/lit/ - Literature

The vacuum shut off and the thing undid its coupler and gave the hose two gentle tugs and it zipped up and out of the pod. The speaker of many voices spoke again and reverberated the enclosure. “Are you ready for today's assignment Comrade Xanothia?”

“Yes Master!”

The sun stopped dancing and smiling and quickly put on a stern face before slowly fading away. The pod interior went dark for a moment before being replaced with a landscape of blue skies and rolling green hills marked with dense deciduous forest.

“We are sending you to sector thirteen with your fellow comrades on a healing mission. The nazis have made a stronghold there and have constructed death camps to poison the minds of children and enslave people of color.”

The curved interior swirled and was replaced by a quick succession of flashing images of goosestepping white men in Nazi era uniforms stomping down upon the heads of jewish children and women sending their kippas flying across every direction of the pod. Factory workers tipping wheelchair bound elderly into slag brimmed furnaces. A small group of white robed Christians wielding large crosses beating a pink haired negro queer donning daisy dukes. The flashing images ceased and from the murk came the face of a weeping boy wearing a rainbow colored wig and makeup streaked with tears who blubbered out. “S-save m-m-me. I wa-wa-ant to be fu-fu-freeeeee.”

The creature within the pod growled out. “Fascist racist bigoted bastards.”

“Xanothia are you ready to save the world from these demons?”

“Yes Master!”

How do I take notes, I read on my laptop and don't really like writing on paper so I would prefer to do it on my laptop.

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Into how many languages can /lit/ translate this line from Virgil's Aeneid?

"Ibant obscuri sola sub nocte per umbram"

I'm curious to see how many languages we speak as a whole, and the profficiency at translating that we have.

The verbatim English translation renders:

“They went obscure under the lonely
shadows”

Though I would preferably translate it as:


“They went in darkness lonely by the shade”