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Col. G. L. Sicherman
Jul 2, 1986, 12:09:09 PM7/2/86
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Years ago I read a poem about a creature called a "lammenkatz," or maybe
it was a "katzenlamm." I don't remember the author. I've tried the
collected works of C. Morgenstern and of B. Brecht, but no cigar. Can
anybody help?
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Col. G. L. Sicherman
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it was a "katzenlamm." I don't remember the author. I've tried the
collected works of C. Morgenstern and of B. Brecht, but no cigar. Can
anybody help?
--
Col. G. L. Sicherman
UU: ...{rocksvax|decvax}!sunybcs!colonel
CS: colonel@buffalo-cs
BI: csdsicher@sunyabva
Yakim Martillo
Jul 4, 1986, 6:11:23 PM7/4/86
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Perhaps you mean Katzenjammer. It's a great poem by Heinrich Heine.
Diese graue Wolkenschar
stieg aus einem Meer von Freuden;
heute musz ich dafuer leiden,
dasz ich gestern gluecklich war
Ach, im Wermut hat verkehrt
sich der Nektar! Ach, wie quaelend
Katzen-Jammer, Hundeelend
Herz und Magen mir beschwert!
The rhyming is rather interesting. Apparently Heine like Goethe does
not use a Hochdeutsch vowel-sound system.
eu == ei
e == ae
The latter is used in modern high German but I have been told that in
correct Buehneausrache these sounds should not be identical.
Joachim Carlo Santos Martllo Ajami
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