Did I mention my German is terrible, and I got through most of the classes by finding various ways to work "Ich habe keine Kartoffelsalat" into my writing assignments? ^_~ I am awful at languages.
So I had a closer look. The print set used is that of the old German lettering called “Fraktur” which is some sort of gothic letter print. That makes the thing hard to read for non Germans
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You, madame, are fantastic! ♥ It's no wonder I couldn't look up the last word, since I was reading the long s as an f. *facepalm*
Oh, wow, you know, the information about the print as pre-war writing is amazingly helpful in an unexpected way, too, since I've been doing a lot of dating work, placing various narratives in various time periods. *hugs tight*
In case you're curious, this panel is from The Curious Sofa, A Pornographic Work by Ogdred Weary which is basically about playing with reader expectation. Everything in it is a sexual innuendo without ever actually saying anything sexual. They're a bunch of English upper class folks enjoying a weekend of delights, probably in the 1920s. ^_^ I think I'm definitely going to have to look up the "Free body culture," since there's echoes of it in The Curious SofaYep, I've given the title a quick Google and come up with nothing, but that's not a big surprise. Gorey has a habit of making up texts within his texts -- later on the guests read Volume Eleven of the "Encyclopedia of
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Let me have a look at it and I shall come back with your translation.
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Did I mention my German is terrible, and I got through most of the classes by finding various ways to work "Ich habe keine Kartoffelsalat" into my writing assignments? ^_~ I am awful at languages.
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Oh, wow, you know, the information about the print as pre-war writing is amazingly helpful in an unexpected way, too, since I've been doing a lot of dating work, placing various narratives in various time periods. *hugs tight*
In case you're curious, this panel is from The Curious Sofa, A Pornographic Work by Ogdred Weary which is basically about playing with reader expectation. Everything in it is a sexual innuendo without ever actually saying anything sexual. They're a bunch of English upper class folks enjoying a weekend of delights, probably in the 1920s. ^_^ I think I'm definitely going to have to look up the "Free body culture," since there's echoes of it in The Curious SofaYep, I've given the title a quick Google and come up with nothing, but that's not a big surprise. Gorey has a habit of making up texts within his texts -- later on the guests read Volume Eleven of the "Encyclopedia of ( ... )
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*winks*
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