Owlglass (was:Housecleaning ...)

[David Morris]

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"E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Owlglass (German, Eulenspiegel).
Thyl, son of Klaus (Eulenspiegel) prototype of all the knavish fools of 
modern times. He was a native of Brunswick, and wandered about the world 
playing all manner of tricks on the people he encountered. (Died 1350.)"

http://www.bartleby.com/65/eu/Eulenspi.html
"The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition.  2000.
Eulenspiegel, Till
(tl oi´ln-shp´´gl) (KEY) [Ger.,=owl-mirror, hence English Owlglass], a north 
German peasant clown of the 14th cent. who was immortalized in chapbooks 
describing his practical jokes on clerics and townsfolk. The first Till 
chapbook (c.1500) was probably in Saxon, but the story it told spread all 
over Europe and North Britain. Till is the hero of a tone poem by Richard 
Strauss and of many novels, poems, and stories. Tyll Ulenspiegel is one of 
the variant spellings. 1
See K. R. H. MacKenzie’s adaptation in English, Master Tyll Owlglass 
(1890)."

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"Eulenspiegel
Till, a German born according to tradition about 1300, the son of a peasant, 
and the subject of a collection of satirical tales, German or Flemish in 
origin, published in 1519 (Flemish version 1520-1). He is a scape-grace 
whose knaveries and escapades are carried on under a pretence of simplicity 
and stupidity, and are directed against noblemen, priests, tradesmen, and 
innkeepers. One of these incidents figures in Chaucer's 'Summoner's Tale' 
(see Canterbury Tales, 8). The book was translated into many languages, 
among others into English in an abridged form by William Copland, under the 
title of A merye jest of a man that was called Howleglas (?1555, ?1560). See 
The Marvellous Adventures ... of Master Tyll Owlglass, trans. K. R. H. 
Mackenzie (1860)."

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>From: Dave Monroe
>
>--Rachel Owlglass, well, again, awaiting someone who might actually know
>something about the possible Euelnspiegel connection here (as well as to
>expalin to me why there is both a puppet theater
>[http://www.avalon.net/~owlglass/eulenspiegel.html] and an S&M club
>[http://www.tes.com] of that name), but, also, "owlglass," "hourglass,"
>that "figure envelope" of Benny Profane's (p. 32, Harper ed., V. I.v.,
>more generally).  Reminds me, Hourglass Lake in Vladimir Nabokov's
>Lolita as well (and note that "jailbait" in V., ibid.).
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