The Adventures of Baron Münchausen by Rudolf Erich Raspe — Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists. It is, you see, difficult to stay connected with old friends that is why I once created this website where you could find and meet your old friends. ![]() I was in a good mood that day and since it hardly took me an hour to create it, so I gave it to this young boy – try as I may, I can’t recall his name Mark something, he was pissed off after his GF broke with him. I can’t recall his last name zuck … berger … bug…Anyway I wouldn’t have mentioned it if this same website was not used by some of my enemies to exaggerate my little powers and thus ridicule them. If there is one thing I can’t tolerate – it is deviation, even slightest deviation from truth. One of them said that I once lifted an anaconda to save a child with a single hand to save a child in its grip and threw the beast away. It is such a stupid lie – How can people believe that? I could barely lift the animal with both my hands. Anyway it spoiled my mood and I happened to be presiding this interplanetary conference that day. When representatives of Pluto (they are yellow- orange color, medium- sized, short- haired dogs with black ears having particular love for rats) were five minutes late.. I confess my anger was unjust but what happened is what happened – and now, Pluto is no longer a planet. I could have cooled down but for a while the queen of England; she knows me from when I sold a lock of my hair to end the last economic depression; was pestering me over which president should her people chose next. People just can’t understand that I have more important things to do. In frustration, I told her to just go for the last one again. I think she did. I have no time to follow the news in all my universe- saving endeavors. Just last week, my good friend Doctor Who (I once mended his toy machine TARDIS) visited me to ask my help in saving a planet in a galaxy, name of which can’t be pronounced in Earth’s atmosphere. All this work makes one moody. Even now I was planning to give a speech which would have ended all the evil in the world and make Earth a heaven but I have changed my plan since my pizza was no good (I’m tired of you lesser mortals) and my date Jennifer Aniston is late. She says she is twenty two but I highly doubt that. Women often hide their age around me. Anyway she was a big letdown after Marilyn Monroe and … Venus. And, don’t even ask me about Helen. Baron von Münchhausen. som i London gav ut Baron Munchausen's narrative of his marvellous travels and campaigns in Russia. Visual treat is too bawdy for young fantasy fans. Read Common Sense Media's The Adventures of Baron Munchausen review, age rating, and parents guide. Ah! those were the days - specially when Greeks fought with Troy believing she ran away with Paris!- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- PART 2. I have discovered that a lot of people are taking what I have said as mere tall tales when, in fact, if ever I was guilty of lying then it was because I couldn't do away with my habit of modesty. For example, this once, back in very old days - it was just a week before I handed those commandments to Moses; I participated in this village wide game we were playing where you have to throw rocks, and person whose rocks hits the ground furthest would win. May be I just happened to pick up too big a rock but I lost the game. Now tell me, would I be a tall- tale teller when I say I was a distant last in among hundreds of players? My throw was, in fact, so terrible that rock never landed; it just stayed out there in sky – people call it moon. Funny name! isn’t it, for a rock? ![]() The Adventures of Baron Munchausen is a 1988 adventure fantasy film co-written and directed by Terry Gilliam, starring John Neville, Sarah Polley, Eric Idle. Learn about Munchausen Syndrome from the Cleveland Clinic. Find out about the symptoms, causes & treatment for factitious disorders. Baron Munchausen, fictional character created by R.E. Raspe, based on the real-life German storyteller Karl Friedrich Hieronymus, Baron (Freiherr) von Münchhausen. Munchausen syndrome is a psychiatric factitious disorder wherein those affected feign disease, illness, or psychological trauma to draw attention, sympathy, or. I have ever confined myself to facts. - Attributed to Baron Munchausen There really was a Baron Munchausen. His full name was Karl Friedrich Hieronymous von. ![]() The complete text of The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. The tale of the enchanting adventures of Baron von Munchausen on his journey to save a town from defeat. Being swallowed by a giant sea-monster, a trip to the moon, a. Amazon.com: The Adventures of Baron Munchausen: John Neville, Eric Idle, Sarah Polley, Oliver Reed, Uma Thurman, Jonathan Pryce, Valentina Cortese, Charles McKeown. Once I was on this ‘moon’ – I often go there in search of solitude; when what I see is this vehicle lands near me and a man comes out of it in a clownish white silver dress and starts saying some stupid things like 'big step', 'small step' - I really didn't get it. He was still rambling when he saw me; his face turned red. Aa! You kids!" I said watching him stop, "And your little games! Cute!". When they realized the truth, they started begging me to let them have the credit for being the first to be on moon. I let them, I was too modest to claim any credit for myself. I heard they had to destroy all those photographs taken there to keep the secret. Anyway, I'm not much for publicity. This once upon a time, I was sleeping at an airport when this aeroplane suddenly got some technical problem in landing. People began panicking which is all you mortals seem good for, and there was a lot of noise - it waked me up. I was obviously angry at being woken up in this manner - and just to shut them up, I stretched my arm to take hold of aeroplane and put it on ground. My arm hurt for weeks after that. Someone not believing the evidence of his eyes shouted "but it is humanly impossible." "Yes,” I said not knowing what he meant, “What is your point?"Yet, you won't see any account of this event in any of newspapers because I took special pains to make sure it won't get publihed. Although, censoring this news from newspapers was way too easier than censoring this photo of mine with that guy who happened to be at airport. Personally I’m not much about being photographed but he; I think I can recall his name .. Yes, Robert Downey Jr. Yet another reason, I won't come out is because I'm just too lazy. Last time, your humble narrator felt like actually doing something was a long way back. It was so dark out in those days that I had to began by calling for light ('Let there be light') and so it went as I worked for six days straight (I signed my creations with pseudonyms like'God' in those days) .. I thought that I really do not want image of a hard- working person - specially someone who won't even take Saturdays off, it doesn't suit me. Also, my work from last day was terrible one - man (although I perfected it later in second attempt) And so I spread a rumor that it all started with a Big Bang. Yet, another cover up was the evidence of evolution (fake dinosaur homes) that I planted all over the planet. It all went well. Giant lizards! Really, people will believe anything. I think it is just me people find it difficult to believe – maybe I just give the wrong kind of waves. If someone else was to say those things – you would believe him or her. I won’t know why. For example, I once wrote this document about the workings of the creation I just talked about; I remember I was with an Egyption queen that time. Another name I can’t recall, I have such a bad memory for names – anyway, I used to call her Leo. She was some woman, she cheated on three different guys with me (her brother, Ceasor and Anthony). Every time I went to her, she would be with a different man. I gifted her this lovely cross breed pet, she used to call it Sphinix … but I’m diverting, my point being, it was while coming back to present that I thought that this document would be useless because people never believe whatever I say and so I threw it away. Some one seems to have found it, Isaac was it? Now while no one believes anything I say, everybody believed him when he said that he got all this from falling of an apple!__________Part 3. I see people still seems to be thinking that I just tell tall- tales. Now if you visited my town, you would have known the fame I have for my honesty, they swear on it –if they want to praise someone’s honesty they will say he is as honest as our great lord Manchurian (since that the title they use for me) or if they want to assert truthiness of something, they will say ‘believe it as if our great lord M. The Roman people were even better- they named a whole month after me – of course it later deteriorated from Munch to March but hey, it is the gesture that counts. And of course Johnny Depp, whom I was just talking with, could have told you - but he is won't be seen with me. He says he feels eclipsed by my presence. I responded if it is any consolation Di. Caprio feels the same. Of course sometimes one have to lie, I mean if kids comes to me and say how much they like Arybhatta for inventing Zero or Vinci for his paintings or Mozart for music he created – I can’t help nodding while trying hard to suppress my smile. We can’t take away children’s heroes, can we? Still I don’t like people who will take credit for work done by others. Edison was at least honest enough to never actively claim undue honor. He always talked about discovering 1. Ever wondered why? Ya. You are right. Other people though aren’t as honest. Even now I have just received a phone call, they were from committee deciding who gets from Nobel prize for Economics. Of course, like every year, I told them to find someone else - and tell the committees for Physics, Chemistry and Physiology to do the same. It has become a habit with them, every year they are pestering me with phone calls. I tell you it gets on one’s nerves. I have often changed my number, but they always get it from CERN, where I happened to be the president. The peace prize ones are the worst of lot, given my peaceful attitude there is no stopping them, that is why I didn’t tell the economics guys to try. And what about Literature? The thing is I no longer write anything. I wrote this long collection of stage- plays this once. I lost them all during my visit to a theatre on Queen Elizabeth’s invitation. If I'm right (and I'm hardly ever not) it was my horse- man, William something, who stole it. Ever since I have lost the taste of it. And to be honest I judge people who will do nothing but read all day. I mean how lame is that! Get a life! You know what else I don’t like? People pretending to be cleverer than they are. Just last week I was visited by this Baker street kid who thinks he is a detective and his Doctor friend; quickly the former launched into that case he need my help for “there is this murder” he was saying “there are no clues, no motives, nothing peculiar….”“Sherry! Sherry! Sherry!” I interrupted his monologue, shaking my head once for every ‘Sherry’, “The younger sister is the murderer. You can dig in the garden in the right hand side of her neighbor’s backyard, for the knife with her fingerprints on it.”He and his friend were shocked for some reason. After taking his time to swallow his pride, he asked “How do you know?
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