[Buddha-l] Re:American Mahayana/British Theravada?

[Peter D. Junger]

"Robert Morrison" writes:

: Curt wtote:
: 
: >
: German interest, scholarly and otherwise, in Native Americans is 
: traceable to the wild popularity of James Fennimore Cooper's novels, 
: which were actually received more enthusiastically by German readers 
: than they were at first by his fellow countrymen - who were, after all, 
: still basically a bunch of British snobs who had never heard of this 
: Cooper fellow.
: <
: 
: For what its worth, German interest in cowboy and Indian novels was started
: by a 19th cent. German writer called Karl May.  He wrote tons of them and
: was extremely popular. Hitler is said to have devoured his books (perhaps he
: picked up some ideas from them!).

Remembering the job that Mark Twain did on Cooper, I would say that
Karl May was a far better writer than Cooper.

Karl May is the author of my favorite footnote:  "Ich komme aus dem
schwartz und blutigen grund des Westens," which translates the 
English line with the same meaning that in the text of _Winnetou_.

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Peter D. Junger--Case Western Reserve University Law School--Cleveland, OH
 EMAIL: junger at samsara.law.cwru.edu    URL:  http://samsara.law.cwru.edu