Re: fugle-fi, fugle-fogle-orum?

flemming chr. nielsen <at:flemming.chr.nielsen@xxxxxxxxxxxx[remove at:]>
wrote on Thu, 13 Apr 2006 21:15:21 +0200:
In Melvilles 'Mardi' the philosopher Babbalanja (Babble-on-you) always
refers to the great thoughts of the Western World, and when he is
stopped, his only answer is: "Gogle-goggle, fugle-fi,
fugle-fogle-orum". It's a mad voice beyond reason and form, just a
demonic utterance.

To me it has no meaning at all, AND IT SHAN'T HAVE a meaning, but do
you get some sort of associations by hearing it? If so, and you can
tell me, I will try to find a Danish sentence with the correspondings
associations.

It reminds me of a little verse a new as a kid:

Fee, Fi, Fo, Fum!
I smell the blood of an Englishman!
Be he quick, or be he dead,
I'll have his bones to make my bread!

Happy Easter!

yours Flemming

--
Alan Mackenzie (Munich, Germany)
Email: aacm@xxxxxxxx; to decode, wherever there is a repeated letter
(like "aa"), remove half of them (leaving, say, "a").

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