Monday, September 17, 2007

Interviewing Umberto Eco (Creative Writing Assignment #20)

Note: This assignment required that we translate a piece of writing from Italian based solely upon what English words the Italian words resembled. The less Italian we knew, the better. For example "Notte Bianca" (White Night in English), might be translated as "Bank Note". The following then is a "translation" of an interview with the writer Umberto Eco.


Bologna, come and ornament my traditions,
Auspicious will be the day of these major formations,
It will occupy the editorials and the multimedia presentations.

On an Alabaman Interstate Umberto Eco gorged,
Dreaming of airplanes to the third degree,
And the master of all directions.

Q: College telephones sit with ill Professor Umberto Eco. Is he the master of all directions in multimedia? Is he the master of all directions in the editorial cartoons? Scuttle with superiority, study these questions and omens.

A: Oh gee, it’s an advantage with a due cost. The first of the conclusions involved tears that circled from you to the diplomat. They dropped at intervals, initially in one form and then another. It was a lesson in four cycles. Simultaneously I arrived with a quest for four tornados, a quest to be the master. I am an altruistic master in editorials. In Italian, snows total another year. I will quest for the unicorn enough. OK, it was a windy impregnation which raged with a frequency that obliged me to quote the Indian with a due cost.

Q: There is a semblance to this same situation in Italian. You see it in a movement that is incorruptible. Someone is diverse when campaigning for death, for a quantity of regulation to the letter, but editorials, they are like alimony, which is the fat of numbers. There is a semblance to a Molotov vitamin.

A: Inane and doodle! The campaign for death, a sullen letter for my fans. Temperance is a poor story. Is there taro in Italy? If trunks never classified their fat or their past economic luck, a position based on quantity would regulate the numbers of freedom.

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