― Chrchuckis Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Saturday, 15 January 2005 01:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― Snappy (sexyDancer), Saturday, 15 January 2005 16:28 (nineteen years ago) link
(except actually i think the english translaters seem sometimes to be hoping that you do mistakenly assume he is English, for reasons that baffle grown-up mark s)
my only reasons for wondering about haddock and marlinspike, respectively, were that "sir frances haddock" somehow looked more of an english privateer (bcz i didn't know that belgium wz notorious for pirates in the 18th century); and that nestor somehow looked more of an english butler, dress-wise
― mark s (mark s), Monday, 17 January 2005 11:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Monday, 17 January 2005 12:05 (nineteen years ago) link
FIW, The Avengers TV series was known in France as Chapeau Melon & Bottes de Cuir (Bowler Hat and Leather Boots).
― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 00:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 00:44 (nineteen years ago) link
the deaths in explorers haunted me as a kid, frank wolfe's anyway ("by some miracle i will escape too")
i still get anxiety shakes when i think about explorers on the moon, let along pick it up and read it
― max, Monday, 2 February 2009 04:39 (fifteen years ago) link
According to Hergé, he inserted the "perhaps by some miracle I shall esacape too" line on the orders of Tintin magazine. Suicide was still taboo in Catholic Belgium, even if heroic. Hergé later regretted adding this cop out, saying something along the lines of "Wolff was condemned and he knew it".
― Richard Jones, Wednesday, 4 February 2009 11:03 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, I read that in Harry Thompson's excellent Herge biog.
― chap, Wednesday, 4 February 2009 12:01 (fifteen years ago) link
That's where I got it from too, I think- but the original source is probably Entretiens avec Herge, for which an English translation is long overdue.
― Richard Jones, Friday, 6 February 2009 16:17 (fifteen years ago) link
another theme in tintin--something gets broken, then fixed, then immediately broken again. happens to the thom(p)son twins all the time
― max, Friday, 6 February 2009 16:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Haddock falls over/walks into something.
― chap, Friday, 6 February 2009 16:50 (fifteen years ago) link