Animating Apothecary - Perpetrations by Jim Middleton

Saturday, May 09, 2026

Post 794 - Discovering a New Alphabet

After reading the first half of Finnegans Wake, I took fingers to keyboard and:

You'd flatter me fully, shatter me soully, tatter me totally, were ya t'ware a ring on that left hand 'yourn, m'lady fair and faerish ... but the stone be shown a shining while the losers be a whinin' lookin a-what they'd only know if they knew how to proper prep and prime a proud and goodly goddess, shor.

Ninety five million people speak Telugu, so the above paragraph translates to:

Which then translated back to:

"Oh, beautiful and exquisite Queen! Had there been a ring upon your left hand, you would have lavished me with praise, shattering my soul into fragments and leaving it utterly scattered... Yet, as that gem sparkles brilliantly, the vanquished look on with murmurs—a truth known only to those who understand how to properly adorn and how to subdue a proud, noble goddess."

I think the calligraphy of Telugu is as interesting as what it says.

Now on to the second half of the book!

(c)MMXXVI (2026) Jim Middleton, The Animating Apothecary