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Here's how it starts off, be warned: On my naming day when I come 12 I gone front spear and kilt a wyld boar he parbly ben the las wyld pig on the Bundel Downs
by mellosouls 7y ago
Here's how it starts off, be warned:
On my naming day when I come 12 I gone front spear and kilt a wyld boar he parbly ben the las wyld pig on the Bundel Downs any how there hadnt ben none for a long time befor him nor I aint looking to see none agen.
He dint make the groun shake nor nothing like that when he come on to my spear he wernt all that big plus he lookit poorly.
He done the reqwyrt he ternt and stood and clattert his teef and made his rush and there we wer then.
Him on 1 end of the spear kicking his life out and me on the other end watching him dy. I said, "Your tern now my tern later."
- cannam 7y agoThat's an amazing opening. I'd like to read that now. (I have heard of this book before, but only in outline.) Edit: Oh my word! He wrote the text of the children's book "Bread and Jam for Frances" (and, I now learn, a whole series of others with the same character). That's a lovely bit of writing. I had no idea.
- mellosouls 7y agoYeah, it's like that all the way through, and some of it is inspired
- heatherengland 7y agoso it's not a completely made up language like klingon but just a dialect of english? sounds entertaining for an amateur linguist to study!
- mellosouls 7y agoYeah, "made up language" was a poor choice by me - its an attempt at imagining a transformed English.
- prepend 7y agoThis sounds like the Sloosha’s Crossing last section of David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas. Pretty cool.
- mellosouls 7y agoGood spot! Riddley was influential on Mitchell. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/feb/05/featuresreviews.guardianreview27 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/feb/05/featuresreview...
- kkwteh 7y agoReminds me a bit of Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy, which is an incredible book.
- mellosouls 7y agoOne of my favourites too, although I wouldn't link them apart from the darkness and poetic beauty of the language.
- dri_ft 7y agoBut it's surprising how quickly you settle into it, honestly.
- mellosouls 7y agoAgree completely, but I know several people who have struggled or just given up because it never clicked.
- Sophistifunk 7y agoCan you get it in English? I'd rather go to the dentist than attempt to read more than a paragraph or two of that gibberish.
- mellosouls 7y agoIt's not for everyone. Once I'd got my head round it I found it easy to follow and beautiful.
- kragen 7y agoThis is how we speak today, to the ear of a speaker of Anglo-Saxon or, here in Argentina, Latin. Only more so.
- mellosouls 7y agoYes. I guess that's what he was aiming at.
- jscn 7y agoSounds very reminiscent of The Wake by Paul Kingsnorth[0]. Will check it out, thanks! [0] http://paulkingsnorth.net/books/the-wake/ http://paulkingsnorth.net/books/the-wake/