Thread:Aphrodite Belleza/@comment-38520680-20190214083411/@comment-38520680-20190306043400

Apologies; work suddenly got crazy, and I haven't been able to get the final article edited and posted yet. I'll try to have it up by the middle of next week.

I did want to let you know that I finished reading the novel, and as far as I can tell, the emphasized text on those five pages isn't secret messages. Usually authors use those dots to emphasize text they want readers to notice, so they *could* be some sort of code, but in this case, the reasons readers are supposed to notice those lines become clear in the next few lines after each emphasized bit. (I'm not sure if you've read the whole thing yet or not, and I don't want to spoil you; if you do want concrete examples, let me know.) The emphasized bits also don't make sense if you read them together, and although the last three bits actually do form a coherent sentence, the sentence itself doesn't make sense. (It's grammatically correct, but the content is nonsensical.) ...So I'd make sure to keep that text emphasized in translation by italicizing it or something, but it should be okay to just translate those bits as they are, without worrying about losing hidden messages. For what it's worth.