Japanese, circles, A Gate, eyelids, dreams, caffeine

[squirmelia]

My Japanese classes have ended for this school year, and people brought sushi and pretty cakes to eat. I am now trying to translate Douglas Coupland's "God Hates Japan" into English. Part of the first sentence might say "End of the high school year's events".
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A man jogged around in circles on the pavement. I could see his well-pronounced leg muscles.
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There are signs on the Avenue that say "A Gate", when it's not a gate, definitely not a gate.
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If I remove my eyelids, will you look into my eyes forever, without blinking, without looking away, but deeply, tenderly, intensely, so that I can look back
into yours and inhale, soak up the sight of your eyes with my gaze, bathe my retinas with that view?
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French quiz: Garden is not a form. That's what I dreamt.
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It's a particular bit of skin underneath my eyes that feels different, maybe differently stretched, after I've had too much caffeine and am far too wide-eyed.

Comments

[thewomb.livejournal.com]

I bet you can't look at your own eyes without using a reflective surface or a lens.

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

It depends if I remove one and if it still works when I do. Maybe I could transplant one of my eyes into someone else's head. That might work, I guess, although it wouldn't really be my eye anymore.

those wacky japanese

[criesbella.livejournal.com]

maybe you will order the
"looking for a japanse boyfriend"
t-shirt seen here and be able to
translate GHJ that much faster:

http://www.jlist.com/R/SHRT/

xoxo, a

Re: those wacky japanese

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

I might not need one - I visited the Japan Centre in London at the weekend, and bought a better dictionary. I could date my dictionary and wear a t-shirt that said in Japanese "I love my dictionary".

[ex-d2933.livejournal.com]

Bear v. Shark by Chris Bachelder. It might ring some bells. Hope all is well kid.

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

I'll look for it at the library, thanks for the suggestion. All is indeed well here, hope all is well for you also.

[solitarywalker.livejournal.com]

i thought Coupland wrote in english... hm.

Haven't read Nostradamus yet but he's coming to a nearby Border's on a publicity tour for the book so i'll be seeing him in a little more than a week. Already have the book. Really want Life After God signed if he's signing...

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

He writes normally in English, but "God Hates Japan" is in Japanese.

Hey Nostradamus arrived at my house yesterday, so I've been reading it, and can't wait for lunchtime to read some more!

Ooh, he seems to have announced his UK dates now.. beginning of September.