>< I've reached a part where the amount of time passing is unclear. For right now I'll use a variable for this unknown number of days, but if you have a better idea I'll take it.
Am I being annoying with The Saga of bobble's Answer-Writing?
@bobble No, actually I am in admiration of your diligence and enthusiasm. I learn so much (attitudinally as much as informationally) from you and others on here
Seele des Menschen
Wie gleichst du dem Wasser
Schicksal des Menschen
Wie gleichst du dem Wind
Translation:
Soul of man
How like to the water you are
Fate of man
How like to the wind you are
The scene: Zeus and Apollo have just revived Hector who received a near-fatal blow from a boulder thrown by Ajax. Apollo and Hector then lead a refreshed Trojan onslaught on the Greeks, compelling them to retreat to their ships.
On rush’d bold Hector, gloomy as the night;
Forbids to plunder, ani...
I'm trying to remember a YA novel I read back in the 80s/90s about a teen girl who goes to spend a summer with her grandmother or other older relative, something weird timeslippy happens, and she's able to slip between present day and the 60's I'm guessing [?], and becomes friends with a murdered...
Translating one of Lovecraft's stories, I got stuck because of the following sentence:
where lay a gulf all the blacker for its glittering walls.
Particularly, it is the "all the" combined with "for" part.
My possible interpretations:
..even more black than the (already) very bright/great glit...
@bobble This is why I love setting questions. Especially figuring out what real location a fiction story is set in. Often, once you figure it out, so many details slip into place to confirm it (my favourite example [pardon the self-promotion]).
And no, you're not being annoying! I'm getting a lot of vicarious enjoyment out of watching your progress :-)
I've reached "The Thunder Breaks" in my re-read, btw.
Seele des Menschen
Wie gleichst du dem Wasser
Schicksal des Menschen
Wie gleichst du dem Wind
Translation:
Soul of man
How like to the water you are
Fate of man
How like to the wind you are
Translating one of Lovecraft's stories, I got stuck because of the following sentence:
where lay a gulf all the blacker for its glittering walls.
Particularly, it is the "all the" combined with "for" part.
My possible interpretations:
..even more black than the (already) very bright/great glit...
