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© by Antoine Thiollier (b. 1988)
Translation by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Comme l'espoir
Language: Unknown Language  after the French (Français) 
Comme l'espoir 
you might all disappear 
balançant parmi les étoiles solitaires
like a comet 
qui va renaître 
in more distant skies

calm less Pooh are 
y où maille te hall dit ça pire 
bowl answer par me lesser too wall solid tear 
laïc euh comète 
key foreign air true 
hymne mort dix tentes esse cailles eux

calme moins ourson sont 
there where stitch thee lobby says this worse 
bol réponse même moi moindre aussi mur 
solide déchirure

lay them comet 
clé étranger air vrai 
anthem dead ten tents linchpin quails them

cull murmur wah source on sore 
d'aire ou herse t'y jeudi l'aube y cède d'hisse 
ou heurt ceux

ball rep aunts maim mwah mow wind rah
horsey mure so lead desh error
laid idem comme êtes

clay het ranch heir erf ray
en sème d'aide t'haine t'ai noeud te ce linge
épine cou elle se d'aime

abbat murmure whoah source sur plaie 
of area or harrow to you Thursday the dawn 
there yields of hoist or clash those

balle représentant ante mutile bisou tond 
tourne aristo chevalin séquestre tant avance
Patrie erreur
ugly idem like are

argile hétéro ranch héritier terrain rayon
in sow of help to you hate to have
you knot to you this linen pricker neck she herself of love

About the headline (FAQ)

Stephenson uses an Oublian process to amalgamate the words with similar sounding English words to gradually abstract the meaning behind them; the words seemingly melt into musical sounds.

Text Authorship:

  • by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Based on:

  • a text in French (Français) by Antoine Thiollier (b. 1988), "Comme l'espoir", copyright © [text unavailable]
    • Go to the text page.

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

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Researcher for this page: Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2025-09-13
Line count: 38
Word count: 214

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