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Re: Das Boot: book or movie ?
Posted by:
Io Chrysafidou
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Date: November 13, 2003 09:33PM
<HTML>Dear Wiljan,
How wonderfully cute and apt that expression was! I suppose the U-boat sported the 3x schwarzer Kater emblem. In that case, somebody else should have been "Baer" (sorry, no Umlauts on this computer). I suppose wives cannot see how one's husband can be a war hero as well as the man to fix the leaking pipes or clean rhe windows etc. In fact, we had some such argument with dear Cate a little while ago.
But you're right, we can't always keep numbers on our fingertips. In fact, I have stopped counting the languages the dratted book has been translated in. And anyway, as the English say, to each his poison. I am a bookish person myself, and consider the pockmarked (Narbengesicht) JP a far less suited person to have played the U-boat commander than the original selection, Robert Redford. Oh well, tastes and colours...
Kindest Regards
Io
P.S. @Meg:Please, please, please, don't let us start arguing about LGB as a n o v e l i s t! Not again! He isn't a novelist, he's just a pretty good reporter, even of hearsay.
I.C.</HTML>
How wonderfully cute and apt that expression was! I suppose the U-boat sported the 3x schwarzer Kater emblem. In that case, somebody else should have been "Baer" (sorry, no Umlauts on this computer). I suppose wives cannot see how one's husband can be a war hero as well as the man to fix the leaking pipes or clean rhe windows etc. In fact, we had some such argument with dear Cate a little while ago.
But you're right, we can't always keep numbers on our fingertips. In fact, I have stopped counting the languages the dratted book has been translated in. And anyway, as the English say, to each his poison. I am a bookish person myself, and consider the pockmarked (Narbengesicht) JP a far less suited person to have played the U-boat commander than the original selection, Robert Redford. Oh well, tastes and colours...
Kindest Regards
Io
P.S. @Meg:Please, please, please, don't let us start arguing about LGB as a n o v e l i s t! Not again! He isn't a novelist, he's just a pretty good reporter, even of hearsay.
I.C.</HTML>
