June 27, 2012
RIP Nora Ephron, 1941 - 2012
Here is a parody of Stieg Larsson's The Girl With the Dragon Tatoo that she wrote in The New Yorker a couple of years ago:
The Girl Who Fixed The Umlaut
Salander opened the door a crack and spent several paragraphs trying to decide whether to let Blomkvist in. Many italic thoughts flew through her mind. Go away. Perhaps. So what. Etc.
“Please,” he said. “I must see you. The umlaut on my computer isn’t working.”
He was cradling an iBook in his arms. She looked at him. He looked at her. She looked at him. He looked at her. And then she did what she usually did when she had run out of italic thoughts: she shook her head.
“I can’t really go on without an umlaut,” he said. “We’re in Sweden.”
But where in Sweden were they? There was no way to know, especially if you’d never been to Sweden. A few chapters ago, for example, an unscrupulous agent from Swedish Intelligence had tailed Blomkvist by taking Stora Essingen and Gröndal into Södermalm, and then driving down Hornsgatan and across Bellmansgatan via Brännkyrkagatan, with a final left onto Tavastgatan. Who cared, but there it was, in black-and-white, taking up space. And now Blomkvist was standing in her doorway.
More here.
Posted by S. Abbas Raza at 12:27 PM | Permalink
Comments
The umlaut, of course, had returned to Germany, where it belonged.
The iPhone was locked into Jobs mode, which was indefatiguable in its exclusion of such European nonsense.
Posted by: mozzie | Jun 27, 2012 8:10:30 PM
This is nothing but public relations old news which has already been reported in virtually every newspaper in the country.
Here is a story of two heroes which should have been posted instead:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/27/13000-returned_n_1628762.html?icid=maing-grid7%7Chp-laptop%7Cdl3%7Csec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D173835. This is a much more inspiring and significant story of the basic honesty and courage of a math teacher in Tennessee. How many other people would have returned nearly $13,000 to its owner?
Posted by: WJAbbe | Jun 28, 2012 6:13:28 AM
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