Translating a poem

And so,forced out of subliminal translating, you begin to move consciously,analytically, with full intellectual awareness, back around the circle,through deduction and the various aspects of induction to abduction — the intuitive leap to some novel solution that may even fly in the face of everything you know and believe but neverthelessje

Every time one process fails, you move to another:listing synonyms doesn't help, so you open the dictionary;the word or phrase isn't in the dictionary,or the options offered all look or feel wrong, so you call or fax or e-mail a friend or acquaintance who might be able to help,or send out a query over an Internet listserver;they are no help, so you plow through encyclopedias and other reference materials;if you have no luck there, you call the agency or client;and finally, if nobody knows, you go with your intuitive sense,generate a translation abductively, perhaps marking the spot with a question mark for the agency or client to follow up on later.