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For the benefit of non- German speakers, MENSCHENJAGER MARK ELF is HUMAN-HUNTER MARK ELEVEN like it's a pun on the word "mark" indicating a version
by Y_Y 9y ago
For the benefit of non- German speakers,
MENSCHENJAGER MARK ELF
is
HUMAN-HUNTER MARK ELEVEN
like it's a pun on the word "mark" indicating a version of something. Feels weird that it's not rendered as MARK XI, but that's not as cute a name I suppose.
- milgrim 9y agoWhat’s the pun?
- Y_Y 9y agoMark Elf sounds like a name (in fact there is a famous guitarist with this name). I assumed that the purpose was to misdirect us so that there was an "a-ha" when you discovered the real meaning of the words, a-la a garden-path joke. I might be reading too far into it though, apparently the story _was_ originally published as MARK XI[0]. [0] http://mporcius.blogspot.ca/2014/05/three-stories-by-cordwainer-smith-war.html http://mporcius.blogspot.ca/2014/05/three-stories-by-cordwai...