Can anyone paraphrase this sentence please ?

[cedarbreed]

two guys take a golden shower in a garage.

I'm gonna write this in my translation, just for fun !

 

[cedarbreed]

john updike is a douchebag

I dunno but I curse him for this text !

 

[Cerulean]

That's all bollocks.Teachers actually only know about 5% of what they're supposed to know.Ignore them.They could'nt educate a turd.

What you probably don't know is that Cedarbreed is studying to become an English teacher

 

[Maqus]

Yeah, I wanted to mention that too

 

[Lord_Of_This_World]

well he'll find out then.

 

[Maqus]

I've had great teachers, most of the time I wasn't thinking about what asses they licked to get into their position.

 

[Lord_Of_This_World]

Oh,im not denying that they don't start with the best intentions.It's when they realise what a hard bloody thankless task they're doing and basically they get shafted by (our) government and the workload gets increased and increased and increased.That's when they lose all enthusiasm for it.Believe me i had some bad teachers and i also had some fucking terrible teachers and i also had some teachers who ought to be in prison.
That's not to say they were all shite just the majority.If you're going into teaching ,good luck.

 

[Maqus]

I'm already a teacher, and I guess what you say is true as for the enthusiasm. But the past two weeks at uni have just proved the contrary to me, so I'm hopeful about that (not about me though ).

 

[cedarbreed]

What you probably don't know is that Cedarbreed is studying to become an English teacher

Merci pour l'affiche ...

 

[nomana-nuniyan]

The scene takes place in a garage, I don't get the meaning of this fucking sentence !

"[...]two shapeless men in goggles caressed a great downward-drooping fan of flame broken into dry drops.[...]"

This is about arc welding with arc welding gear on, goggles (mask, should be) and suits. Arc welding, making art, a sculpture.

 

[cedarbreed]

thanks for the tip Rebecca, but I don't think it could be a sculpture, they're working in a garage, it's all about cars in this text.

 

[nomana-nuniyan]

ah, weird. My first thought was garage = studio space.

just the way I think.

 

[Maqus]

It reminds me of Grease, when they're tuning that car, that's much more stylized though.

 

[Maqus]

It might be a plane too.

 

[nomana-nuniyan]

or Rocky & Bullwinkle

 

[cedarbreed]

" great downward-drooping fan of flame "

About the word "fan" and the shape of the whole thing, do you think it has to be understood this way :

or that way ? :

 

[Maqus]

Deffo the first. You can't weld a ladies fan.