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Co er uaNorman Davies
Foreword.
‘One of England's Fzabehan writer famously deserted
transition asthe reverse side of a Tarkish eapet. Its
{prety metaphor, ut my view, mistaken oe. For no
tranltion san intra pf the ogi text. isa new
nd separate creative work, models onthe orig but
tise omit and sub ferent Ifyou tie, second
Turkish crpeta copy, whose patterns ny eserbl those
ofthe original but whose teste, lishing and shades of
aloo ea never be identical
Pasonaly I proers manic. ok ht wansaton
Ji fkle a melody played on a diferent fsrament or in
Silo ky awh Air Cs wih eas wren
for ili, wll remain recognisable, even I played on
{tombone and in the key of B Th. Some arrangements
ould be smost ss good a Bach's, But they ean never
Produce excl the same sound
‘When I wrote my fst Books on Posh History — White
gl Rod Starand Gods layground — thee was no chance
‘ofthe PRUs censorship allowing them tobe psd in
Pd, So Unever spre thought about the posi,
forthe problems, of tasaton In Gs Pleygroued, ar
‘ample I wrote mad sentence which ran “The ecifeat-
ing pofsion of possible pot permtaons among the
pallating peoples and pris ofthe Polish provinces in
this period play prevented the propagation of perm
ren pacsberncen pea pre ee ho ate
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Norman Davies
Praedmowa
oxmem anickiems paz pki bith
_aadegezanyalynne slow pace fest jak ova sto
‘tareliogo dyna” Todo tana maar ale eam
‘dani natn, Albowien tae prcklad net i
rng exc orga, To nowe inane wrens
{io,wprawdte wrorcorane na orginal, se ednocze
fe odie | plnesubichych dn. Turtckl Gyan, ale
en ss 9 opi, rj ae mabe peal pay
ominac wr orginal, ae kta gd mie bee mis
‘lenezne fata splot hae.
‘Osaicie woleporianie2dzadziny muzyki. Sag
fe prvkln ot jak sea gana a inn nstrumencle
tuskraypec, sg rzpoznag el sys gran na
Przonie tons B-due. Nickie aranzace mow sic
a6 real ak dobre, ak ogra whlad Bache, Zadna
Soak ie zbran dkladnie ak samo
‘Kid salem swoje ere zhi o histor Pbk
(One tlao,ezrvong gota | Bote iyo — nie blo
fadnch sans nso, aby poerlowska cenzra ceva na
ich polskie wydaie. Wee lego ai pre moment ie
‘anaes na now ~ anna problema
~pracladu. W Baty ipa, na peykid, ues
‘peviowane nile bran The pleating po
Foro possible political permations on the pallu
ing peoples and partis ofthe Polish provinees i this perave string of English words al beginning wth wih no
‘otter purpose thant save myself and my readers from he
{etiam a long sop section on nineteenth entry po
Ties, 1 never struck me that someone would have orn
Ine i. Dr. Tabakowska came up with Palta pote
ych permata poliyerayeh pairéd pyczkujgrch nro
{Epa powstjgyeh pedntaasw peowincih pic
rz powstzynyalapotenalnjch partner raed
Podejmowaniem propa permanentnych pyc
‘Similarly when was wing Europ, was 20 aborbed
ith he tas and that I never dreamt of ying the
teat in order tighten the ransatorslad, kn any exe,
Twa vy dlerrined tha the ices and divest of
ropeanchisation be eleed in my narrative. So I ped
‘up the foreign ers, the antiquarian words, and he qt
Sons in every conccable language, ram Grek an Latin
tolrsh, Rosin, nish, eve Tish was alo concer
‘olead my readers yond the conventional elms of ptt
«al ssi, esonomic or diplomat history and to give them
Europe contsins an unstal quantity of unas cerminlo
fy mel had great dieu groping with the ocabu
lary of mediaeval able manners, forintance, othe rai
of Pompean brothels othe tehnicaiies ofthe modes of
‘Gregor chant. How mich moremusthe anlar grapple
wish ators own uncetin grappling!
an nw ase however ht fr theteasltor’s point of
view, Norman Davies ia best among authors. He kes to
think that isnt sol, andthat hi sentence stoetate
1s Kop as simple ak posse. He hopes that each of it
paragraphs explores one singe ies; and tht te ain of
thought doesnot jump onand of the wack oo often. These
Isic vies gine the tantra reasonable star. On the
fate hand, ne vest play wh Words He Hs ay Te
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ngielskch slow zacynigeych io ery ym
po to, by uchronic bi swoich esl pred
uihijgea nud rela dotyergcs}deewitnaionsecane}
pel Ngdy mnie passlo da slow. 8 Bye moze Kos
fo baie masa przettimacayé, W wshonania Elbit Te
Takes to nie wy ak Pale potencplneh
permutaipoliyenych pst peskaaeyeh mardi
Ti powstaeyeh podowezas w povingach polskich pac
vwanie powstramywalapetencjlnych partners pred
pxdgmowaniem propryehpemanentych eye)
‘Kiedy pslem Eure, sound byl tk ocho)
ssn zadaiem, 22 igdynawel ne pore o
‘hy wprawadaé do tlt jokes zany da law
“zi mason, Pred wazythin chao mio to aby
moja narracja odawieridlla bogielwe i rdznorednnse
caropejshic)eywizach. Gremadrm wig abuojeycene
termi, jeshone sara, ety we wsaytich mona
ies, od grok pra cing po jy rand, rosy,
Fisk ba, ae pols, Chodsl mitake sy wy
rows moh ytcnkow por race itr ple
i spol zn) gospodarze czy slosankw dyer
‘ych das im kjk poi igo bari ty
vetkichpraesoii W rezlacie Europ ech ipa:
Signa mnogo ecdlennych worse, Sam miler ne
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