By Wolfgang Bauer
ISBN-10: 0947757651
ISBN-13: 9780947757656
The Feverhead is written within the type of letters among a number of not-all-that-bright Austrians. Their correspondence is doomed to failure, approximately each letter crosses within the submit and but they reach their quest: the hunt for an ideal thermometer (and a serial murderer). actually they either independently observe the key of the universe in a distant spot hundreds of thousands of miles from their meant (and varied) locations. Bauer's comedy of error is enacted via an strange forged that comes with microscopic schoolgirls, ambiguously sexed nuns, incompetent detectives, finally undesirable poets, residing steam engines and a venerable three-eyed sea-captain whose our bodies stay precisely 3.5 metres aside, let alone: ULF.
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Let me go! Let me meet him! Brothers! ” I heard Schuller yelling in a squeaky descant. And right after that he came tumbling out of the door. So he is!!! Ferdinand's mood had hit rock bottom. He even started to rail at me in his anger! It was all my fault that we were down on our uppers etc. etc. I suggested we should part our ways. m. and quite unbearable being with him. I gave him a share of the money (21 Austrian Shillings), and he set off to the north and I to the south. ) So more exactly we set off in opposite directions.
He owned — motorbike. ) Matchless complete with side-car, which finally I managed to a was a wangle off him for 800 shillings. Soon I was seated on it and chugging off to Le Havre. ) . . us. We on the Kampl (Celsia . 8L pillion. I) got on at We had once, me in the side-car and Mrs the way due to Alex’s rather exuberant driving numerous breakdowns on whjch, I assume, were largely style. (A lie! ) It was seven in the moming and foggy as we reached Le Havre. Ice packs were floating on the Atlantic, ships were tooting romantically.
There was nothing special about them, just as Alex had inspected the, realized with half a red glance. But thermometer which baby suddenly was Celsia found about 2 the tinjest gold letters, scarcely legible to (Brazil). Who could it have belonged to? cm a really long. Written the naked eye, minute on was: it in Canca Hanassy-Muller over and asked him. “That can only belong to Captain 0x," (a niclcname, nobody knew his real namel). I cast my eye round the august circle of poker players. Everyone seemed to be deeply engrossed in the game, everyone except two very aged, bearded and particularly feverish gentlemen who squinted in I called our direction.
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