Concerning the Great Ship MOUR-DE-ZENCLE
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David Avery

CONCERNING THE GREAT SHIP MOUR-DE-ZENCLE
from book seven of Alfred Jarry’s Exploits & Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician

The great ship Mour-de-Zencle, which means Horse-muzzle-bearing-scythe-shaped -patches, loomed up on the immediate horizon like a black sun, having the appearance under the bright arch at the tunnel’s end of an eye without its leather blinker, approaching the fixity of its own painted pupils, green in a yellow iris.

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The great ship Mour-de-Zencle passed like a black iron over an ironing board; and the echo of the sixteen horny fingers of the preterite horses whispered KHURMOOKUM beneath the vault’s exit, fading away with the soul.