Post brief quotes from fiction/narrative/whatever

[Jizzelbin]

"Also etwas Schwächeres, denn alles, was über Werke gesagt wird, ist schwächer als die Werke."

(new little paperback just arrived of the Ingeborg Bachmann Frankurt talks....here's some computer translation to Engl: "So something weaker, because everything that is said about works is weaker than the works themselves."....I guess that's sort of right....not much of a translator myself...I find it difficult to switch between languages, and my German isn't that good anyway, although I can obviously read it fine....anyway, that's just preambulatory material while she's warming up the crowd).

— Bachmann, Frankfurter Vorlesungen : Probleme zeitgenössischer Dichtung

[Elendil's Heir]

Edna: "I never look back, darling! It distracts from the now."

The Incredibles

[Jizzelbin]

"la pierre que je pourrais escalader tandis qu'oliver discuplte ses fautes, Roland sonnait au beffroi, les larmes du chagrin sillonnant se jeujoues."

— Philippe l'Auvergne, trans Joyce *Finnegans Wake*. [oh don't get pissy with me! it doesn't matter what language FW is in! It's in all the languages....well...some of them.]