What's a calembour? It's a pun, plain and simple. We get it from the French, but it was originally the name of a jokester in German fairy stories.
I imagine this Calembour fellow was a faithful practitioner of the double entendre. Just a hunch. Actually, speaking of hunches, I imagine him as a hunchback too.
I'll go see if I can't read some of these stories. And learn German.
Not in that order.
No comments:
Post a Comment