Kuching bĕrtandok, “When cats have horns” — Malay proverb used in Anthony Burgess’s Time for a Tiger (1956).
Tag Archives: proverbs
Tiger Time
Careway to Seven
• დედაბერს შვიდი სოფლის ფიქრი აწუხებდა, იმისი კი არავისა ჰქონდაო.
• • Dedabers shvidi soplis pikri ats’ukhbda, imisi k’i aravisa hkondao.
• • • The old woman worried about seven villages, but nobody cared about her. — A Comprehensive Georgian-English Dictionary, ed. Donald Rayfield et al (2006)
Post-Performative Post-Scriptum…
The title of this incendiary intervention is of course a radical reference to core Black Sabbath platter “Freewheel Burnin'” (2004).
Previously Pre-Posted…
• Stare-Way to Hair, Then
• Russell in Your Head-Roe
• Sampled (Underfoot)
Wolfwords
• მელიამ მგელს შესძახა: შე უმი ხორცის ჭამიაო!
•• Meliam mgels šesdzakha: še umi khortsis ch’amiao!
••• FOX-agentive WOLF-dative called: thou raw MEAT-genitive EATER-vocative
•••• The fox called to the wolf: “Thou eater of raw meat!”
••••• The pot called the kettle black.