Challenge 1116

Clear and Faithful

In Marina J. Neary’s People of Pleasure; How can Rupert Irwin travel to the royal court of 17th-century Spain by noshing a cherry-flavored gummy? What does the narrative humor imply about the art professor’s actual experience?
In James Hanna’s The Vegas Differential:
1. Is the two brothers’ “table-top” baseball game possible with dice, cards and no computer? At what point does their dice game become a parody of itself?
2. How does the “Vegas Fox” change the very nature of the brothers’ dice and statistics game?
3. How does the “I” narrator react to his imagined players’ use of ancient Roman audiences’ “clapping out” unwanted performances (explaudire). Why does he not perceive the mockery?
In Edna C. Horning’s A Thorn in the Flesh: Might Dora have ever used her paranormal talent before visiting Olga and Ken? What further use might she make of it?
In Lucien R. Starchild’s The Paradox Garden:
1. How is the older Maya able to time-travel and visit her younger self? Is the visit actually needed? In what way is it paradoxical?
2. Does Maya have any idea why the fern mutates so rapidly? What good might come of it?
In João Ventura’s AI Translations: Would you trust ChatGPT to translate your story into Portuguese if the software did not explicitly promise to make a “clear, faithful” translation?
In Don Webb’s Translation Styles: Are any of the translations described in the essay other tham clear and faithful?