英译本与汉译本的篇目除一篇以外完全一致(这一篇是《人声》,出现在《纸上的伊利亚特》之中),因为这些篇目于某种程度上是由阿莱克桑德雷自己选定的。此外,还有《天堂的阴影》与《终结之诗》两部著名诗集的完整英译,但我尚未购得。英译与汉译对照阅读后,我都觉得汉译多警句却稍显混乱破碎,而英译则更流畅,容易懂...
Next to some of the biggest viral trends of last year—people pretending to pass out after drinking Grimace shakes, AI edits of Trump and Biden playing Minecraft, Lizzy Dunne Just Rizzed Up Baby Gronk, the nihilistic mundanity of corecore videos—a rap posse cut stuffed with cartoon sea-...
FLORA stands behind ADA on a chair trying to sort out the knots that have matted at the back of ADA's head. ADA shakes her head from side to side playfully, making the difficult job impossible. FLORA Stay still! It's the very worst knots. FLORA tries to hold her mother's head still...
There is a simplicity which comes from living too much in the world, as well as a simplicity which comes from living out of the world. Hilda Baker belongs to the latter group. She is one of Gibbons’s shabby heroines of no great intellectual shakes or culture, but still worth knowing be...
that you would assume that the entire thing was a joke – the Burberry representative herself seemed rather embarrassed by it as well – and which when smelling it again on the perfume card last night elicited grimaces of revulsion, horror and great amusement from my family and, later in ...
Outside the Louds' quarters, Morag is holding Lynn's smelly athletic supporters with tongs and grimaces in disgust.] Lincoln: [exits his room] "Good morning, Morag." Morag: "Your athletic supporter, sir?" Lincoln: "Not mine." [He leaves, chuckling to himself. Morag approaches a painting...
It’s most obvious in “grimace_smoking_weed.jpg,” where the purple McDonald’s mascot appears as a hallucination during a drug-fueled suicidal episode. But it’s also there in “Why,” the album’s most straightforward political critique. “Why do people have to live outside when there...
There’s a story my father loves to tell at large family gatherings where he has no business sharing it. The first house my parents ever lived in was in Morningside, Bulawayo. It was suburbia, but middle-class suburbia. This meant we had large enough yards to lend the semblance of privac...
In June, McDonald’s unveiled a limited-edition purple milkshake celebrating one of its beloved franchise characters, Grimace. Grimace is a purple character who debuted in commercials as "Evil Grimace," a bad guy who tried to steal McDonald’s shakes but was later rebranded as a good guy ...
Pausa – there is something ratherpickled– an overly piquant, sour, thin and unpleasant note, like a chip-on-the-shoulder of resentment, that seems to somehow perfectly embody the snobbish look-down-the-nose the perfume seeks to emulate. A grimace of superiority; a mutual wrinkling of noses...