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The Spanish original is "había de recordar", and "was to remember" is a good translation. It's meaning is different from just "remembered", as it implies a cau
by bprieto 5y ago
The Spanish original is "había de recordar", and "was to remember" is a good translation.
It's meaning is different from just "remembered", as it implies a causality. It wasn't a random remembrance that just happened, it was some memory that was brought by the proximity of death.
- wintermutestwin 5y agoInteresting - I didn't realize it was a translated work. I would have inferred causality with "remembered" due to the sentence structure. My comment was intended to decry the loss of my more literate and verbose pre-corporate self.
- solipsism 5y ago"was to remember" doesn't imply causality any more than "remembered" does. "could not help but remember" would've been a much better translation, and even has the similarity that the usage is less common and more literary (i speak Spanish).