February 17th, 2010

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Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 04:55 pm
В крайнем случае я могу оставить то, что есть, но как-то хочется творчески подойти.
Все известные мне значения этого слова никак не подходят. Какие у кого будут звуковые ассоциации?

There was a thing that was sometimes there
and sometimes not there, which took the form of a huge, transparent
tube, rounded at both ends, with eyes and a mouth that appeared and
vanished from time to time in random places on its body. It was known
as Loblolly and had dropped like a bead of amber into the prince’s hair,
and then had swelled and expanded to line a whole cavern. It could
flow along the ground, or diminish to a heavy square of jelly that the
young prince could carry in his pocket.