A few posts ago I set a challenge to recognize the opening lines of five famous novels after being babelized.
For those who like to know, all is now revealed.
1. The lucky group is completely similar; All the favourable groups keep the way unhappily he was.
Anna Karenina – Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
2. No relation of transformation of the point, in the name of the station of the work, of that that not worried, the end still to call it, one
getlteman did not live between little hour, one, of one entrerrosca and the old sample in small fine squeezes of a cremagliera of the horse and have more and more to lévier more for the packing.
Don Quixote – Somewhere in la Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember, a gentleman lived not long ago, one of those who has a lance and ancient shield on a shelf and keeps a skinny nag and a greyhound for racing.
3. The time is, the chronometers, will be false, is diffidenza the thing more better possible and the time made recently is the faith and the time, that recently is manufactured, is stupid and the batteries of the age to intelligence and the age that is to say, that it is dark amounts to this station, the winter is hopeless is desire and the force that motivates is this station of light/write.
A Tale of Two Cities – It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.
4. With the yellow peripheral device unregarded Sunday and the small state in the handspike to linear of the Mollusken and in the crustaceans western in the spiral the edge that à.la.moda, that one he persecutes the water of the stagnation of the galaxy is not.
The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western spiral arm of the galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.
5. What I interest he, when this one first special one of great eleventy finally commemorated of the personnel the edge of the main purse negotiated the anniversary, the end to announce, any many of history and the impelling mechanism and xxxx xxxx and xxxx. (Proper names removed)
The Lord of the Rings – When Mr Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton.
I’m currently reading a classic novel that starts with a famous sentence that is almost impossible to babelize:
The fact is universally recognized, and said, a man. Wealth is good, we had hoped for a wife.
Thanks for setting that one, Brian! I got 1, 4 and 5, but 2 and 3 – whew! I look forward to another one.
Martin – I used P&P in my first post on the subject, but I think mine was better The recognized truth, a simple man in the possession of a wealth is one, being must an internal demand of the part of a woman, because there’s something rather unnerving about that last bit.
I must say that I found 2 really difficult. I like 3, though. It’s rather poetic in both forms.
Brian, I feel so stupid for missing your previous post. Does it count as an excuse that I was away on vacation?
I think you can be forgiven, Martin. Just this once.
Let me thank you again and again, in the name of all my family, for that generous compassion which induced you to take so much trouble.
But you do not have the necessity of the end. The friendship is not
made available. They had not believed this, I had extracted with ways
to father, who informs. But, in the girl had mine within the mine
foam/home the written date, if to connect the homicide, the end to
request to him in present modernity in the mines.
(I had to switch on the Asian languages, because without it was too recognizable)