Hey, it only took the Guardian a year longer than bloggers to hear the Mostar Bruce Lee statue story. Ah, but the Guardian is a proper brand, so that’s OK.
Here, from Emil Helfferich (1878-1974)‘s Südostasiatische Geschichten (Jever/Oldenburg, 1966), is an account of what happened to another German-speaker who made light of girlie-men: He was German, early 30s, and came from a forest ranger’s family in Hannover. If not poverty, then extreme thrift had probably stood at the cradle of him and his numerous siblings.…
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