so many vaginas, stomachs, cocks, snouts, and flies you don’t know what to do with them … shovelsfull! … but hearts? … very rare! in the last five hundred million years too many cocks and gastric tubes to count … but hearts? … on your fingers!…
~Céline
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"flies?" not a body part. Guess I would have to find the original French to know why he mentioned flies (zippers, buttons or flying insects)?
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I assumed, looking at the context of how the word is used, he is talking about the kind with zippers or buttons on a pair of pants (or trousers)
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Yes that's how I interpreted it at first. Now I'm inclined to think it's about the flying insects. I haven't managed yet to Google that passage in the original French.
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Let me know if you find out. There are some atrocious translations of Celine's work floating around the Internet.
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