NPPF Canto two - ln 500 - crackling, gulping swamp

[Glenn Scheper]

> ln 500: "Into a crackling, gulping swamp, and sank."

Synchronicity works for me: I was thumbing through my
new English <-> Russian dictionary weeks ago, and saw
that crackling and chirping are possible translations
of Russian Treststanie. (Three pillars and a tail=stst?)

That makes a coincidence of oral functions with gulping;
and a bird reference, which to me suggests AF reference.
There is also an allusion to schizophrenia in splitting.

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Treststanie n 1, cracking, crackling. 2, chirping.
3, chattering.

Treststat v. impfv 1. to crack. 2, to crackle. 3, to chirp.
4, to ring loudly; make a racket. 5, colloq. to chatter.
6, colloq. (of one's head) to be splitting. 7, fig. to be on
the verge of collapse.

Treststina n 1, crack; split. Dat treststuny, to crack.
2, fissure. 3, fig. rift, split; breach.

Treststotka n 1, rattle (for making a noise). 2, colloq.
chatterbox

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