This is wonderful - just discovered it on YouTube.
It's like walking around inside a Dali painting!
You can find more information on the film here.
Muchas gracias to Mr. Door Tree of the fantastic Golden Age Comic Book Stories for the heads up.
Showing posts with label token art reference. Show all posts
Showing posts with label token art reference. Show all posts
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Monday, September 14, 2009
Page 26, Paragraph 1; Note
Back at it.
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Page 26 (the one with the lovely Jose Villarrubia illustration on the facing page), Paragraph 1:
Here she says no more, but sits up and takes a breath. Now she softly makes a noise that has words in it, yet it's better than anything I've ever heard before, except from birds. The words she uses are like this*:
*I've tried to preserve the rhyme scheme of the original, but the meter's kind of fucked, I'm afraid.
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Page 26 (the one with the lovely Jose Villarrubia illustration on the facing page), Paragraph 1:
Here she says no more, but sits up and takes a breath. Now she softly makes a noise that has words in it, yet it's better than anything I've ever heard before, except from birds. The words she uses are like this*:
It puts a chill in my belly to hear her. Now she's quiet and says no more, but I can still hear her song, because it goes around and around, like a bird with a broken wing, in my head. Up the valley's edge, in the shadow of the tree...Oh, how may I find a mate, the journey-boy says
Up the valley's edge, in the shadow of the tree, by the earthworm's hill and all
And lie with her before I'm put to dirt all grey
Up the valley's edge, in the shadow of the tree
By the earthworm's hill and the river's knee
And there they lie, he and she, beneath the grass and all
*I've tried to preserve the rhyme scheme of the original, but the meter's kind of fucked, I'm afraid.
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Page 12, Paragraph 6; Page 13, Paragraphs 1-3; Notes
Back where we started.
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Page 12, Paragraph 6:
My people say that there's no good in making markings. Markings take their shape from trees and dogs and so forth and say, "This is 'tree'", "This is 'dog'", yet they're nothing but markings.* If a man looks at them his thoughs all become crazy, so that he can't understand what's real and what's a marking. I've heard it said that many markings are so old that they were made by Urks and people of that kind back in the Ice Age. Now the Urk-kine are no longer in the world, yet many say their descendants** are below [at the bottom of?] the hills, deep in their caves, where they hide to catch those of us above. It's not good to look on markings.
Page 13, Paragraph 1:
I close my eyes and take another way around the open grass and the stone. I trip on a root and scratch my face on briars, but I don't open my eyes until the stone is far behind me.
Paragraph 2:
I come out of the trees, and walking up a hill with the sun like fire behind it, I see the pigs, and I run down now and the pigs become logs, and here I am now, sitting on them, with no other times to think of.
Paragraph 3:
I scratch the scab on my knee and look up in the sky. Night is coming as I sit thinking, so I can't see the sky-beasts now, yet I can see their little eyes, bright up there in the dark. I'm cold all over, and I lie behind the log, out of the wind. I shut my eyes, so that the darkness will come to me as it has come in the world.
*Ceci n'est pas une pipe, anyone?
**I think this is what he means by "little people"
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Page 12, Paragraph 6:
My people say that there's no good in making markings. Markings take their shape from trees and dogs and so forth and say, "This is 'tree'", "This is 'dog'", yet they're nothing but markings.* If a man looks at them his thoughs all become crazy, so that he can't understand what's real and what's a marking. I've heard it said that many markings are so old that they were made by Urks and people of that kind back in the Ice Age. Now the Urk-kine are no longer in the world, yet many say their descendants** are below [at the bottom of?] the hills, deep in their caves, where they hide to catch those of us above. It's not good to look on markings.
Page 13, Paragraph 1:
I close my eyes and take another way around the open grass and the stone. I trip on a root and scratch my face on briars, but I don't open my eyes until the stone is far behind me.
Paragraph 2:
I come out of the trees, and walking up a hill with the sun like fire behind it, I see the pigs, and I run down now and the pigs become logs, and here I am now, sitting on them, with no other times to think of.
Paragraph 3:
I scratch the scab on my knee and look up in the sky. Night is coming as I sit thinking, so I can't see the sky-beasts now, yet I can see their little eyes, bright up there in the dark. I'm cold all over, and I lie behind the log, out of the wind. I shut my eyes, so that the darkness will come to me as it has come in the world.
*Ceci n'est pas une pipe, anyone?
**I think this is what he means by "little people"
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