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LoA K's Adventures in Goatland ( LoA K Ujy GigiAdegree SoagenliAiy) - A Translation of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by RoaA WiAdegreez, Back-translated into English with a Glossary by Byron W. Sewell (Paperback)
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LoA K's Adventures in Goatland ( LoA K Ujy GigiAdegree SoagenliAiy) - A Translation of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by RoaA WiAdegreez, Back-translated into English with a Glossary by Byron W. Sewell (Paperback)
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Loot Price R430
Discovery Miles 4 300
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Roa Wioz (1882-1937), the locally-admired though otherwise
little-known Zumorgian translator, spent seventeen years of his
miserable life (when he wasn't tending to his beloved goats)
translating Lewis Carroll's classic "Alice's Adventures in
Wonderland" into Zumorigenflit and transposing it into u ian
culture. Sadly, u was swallowed up by the Soviet Union in 1947.
Most of its citizens were either purged (lined up and summarily
shot when they refused to combine their goats into a communal herd)
or transported to the Gulag for political re-education and attitude
adjustment. All cultural artifacts were systematically destroyed
and most Zumorigenflit books were burned as part of the Soviet
effort to obliterate u, along with any memory of it. The only known
present-day u ian survivors of The Great u Purge (other than any
possible survivors of the Gulag, whose descendants might
conceivably live in Siberia) are now toothless old women, whose
parents fled with them as infants from u to Transjordan the night
of the purge. Today they live (if you can call it that) in a
squalid refugee camp on the desert outskirts of Amman surrounded by
very unhappy and angry displaced Palestinians. Some of these u ian
refugees are still able to speak a little Zumorigenflit, though few
of them can read it. For those interested in such esoteric things,
"Alo k ujy Gigio Soagenli y" was first published by the Itadabukan
Press in the capital city of Sprutni ovyurt in 1919. The city,
which was mistakenly thought to be a German forward supply area,
was literally flattened and burned to the ground by Royal Air Force
saturation bombing in 1943, and all that remains of it are a few
remnants of the ancient Palace's foundations and a gigantic
reinforced concrete statue of Joseph Stalin, whose face has been
shattered by what was probably machine gun target practice. The
original story has here been updated to modern times, as if this
strange, harsh, and dangerous land still existed in the modern
world. It doesn't, except in my imagination and that of Mahendra
Singh, whose heart swells with the Song of the Goat. -- Byron W.
Sewell
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