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New Wolfe story online (spoilers for "Copperhead")
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First of all this message should really be in the Urth list. I am cross posting it in the hope that anyone who replies will just reply to Urth.
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At 10:01 PM -0500 5/4/01, Endymion9 wrote:
David DiGiacomo wrote:
>>http://www.scifi.com/scifiction/originals/originals_archive/wolfe/wolfe1.h tml
Wow, I hated this story. It had all my least favorite Lupine elements: phonetic dialect, misogyny, Christianity, and an incomprehensible ending.
Did anyone like it?
I liked it. Didn't understand the last paragraph but everything else seemed fairly straight forward. At least I could figure out the phonetic dialect this time. Many times I didn't know what Pig was saying.
Dennis/Endy
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"Vhas a groose." She turned, and her eyes were the color of heaven, and she was the loveliest woman the new President had ever seen. "Nawt lak 'ou. Aw zay, 'ou vhill nawt neffer grawnt offer mee agan." She shrugged. "Dhoss bhoyes, de vhun keels de odder. Aw douh nawthing."
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I could manage to work out what Jane Doe was saying until the last (presumably) crucial paragraph of her dialog (quoted above). Perhaps you could elucidate? I think I got most of it, actually. Here's my "translation":
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"Vhas a groose."
"Was a [?]"
"Nawt lak 'ou. Aw zay, 'ou vhill nawt neffer grawnt offer mee agan." "Not like you. I say, you will not never[?] grunt[?] over me again."
"Dhoss bhoyes, de vhun keels de odder. Aw douh nawthing."
"Those boys, the one kills the other. I do nothing."
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So, what is "groose"? What about "neffer" and "grawnt"?
I (and Spectacled Bear) await your reply.
William Ansley
*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun.