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-50.06004 -73.15098 , dem Onelli-Gletscher gegenüber!
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LG, Alberto.

Vielen Dank Alberto, da lag ich doch noch etwas daneben.

Onelli called a press conference and announced the forthcoming plesiosaurus hunt. An upper-class lady subscribed 1,500 dollars for the purchase of equipment. Two old age pensioners escaped from the Hospital de la Mercedes to fight the monster. The plesiosaurus also lent its name to a tango and a brand of cigarettes. When Onelli suggested it might have to be embalmed, the Jockey Club hoped to have the privilege of exhibiting, but this brought a denunciation from Don Ignacio Albarracin, of the Society for the Protection for Animals.
Meanwhile the country was paralysed by a general election which would decide whether to unseat its Radical President, Dr Hipolito Yrigoyen, and somehow the plesiosaurus managed to insert itself into the campaign as emblematic beast of the Right.
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The plesiosaurus was an electoral gift to the Left. Clemente Onelli, the Beast-Slayer, was presented as a new Parsifal, a Lohengrin or a Siegfried. The journal La Montana said that, domesticated, the animal might prove of service to the blighted inhabitants of the Tierra del Diablo, a reference to the revolt of the peons in Southern Patagonia, whom the Argentine Army had brutally massacred the month before. Another article bore the title ‘The Cappadocian Dragon’; and the nationalistic La Fronda wrote: ‘This millenarian, pyramidal, apocalyptic animal makes a noise like a Madonna and usually appears in the opaline stupors of drunken gringos.’
(Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia, 19)

Wenn Du noch solche Kracher im Archiv hast, darfst Du auch weiter daheimbleiben ;-)

And thanks, Alberto, for the reminder to read Bruce Chatwin again. All volumes waiting in the analog archive downstairs.