{"id":509,"date":"2020-04-09T12:10:29","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T10:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogbogstaveligt.dk\/?p=509"},"modified":"2022-07-18T23:06:59","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T21:06:59","slug":"rashomon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogbogstaveligt.dk\/?p=509","title":{"rendered":"Rashomon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For noget tid siden l\u00e6ste jeg med kort mellemrum helt tilf\u00e6ldigt b\u00f8ger der skildrede den samme situation, et bestemt m\u00f8de med Prins Charles, p\u00e5 to, m\u00e5 man nok sige, ganske forskellige m\u00e5der. Den f\u00f8rste bog var Penn Jillettes God, No!<\/em> Den anden var et af Stephen Frys memoire-bind, jeg husker ikke l\u00e6ngere om det var The Fry Chronicles<\/em> eller More Fool Me<\/em>. Ligesom det er sv\u00e6rt at forestille sig en mere amerikansk<\/em> amerikaner end Penn Jillette, er det sv\u00e6rt at forestille sig en more engelsk<\/em> engl\u00e6nder end Stephen Fry, s\u00e5 ikke bare indholdsm\u00e6ssigt men ogs\u00e5 hvad stil ang\u00e5r er der stor kontrast mellem de to. Om de to herrer er bekendte med hinandens vidnesbyrd ved jeg ikke. Her er f\u00f8rst Penn Jillettes skildring:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Typing “eighteen-wheeler” makes me feel really butch. It’s so purely American. In England they call trucks “fully articulated lorries”, which is another reason we kicked their asses in the Revolutionary War. When Teller and I did a show for Prince Charles, we got in a line to meet the big-eared cheese after the show. Some royal handler gave us instructions about how we were to greet the prince. I explained to His Majesty’s official officious butt boy that I myself was an American, and I would greet Chuck exactly like I greet anyone else. I would be polite, but that was all he was getting out of this freedom fighter – real Americans don’t kiss royal ass. I was much more excited about meeting Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie anyway; those are asses I’ll gladly kiss. Chuck was really nice, though. He said, “Oh, you’re the fellow who runs over the other chap with the fully articulated lorry.” He had seen me running over Teller with a trick truck in the truck trick on our first NBC TV special, and part of being English royalty is using “chap” and “fully articulated lorry” in one sentence to polite but classless Americans.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Og her er Stephen Frys:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afterwards I stood one more in the line-up. Next to me was Penn Jillette, one half of the brilliant Penn and Teller, American magicians, pro-science, sceptics of the highest rank.<\/em>
\n\n        Penn turned to me as he watched the Prince slowly coming down the line.<\/em>
\n\n        ‘Do I have to call him “Your Majesty” or any of that shit?<\/em>
\n\n         ‘No, no. Not at all. If you were to use a title it would be “Your Royal Highness”, and from then on “sir”, but there’s no need. After all, I haven’t called you Penn once in this conversation until now, have I, Penn?’<\/em>
\n\n        ‘Oh, OK, just so long as he understands that we don’t talk like that. And what about bowing? I have to bow? We don’t bow in America.’<\/em>
\n\n        ‘No, no,’ I reassure him, ‘no bowing necessary’.<\/em>
\n\n        ‘Cuz I’m an American and we don’t bow.’<\/em>
\n\n        ‘Yes, he knows you’re an American.’<\/em>
\n\n        ‘I won’t get put in the Tower of London or anything?’ <\/em>
\n\n        People always thinks that sojourns in the Tower of London, like knighthoods, are somehow in the gift of members of the royal family.<\/em>
\n\n        I reassured him on these points. No highnessing, no kowtowing.<\/em>
\n\n        At last the Prince reaches Penn, who immediately falls almost prostrate to the floor. ‘Your Majesty Highness. Your Royal Sir…’ and so on and so forth, babbling like a gibbon on speed. The Prince passes on to me and whoever was the other side of me without turning a hair. Seen it all before.<\/em>
\n\n        After he had gone, I watched Penn, an enormous man, crouching on the floor, rolling about, beating the planks of the stage, sobbing, stuffing his fist into his mouth and moaning up to the fly-tower: ‘ Why did I <\/em>do that? What came over me? What power do they have? I betrayed my country!’<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For noget tid siden l\u00e6ste jeg med kort mellemrum helt tilf\u00e6ldigt b\u00f8ger der skildrede den samme situation, et bestemt m\u00f8de med Prins Charles, p\u00e5 to, m\u00e5 man nok sige, ganske forskellige m\u00e5der. Den f\u00f8rste bog var Penn Jillettes God, No! Den anden var et af Stephen Frys memoire-bind, jeg husker ikke l\u00e6ngere om det var … <\/p>\n

L\u00e6s videre “Rashomon”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[68,69],"class_list":["post-509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-penn-jillette","tag-stephen-fry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogbogstaveligt.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogbogstaveligt.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogbogstaveligt.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogbogstaveligt.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogbogstaveligt.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogbogstaveligt.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":516,"href":"https:\/\/blogbogstaveligt.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions\/516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogbogstaveligt.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogbogstaveligt.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogbogstaveligt.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}