Monthly Archives: May 2019

Andromeda

Naked Andromeda stands naked and chained to a bone-like rock, the monster that is to devour her looming in the misty background.

Andromeda by Aleksandra Marchocka. This image was commissioned by Iago Faustus and is presented here by agreement between Faustus and the artist.

We have an art special for you good readers to end the month of May. This is Andromeda by Aleksandra Marchocka. Andromeda is looking mighty tasty chained to that rock. Would-be rescuer Perseus is nowhere to be seen; perhaps he has missed his bus. Poor Andromeda!

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Aleksandra Marchocka has both a DeviantArt and a professional site, and can be reached on Instagram and Facebook as well.

Apprendre le français LXXI: Appât Page 80

PAGE 80 (Single panel page)

Single panel (1): This is a long view from back seats down to the stage of well-constructed college auditorium. Down on the stage a UU MINISTER, who is conducting the service, is reading at a lectern. A table has been set up on the stage with flowers and head-shot photographs of Eliza, Daphne, and Claudia). The theater, which seats about 400 people in its normal configuration, is full in the somber dress appropriate to the occasion. The UU Minister is a plump, pleasant-faced, middle-aged woman in ministerial robes.

UU Minister (1): The depths of seas have always inspired a sense of awe. More than a century ago, Longfellow wrote:

“Would’st thou,” so the helmsman answered,
“Learn the secret of the sea?
Only those who brave its dangers
Comprehend its mystery!”

Comment (1) : The minister is quoting from the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), specifically his poem “The Secret of the Sea.” If there exists a well-known literary translation of his lines in the public domain in your target language, you may substitute it for your own translation.

Translation (1): Les profondeurs des mers ont toujours inspiré un sentiment de crainte. Il y a plus d’un siècle, Longfellow a écrit :

« Ne voudriez-vous pas » de sorte que le timonier répondit «
Apprendre le secret de la mer ? Seuls ceux qui bravent ses dangers comprennent son mystère ! »

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Apprendre le français LXX: Appât Page 79

PAGE 79 (Two panels)

Panel 1: A group of protesters standing on a city street. They’re a mixed bunch, including some hippie types, some older people soberly dressed, and at least one knot of nuns in habit. The are carrying signs with slogans WOMEN AREN’T PET FOOD! STOP FRANKENSTEIN “SCIENCE”! and CHOOSE LIFE!

Protesters (jagged balloon over all, indicating the crowd chanting) (1): Stop this madness! Stop this madness!

Translation (1): Arrêtez cette folie ! Arrêtez cette folie !

CAPTION — pseudo narration (2): The appearance of angry protesters complicates arrangements for a memorial for Eliza, Daphne, and Claudia.

Translation (2): L’apparition de manifestants en colère complique l’organisation d’un mémorial pour Eliza, Daphné, et Claudia.

Panel 2: View of a certain college building.

CAPTION — pseudo-narration (3): Eventually, a small midwestern college agrees to make its facilities available for a discreet observation.

Comment (3) : “Midwestern” is an American expression for a large central region of the United States roughly north of the Ohio and Missouri Rivers, west of Pennsylvania an east of the Great Plains. Roughly the states of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota, perhaps the northern half of Missouri and the eastern halves of Kansas, Nebraska, and the Dakotas as well.

Translation (3): Finalement, un petit collège du midwest s’engage à mettre ses installations à disposition pour plus de discrétion.

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Apprendre le français LXIX: Appât Pages 76-78

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PAGE 76 (Four panels)

Panel 1: Claudia’s head disappearing into the creature’s feeding siphon.

SUBTITLE (1): Recovered drone footage.

Translation (1): Film récupéré du drone.

Panel 2: Claudia disappeared into the feeding siphon up to her waist.

SUBTITLE (2): Recovered drone footage.

Translation (2): Film récupéré du drone.

Panel 3: Just Claudia’s lower legs sticking out of the feeding siphon.

SUBTITLE (3): Recovered drone footage.

Translation (3): Film récupéré du drone.

Panel 4: Claudia present only as a swelling in the siphon.

SUBTITLE (4): Recovered drone footage.

Translation (4): Film récupéré du drone.

PAGE 77 (Four panels)

Panel 1: A SAILOR, looking excited, standing on the deck of the RV Seagoon, holding binoculars in one hand and pointing out to sea at something.

Panel 2: A view out to see. In the distance, the Creature, or part of it, appears to be bloated, and floating on the surface. Panel 3 : Another group of SAILORS, on the deck, firing what looks a bit like a cannon off the deck.

SFX – NET CANNON BEING FIRED (1): FOOM!

Translation (1): FOOM !

Panel 4: A view of the creature, just off the side of the RV Seagoon, tangled in a net.

PAGE 78 (Single panel page)

Single panel: A view from the deck showing the Creature, still stuck in the net, being lifted above the midsection of the ship by the ship’s crane. The Creature is in position to be lowered into the large tank in the middle of the ship. Around the deck, there are crewmen gesturing, presumably helping the crane operator lower the Creature into the tank.

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Apprendre le français LXVIII: Appât Pages 73-75

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PAGE 73 (Four panels)

Panel 1: Claudia now taking off her skirt. Her shirt floats somewhere in the water near her.

SUBTITLE (1): Recovered drone footage.

Translation (1): Film récupéré du drone.

Panel 2: Claudia removing her bra.

SUBTITLE (2): Recovered drone footage.

Translation (2): Film récupéré du drone.

Panel 3: Claudia removing her panties, her legs bent in the act.

SUBTITLE (3): Recovered drone footage.

Translation (3): Film récupéré du drone.

Panel 4: Claudia now hovering naked in the water.

CAPTION – FUZZY BOX INDICATING RECOVERED SPEECH (4): zzltaxy…okay come an’ get me…kak!

Translation (4): Zzltaxy…très bien viens me chercher…kak !

SUBTITLE (5): Recovered drone footage.

Translation (5): Film récupéré du drone.

PAGE 74 (Four panels)

Panel 1: Same view as previous page. A tentacle is wrapped around Claudia’s foot.

CAPTION – FUZZY BALLOON INDICATING RECOVERED SPEECH (1): oh!..zats…pop!

Translation (1): oh !..cest…pop !

SUBTITLE (2): Recovered drone footage.

Translation (2): Film récupéré du drone.

Panel 2: Claudia with her legs wrapped in tentacles up to her waist.

CAPTION – FUZZY BALLOON INDICATING RECOVERED SPEECH (3): fwweeezz…oh…oh…oh…

Translation (3): fwweeezz…oh…oh…oh…

SUBTITLE (4): Recovered drone footage.

Translation (4): Film récupéré du drone.

Panel 3: Claudia enmeshed in tentacles up to her shoulders.

CAPTION – FUZZY BALLOON INDICATING RECOVERED SPEECH (5): zzzzzz….ooohhhh…

Translation (5): zzzzzz….ooohhhh….

SUBTITLE (6): Recovered drone footage.

Translation (6): Film récupéré du drone.

Panel 4: Claudia completely enmeshed in tentacles. Some clearly appear to be penetrating her, and a fat tentacle is in her mouth.

CAPTION – FUZZY BALLOON INDICATING RECOVERED SPEECH (7): …sshsht…is best sex…pop!…ever had…

Translation (7): …sshsht…meilleur rapport sexuel…pop !…jamais eu…

SUBTITLE (8): Recovered drone footage.

Translation (8): Film récupéré du drone.

PAGE 75 (Single panel page, in color)

Single panel: Claudia has been turned around, held in a few of the creature’s tentacles, facing headfirst into the opening of the creature’s feeding siphon. Claudia looks into it with her eyes open wide.

SUBTITLE (1): Magnified and enhanced drone footage.

Translation (1): Film en mode zoom.

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Apprendre le français LXVII: Appât Pages 70-72

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PAGE 70 (Four panels)

Panel 1: Claudia sitting on the rail of the RV Seagoon, staring pensively out to see for a moment.

Panel 2: Claudia in the act of taking off her glasses.

Panel 3: Close-up of Claudia’s hand having just set her glasses on the rail, in a position where they are staring back at the men on deck.

Panel 4: Turpentine with his arms crossed, looking out, expectantly.

PAGE 71 (Four panels)

Panel 1: Close-up of Claudia’s glasses, “looking back” at Turpentine.

Panel 2: View from the deck of Claudia leaping into the sea. Note that she is still fully clothed as she does this.

Panel 3: A splash from the same P.O.V. as Panel 3 where Claudia has gone into the sea.

Panel 4: View, from behind and beneath of Claudia, still fully clothed, swimming through the ocean water.

SUBTITLE (1): Recovered drone footage.

Translation (1): Film récupéré du drone.

PAGE 72 (Four panels)

Panel 1: Claudia floating upright underwater, still in her clothes, here eyes closed.

SUBTITLE (1): Recovered drone footage.

Translation (1): Film récupéré du drone.

Panel 2: Almost exactly the same panel as before, except that here Claudia has opened her eyes.

CAPTION – FUZZY BOX INDICATING RECOVERED SPEECH (2): This is ridiculous zzzt…fwww!

Translation (2): C’est ridicule…zzzt fwww !

SUBTITLE (3): Recovered drone footage.

Translation (3): Film récupéré du drone.

Panel 3: Claudia kicking off her shoes. One should be shown sinking away from her.

SUBTITLE (4): Recovered drone footage.

Translation (4): Film récupéré du drone.

Panel 4: Claudia in the act of taking off her blouse, which she has unbuttoned.

SUBTITLE (5): Recovered drone footage.

Translation (5): Film récupéré du drone.

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