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Lädt ... Abaft the Funnelvon Rudyard Kipling
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Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English author and poet, born in India, and best known today for his children's books. "Abaft the Funnel" was published in 1909. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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There is some interest in the articles written for Indian publication whilst Kipling, lonely and homesick, was trying to find his feet as a writer in London. There's a lot of whingeing about fog, smoke, and the general lack of virility of the London literary scene, but in between there are also a few perceptive or entertaining comments. I particularly enjoyed "My great and only", in which he describes the experience of writing a successful music-hall song lyric. In the course of this piece he "quotes" a stanza of Marie-Lloyd-style double entendre about candles and broom-handles to "demonstrate" to his readers how free the English music-hall is from all trace of vulgarity. There doesn't seem to be any trace of these lines elsewhere, so he almost certainly made them up himself, trusting that only his most dirty-minded readers would get the point, and they wouldn't explain it to their wives and servants... ( )