Another Jim Carrey gem:

[Kingofalldems]

Link to tweet

[nolabear]

1. BWAH!!!

Seriously, has a creature on this planet ever had a more appropriate visage?

[Demovictory9]

2. i love carrey's art

[Hoyt]

3. Me too. Wish I had money to buy a big one, even a print.

[marieo1]

6. carrey art

I love Jim Carrey's art, too.

[gademocrat7]

4. K&R

Jim Carrey is a creative genius.

[bigmonkey]

5. He's quoting Kafka's "The Metamorphosis"

First line:
"Als Gregor Samsa eines Morgens aus unruhigen Träumen erwachte, fand er sich in seinem Bett zu einem ungeheurigen Ungeziefer verwandelt."

It's one of my favorite sentences!

[SCVDem]

7. I'm using German I learned 50 years ago.

I got some of it but not all.

Please to translate bitte?

[Ilsa]

8. Here is how Google translated it:

"One morning, when Gregor Samsa awoke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed into a monstrous vermin in his bed."

[erronis]

9. Me too - German learned 60+ years ago. Frau Klemperer in 2nd grade (upstate NY)

I think that early bi-lingual training worked well. I can still pick up new languages (mainly reading or hearing) fairly quickly. Speaking and writing intelligently are something else.

In any case, there are many translation tools on the web. For me using Chrome, I high-lit the sentence and just asked Google to look it up. Back came several translations - most common one:

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2015/may/13/kafka-metamorphosis-translations

[erronis]

10. You know, this isn't really fair to the Insecta class as a whole.

There are a lot more pleasant insects than the gowdy blow-fly.

I would place this particular specimen more in the Odonata which also includes dragonflies, which seems to be what Jim Carrey is portraying.

[firstwife]

11. But dragonflies

are so beautiful to me. This reminds me more of a locust, a plague on our nation that did get squashed by the honorable Agent.

[calimary]

16. Welcome to DU, firstwife!

I love dragonflies too! They're suppose to be good luck.

[BumRushDaShow]

12. He should have made him look more like

Brundlefly -

[JDC]

13. The Metamorphosis

Sort of





Edit: typo. Had an i in there

[Honeycombe8]

14. He's very clever, isn't he? Who knew? Bravo. nt

[calimary]

15. No kidding. He really is quite good.

And who knew, indeed? I certainly didn't, early on.