Date:    Tue, 2 Jun 1998 23:21:49 +0200
<br>From:    Roberto Serrai <serrai[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]DADA.IT>
<br>Subject: Is it military slang?
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<br>Hi,
<br>my name is Roberto Serrai, I am an italian professional translator.
<br>I am currently working on Bruce Robinson's ("The Killing Fields",
<br>screenplay) first novel, "The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman."
<br>In this book, a character gets wounded at Passchendaele in WWI.
<br>The Germans take him to an hospital in Koblenz:
<br>
<br>"It was a story his grandson liked to hear. He liked hearing about the
<br>Germans and magic flies. The hospital in Koblenz was full of both and
<br>Walter [the character] genuinely never knew which one of them saved
<br>him."
<br>
<br>Has anyone, please, an idea about what those "magic flies" could be?
<br>I've looked everywhere...
<br>Thanks,
<br>
<br>Roberto Serrai
<br>