Wednesday April 11, 2007
Bloody goat
From Ill Met by Moonlight, the famous tale of the kidnapping of a German general in Crete during world war two, is this character of a local rebel:
In the company was [a man] who said that he had been turned out of his house in Chania and had come to stay in this village with relatives. Once upon a time, he continued, he had spent four years as a waiter in a Los Angeles restaurant. Nor was there reason to disbelieve this last statement, for his conversation was liberally punctuated by two well-worn Americanisms. Everything was “hot dog” – except the War, the Germans, the Communists, and the goat which was for ever trotting in and making a mess on the fireplace – and these latter all went under the single heading of “Goddam sonofabitch”.
Go on, say it in a Greek accent.
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