| Faked Anis: |
Hello Erwin. |
| Erwin al-Tuffaahi: |
Hi |
| Faked Anis: |
Did you read the Broder story? |
| Erwin al-Tuffaahi: |
Yeah |
| Faked Anis: |
And? |
| Erwin al-Tuffaahi: |
Well |
| Faked Anis: |
Well what? |
| Erwin al-Tuffaahi: |
It stirs up old memories. |
| Faked Anis: |
Because of: "When you write to me it is your own fault?" |
| Erwin al-Tuffaahi: |
It was a phase! |
| Faked Anis: |
Of course. Nobody blamed you. |
| Erwin al-Tuffaahi: |
It had been the title of my homepage. |
| Faked Anis: |
Hm. |
| Erwin al-Tuffaahi: |
We had lost everything. |
| Faked Anis: |
What exactly had been the matter back then? |
| Erwin al-Tuffaahi: |
Well, you already mentioned it, in the first chapter of the Broder satire. |
| Faked Anis: |
The poisoned apples in the wholesale department. |
| Erwin al-Tuffaahi: |
The entire apple industry of Southern Myr broke down. |
| Faked Anis: |
People ate pineapple. |
| Erwin al-Tuffaahi: |
They made US responsible, how idiotic! |
| Faked Anis: |
Why idiotic? |
| Erwin al-Tuffaahi: |
Because nobody would damage himself like that. |
| Faked Anis: |
Sounds plausible. |
| Erwin al-Tuffaahi: |
Never could we have had an advantage from it. |
| Faked Anis: |
That's true. |
| Erwin al-Tuffaahi: |
But there were influential rumors. |
| Faked Anis: |
The thing with the scorpion and the river? |
| Erwin al-Tuffaahi: |
In a way. |
| Faked Anis: |
That made you angry. |
| Erwin al-Tuffaahi: |
People called us irrational. |
| Faked Anis: |
What happened next? |
| Erwin al-Tuffaahi: |
The apple growers, the cider vintagers, the apple puree people... |
| Faked Anis: |
Yeah |
| Erwin al-Tuffaahi: |
The pluckers and packers, the dried fruits dryers |
| Faked Anis: |
The apple chips producers |
| Erwin al-Tuffaahi: |
The juice-makers! |
| Faked Anis: |
The apple-peels-to-the-animals-feeders |
| Erwin al-Tuffaahi: |
Then the depending branches. And all their families... |
| Faked Anis: |
What was their fate? |
| Erwin al-Tuffaahi: |
The got unemployed. Nobody ate apples. Nobody! |
| Faked Anis: |
There had been those articles by some of you in the newspapers... |
| Erwin al-Tuffaahi: |
Some of us became angry. |
| Faked Anis: |
Which is understandable. |
| Erwin al-Tuffaahi: |
Well, some exaggerated. |
| Faked Anis: |
Also understandable. |
| Erwin al-Tuffaahi: |
Well, they QUITE exaggerated. |
| Faked Anis: |
I see. |
| Erwin al-Tuffaahi: |
I realized that myself in a way. |
| Faked Anis: |
You had this homepage then. |
| Erwin al-Tuffaahi: |
And a sentence similar to the one of Mister Broder. |
| Faked Anis: |
Well okay, but this is a completely different context. |
| Erwin al-Tuffaahi: |
It certainly is. Only the feelings are similar. |
| Faked Anis: |
Really? |
| Erwin al-Tuffaahi: |
Moreover, I attracted all kinds of garbage. |
| Faked Anis: |
You mean the feedback? |
| Erwin al-Tuffaahi: |
Some people wrote to me: shit on the whole apple industry... |
| Faked Anis: |
Really? |
| Erwin al-Tuffaahi: |
...and the pear industry with it! |
| Faked Anis: |
It will have frustrated you. |
| Erwin al-Tuffaahi: |
Back then, I felt affirmed: everybody hates us. |
| Faked Anis: |
What do you think about Broder? |
| Erwin al-Tuffaahi: |
Well, I like him. |
| Faked Anis: |
Is that so? |
| Erwin al-Tuffaahi: |
Except what he does to the Palestinians and to people like Erhard. But he does not notice that. |
| Faked Anis: |
Did you read what Abi Melzer wrote about him? |
| Erwin al-Tuffaahi: |
He is looking for something new. |
| Faked Anis: |
It was devastating. |
| Erwin al-Tuffaahi: |
He published it himself, the guy wants change. |
| Faked Anis: |
This man? |
| Erwin al-Tuffaahi: |
Of course. |
| Faked Anis: |
I would rather run naked through the center of Bagdad than publish something like that about myself. |
| Erwin al-Tuffaahi: |
Yeah you! But he is different. |
| Faked Anis: |
Yes, I noticed that in the meantime. |
| Erwin al-Tuffaahi: |
It is his way to express himself. |
| Faked Anis: |
Like calling German courts "the heirs of the Freisler company"? |
| Erwin al-Tuffaahi: |
But that's nice. Is he not right? |
| Faked Anis: |
I beg your pardon? Or insulting a judge. |
| Erwin al-Tuffaahi: |
But that's funny. Is he not right in some things? |
| Faked Anis: |
There are things where he is far away from the point. |
| Erwin al-Tuffaahi: |
But this was not my question. |
| Faked Anis: |
And why do you like this guy? |
| Erwin al-Tuffaahi: |
I don't know. Just because. |
| Faked Anis: |
I did not think that this faked interview would take such a course. |
| Erwin al-Tuffaahi: |
Well, your own fault. |
| Faked Anis: |
And why is that? |
| Erwin al-Tuffaahi: |
If you write it like that. |
| Faked Anis: |
Oh man, how can I publish this? |
| Erwin al-Tuffaahi: |
Well... |
