Ok dudes, you have got to see this. I work at our university library, digitally enhancing brittle scanned books for reprinting, and in my days there I have come across some odd titles. There's just something about the
pre-1900 publishing world that seems to generate bizarre material
The book I worked on today was German, and it may have been a children's book, I think. Even for a 19
th century children's book, it's strange. Check out these pages:
Yes, that's a
monkey wearing a crown stabbing himself in the chest with a fork. Any thoughts?
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Here's my translation:
And one day - I flew afar.
I fell off the world and fell into the abyss.
However, thankfully, without bodily harm.
And next to me lay a blue letter,
that showed the decree for my disciplinary transfer.
I was appointed the king of the bad guys.
To lord and rule over the sinners,
over the outrageous human beings.
I lay on a cooling bed - undressed -
and next to me stood a specialist.
First he looked with his eyes for a fairly long time.
He gazed on my defenseless nakedness -
Then he suddenly slammed me with both fists.
A cyclone in my bowels.
"Does it hurt?" he asked.
"No!" I said through watery eyes.
Then I said "yes." I wagered
that he'd treated my appendix.
The torture got more and more painful:
He pulled on my throat,
The waiter laughed - the apprentices laughed,
The demon knew what they were thinking!
It barely attended to us, meanwhile
We drank, we ate!
We drank, we ate,
The air was muggy and the night was late,
It was an orgy of excess,
A mockery of every sensible diet!
"It was an orgy of excess!"
So I shouted and moved closer to the girl,
"But we have forgotten one thing!"
The girl said not no and not yes,
but then she yelled, "We'll make ourselves free
from the malice of doom - even if it costs our lives"
In this hour the two of us gave the ape the death blow!
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