Esel Und Teddy

Ein landestypisches Gesicht The “Black Joke” had long devastated the country. No humour had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Shrill Laughter was its Avatar and its seal — the redness and the horror of laughter. There were sharp screams, and sudden funnyness, and then profuse laughter at the pores, with dissolution. The blood-streaked veins upon the body and especially upon the face of the victim, were the pest ban which shut him out from the aid and from the sympathy of his fellow-men. And the whole seizure, progress and termination of the joke, were the incidents of half an hour. This conspicuousness became widely known as the English face. Aus „The English Face“ von Edgar Allan Poe Deutsche Übersetzung: Der "Schwarze Scherz" hatte das Land längst verwüstet. Kein Humor war jemals so tödlich oder so abscheulich gewesen. Das schrille Lachen war sein Avatar und sein Siegel – die Röte und der Schrecken des Lachens. Es gab scharfe Schreie und plötzliche Komik, und dann überschwängliches Lachen aus allen Pore