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<div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">From: Jonny <</font><a href="mailto:jonny.meibohm@arcor.de"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">jonny.meibohm@arcor.de</font></a><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></font></div>
<div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Subject: LL-L "Literature"<br><br>Dear Lowlanners,<br>Â <br>at the moment I'm reading "The Chronicles of Clovis" by SAKI (H. H. Munro) (I try it in English, though I have to read all of it at least twice to be able to deal with the whole of his pitchdark humor).<br>
 <br>One of the stories is titled 'Esmè', which is the name of a hyaena.<br> <br>I wonder if this name subliminally shall mean "eat me", and, if my suspicion is correct, where did he borrough it from? If I had to invent the same in German (slang) I should come upon something like "Essmì" - just a hap?<br>
 <br>Thanks in award for your answers, which may enlighten one of the darkest but finest chapters of British black humor ;-)!<br> <br>Allerbest!<br> <br>Jonny Meibohm<br>Lower Saxony, Germany</font></div>
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