Status Updates From Le Rivage des Syrtes

"one of those documents... whose enigmatic and consistently allusive phraseology seems so because it occurs in a context of familiar references to which we do not possess the key... [all] readily comprehensible, yet the meaning of the whole continued to bewilder"

surely a nod to the book itself here. if not we are completely in the thrall of non-starter play-pretend prolixity. lol

Thinking how strongly this already reminds of The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati. Turns out, they're both inspired by the same poem; so off to read that.

some offputting diction or translation choices here i feel. "Loyalty to tradition, having become almost a fetish, expressed the impoverishment of a blood incapable of fresh creations." did it though?? did that thing really do that other thing in that way??

"ramshackle" count = 2

lentement mais sûrement il commence à ce passer quelque chose

🥱 c'est dur mais je suis tenace