WOMBAT (answers)

Une mouche avec une dent en or !

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Shark infested custard !

Damson

Damson is such a beautiful word ! full of contrasts.

"small dark purple plum" says the dictionary. "Dam" blocks up, restrains, keeps it all inside, and "son" : or sun, on the contrary, outward generous fruity warmth.
The colour blue seems to contradict all this, but the taste, the damson taste !

On dirait un prénom aussi.

http://www.gov.on.ca/OMAFRA/english/crops/facts/tender_fruit_galleryf89.jpg

Little boat

"My little boat bobs unsteadily upon the chopped and tossing waves. There is no panacea (let me note) against the shock of meeting".

Virginia Woolf _The Waves_

Unprotected fibre

"I took the print of life not outwardly, but inwardly, upon the raw, the white, the unprotected fibre."

Virginia Woolf _The Waves_


http://www.jute-industry.com/jute-industry-india/gifs/jute-overview.jpg

Dead geranium

The real title is : "Rhapsody on a windy night"

Twelve O'clock.
Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering lunar incantations
Dissolve the floors of memory
And all its clear relations,
Its divisions and precisions,
Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a fatalistic drum,
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.

T.S. Eliot

Doolally

"On ne peut poser les pieds sur le sol tant qu'on n'a pas touché le ciel"

Paul Auster, _Moon Palace_

Just seeking the original version of it.

WOMBAT (waste of money brains and time)

Qu'est-ce qui est noir et jaune et qui vole ?

What is yellow and extremely dangerous ?

(réponses demain !)