Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you’ve got about a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies — ‘God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.'
Wordle Challenge #3? From Zazie dans le métro by Raymond Queneau:
Il faut bien vivre, n'est-ce-pas? Et de quoi vit-on? Je vous le demande. De l'air du temps bien sûr - du moins en partie, dirai-je, et l'on en meurt aussi - mais plus capitalement de cette substantifique moelle qu'est le fric. Ce produit mellifluent, sapide et polygène s'évapore avec la plus grande facilité cependant qu'il ne s'acquiert qu'à la sueur de son front, du moins chez les exploités de ce monde, dont je suis.
The Fredster's suggestion won't leave me alone, but those words are best presented straight up, neat -- unwordled. They surely do resonate.A Tale of Two Cities
ChapterI: The Period
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way--in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
Well, I thought they were a lot of fun, and they've led to a couple friends becoming addicted to making their own Wordles, so I thank you.
ReplyDeleteIn the interest of comparative lit, I would like to note that the "Tale of Two Cities" provides the base notes to my favorite Star Trek movie, "The Wrath of Khan." Middle notes of that estimable movie come from "Moby Dick," and top notes, of course, from Velveeta Cheese Product.