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dustydigger
Posted 2022-02-24 2:18 PM (#23858 - in reply to #23638)
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Location: UK		Remember in Alice Through Looking Glass where she read Jabberwocky? (Twas brillig and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe etc).She mused ;-
"It seems very pretty," she said when she had finished it, "but it's rather hard to understand!" (You see she didn't like to confess, even to herself, that she couldn't make it out at all.) "Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas?only I don't exactly know what they are! However, somebody killed something: that's clear, at any rate."
Exploits of Engelbrecht is living in the same topsy turvy surreal world as Alice,but much more bloody..(He is after all a dwarf surrealist boxer! lol).
Each story starts out with a simple premise,a boxing match,a golf tournament,or football match,a hunt ball or a horse race (and dont forget a quiet game of chess). From a simple opening we steadily drift away from any realityI love the priceless satire on the huntin' fishin' and shootin' upper classes,(shades of Bertie Wooster and the like),which then spirals out into absolute crazy chaos.
The steady deadpan mundane narration which is depicting absolutely crazy events is a priceless feature too. Definitely my fave read of the month.
Fave exploit? Hard to pick,but the horse race with Engelbert winning the race riding Medusa is just pure gold.

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