“She was a great specialist in waiting, passive and shy, and that is why she suffered from toothache, for she was made for a dentist’s waiting-room, and her teeth knew it.”

#Gombrowicz #Ferdydurke

On translating the #polish "pupa" term in English by one of the translator of #Ferdydurke (1937) by #Gombrowitz, with reference of the French #translation "cucul", also as a verb.
http://www.corpse.org/archives/issue_5/critical_urgencies/borchar.htm