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Im Beifall. — Im Beifall ist immer eine Art Lärm: selbst in dem Beifall, den wir uns selber zollen.", "source_id": "nietzsche-source-ekgwb", "translation_type": "digital_critical_original_language" }, { "language": "en", "text": "201. In Applause. There is always a kind of noise in applause, even in the applause we bestow upon ourselves.", "translator": "Codex gpt-5.6-sol", "edition": "Prokopton42 non-official AI translation, 2026-09-13", "source_id": "prokopton42-codex-translation:gpt-5.6-sol:corpus-passage-translation-v1", "translation_type": "ai_generated_translation", "official_status": "non_official", "generation_model": "gpt-5.6-sol" }, { "language": "fr", "text": "201. Dans l’approbation. 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