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10 Jun 2010 08:43 pm
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Translation of the funny bit in the photo caption: Karl May [...] with his wife Emma (lying camel) and his later wife Klara Plöhn (standing camel)...

Date: 10/6/10 08:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bibliogirl.livejournal.com
*chuckle* Even I can cope with enough German to get that (... well, okay, not the bit in parentheses)

Date: 11/6/10 09:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] davywavy.livejournal.com
Any chance of popping this under a cut? It's messing up my f-list view.

Date: 11/6/10 09:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] karohemd.livejournal.com
Odd, it's now wider than it was last night. Done.

Date: 11/6/10 09:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] davywavy.livejournal.com
it's now wider than it was last night.

I say that about my tummy all the time :)

Cheers.

Date: 16/6/10 08:49 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] undyingking.livejournal.com
That's why they called him "Old Shatterhump"...

Date: 16/6/10 10:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] karohemd.livejournal.com
Hahaha!
I'm curious, how do you know about Karl May? I didn't think his work was widely known over here.

Date: 16/6/10 11:10 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] undyingking.livejournal.com
Mm, it's hardly known at all here really, and I must admit I haven't read any of the books. But I am fortunate to have the kind of magpie mind that picks up all sorts of strange and interesting things and adds them to its store of bibble :-) I must have seen the name Shatterhand in some secondary reference and had my attention caught (it really is a great name).

Date: 16/6/10 02:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] karohemd.livejournal.com
*grins* Old Shatterhand (and his Arab/Ottoman world counterpart, Kara Ben Nemsi) was almost a superhero. He had a special move with which he could take out someone with just one strike to the temple. Not to mention his never failing guns and equally super, er, equine horses.
I don't know if kids these days still read the books but I was certainly completely engrossed by them. My gran would read them to me and as soon as I could read myself, I was hooked and I didn't stop asking until I had the full collection of all 74 books.
I would read the first six books (the big Ottoman/Arab journey) again and again during the summer holidays until I almost knew them by heart. The oriental ones fascinated me more than the Wild West ones, for some reason.
I still know the full name of his faithful servant:
Hadschi Halef Omar Ben Hadschi Abul Abbas Ibn Hadschi Dawuhd al Gossarah. ;)

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