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Modern translingual jeux d'esprit are Mots d'Heures Gousses Rames , by Luis d'Antin von Roote (New York, 1967) in which English masquerades as French; Brigid Brophy, In Transit (London, 1969); and the ultimate: Joyce's Ulysses and Finnegans Wake with their ostensibly English yet polyvalent, transliteral letter and word groups which punningly play over no fewer than fifty to sixty languages in Cheshire-catlike, now-you-see-it-now-you-don't trompes l'oeil .
Some of the most spectacular examples of the genre, which got its name in 17 th -century Holland, depict great mounds of fruit and fabric that fool the eye ( trompe l'oeil ) so completely that we can practically smell them and feel them.
As two soldiers mounted on a motorcycle and cab push inexorably into the frigid landscape--with flour substituting for snow--there's an uneasy mix of the trompe l'oeil and the trumped up.
And not a very accurate one either: for instance, in a trick that's repeated throughout the graphic, the fund-raising entries for Monday, June 17 form a solid block of type, but this is a trompe l'oeil achieved only by leaving a bunch of hours out of the "daybook"'s format.
Notice how the trompe l’oeil painting on the low arched ceiling aspires to turn the little church into a lofty Gothic cathedral.