Re: WYWM / Hello Earth / German?!?

[turney@SVAX.CS.CORNELL.EDU (Jenn Turney)]

In article <8809011714.AA12018@WONKO.MIT.EDU> you write:

> From: Jamie Andrews <jha%lfcs.edinburgh.ac.uk@NSS.CS.UCL.AC.UK>

> Questions:  ((German speakers especially take note!))

> - What is the male voice (Paddy? JC?) saying in German
>  (presumably) right near the end of "Hello Earth"?  It sounds
>  like "Diefel, Diefel, .....; .....sonn licht".  Perhaps this
>  is a quotation from some relevant poem/story?  Anyway it's
>  RIGHT AFTER THAT in "HE" that we get the echo of the hook
>  from WYWM!!!

>      [ Male voice?  The only voice I know of that says anything like
>	this is female (it's not Kate's, however), and it says in
>	German "Deeper, deeper, somewhere in the depths, there is a
>	light."  Then we hear the sonar of the submarine coming to
>	rescue Kate.  -- |>oug ]

>  jha@lfcs.ed.ac.uk
> "See the sun set in the hand of the man"

As far as I can tell, the whispered words are along the lines of:

"Tiefer, tiefer, irgenwo na tiefer, gibt es ein licht."

Which means basically what |>oug says it means (surprisingly?).

	[ Surprisingly?  Why surprisingly?  |>oug wouldn't lead you
	  astray, now would he?  -- |>oug ]

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