GRGR (17): german samples

[Lorentzen / Nicklaus]

Seb Thirlway schrieb:

> >  "der springer" (376) - "the knight" (in chess).
> Literally "jumper" or "leaper", correct?


             correct! celebrating our bitter bummer, kai

>I always read "Saure" as having more "bitter, corrosive"
>connotations, rather than what Weisenburger reads into it (though
>W's reading is probably what TRP had in mind).  So this makes
>Emil's name "bitter bummer" - exactly the attitude to life that
>makes him so likeable, and gives all those Berlin characters (and
>ole' Pig Bodine) their zip - life's a bitter bummer, but that's
>assumed, not mentioned, so load up that hash-pipe and roll on the
>spendidly weird high spirits...  when Greta comes on the scene
>the comedy gets the droop (in inverse motion to Slothrop... hmm
>Tyrone, what's this now, paradoxical stage or what?) - she's the
>exact opposite of dose Krazy Berlin Kats - moans and needs all
>the time, any exhilaration is buried well inside her messed-up
>head...