (also out of copyright; that's their whole thing), but have taken it down for unclear reasons. It's also possible that I found a free translation of The Three Musketeers somewhere else, or that I read the same version PG has now and have misidentified it as being different.
    • encrypted_bird 6mo ago
      Ah, okie dokes.